*graphic courtesy of r_munch –thx!
Background
Back quite some time ago when we were talking about tournaments… WAAYYYYY back when I had that oh so very annoying thread about DG players – tier 1, tier 2 and those to be avoided (http://forums.demigodthegame.com/372184)…
… I had an idea. What if we had a tournament where every player was teamed up with every other player. This means, the tournament will really be about individual excellence. We mix and match teams. You don’t try to form team super perfect – you get an assigned teammate that changes each round. For every win, each player on the team gets 1 point. If you lose, you get nothing. We do this until we go through the combinations. The winner is the person with the most points as they were clearly the most effective on each team. In the event of a tie… well… I’ll figure something out. So, as you can see, this tournament is going to be structured VERY differently than our previous ones. If all is well with the brackets, you will play on the same team with every single person exactly 1 time.
The Brackets
Although it probably doesn’t sound all that challenging to pull off, we actually had quite a bit of difficulty coming up with a decent bracket that would enable us to have the tournament they way we wanted it. Thankfully, sledge was kind enough to help out and take the time to develop the brackets so I wouldn’t be doing all of the heavy lifting here. Please give him some karma if you think of it. At any rate, here’s a link to the brackets. Please take a look to help get a better understanding of how things will work. https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0An02sqdF5v-EdG1hLTI1d3prLWpnWUpSRnNrbG9RMFE&hl=en_US&authkey=CLWZtdgO
Be aware that we will have EXACTLY 16 players in this tournament. In the event that we only have 15 players, we will add in 1 enhanced AI, etc
What is the schedule?
We should spend some time discussing this. Technically, we could start immediately. As you can see from the brackets, all you need is 3 other folks online at the same time to get a game in. I propose that we setup some specifics dates and times that will be considered game days. We can all show up during this time windows, pair up, and get some games in.
Payouts will be delivered by PayPal. If you don’t have a PayPal account, get one. If you can’t do that, then you will not receive a payout for the cash prizes if you win. If you do win, provide me with your PayPal addresses via pm on these forums and I will get you sorted in short order. If the needed PayPal email address has not been provided in 1 week, the prize money is forfeit. Cash is rendered via PayPal in US dollars. If you are from another country, the conversion is provided by PayPal. Any fee charged by PayPal will come directly out of your winnings (so its possible the winners could receive less than the listed payout).
Thankfully, we have not had a need to disqualify any teams yet during our tournaments, but here are the ground rules.
The Enhanced AI? While I'm admit I'm a bit smarter, I don't have half that many artifacts, as a rule
I'd love to have you in the tournament as well, but frankly, I have no idea if folks are going to be quick about getting their games in or just flounder about a bit until dq. It's probably best if we just have a DG night or maybe organize a small tourney that follows similar rules for 6-8 of us that we could knock out in short order.
That said, here's the list of folks that are participating:
We expecting anyone from the list to flake out or already be gone? I haven't heard from jona in a bit anyway. Highlighted the folks that I'm confident will play. And mcshane, are you officially in or should I try to grab a quick replacement? I only highlighted folks that I see on a regular basis in dg or folks that I know will very likely do their best to show up.
I'm starting to get frustrated again with demigod, which was the first reason i once stopped -.- demigod nights may the only way to play high lvl games that are also fun.
Sounds like a good idea Ocrun but then we would have this little problem with the time zones. Perhaps we should all just post the country or time zone we live in. That way we could schedule matches or "demigod nights" for specific regions and the remaining matches could be planned by each player sererately via friends list.
Since I made this proposal:
I am from Germany and the timezone would be GMT+2 (since it is summertime)
I've actually stopped playing, I finally get decent as internet, i go into game and no ones going over 200 for me. We start the game and theres lag with everyone yelling its me, yet i check the pings and nothing still isnt going over 200.
brackets filled in. See op for link to it.
OK - so we are good to start - there is no requirement to play the games in order or anything (eg by round) - though we could. Anyway, we could start as soon as this weekend if we wanted.
Side note - I'd make time tomorrow for some 2v2 tourney games if 3 more folks in the brackets are up for it.
Uh first game against Pacov.
I would say we are free to start right away, or not?
We can, maybe, do the following tomorrow:
pacov IN1doggu Mcshane
Homer87 pacovIN1 Dreamcatcher
vixel pacovnnnils IN1
I can contact Dream via skype. Vixel, doggu and nnnils are usually readily available. I've played with McShane yesterday, too. No idea as to Homer87's online habits, he joined exactly when I took a break. On the other hand, maybe I should start slowly (way too much top players in these matches). Still not fully recovered, but getting there That said, as long as my teammates don't care -- no problem.
And a question arises concerning the rules. Let's say (hypothetically) I play with doggu. Now, pacov says: "I want IN1 to play UB", thus killing two birds with one stone -- preventing doggu from taking his strongest DG and forcing me to play half-assed UB. Legitimate? If not, where's the red line here? I'm not sure that if pacov says, instead: "I want doggu to play Sedna", the result will be much better (never saw his Sed, but doggu claims he's hopeless with her). I mean, yes, we are all gentlemen and stuff, and I'm sure no one will tell doggu to play Sed, but why have a rule like this if we aren't going to use it?
Another matter: have you/someone else tried to invite ppap and Rin?
We will use it IN1. I will force the player to play a certain DG that most damages their chance to win. No place for Gentlemen. So in your example sure you will play UB or Doggu will play Sedna.
I talked to both papa and Rin. Rin never answered in the lobby when I asked. Papa said the tournament is too long for him and he doesnt like the rules. We didnt go deeper as game then started.
So in your example sure you will play UB or Doggu will play Sedna.
Oh my. We are up to some extremely interesting games
Rin never answered in the lobby when I asked.
Btw, it's not because he's arrogant or something. It's just... Ppap once told me he feels like he's 3 y. o. while speaking English Overall, I find Far Eastern guys much easier to deal with than Russians (and I'm a native Russian speaker).
Anyway, I just happen to think both Rin and Ppap deserve to be in this tourney much much much more than me. I bought Blacksmith1 at WR3 instead of Cur1 the day before yesterday Ask Shane. The bottom line is, I'll try to speak to Ppapanek again.
Blacksmith 1 upgrade became a must after you were gone, so you did correct choice
As for ppapanek and rin. They deserve place here a lot more than most of us, but oh well... Don't want, so... And also, Rin is bad at English.
I never thought Rin was arrogant. Played enough games with him to know him ok. Point is he knew about the tourney and didnt sign up so there must be some kind of reason. For Papa the story is different as I find his english more than sufficient. He didnt want to participate. Although I agree that from my point of view papa would be one the of top favourites to win it.
Btw she is lying.
Thanks, for all the work and time you spent for organizing this pacov!
Oh noes!
OK - consider the tournament started. I'd like to set some specific "game days" Maybe 2 days at different times per week where folks are expected to get games in. You aren't restricted to playing just on the game days, but I want to schedule them so folks can make themselves available to play. Anyone that doesn't get at least 1 game in the next week or so is likely to be cut and replaced by someone else - I know I have 1 person on deck already... and if it happens that the tournament actually looks like its going quickly, we could replace someone for orcun... and again, I'd only look to replace anyone if they aren't playing their games. As it stands right now, the 16 person roster is set.
Onto tonight, I'm up for any games with anyone available. I could get on at a specific time if that would help, or we can schedule a match if we can get anyone to chime in. Sounds like you are game at least, IN1. Anyone else able to commit to being available for a game today? My potential free time would be from about 7PM EST - 1AM EST. Obviously not that whole time slot, but I could make it during that time if folks can commit to being available.
Maybe we can play this today:
Both Dreamcatcher and Homer were online today.
I'm game, in1 - I just need to know when we'd play. That said, I'm not free for another 5 hours...
well, nothing panned out for a game this evening, sadly. Hopefully soon. I'm unavailable until late tomorrow. Perhaps 3 will be around.
All - please use this thread to try to schedule a match. I think we can actually sort at least a few games quite easily by everyone posting here and saying "I'll be ready for a game at X time." Then just make yourself available for like 10 min in a game called TOURNEY by hosting. And if you are planning on joining anyone that posts here, just reply.
I should be in ventrillo, pls message
Ok will try to also be on Ventrilo everytime I am available to play. Usually I am around from 5pm EST thats 11pm CET for a few hours, sometimes also earlier. But I am there every day.
Well, I was there with you and Julia, and I've seen Zen on Vent. If you need to contact Dreamcatcher -- I can skype him, as stated.
Hi, I will be hosting a game between 7pm and 8pm (GMT+2) if someone wants to join me:
name: 2v2 Tournament
pw: tourney
EDIT: Wont make it until 7pm so the new time will be between 8pm and 9pm.
Hi all, Im stiil in can play some games during all next week.
im still in when does this start? Been checking the op but havent seen the start date.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:
Sign in or Create Account
