The TimmyB Tournament- starting August 23rd!

[Byron Cavendish]

Fair enough, redacted, rescinded and replaced.

[Caylin]

You've taken six weeks of Saturday primetime. People are going to take it seriously which is a shame as goio doesn't work well when ships on the same team have incentive to work for themselves.

If you choose to take it seriously, so be it. But even if you win the prizes by doing so, you lose the event, as you don't have nearly as much fun . The point of this event is a for a good, fun, laugh. If you think a badge or whatever prize you get is worth wasting this opportunity, then feel free, but just know that everyone else is getting alot more out of it (also, just winning won't get you maximum points anyway, and the overall 1st place badge is just for tradition's sake, the plan is to also reward the fun things that should happen naturally). In my opinion, if you come just to take it seriously, then it's probably not worth your time.

[RomanKar]

I think you should call it something other than a Tournament then, so that it is obvious and upfront that this is not to be seen in the same light at other competitive tournaments. 

I think it is great that someone wanted to break away from standard competitive fare and open up a more festive get together that truly builds community.  And to further this wish and somewhat higher minded goal, I think it should advertise itself as something other than a tournament so it isn't sullied by it.

A festival, a Fete, a party, a mixer, GOIO's version of the Laff-a-lympics or some other name that will set it apart and above regular Tournaments.  Just a thought.

[Thomas]

Some of the secret points will be announced the week of the event, or after they are performed. Others will require players to keep a keen eye out for. So there is already a bit of both, as you asked. Keep in mind that the extra points are meant to be silly in nature. Many a drunken hour betweem myself and the tournament committee was put into coming up with them.

There will be a participation badge, and a gold badge. It was important to me (as it was important to Timmy) that everyone gets recognized for participating as a community.

That sounds excellent, looking forward to see how things go.

[Queso]

As the owner of the only point so far, I like secret points.

[Caylin]

well, it'c called a tournament because it is a tournament. like I said, I'm fine with people taking it seriously, but I do think people should realise that there are dozens of other tournaments that they can play in at some point or another, and go full try hard, but this is an opportunity that they should take to just mess about with friends in a unique environment. I think the point of this tournament is to highlight those fun times during normal play with your friends in a lobby, just chilling with people. but for it to work as a structured event, it still needs a goal for each match just to drive things forward, ergo: tournament. we just want people to play for fun ^^

[Byron Cavendish]

I'd like to share a video I hold dear for those that never got to meet Timmy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U2lgBChcoA

[Byron Cavendish]

Quick adjustment, the starting time is 4pm est, not 3 pm est!

[Skrimskraw]

question: do you have to play all 6 weeks?

[Byron Cavendish]

Not at all!

[Velvet]

when you say 3PM EST do you actually mean[ EST (UTC-5) or EDT (UTC-4)? I assume it's the latter but I'd like to be sure.

(I wish people would use UTC for international stuff because it avoids this sort of confusion.)

[Deltajugg]

I have two questions regarding the tournament that I believe were not answered yet:


1.Considering that we currently have 12 teams signed up, giving us two separate 3v3 instances, what happens if someone else will sign up and the amount of teams isn't divided by 6 anymore? Do people from initial 3v3 matchups join to fight the team number 13,14,15? What happens if the ship count is not fitting for the match to happen for everyone?

2.Also, how long does the event last for 1 team? Do we play only one match on one, randomly chosen map from the pool for up to 30 minutes based on the rules, or am I missing something that will make one ship team stay for like 2 hours or so?

[Praxedis]

I'd like to share a video I hold dear for those that never got to meet Timmy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U2lgBChcoA

Haha thx for sharing this Byron! Omg I miss Timmy so much, I loved his Rock'n'Roll attitude.

[Byron Cavendish]

Bitte prax!

[Steve CZ]

Hi, I would love to see a response to Velvet's question, whether is the start time in EST or actually in EDT. Also, could you edit the original post to display the right time, if you moved it from 3pm to 4pm? Thank you