The RTS Triathlon - A BAR, FAF, and PA event

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RTS Triathlon

Introducing the RTS Triathlon, tune in June 5th at 15:00 UTC on faflive for a unique RTS event! Featuring 4 teams each with 1 player from the Beyond All Reason, Planetary Annihilation: Titans, and Forged Alliance Forever communities.

The RTS triathlon is a 2v2 tournament where the 2 players unfamiliar with each game will be coached by a player experienced with that game. The coaches will cast each game after it is completed.

Teams will play a single elimination tournament with a bronze match. Each round is a 3 game series where each game is played once.

The teams:

Team Scone:
Dubhdara - BAR tournament sponsor and streamer
JaggedAppliance - Top FAF player, streamer, and caster
Marshall - PA caster and moderator

Team Subathlon:
Hershey - BAR caster and streamer (twitch)
TheDuelist - FAF caster and streamer
^FeH^ FuRy ReGoNe - Top Level PA Player, Supcom 2 Veteran

Team Procrastinators Unite Tomorrow:
skynet - BAR developer
Willow's Duality - FAF caster and streamer (twitch)
Ian Gitax - Top PA player

Team Super Delicious:
Requiem - BAR caster and streamer (twitch)
harzer - FAF streamer
Orb - Experienced RTS player and PA tournament winner

People who are interested in following the event are welcome to join the official discord. Thanks to IceXuick for the promotional art.

The maps:

Team Scone vs Team Subathlon: MoonQ20XR XR
Team Procrastinators Unite Tomorrow vs Team Super Delicious: Folsom Dam BAR Remake
Bronze Match: CenterRock Remake
Finals: Supreme Crossing

FAF:
Team Scone vs Team Subathlon: Adaptive Archsimkat's Valley
Team Procrastinators Unite Tomorrow vs Team Super Delicious: Twin Rivers
Bronze Match: Chiron
Finals: Seton's 10x10

PA:
Team Scone vs Team Subathlon: Shard
Team Procrastinators Unite Tomorrow vs Team Super Delicious: Ulmost
Bronze Match: Canyon
Finals: Seton's Clutch

cool concept, and whoever did that poster did an awesome job.

This is a neat concept. I would have put the mechanic upfront - 2v2s with the pro coaching the two noobs on his team. So much of FAF can't just be taught on the fly, or rather, you have to choose one thing to say because you can't tell them 50 things at once that they SHOULD be doing.

Very neat concept, I can't wait to see it.

wait,is that the [wip]Orb the same guy as Orb - Experienced RTS player and PA tournament winner?

queuing with a newbie to show him the beauty of tmm and meeting tagada be like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLcRpdZ0Xb0&ab_channel=Tomoko

@relentless said in The RTS Triathlon - A BAR, FAF, and PA event:

cool concept, and whoever did that poster did an awesome job.

Credit goes to IceXuick from the BAR community for producing this incredible render.

@funkoff said in The RTS Triathlon - A BAR, FAF, and PA event:

This is a neat concept. I would have put the mechanic upfront - 2v2s with the pro coaching the two noobs on his team. So much of FAF can't just be taught on the fly, or rather, you have to choose one thing to say because you can't tell them 50 things at once that they SHOULD be doing.

Very neat concept, I can't wait to see it.

Good point, I'll reword the post a bit.

@rezy-noob said in The RTS Triathlon - A BAR, FAF, and PA event:

wait,is that the [wip]Orb the same guy as Orb - Experienced RTS player and PA tournament winner?

Yes, Orb is Orb on FAF. They have some experience in every game.

Very interesting event. Looking forward to watching the casters.

Cool. enjoy your selves people. I will watch some replays on Twitch

First we will be best, then we will be first.
Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Congratulations to team Super Delicious for winning the Triathlon!

The final standings are:

  1. Team Super Delicious
  2. Team Subathlon
  3. Team Scone
  4. Procrastinators Unite Tomorrow

Bracket

Thanks to all the players and streamers who made this event possible. Thanks especially to Dragun, ptaq, and Marshall for helping me organize this event, to IceXuiqk for helping with graphics, and to Blodir for providing music for the stream.