Tournaments

[Igor]

Battle Field Play-Off Tourney has started a couple of days ago.
32 participants play without group rounds, only play-off, on Battle Field map in 5 rounds till the Final, with 1 day delay and 12 aways at start.
Matches in 1st round are:
match A: AngryOgre vs Balian
match B: Igor vs Gulgar
match C: Solo vs Feanor
match D: tabanli vs gil
match E: Art vs jimbo
match F: AtomicDustmen vs Kohl
match G: Garesch vs ChickenChaser
match H: Madbg vs marc
match I: mike vs mdoh
match J: nobibla vs Mixel
match K: SatanicLan vs mowhar
match L: smursh vs nunno18
match M: Snow vs RaakaArska
match N: strach vs SirDrinkALot
match O: TheVic vs navydustin
match P: zillusion vs Zaque
Tourney action can be watched on the forum: Ladder / Tournaments - Battle Field

[Igor]

New tournament Grand Final is now created.
Best players will take part in it, who took 1-3 place in ladder seasons, who won group round in WC'13, leaders of current ladder season. Also will be a few other players with 'Wild card'.
Grand Final will start 1st of March and it's already created in Ladder lobby.

[Igor]

Players who already in (and reasons why they are here):

ChickenChaser - Champion of 1st ladder season
Igor - Champion of 2nd and 6th ladder seasons, vice-champion of 3rd season, 3rd place in 4th and 5th seasons, winner of group E in WC'13
Tabanli - Champion of 5th ladder season, winner of group H in WC'13
AngryOgre - 3rd place in 3rd ladder season
AtomicDustmen - 1st place in 7th ladder season at the moment
Tim - Winner of group B in WC'13
Nagrogin - Winner of group C in WC'13
Euskrit - Winner of group D in WC'13
Smursh - Winner of group G in WC'13
Art - 'wild card' from organizer of the tournament
KGB -'wild card' from organizer of the tournament
kerog - '2nd place in group F in WC'13

(List of participants is corrected accordingly with current situation)

[KGB]

Igor,

How many games will I be playing at one time?
What's the turn time?
Are all games on Battlefield map?

I may take one of your 2 wild card entries depending on the format.

KGB

[Igor]

There will be 3 group rounds. 1st is with 4 groups of 3, 2nd is 2 groups of 4, and final group of 4.
So, you will have 2 games in the 1st round and 3 games in 2nd and final rounds if you will reach them.

I would like to use 2 days per turn, but ChickenChaser asked of 3 days. So it's not clear yet.
Maps for the tournament are under consideration. I think it will not be Battle Field for 1st round, may be later.

KGB, if you wish to join Grand Final, so welcome. Let me know if you are in.
One thing that I should note: try to not make a round as long as 3 months, that is realy very long.
Hope that all players, who is in, are experienced enough to complete a round in a month and a half or so. So all the tournament will take 3-5 months.

[KGB]

Igor,

Maybe CC will split the difference at 2.5 days. If it's 2.5 days that covers a weekend when it's often harder to play.

As long as it's 2+ days I am in since there aren't too many games going on at once.

One thing that I should note: try to not make a round as long as 3 months, that is realy very long.
Hope that all players, who is in, are experienced enough to complete a round in a month and a half or so. So all the tournament will take 3-5 months.

If players would just surrender to me sooner I'd be finished all my games faster

KGB

[Igor]

You are in. Hope 2.5 days will be used mostly for weekend though.

[Igor]

Kerog has joined. The tournament is now full.

Then I'll post here about who is in what group.
Important thing that teammates shouldn't be in the same group in round 1st and (if possible) in round 2nd.

[Igor]

Maps for the tournament:
1st round - Four Lords Original
2nd round - Colourful snowflake
3rd round - Battle Field
tie-break (if necessary) - Central Sahara

[Igor]

For making groups, players separated to 3 baskets of 4 players:

Red basket - who took 1-3 places in ladder seasons:
ChickenChaser
Igor
tabanli
AngryOgre

Green basket - who was a winner of group in WC'13:
Tim
nagrogin
Euskrit
smursh

White basket - who got 'Wild card' from organizer of the tournament; who is in top 3 in current ladder season; who took 2nd place in group in WC'13:
AtomicDustmen
Art
KGB
kerog


Players from Red basket placed into first position of each group, players from Green basket - into second position, players from White basket - into third position.
Players from the same team aren't in the same group; then as much as it is possible, players from the same time zone are in the same groups.

Groups are:

Group A
ChickenChaser
smursh
Art

Group B
Igor
Euskrit
kerog

Group C
tabanli
nagrogin
AtomicDustmen

Group D
AngryOgre
Tim
KGB

Groups are filled in lobby of the tournament.