Hivecast Invitational #1
ArcL!ght
Join Date: 2007-11-27 Member: 63031Members, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester
Join Date: 2007-11-27 Member: 63031Members, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester
<div class="IPBDescription">Hash, rash & tash</div>So I have come up with the idea to start a new series on my channel.
It would be series of invitational tourneys that are just for fun, no cash or prize is involved in this.
<u>Basic idea is to have fun, to promote competitive level of play in the community and again <b>TO HAVE FUN!</b></u>
Basic set of rules:
Tournaments would be hosted once every two weeks.
Clan limit would be set to 4 (in pairs of two from same continent\region)
Games would be played for example EU vs EU and NA vs NA
Winners of each vs each other with Marine games on local server.
Losers play too!
One round consists of two games, only one round is played.
In case of tie a roll of D100 dice would determine who plays which side.
The clan with lower alphabetic order gets 1-50, with higher 51-100, whoever wins gets to choose side, looser chooses the map!
Hope it's simple enough :)
So as is now for the first Hivecast invitational that would be hosted on 11.1.2012 or 11.2.2012 (mm.dd.yyyy)
Clans for first HCI are:
EU: HBZ and duplex
NA: Nexzil and Inversion
Would like all clan leaders to PM me ASAP! :)
(if nothing else we will bump the tourney for next week!)
Cheers!
It would be series of invitational tourneys that are just for fun, no cash or prize is involved in this.
<u>Basic idea is to have fun, to promote competitive level of play in the community and again <b>TO HAVE FUN!</b></u>
Basic set of rules:
Tournaments would be hosted once every two weeks.
Clan limit would be set to 4 (in pairs of two from same continent\region)
Games would be played for example EU vs EU and NA vs NA
Winners of each vs each other with Marine games on local server.
Losers play too!
One round consists of two games, only one round is played.
In case of tie a roll of D100 dice would determine who plays which side.
The clan with lower alphabetic order gets 1-50, with higher 51-100, whoever wins gets to choose side, looser chooses the map!
Hope it's simple enough :)
So as is now for the first Hivecast invitational that would be hosted on 11.1.2012 or 11.2.2012 (mm.dd.yyyy)
Clans for first HCI are:
EU: HBZ and duplex
NA: Nexzil and Inversion
Would like all clan leaders to PM me ASAP! :)
(if nothing else we will bump the tourney for next week!)
Cheers!
Comments
I'm quite confident you're going to find participants anyway, but most likely you've got more quality games and higher skilled participants with some less laggy format. I guess a lot depends on what kind of casts you actually want to do and where your priorities are.
If you want quality games and somewhat serious competition, it's probably better to stick to one continent at a time. If you're fine with kind of silly rounds, occassional lag issues and mainly aim at laid back games to cast, the cross continent system might work quite alright.
Whatever you choose to do, good luck with the project :)
Don't worry, Archaea will have it's share too :)
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I'm quite confident you're going to find participants anyway, but most likely you've got more quality games and higher skilled participants with some less laggy format. I guess a lot depends on what kind of casts you actually want to do and where your priorities are.
If you want quality games and somewhat serious competition, it's probably better to stick to one continent at a time. If you're fine with kind of silly rounds, occassional lag issues and mainly aim at laid back games to cast, the cross continent system might work quite alright.
Whatever you choose to do, good luck with the project :)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
As I said, idea is to have fun, not to have major events like BBC, Guru tourney or such. This will be hosted every two weeks, to promote more known clans at start, but to promote the newly formed clans as well. As NS2 stats gets updated I'll have much easier job of tracking the clan list, as well as NS2 hub.
So no need to apply, everyone gets their share in due time.
Yeah, it definitely sounds a pretty awesome thing if you can find an opening there.
I guess my main concern was that I'm not completely sure what makes the tournament stand out from other streams and NS2 content if/when the community size explodes with release. If you can find a way to make people tune in regularly to make it worthwile, it seems like a wonderful way to support the community.
Add Tempest on steam.
Aren't you bothered at all about the fact that the ESL finals will be held in the same day?
I guess no one knows the exact timing though.
I should also add that this doesn't look like a tournament at all; these are show matches. Nothing wrong with that, but call it what it is.
And I said that it will be series of tournaments to promote game, play and FUN.
I for one don't want for NS2 communities to split to NA, EU, A&O, SA or Asia only. I know there is ping difference to bother but let's keep the community together.
Thanks again to all the clans for responding to the invites!
You can say that Duplex won the tourney, but in my opinion everyone's a winner, baby, that's the truth, making love to you is such a thrill. Everyone's a winner, baby, that's no lie, you never fail to satisfy! SNAP out of it lol :)
So I would call this tourney a success since we can now see to aim and find the best servers for teams to play on that have decent enough ping for both continents.
In my hearth Inversion won the tourney with their epic hold on the hives, giving a special shout to rantology for awesome gorging.
Best clog wall of the tourney award > Nexzil
Best hive de# > Inversion
Most meds dropped on the tourney award> Duplex
Best guns of the tourney award > Inversion
Best bites of the tourney award > Nexzil
Most bullets fired award > Duplex (spending like the whole tech tree worth of res on ammo packs for hive pressures)
Sneakiest onos of the game award > Nexzil (Bitey :) )
The next HCI will happen in two weeks on saturday since ENSL starts sunday.
Clans will be named in the new topic :) coming this week!
The games are being encoded and will be uploaded in lets say 36h time.
It was fun though, thanks to HBZ and Inversion for putting up good fights!
1) cross-region matches should only be played on either UK or east coast servers
- when we played hbz on our server none of them had over 150ms, but when we switched to their Germany server I was pinging 220+, so there should always be a uk / east server to at least <i>attempt</i> to get equal ping differences
2) have alien rounds always be played on local server? it's quite silly to have 50ms marines shooting at 180ms skulks, and this coin flip solution is just a bandaid. alien rounds should be played on low ms, and the opposite team should just get to pick the map.
ggs
Nexzil did pretty good I have to say, so did Inversion but usually all marine games are played on native server in every tournament so far so it felt natural to do the same for this one.
Or you should just have an even number of games and call a tie a tie. NS2 with odd numbers of rounds is so bad.
Fine then, we will do it that way, and I will pick map by random for future tourneys.