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[DragonRacer]

HoochieHamiltoe wrote...

Cricketer15 wrote...

Won't the highest 2 team advance to rnd3 make more sense Lol
or the rnd3 wildcard given to highest rnd2 loser lol 

I agree. Don't quite understand why the third and fourth highest scoring losing teams get an automatic bye while the top 2 participate in round 2. 

Largely because I am semi-bracket-dumb and kinda ended up pulling these out of my butt last minute due to time constraints with my way-more-experienced bracketmaster.

However, it's already done so for the sake of consistancy, it remains as is. But I would definitely reverse it the next time.

It's my first tourney, guys. Bear with me on the learning curve? I really do have my Try Hard pants on! LOL

[Yatsufusa]

I ended up not being able to participate because of a last second emergency and we didn't have our back-up player available. We probably shouldn't have let it go to the last few hours to complete but I'm in a strange time-zone, so, meh.

I also thought about the tournament a lot, when we were doing some of our practice rounds I realized it wasn't exactly something that I enjoyed, and realized it was much more reliant on things like milking objectives and trying to get as many medals as possible. (That's become even clearer to me now that I see the score cards posted...), so the challenge of it was taken away for me, thus was the fun. I guess it's just not for me. Nonetheless though, this was a nice tournament you have put together Dragon, and I'm excited to see who wins. I'll be rooting for team GameFaqs!

[DragonRacer]

Yatsufusa wrote...

I ended up not being able to participate because of a last second emergency and we didn't have our back-up player available. We probably shouldn't have let it go to the last few hours to complete but I'm in a strange time-zone, so, meh.

I also thought about the tournament a lot, when we were doing some of our practice rounds I realized it wasn't exactly something that I enjoyed, and realized it was much more reliant on things like milking objectives and trying to get as many medals as possible. (That's become even clearer to me now that I see the score cards posted...), so the challenge of it was taken away for me, thus was the fun. I guess it's just not for me. Nonetheless though, this was a nice tournament you have put together Dragon, and I'm excited to see who wins. I'll be rooting for team GameFaqs!

No worries, Yat. One of your teammates messaged me Thursday night and gave me the heads up. I would never want someone feeling obligated to participate if they weren't having fun while doing it.

[Slother93]

For future reference DragonRacer, try googling "20 team bracket" and you will find a few examples showing single and double elimination brackets. You can find these for any number of teams that are participating in a tournament.

Typically round 1 would be a seeding round (not head-to-head) where every team competes using the same setup (map & enemy in our case), then they get ranked according to score. Round two would use these rankings to populate the brackets.

[Cricketer15]

DragonRacer wrote...

HoochieHamiltoe wrote...

Cricketer15 wrote...

Won't the highest 2 team advance to rnd3 make more sense Lol
or the rnd3 wildcard given to highest rnd2 loser lol 

I agree. Don't quite understand why the third and fourth highest scoring losing teams get an automatic bye while the top 2 participate in round 2. 

Largely because I am semi-bracket-dumb and kinda ended up pulling these out of my butt last minute due to time constraints with my way-more-experienced bracketmaster.

However, it's already done so for the sake of consistancy, it remains as is. But I would definitely reverse it the next time.

It's my first tourney, guys. Bear with me on the learning curve? I really do have my Try Hard pants on! LOL

lol its all good i just thought it was weird that the 3rd and 4th loser somehow gets a bye and get straight to rnd 3. didnt make much sense Lol. but oh well hopefully we still kick stentron ass.

[DragonRacer]

Slother93 wrote...

For future reference DragonRacer, try googling "20 team bracket" and you will find a few examples showing single and double elimination brackets. You can find these for any number of teams that are participating in a tournament.

Typically round 1 would be a seeding round (not head-to-head) where every team competes using the same setup (map & enemy in our case), then they get ranked according to score. Round two would use these rankings to populate the brackets.

That is outstanding advice and I will definitely heed it for future tournaments.

I was my own worst enemy. I KNEW I was closing sign-ups too close to the round start, but I was so bull-headed on staying on schedule (for fear of the decay that happened to the other tourney). I knew I could organize this, set the rules, keep people on task with timely reminders, have an interesting/challenging concept (the themed rounds) etc., but I really just ended up throwing the team compositions at poor keystpwned with virtually no turn-around time. He was swamped at work.

Which left me desperately trying to come up with something that I knew damn well was my greatest weakness coming into this. Nobody wants to know how much time I spent with scrap paper and pencil trying to figure out how to make a 20-team start last 6 rounds. It was an embarrassing amount of time, let me tell you. I am creative, not technical, and it shows here with the bracket flaws of my own making.

But I'm learning from this experience and taking away valuable ideas for next time. Future tournaments (whether for ME3 MP or the inevitable ME4 MP and beyond) will only get better and improve as time goes on, I can promise all of you that.

[Jhanus]

I like the tech kills on the Vanguards. Ammo+combo, I assume?

[cowwy]

If anyone cares here is Team Last Minute's video from round 1. Also known as how not to use medigel.

youtube.com

Modifié par cowwy, 08 mars 2013 - 11:41 .

[Slother93]

cowwy wrote...

If anyone cares here is Team Last Minute's video from round 1. Also known as how not to use medigel.

youtube.com

Oh I care. . 

I'll be watching this when I get home. Congrats!

[Slother93]

DragonRacer wrote

That is outstanding advice and I will definitely heed it for future tournaments.

Sorry I didn't say something earlier. 

[Cricketer15]

Reactor Geth eh there goes my beastly Drell adept ...

[whateverman7]

Cricketer15 wrote...

DragonRacer wrote...

HoochieHamiltoe wrote...

Cricketer15 wrote...

Won't the highest 2 team advance to rnd3 make more sense Lol
or the rnd3 wildcard given to highest rnd2 loser lol 

I agree. Don't quite understand why the third and fourth highest scoring losing teams get an automatic bye while the top 2 participate in round 2. 

Largely because I am semi-bracket-dumb and kinda ended up pulling these out of my butt last minute due to time constraints with my way-more-experienced bracketmaster.

However, it's already done so for the sake of consistancy, it remains as is. But I would definitely reverse it the next time.

It's my first tourney, guys. Bear with me on the learning curve? I really do have my Try Hard pants on! LOL

lol its all good i just thought it was weird that the 3rd and 4th loser somehow gets a bye and get straight to rnd 3. didnt make much sense Lol. but oh well hopefully we still kick stentron ass.

glad yall brought up the wildcard situation cause i was thinking it, but didnt want to say nothing and seem like i was whining lol....it's cool though dragon, just means we gotta work a lil harder to get to that plat match....

[Admiral Dreck]

DragonRacer wrote...

Admiral Dreck wrote...

Oh.. I saw that coming after what you said last night Dragon. xD

Congrats to PUG life!

I tried to be hopeful/neutral without actually telling anything.

And you did a nice job doing that!

But I'm pretty pessimistic..

[Admiral Dreck]

Max Dmian wrote...

Admiral Dreck wrote...

Oh.. I saw that coming after what you said last night Dragon. xD

Congrats to PUG life!

Thanks mate!
I think both our teams feel 12 years older after this week. Sync kills on extraction and stupid kill streaks. Frustrating **** 

You guys deserved the win!  No doubt.

But honestly.. my party members and I agree now.. we hate playing Dagger..
So many times, good killstreaks were ruined by "Spawn Protection."

[Cricketer15]

also dragon racer in future tournament, i think the smallest margin lost should get the wildcard spot because different maps are easier to get points, for example Glacier is easy to get high points in as seen in our and gamefaq runs, whilst some other maps may be harder to score points in. you said previously that enemy point differentiation isn't much, but looking at scoreboard the map makes a difference to. and top 2 team should get the bye whilst the 3rd and 4th play in rnd 2 instead

Modifié par Cricketer15, 09 mars 2013 - 07:09 .

[keystpwned]

Slother93 wrote...

For future reference DragonRacer, try googling "20 team bracket" and you will find a few examples showing single and double elimination brackets. You can find these for any number of teams that are participating in a tournament.

Typically round 1 would be a seeding round (not head-to-head) where every team competes using the same setup (map & enemy in our case), then they get ranked according to score. Round two would use these rankings to populate the brackets.

This isn't the dreaded NFL boss, Dragon set up the competition and it will be by her rules. We're trying our best here. Good luck.

[Slother93]

keystpwned wrote...

This isn't the dreaded NFL boss, Dragon set up the competition and it will be by her rules. We're trying our best here. Good luck.

Which is why I didn't say anything at all at the beginning of the tournament.

I was just trying to be helpful with my advice.

Modifié par Slother93, 09 mars 2013 - 07:33 .

[d_nought]

Can't wait for Rebellion Round lol. Dem Male Quarians + Reegar/Harrier. If we get there and get Reapers I am going to be hipster and use the Phoenix Vanguard.

Resurgence is gonna suck though. It has the GI, the Brosoldier and the Kishock, but glhf with Geth on Hydra or Condor, lol.

Earth should be good. I kinda wished we'd be ending up against N7 Link's team for the Earth Round, but w/e. Still, there's a good amount of stuff you can do with it. Fury/Slayer w/ Piranha/Acolyte, Brophoon Destroyer, Piranha Paladin. Depends on map and enemy. 3 large maps though.

Retaliation? I'd probably put my bets on the TGI, Batarian Adept, Geth Trooper and Volus Engineer.

Platinum round. Heh. It would be cool to see some interesting class combos rather than 3x infiltrator. If we get there, I'm going to be hipster and use something like the Turian Soldier, Drell Vanguard or Geth Engineer. Could also see the N7 Fury, N7 Slayer, N7 Paladin, Batarian Soldier, Batarian Slasher, Drell Adept and a whole bunch of other cool classes. Still, it's gonna depend a whole lot on the map and enemy combo, so there's no way to predict what would be the most common besides 3x infil.

[DragonRacer]

Cricketer15 wrote...

also dragon racer in future tournament, i think the smallest margin lost should get the wildcard spot because different maps are easier to get points, for example Glacier is easy to get high points in as seen in our and gamefaq runs, whilst some other maps may be harder to score points in. you said previously that enemy point differentiation isn't much, but looking at scoreboard the map makes a difference to. and top 2 team should get the bye whilst the 3rd and 4th play in rnd 2 instead

Yes, in hindsight, I agree with both of those. Especially after that mere 1,000-point loss by Team Nephilim... under better rules, they definitely would have deserved another shot.

But it is what it is. We learn and move forward the better for it.

[Slother93]

DragonRacer,

Despite a few minor hiccups I think this is a great tournament. Thanks for putting it together!

My comments on the bracket were intended as helpful advice for the future, not complaints about the present. I think you are doing a fine job.

[HoochieHamiltoe]

Slother93 wrote...

DragonRacer,

Despite a few minor hiccups I think this is a great tournament. Thanks for putting it together!

My comments on the bracket were intended as helpful advice for the future, not complaints about the present. I think you are doing a fine job.

Enjoy your week in the sun on the beach. Scrub. 

[Das Rouse]

HoochieHamiltoe wrote...

Slother93 wrote...

DragonRacer,

Despite a few minor hiccups I think this is a great tournament. Thanks for putting it together!

My comments on the bracket were intended as helpful advice for the future, not complaints about the present. I think you are doing a fine job.

Enjoy your week in the sun on the beach. Scrub. 

It's ok, you'll be there soon enough.

[Slother93]

Haha! Well played Das Rouse. Well played!

It's gonna be a great spring break Hamiltoe!

[Razerath]

Cricketer15 wrote...

also dragon racer in future tournament, i think the smallest margin lost should get the wildcard spot because different maps are easier to get points, for example Glacier is easy to get high points in as seen in our and gamefaq runs, whilst some other maps may be harder to score points in. you said previously that enemy point differentiation isn't much, but looking at scoreboard the map makes a difference to. and top 2 team should get the bye whilst the 3rd and 4th play in rnd 2 instead

It is easy on Glacier, so much to kill. Explosions everywhere!!! Did you guys hit the score limit on any objective waves? Just curious.

[Grotaiche]

Fun fact : Daylight Saving Time applies tomorrow in the US but not in Europe. Therefore, instead of a 6-hour difference between EST and CET, there will be only 5 hours between these 2 timezones until DST applies in Europe on March 31st.

So for example, when a round ends on a Thursday at 11:59pm (~midnight), it will be 4:59am on Friday in Europe. Good to know for those of us who like to submit scores at the very last limit

Modifié par Grotaiche, 09 mars 2013 - 06:58 .