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[JDodge]

The MS.net Worst of the Worst SC2 Tournament

Caster(s):

JDodge, Shanba

Players:

Knight of Cydonia, ReaperCharlie, gandalf5166, Papa Zito, Flameaxe, xRECKONERx

Are we going to actually make this happen? I can start working on figuring out format/like that if there's actual interest.

KoC, are you on the EU server? We're all on NA so that'll probably unfortunately take you out of it.

[Papa Zito]

yessssssssssssssssssss

[JDodge]

btw, i'll be on most all day if anyone wants to play a couple games against me

[Knight of Cydonia]

Oh you fuckers. Yes, I'm EU. Requesting position on caster team if you're doing them from replays, then.

[xRECKONERx]

The MS.net Worst of the Worst SC2 Tournament

Caster(s):

JDodge, Shanba

Players:

Knight of Cydonia, ReaperCharlie, gandalf5166, Papa Zito, Flameaxe, xRECKONERx

Are we going to actually make this happen? I can start working on figuring out format/like that if there's actual interest.

KoC, are you on the EU server? We're all on NA so that'll probably unfortunately take you out of it.

With KoC out, we could do the rest of us in a 5-player double elimination tournament. Would you be down for that? If so, I'll set up the brackets and we'll start working out the dates and times.

[xRECKONERx]

[Papa Zito]

Couldn't KoC just swap with JDodge?

[Moratorium]

Well I wasn't going to say anything about joining until someone could give some detail on what this is about, are we playing to lose, playing to win, playing to impress a judging panel on how "artistically" we can lose, what is it exactly?

[Knight of Cydonia]

I was under the impression it was just a normal tourney, but with really, really bad players.

[Papa Zito]

Right. You're suppose to try, but failure is as celebrated as success. The more spectacular the better.

[JDodge]

The MS.net Worst of the Worst SC2 Tournament

Caster(s):

JDodge, Shanba

Players:

Knight of Cydonia, ReaperCharlie, gandalf5166, Papa Zito, Flameaxe, xRECKONERx

Are we going to actually make this happen? I can start working on figuring out format/like that if there's actual interest.

KoC, are you on the EU server? We're all on NA so that'll probably unfortunately take you out of it.

With KoC out, we could do the rest of us in a 5-player double elimination tournament. Would you be down for that? If so, I'll set up the brackets and we'll start working out the dates and times.

seems pretty silly to do a 5-player double elim tournament, just sayin'

we need at least 8 to make this work

Couldn't KoC just swap with JDodge?

let's swap out the one person with the know-how to make casting it work with someone else yay

[Moratorium]

Ok, I'll play.

[xRECKONERx]

@JD, with Moratorium in, a six-player double-elimination tournament works just fine.

First two games are played
Winners of first two games face the two people who didn't play
4 losers enter losers bracket; 2 winners face off
Winner of loser's bracket faces loser of winner's game
Championship game

[Flameaxe]

Even easier (conceptually, not as much for the players) would be a round robin where the top 4 move on to single elim. Plus, more games = more casting = more fun for everyone.

[Knight of Cydonia]

A round robin is a LOT of games if everyone plays a best of three against each other once.

[Albert B. Rampage]

Rampage
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[Moratorium]

We're doing best of threes?

[Papa Zito]

let's swap out the one person with the know-how to make casting it work with someone else yay

Oh your casting is going to be just top notch I know it.

[Knight of Cydonia]

Well, if the terribads want to pretend to be in a tourney with some meaning, then yes, but I guess it's JD's call.

[Moratorium]

Is this going to be at a set time (like some weekend afternoon or something), or just pairings where the two involved need to settle on a time to play each other and report their results?

[xRECKONERx]

Even easier (conceptually, not as much for the players) would be a round robin where the top 4 move on to single elim. Plus, more games = more casting = more fun for everyone.

[xRECKONERx]

Is this going to be at a set time (like some weekend afternoon or something), or just pairings where the two involved need to settle on a time to play each other and report their results?

I would say we'd give ranged deadlines for rounds to be completed (like 3 days per round) and then let the competitors set up specific times to play. Are we going to do Best of 3 or just 1 win for the round robin?

[JDodge]

let's swap out the one person with the know-how to make casting it work with someone else yay

Oh your casting is going to be just top notch I know it.

fuck off

@JD, with Moratorium in, a six-player double-elimination tournament works just fine.

First two games are played
Winners of first two games face the two people who didn't play
4 losers enter losers bracket; 2 winners face off
Winner of loser's bracket faces loser of winner's game
Championship game

a 6 player double elim is also silly

the correct way to run a less-than-8 person tournament is to run either a round-robin style preliminary of bo1 matches with a 4-player single elim seeded final bracket running bo3 in the semis and bo5 in the final

the even more correct way is to attempt to recruit people, then decide on an actual format once we know how many people we have instead of just rushing into doing something

i would like to play if possible, i'm sure we can set it up to where i can cast all games except my own (or i wouldn't mind casting my own games, it might be interesting to have a PoV in the game every now and then)

the alternative way is a KOTH

[Moratorium]

KOTH would be good in that we'd get to observe if the date/time of the match is preannounced

e: well that's the case whatever we do but with KOTH there'd only be one match going on at a time guaranteed

[JDodge]

KOTH would be in that we'd get to observe if the date/time of the match is preannounced

e: well that's the case whatever we do but with KOTH there'd only be one match going on at a time guaranteed

not necessarily, we could set up a sort of schedule and have a match every couple of days, have it be a persistent, perpetual thing