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Title: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Swallox on June 19, 2013, 11:44:51 am
We're back!

Sorry for the delayed post, I have to get back into the habit of typing these up in advance. Ah well, live and learn.

Welcome to Season 2. Those of you that participated in or spectated Week 8 back during Season 1 will understand what's going on, but for the rest of you, here's how it's gonna work.

Week 0 features two distinct phases to populate the third Cog on the board, the Upcomer's Cog. Six teams, three Season 1 veterans and three newcomer teams, face off within their respective groups for control over one of the five spots on the Upcomer's Cog. So who's playing? Let's take a look.

(http://i.imgur.com/RmoRD4x.jpg)

We start with the Season 1 Seeds. These are the three teams that fought their way into Week 9 but failed to advance to the Semi Finals to claim one of the guaranteed Challenger spots. While all three teams can claim a spot, all three of them are going to want to give it their all and claim the #3a spot... No one wants to end up in #3e or #3d at the very start of the season.

As a sidenote: Merry Northern Storm split into two teams during the break: Merry Men and Northern Air Fleet. A few days ago they faced off to determine which of the two teams could claim the single seed spot that MNS had claimed, and Merry Men came out on top. Congratulations to them, and we hope to see Northern Air Fleet later on during the season.

Joining them in the Season 1 Seeds matches, we'll see The Gentlemen and Black Flight Squadron. Now there's a lineup. But enough of that, let's get to the part that most of you care about. The matches and maps!

Season 1 Seed Games

Game 1: Merry Men vs The Gentlemen
Game 2: The Gentlemen vs Black Flight Squadron
Game 3: Black Flight Squadron vs Merry Men
Game 4: (IF NECESSARY) Lowest kill score vs Second lowest kill score.


After this, we'll see the veteran duck team The Raft take on two newcomer teams, Zac's Flying Ghuuu and the Rugged Men for control over one of the remaining two spots. With three teams, we're going to see the first elimination of the season... And it's not gonna be pretty.

Let's take a look at their matches.

Newcomer's Melee

Game 1: The Raft vs Zac's Flying Ghuuu
Game 2: Zac's Flying Ghuuu vs Rugged Men
Game 3: Rugged Men vs The Raft
Game 4: (IF NECESSARY) Lowest kill score vs Second lowest kill score.


That's yer lot for now. Be sure to drop by this Saturday 4pm EST to see all the action kick off between the Cogs veterans and the feisty newcomers.

As the old saying goes: Shit's gonna get intense

See you there, and stay safe.

-Swallow



Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: N-Sunderland on June 19, 2013, 11:53:47 am
Swallow, make you sure you use our new logo and colours for the other graphics, please. I don't mind if you leave this one as it is, but just make sure you don't forget for the other ones.
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Surette on June 19, 2013, 02:30:45 pm
To Sunderland's point, will there be new Merry Men/Northern Air Fleet graphics made? Otherwise it'll get confusing quickly if we keep using Merry Northern Storm. Not sure who usually makes the graphics.
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: RearAdmiralZill on June 19, 2013, 02:31:35 pm
We make those Surette, and we'll get the right image/colors over to Swallow.
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Surette on June 19, 2013, 02:34:36 pm
Sounds good then.  :)
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Strite on June 20, 2013, 05:43:03 am
Good luck everyone! :D
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: N-Sunderland on June 22, 2013, 12:21:28 am
Why does the #1 qualifier for newcomers get 3b? 3c gets to play sooner, so presumably you'd want give that spot to the top-placed team in the round robin. Otherwise it's advantageous to place second in week 0.
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Moriarty on June 22, 2013, 09:35:17 am
Tipping thread?
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Cpt. Azshes on June 22, 2013, 09:52:08 am
Best of luck everyone! Looking forward to our matches :)

Regards,
Cpt. Azshes Shadowstorm
(http://s17645.prbrds.com/3707645/i/8nOSeVB8HsdrGAM7LI8W.png)
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Ofiach on June 22, 2013, 09:56:00 am
Tipping thread?

Falconeers that's all you have to tip.
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Moriarty on June 22, 2013, 09:57:58 am
Falconeers that's all you have to tip.

Are they playing this week then?
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: N-Sunderland on June 22, 2013, 10:09:40 am
Best of luck everyone! Looking forward to our matches :)

Regards,
Cpt. Azshes Shadowstorm
(http://s17645.prbrds.com/3707645/i/8nOSeVB8HsdrGAM7LI8W.png)

Good luck to you too! Looking forward to flying against you.

Falconeers that's all you have to tip.

Are they playing this week then?

No.

Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Ofiach on June 22, 2013, 10:11:30 am
No I was dealing with real life and missed the signups. so this  "round robin" week zero tournament is well... imaginary.
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Moriarty on June 22, 2013, 10:12:22 am
Hard to Tip a team with no chance of winning.
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Ofiach on June 22, 2013, 10:14:25 am
I'm being a slight prick. because Swallows "round robin" week zero is an absolute fallacy. on 3 teams? u get 3 games... like every other cogs event....... yawn.
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: N-Sunderland on June 22, 2013, 10:21:02 am
If you don't enjoy it, you don't need to be involved. There are lots of planned and upcoming independant tournaments which you'll probably like better.
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Squidslinger Gilder on June 22, 2013, 06:51:32 pm
Where was Ghuu?!!! I'm disappointed!!!
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Strite on June 23, 2013, 06:48:02 am
Well done everyone, especially BFS. Last nights matches were awesome and you guys put on a great show.
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: naufrago on June 24, 2013, 01:58:25 pm
So I've been reading some inconsistent information about seed positions for the week 0 cogs. Could I get a definitive answer where everyone is seeded?
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Xemkobankavareniya on June 24, 2013, 02:12:03 pm
BFS - 3a
Raft - 3b
RM - 3c
G - 3d
MM - 3e

Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Sammy B. T. on June 24, 2013, 02:31:58 pm
I am not sure if that is right Xemko, but honestly I am not entirely sure. However, Swallow did say this earlier.

"The first of these round robins will feature the teams from the Week 9 Quarter Finals placed against each other for slots #3a, #3c and #3b.  In the event that one or more of the quarter-finalists are unwilling to participate, an additional team will be added to the Newcomer’s robin."

I interpreted that to mean.
BFS - 3a
MM - 3b
G - 3c
RM - 3d
Raft - 3e

The 3 e spot is functionally the better spot as it is basically in a better position to advance.
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: RearAdmiralZill on June 24, 2013, 02:37:41 pm
I think Sammy is right, of course, Swallow will be the one to say yes/no.

And even he gets it wrong occasionally.
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Xemkobankavareniya on June 24, 2013, 03:20:11 pm
I made ​​an assumption based on the graphic table.
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: N-Sunderland on June 24, 2013, 03:46:04 pm
Swallow confirmed that The Raft will be playing in Week 1, so we have 3e.
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Sammy B. T. on June 24, 2013, 04:01:13 pm
Xemko, it was then pointed out that in the cogs, the highest rank is the best but the second highest rank is functionally the worse as it means several weeks of rotating whereas the lowest rank plays a match and has the ability to rapidly climb.
Title: Re: "The Cogs" Season 2: Week 0 - Brackets
Post by: Surette on June 24, 2013, 04:39:06 pm
Yeah, imo everything would be much less confusing if 3e was actually 3b, etc. 3b should correspond to the second highest seed, but it's actually the lowest. Everything would continue functioning as it already is, just reverse the lettering. My two cents.