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[Thomas]

Signs ups are closed~

We'll have the brackets and maps up tomorrow, hopefully before the SCS (but more likely after). If you missed the sign up and desperately want to join, go ahead and post and we can probably get you in. Maybe. The absolute cut off is Wednesday morning.

[Thomas]

Brackets are up!

http://challonge.com/BlossomingColosseum


In each bracket, the top team is red spawn, the bottom is blue. As a reminder, the final match in each season is just a best of one, there won't be a Match J.


Map rolls are:

Match A: Canyon Ambush
Match B: Duel at Dawn
Match C: Canyon Ambush
Match D: Battle on the Dunes
Match E: Fight Over Firnfield
Match F: Water Hazard
Match G: Norther Fjords
Match H: Duel at Dawn
Match I: Fight Over Firnfield
Match J: N/A
Match K: Duel at Dawn
Match L: Battle on the Dunes
Match M: Battle on the Dunes
Match N: Canyon Ambush
Match O: Paritan Rumble
Match P: Northern Fjords
Match Q: Northern Fjords

[Steve CZ]

I don't understand, why isn't there a match J? It's a standard part of a double elimination format

[c-ponter]

I am a bit lost at that as well, a match J would mean that a team is rewarded for winning all of their matches with a safety net so to speak, whereas without it they are almost being punished as they only have to lose once while everyone else would have to lose twice.
Is there a reason behind no match J or just time/manpower restraints?

[Steve CZ]

Also, will this take only one weekend, or more?

[Thomas]

Sorry, that was my bad. In the full description of the entire tournament, it was mentioned that the finals would be an all-or-nothing sort of deal. So if the team that hasn't lost yet loses in the finals, they just straight up lose.

Since I failed to carry it over to this thread, we'll go on the assumption that there will in fact be a J match. This may or may not change with future seasons, we'll see how everyone feels about it after this season.


In theory we can do it all in one day assuming we get 3-4 streamers. Right now we currently have 2-3 (3 if I'm able to stream). Then we have about 2 refs right now, and it shouldn't be difficult to get some others.

We're looking at '30' minutes for each round max. So if things go long, it'll look like this.


3 Streamers
A, D, E (30 minutes)
B, C, K (1 hour)
F, L, M (1.5 hours)
G, N (2 hours)
 H, O (2.5 hours)
P (3 hours)
Q (3.5 hours)
I (4 hours)
J (4.5 hours)


Assuming I mostly did that right. Realistically we're probably looking around 3 hours. If things get crazy delayed, we can move the last few matches to next Saturday, or even Sunday before or after the SCS. Whichever the last few teams are most comfortable with. However, I think 1 day should be just fine.


Edit: I did a rundown for 4 streamers, but I messed up. It ends up being the same length as 3 streamers. Thanks go to Skrimskraw, and the fault is blamed on lack of sleep.

[Rhythm Rogue]

Even without including lobby times, technical difficulties and such, assuming you can get it all done in three hours is awfully optimistic. I can't speak for anybody else but my team will start losing crew even before the three hour mark. I must request we do it in two days.

[Thomas]

If the surviving teams have concerns about the time as we proceed, we'll be more than happy to stretch it out to the following Saturday.

Although the SCS has managed to complete this in a single day with the same number of teams before.

[Thomas]

Match J: Water Hazard

(somehow to forgot to put this when I initially talked about it. Totally professional)


Then to answer some questions I got about badges and subs. Once you win the tournament, you'll PM a reasonable list of names for people to get badges. I'll check the videos to make sure these people were actually in the competition of course. If you have someone participate in only one match, even if it's not the final match, they can still get a badge. If some of your normal crew can't make it this day, but you still want them to get a badge, that might be a little more difficult. Ideally only those who participate can get a badge, but I don't really see a problem with this. However, if they get a badge, they're still barred from participating in the other seasons up until the Champion Tournament. Just try to keep it reasonable.

[RunningTree]

Matches will begin at 3 PM EST on Saturdays.

Is this truly Eastern Standard Time, UTC -5. Or does this refer to Eastern Daylightsavings Time, UTC -4, currently observed by some regions?



For southeast-coast Australians, we will switch from UTC 11 to UTC 10 at about the same time thereabouts when this match begins. Correct timings would help us immensely in transitioning through this harrowing moment.

[Thomas]

I mentioned it in my next post after the OP, but it's 3 PM EDT, or 7 PM UTC. I apologize for the initial error.  Hope this clears things up.

[Skrimskraw]

to cut it out for eu people.

its at 8pm gmt / 9pm cet

[Thomas]

So all the information you could ever want:

http://challonge.com/BlossomingColosseum

Match A: Canyon Ambush
Match B: Duel at Dawn
Match C: Canyon Ambush
Match D: Battle on the Dunes
Match E: Fight Over Firnfield
Match F: Water Hazard
Match G: Norther Fjords
Match H: Duel at Dawn
Match I: Fight Over Firnfield
Match J: Water Hazard
Match K: Duel at Dawn
Match L: Battle on the Dunes
Match M: Battle on the Dunes
Match N: Canyon Ambush
Match O: Paritan Rumble
Match P: Northern Fjords
Match Q: Northern Fjords


Fourth:
www.twitch.tv/FourthOracle
A, B, F, G, H, P, Q, I, ( J )
(Ref: Alistair)

Dementio:
www.twitch.tv/D_dementio
D, C, L, N, O
(Ref: Allien)

Thomas:
www.twitch.tv/ColosseumStreaming
 E, K, M
(Ref: Velvet)



This is of course just the first pass, and things are subject to change based upon the feedback and availability of the streamers and refs. If there are any changes, I will update it ASAP.

[RunningTree]

I mentioned it in my next post after the OP, but it's 3 PM EDT, or 7 PM UTC. I apologize for the initial error.  Hope this clears things up.

to cut it out for eu people.

its at 8pm gmt / 9pm cet

Do you mean 8PM BST/WEST (UTC plus 1) and 9PM CEDT (UTC plus 2)?

GMT is always UTC zero. Regions are said to be observing a different timezone entirely during daylight savings.

I'm going to defer to Thomas's UTC 19:00, because it's UTC. And this means 05:00 on the Sunday for AEST.

Apologies if I stirred up confusion.