Switching group A and group E would help even out the days and meet Byron's request.
I know this is a silly request for a few individuals, but could you find some way to move the Gents to a later week's start? I just lost my good friend and engineer timmyb to cancer, I'm going to try and stay competitive but I simply cannot this week and neither can my team. We are too devestated by the loss.
quite some matches for a single evening - will they be executed parallel or sequentially?Each group will be recorded by a different person and run in parallel.
Things got a bit odd with Group D as expected, but I do have mixed feelings about letting a team, who didn't sign up, join after the tournament had already started.
Mothers Against Gaming and Clockwork Cavalry, consisting of new players who had a misunderstanding about what constitutes a full team, showed up with seven players between the two of them ready to play. Muse, who had missed the signup deadline while traveling for GDC, showed up with eight players ready to play. So the choices were to either disqualify the two new teams and not allow Muse late entry, denying the 23 players who had set aside their Saturday afternoon any matches, or work it out in a way that everyone gets to play (which will also have a negligible effect on future rounds due to the composition of the group). I'm confident in my decision.
Sorry to hear you'll no longer be participating, PuppyFur.
the changes to single elimination and the substitution rules which are more fair to teams that play in week 1, because teams in week 0 play on the 5th, and subs are free to play for whomever after the 6th.
I agree with Thomas fully. As some of you saw Overwatch had a tough time getting past the first week. But a team that didn't sign up gets to fight newer players... Next time more rules need to be in place for this situation.If this is about your team getting randomly seeded into a hard group... just... just no.
It's not about getting put in a hard seed. The week before last a team got pushed through because of a no show. This last week Muse got played in to a no show, they were not signed up and ended up pub stomping inexperienced teams. This isn't about hard seeds its about rules being followed.Except that's not what a pubstomp is. Yes, the teams were new, and we probably expected them to drop out, but they were still teams, afaik captains on skype with each other etc.
Imagine, I would like to request that you show a little respect to members of my team please. If you can't then please show a little professional courtesy by not commenting. To insinuate players in my clan are butt hurt over what they view as a genuine grievance, thus suggesting they should keep their mouths shut is highly disrespectful and unprofessional.I could say the same to you and your teammates berating the tournament organization repeatedly.
I could say the same to you and your teammates berating the tournament organization repeatedly.
We are all in the wrong. Let's be honest.Imagine, I would like to request that you show a little respect to members of my team please. If you can't then please show a little professional courtesy by not commenting. To insinuate players in my clan are butt hurt over what they view as a genuine grievance, thus suggesting they should keep their mouths shut is highly disrespectful and unprofessional.I could say the same to you and your teammates berating the tournament organization repeatedly.
Clarification on group D: Keyvias contacted me earlier in the week and asked if there was a way Muse could participate, as they hadn't signed up. I told him that I was expecting at least one no-show (Phalanx Infamia who to this point has not provided any communication beyond their signup), and that they could have the first no-show slot if Muse had a full team ready. As it turned out, not only did Phalanx not show, but the two other teams in the group (MAG and Clockwork Cavalry) only brought a single ship each. The result was that those two teams played together, and Museosaurs took one of the two empty slots for a total of three played games.I fully support Urz decision here. In general I believe allowing as many people who are interested in the competitive scene to participate in events like this is a good cause and in this particular case I doubt it will influence the outcome of the tournament significantly anyway.