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Sunday Community Skirmish #44 (Signups for Sunday 29th March)

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Velvet:

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The Sunday Community Skirmish is a double elimination tournament event that runs every week with occasional breaks. All matches are 2v2, time limited best of 1s and are normally streamed live on Twitch. Any team of 8 players is welcome to participate.
This signup thread is for the Skirmish at 7pm UTC on Sunday 29th March (3pm EDT) The event is normally streamed by Fourth Oracle, as well as other streamers who vary from week to week. The details of all streams will be made clear on the day of or day before the event. The event has an expected runtime of 2-4 hours.

Signups should be posted in this thread and include a Steam/Skype contact and team name. Signups close at midday (UTC), or 8 AM EDT, on Saturday the 28th of March. Please try to avoid last minute signups.
The bracket and map rolls will be available soon after signups close. (brackets at http://goiocommunity.challonge.com/)
Participants will be contacted when their matches are starting, although it's encouraged to consult the bracket and keep track of the streams so you have a decent idea of when you will be playing.

The complete rules can be found in this document. There is now also a brief summary of the ethos behind the rules and structure of the event.

Please only sign up if you are confident of your ability to produce a full team of 8 players.

The event will continue to follow DOUBLE ELIMINATION format with best of one matches!
Time limit per match remains at 20 minutes, without extra time. Have a look at this if you don't know how double elimination works.

New Teams Guide:

* A team needs at least 8 players, all of whom should be available at the event's start time and for the duration of the event. You do not need to include an official roster in your signup. Teams are not required to have any clan affiliation and players are not required to always play for the same team (however playing for multiple teams on one day is not allowed).
* Signups close at midday (UTC) (8 AM EDT) on the Saturday preceding the event. Your signup needs a team name and at least one contact, preferably with an emergency steam/skype contact. At least one of your contacts needs to be in-game when your matches start, otherwise we may be unable to find you and have to skip your matches.
* The event bracket, map rolls and a full schedule will be available in this thread on the Saturday preceding the event.
* When we are preparing to start your match, an organiser will contact you in game with the password and invite you to join them in the lobby. We normally start preparing lobbies 10-20 minutes before the event start.
* Matches do not start at a set time, so it is best to be in game and ready to go for the entire duration of the event until you are eliminated (or win).
* The stream links will also be made available in this thread. It's often helpful to watch the streams to have an idea of when your match will be starting.

Velvet:
Notice that as Europe is joining America in DST the event time has been brought back an hour earlier. This will result in no effective change for Europeans and a return to the previous effective time (1 hour earlier) for Americans.

Progress continues with VoD uploads. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4ZHvlfkKDmn6KwN8uscZjg
This week's VoDs should be up in the next day or two.

Steve CZ:
Just a little feedback: Could you use different passwords for separate lobbies (or rounds)? I know it kinda complicates things, but so does a random stranger joining on a panicking disorganized all-out-of-subs team :P

Velvet:

--- Quote from: Steve CZ on March 25, 2015, 06:16:35 pm ---Just a little feedback: Could you use different passwords for separate lobbies (or rounds)? I know it kinda complicates things, but so does a random stranger joining on a panicking disorganized all-out-of-subs team :P

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the solution to that is for teams not to hand out passwords. If you feel it's really a problem we can always ask people to be more careful about sharing the password, but there's no way we'll use multiple passwords per event. Too much potential for confusion.

Skrimskraw:

--- Quote from: Steve CZ on March 25, 2015, 06:16:35 pm ---Just a little feedback: Could you use different passwords for separate lobbies (or rounds)? I know it kinda complicates things, but so does a random stranger joining on a panicking disorganized all-out-of-subs team :P

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as velvet said, only give the password to players who are on your team.
The referees are told to nicely ask spectators who are not SCS crew or streamers/casters to leave the lobby.
IN some cases we have allowed spectators to watch ,but we always ask both teams if it is alright with them.
If the person in spectate refuses to leave it would be neccesary to create a new lobby with new password for the rest of the event, however this would probaly also result in a complaint towards the clan from which the player hails, and in extreme cases permanent ban from participating in SCS.

The idea of various passwords is a legit suggestion, I tried it long ago with 3v3 tournament. It worked out yes, but referees, players and especially streamers got confused by it. -we are talking maybe 15-20 mins elapsed time for the event.

My job as the "event runner" is to make sure the schedule stays within the goal timelimit of less than 3 hours. So if you see an SCS going over 3 hours, thats because there were too many breaks inbetween lobbies etc. ;)

I hope this clarifies some of the thoughts on the subject Steve, Im 100% with you that for bigger and more competitive events, different pw's would be a better idea, but they also have the luxury of knowing how many teams signed up weeks in advance.

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