Best posts made by NOC-

You want to help FAF when your clearly promoting an external game using the FAF player base to make money.
Your clearly utilising the news feed which is under your direct control to try and cause a biased election.
The only change your trying to make here is reducing FAF player base to increase your games player base so you make money.

Theyre not trying to save their own skin as Biass, FTX, Keyser, Turin any of the others do their job and they do it well. They do not cause issues to the level that you have.
Yes there is some toxicitiy there always is.
People have a difference of opinion. It always causes an issue thats life.

As from your previous post. "And if election integrity is something that is something that must be fiercely enforced ... just you wait for part 2".
Is this a direct threat the community of retaliation as you did not get your way.

I may not know the entire ins and outs of the council. Nor do I fully care. If Sheeo and FTX have a disagreement then I assume their arguing whether something is the best for FAF.
My issue is your clear abuse of your position.
That is why there is a call for your resignation not because of toxicity but due to the power abuse.

Hello and welcome to the Qualifier Tournament for the 2023 Summer Invitational. The top 4 players of this tournament will receive invites to play in the 2023 Summer Invitational.

This is a 1v1 Double Elimination bracket with BO3 games in the winners bracket and BO1 games in the losers bracket. The bracket will be seeded based on ladder rating. Each BO3 will consist of a 5x5, 10x10, and 20x20, played in that order.

This tournament is open to all players.

There is no maximum number of players. The number of BO1s vs BO3s in the winners bracket will be adjusted to ensure a timely tournament.

All standard tournament rules apply. In the event of a tie in position occurs (ie 7-8th) which is needed to determine whether a player will advance to the group stage, a BO1 will be played to determine who advances. Signups will close 15 minutes before the start time.
See official tournament rules post for additional details.

Date: September 23rd
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #summer
Challonge: https://challonge.com/kltlh398
Tournament Directors: NOC-
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive (yet to be ensured)

Prizes:
The top 4 players from the qualifier will advance to the Group Stage.
Avatars yet to be determined.

To signup leave a post below with your current ladder rating.

Players:
Ovenman - 1127
Tron - ?
Psychopomp - ?
One-Above-All - ?
Karateka - 1420
Wifi - ?
Winter - 1117
h4yd0s - ?

Map Pool:

5 by 5:
Ambush Pass
Theta Passage - FAF Version
The Ganges Chasm

10 by 10:
Distortion
Frithen
Open Palms - FAF Version
Niflheim Final V2
Twin Rivers - FAF Version

20 by 20:
Bermuda Locket - FAF Version
Point Of Reach V4
Pelagial

Mapgens:
7.5 by 7.5
10 by 10
12.5 by 12.5
15 by 15

Results:

1. Wifi
2. Nory
3. System Failure
4. Loxpooig
5. Winter
6. Ovenman
7. Karateka

^^^ Wants big land battles -- Plays dual gap

Hello and welcome to the 2023 Summer Invitational Tournament! The annual Summer Invitational is a top level 1v1 tournament featuring a series of invited players and an open qualifier to find the top 16 players on FAF. For those who are not familiar, there will be series of invites sent out to previous tournament winners, and an open qualifier on September 23rd to fill the remainder of the slots. This is followed by a group stage on September 30th where the top 8 players will advance to a single elimination playoff bracket on October 7th - 8th whose winners will receive prizes and glory!

All tournaments will be casted on twitch.tv/faflive starting at 14:00 UTC.

What’s changed?
We will now be using the new combined Legend of the Stars points system for determining invites. There will now always be 12 players getting in through invites and 4 players getting in through the qualifier. Invites will be sent out to the top 12 players on that list and if any of the top 12 do not wish to participates, additional invites will be sent to the players next in line. In addition, the qualifier has gone back to being fully open to all players who wish to participate.

Would you like to contribute to the prize pool?
You can donate via Paypal to support this tournament.

Prize pool:
$350
Donated via FAF.

• 1st: $175, Summer Invitational Champion Avatar, 16 LotS points
• 2nd: $100, Faction Face Avatar, 12 LotS points
• 3rd: $50, Faction Icon Avatar, 8 LotS points
• 4th: $25, 6 LotS points
• 5th-8th: 4 LotS points
• 9th-16th: 2 LotS points

Congratulations to Turbo2 for winning and taking first place.
Congratulations to Yudi taking 2nd place.
Congratulations to Zlo taking 3rd place.
Congratulations to Blast Chilled taking 4th place.

Avatars yet to be ensured they exists.

Note: residents of countries under sanction by the US, EU, or Germany may be ineligible to receive cash prizes.

The qualifier:
This is an open qualifier, all players are welcome to participate. It will be a double elimination tournament with BO1s and BO3s in the winner's bracket and BO1s in the loser's bracket. Maps will be selected by myself from a pool for each round. Players will be seeded by ladder rating at the time of signup.

The group stage:
This will consist of 4 groups of 4 players playing a round robin style tournament with the top 2 of each group advancing. Games will be BO3s. Groups will be chosen by a captains system. The players with the top 4 highest invitational points will act as captains taking turns picking the remaining 3 players in their groups. The player with the most points will get Group A and first pick. Group B captain will pick second with following picks made using a snake system.

Maps will be chosen by players from a pool of 11 using a veto/pick system with 2 vetoes each, players will make alternating vetoes and picks with loser seed vetoing first and higher seed picking first. For the last pick players will resume vetoing from the remaining maps until only one map remains with lower seed vetoing first. Faction veto will also be used.

The playoffs:
This is a single elimination tournament with all BO3 matches expect for the championship match which will be BO5. Maps are chosen by players in a pick/veto system from a pool of 15 with 3 vetoes each, players will make alternating vetoes and picks. Players advancing from the group stage can submit one map to the finals bracket map pool (subject to Tournament Director veto). For the last pick players will resume vetoing from the remaining maps until only one map remains with lower seed vetoing first. Faction veto will also be used. There first two rounds of the Playoffs will be played on Saturday and the 3rd place and championship match will be played on Sunday. The 3rd place match will start at 14:00 UTC and the championship match will follow it.

Accepted invites:
Yudi
Archsimkat
Espi
Turbo2
Fodin
Grimplex
Shen
Blast
Banani
Rowan

https://challonge.com/cl0w1bjl

Overview:
Hello everyone and welcome to this years Legend of the Stars championship.

Schedule (All tournaments start at 14UTC):
Legend of the Stars Open Qualifier: November 25th
Group Stage A+B Day 1: December 2nd
Group Stage C+D Day 2: December 3rd
Playoffs Day 1: December 9th
Playoffs Day 2: December 10th

Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Tournament Organizer: NOC-
Tournament Directors: NOC-, (hopefully more)
Streamers: TBD

Current Prize Pool: Current Prize Pool $1900
Current Donators:

FAF - $1900

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE: Please contact NOC- or post in this thread directly.

Prize Pool:
1st - 1st place LotS avatar - $600
2nd - 2nd place LotS avatar - $375
3rd - 3rd place LotS avatar - $275
4th - 4th place LotS avatar - $150
5th-8th - $75 each
9th-12th - $30 each
13th-1th - $20 each

Rules:
This tournament will run via the new set of tournament rules.
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/6167/official-tournament-rules

Invited Players:
This year there will only be 8 invited players based on the Invitational points system.

Yudi
Tagada
Espi
Turbo2
Zlo
Nexus
Turin
Grimplex

Rejected:
Turin

New Invited:
Shen

This tournament will have 1 qualifier stage tournament to make up the additional 8 players entering the 16 man group stage.

Then a 16 man group stage split across two different days to maximise casting before entering a final 8 man battle until we get to the Gold, Silver, Bronze and 4th place matches.

Qualifier: 25th November 2023

Followed by a 16 player round robin event group stage.

Group Stage - split between Groups A & B, Groups C & D.
Groups A & B : 2nd December 2023
Groups C & D : 3rd December 2023

Round of 8 and Semi-Finals: 9th December 2023.
Finals Bronze and 4th Place matches: 10th December 2023.

Qualifier 1 - 25th November 2023:

This is a 1v1 Double Elimination bracket with BO3 games in the winners bracket and BO1 games in the losers bracket. The bracket will be seeded based on ladder rating.

This tournament is only open to players currently placed in 1v1 Masters, Grandmasters, and/or those with 1500+ ladder rating.

There is no maximum number of players. The number of BO1s vs BO3s in the winners bracket will be adjusted to ensure a timely tournament.

Date: November 25th
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #Qualy
Challonge: ----
Tournament Directors: NOC-
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Link: ----

Prizes:
The top 8 players of this tournament will fill 8 slots in the LOTS 2023 player list.

A separate post will follow for signups to this tournament.

16 Player Group Stage:
Group Stage - split between Groups A & B, Groups C & D.
Groups A & B : 2nd December 2023.
Groups C & D : 3rd December 2023.

3 Map Veto's Each
Faction Veto's used.
All brackets are BO5.

Day 1:
Date: December 2nd
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #LOTS23
Challonge: https://challonge.com/42fafngn
Tournament Directors: NOC-
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Streamers: TBD

Day 2:
Date: December 3rd
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #LOTS23
Challonge: https://challonge.com/42fafngn
Tournament Directors: NOC-
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Streamers: TBD

Final 8 Playoffs:

These matches are BO5.
3 Map Veto's Each
Faction Veto's used.

Date: December 9th 2023
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #LOTS23
Challonge: https://challonge.com/42fafngn
Tournament Directors: NOC-
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive

Final 4 Playoffs:

These matches are BO7.
3 Map Veto's Each
Faction Veto's used.

Date: December 10th 2023
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #LOTS22
Challonge: https://challonge.com/42fafngn
Tournament Directors: NOC-
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive

Substitutions:
In the event players are unable to attend a substitute will be brought in.
These substituted are from the Qualifier Stage Tournaments.

Player Cards

With Thanks to:

Hello All,

This is a brief statement regarding the Legend of the Stats 2022 timescale.
A more in-depth post will be available soon under the Tournaments Tab.

This years tournament will have 8 invites to the top players.
Followed by two Qualifiers where the top 4 of each qualifier will join the 8 invited players.

Qualifier 1: 19th November 2022.
Qualifier 2: 3rd December 2022.

Followed by a 16 player round robin event group stage.

Group Stage - split between Groups A & B, Groups C & D.
Groups A & B - 10th December 2022.
Groups C & D - 11th December 2022.

This is to increase the number of castable games.

The final 8 will play an elimination bracket the same as the Invitationals prior in this year.

Final 8 - 17th December 2022.
Gold, Silver, Bronze and 4th Place matches - 18th December 2022.

Additional Information will be available soon.

In contrast to many other people's opinions here. I will say to add it (Yes I am a setoner)

1. You do not need to know how to play setons at a high level to play the map. The majority of 4v4 tmm games hit a max rating of 1800. I dont know many setoners that even play 4v4 tmm so it is rare you will even get them in your lobby.
   You do not require build orders or expert knowledge of the map.
   Its quite simple when you look at it from any skill level. There is water you make navy, there is a land area you make land, there is a back slot with not much else so air and eco.

2. Even though there are lots of setons games hosted we host these are nobody else does. I host a fair few 2000+ setons if there are enough high level people online as the map is not featured anywhere else.

3. Setons is fucking great at teaching you shit. Yes you can learn how to eco in dual gap however setons teaches tree reclaim and the value of it, teaches you to eco while still maintaining a sizeable army equal to your opponent, and includes all aspects to large respect to each other. You need early land mid, you need navy and you need air, it teaches a vast amount of unit experiance and allows you to experiment and see what works well where.
   In the interest that atleast 60% of this community does not understand tree reclaim or proper unit combinations it would be great to help them learn that.

4. This can be played as a chill map, a cancer map or as anything it holds soo many options its dumb to exclude it. The vast majority of 4v4 is maps that you can only win playing a certain way. Setons is not like that.

5. In relation to what @Jip said - the rating system can't properly represent the skill of players on that specific map. WHEN THE FUCK CAN RATING SYSTEM REPRESENT THE RIGHT SKILL. Take Tagada for example, he will hate me for it but its fact he is currently 2600 global. On setons he is 2200 at best. Other maps he is probably easy 2400. Take a 2000 dual gapper and put him on metir and he will be useless. The rating system cannot predict any correctly to be honest on any map so why bother with this argument on setons.

6. Yes setons can last long. This is good though. You have to learn how to properly end the game. Whether that be Paragon, Mavor, Nuke Subs, TML bases, Land invasion, air domination. Half the players especially low level can get to 500 mass income but they dont know how to actually end the game. Setons teaches that.

7. Yes it can lag sometimes if you get 2 large navy fights and 500 asf each team on the map. That is no different however to metir, meridia, dual gap.

8. The map is one of the few maps not featured anywhere else.

9. In relation to @maudlin27 comment: Dont support - the main reason is I think it will lead to an increased likelihood of 'toxic' type behaviour.
   People who are familiar with Setons will expect teammates to play a very specific way and seem more likely to get angry if they dont (vs some random 20km map that few people have played).

Some setoners I will happily admit can be a bit insulting sometimes. That is because were often use to 1800 + only lobbies with other people who know the map and understand it. So we insult each other when we play shit.
In no way can you say adding setons to 4v4 tmm will increase toxicity.
There are maybe 4 setoners I know who regularly play tmm and these guys if we get you in setons we will play and advise.
And I mean advise. We will ping saying what to do, make some navy, attack where, get this reclaim.
How is this any different to dual gappers doing the same pinging who is doing what and where to do shit to other players.

In no way will adding Setons to 4v4 tmm increase toxicity. If anything we will love it. More people learn the map, some like it some dont. The ones that do like it will play it more, learn more, grow more then we have more setoners to fill our lobbies.
We will literally help you learn the map so we can have better games.

10. The greatest casts and clips of FAF have come from 1v1 games and Setons games. Because thats where the good shit happens. Add it to 4v4 tmm and you will be giving more content to the casters, reviewers, streamers all of them.

11. We I think are the only FAF community to have a guy over 60 years old playing and still better than the majority of FAF.
    What more evidence do you need of its greatness.
    God Bless Mizer.

I rest my case.

Overview:
Hello everyone and welcome to this years Legend of the Stars championship.

Schedule (All tournaments start at 15 UTC):
Legend of the Stars Open Qualifier 1: November 26th
Legend of the Stars Open Qualifier 2: December 3rd
Group Stage A+B Day 1: December 10th
Group Stage C+D Day 2: December 11th
Playoffs Day 1: December 17th
Playoffs Day 2: December 18th

Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Tournament Organizer: Swkoll
Tournament Directors: NoOneCares, Morax, + more
Streamers: TBD

Results:
1st - Tagada
2nd - Espi
3rd - Yudi
4th - ZLO
5-8th - Grimplex
5-8th - Turin
5-8th - Nexus
5-8th- TURBO2
9-12th - Harzer
9-12th - JaggedAppliance
9-12th - Tex
9-12th - archsimkat

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Current Prize Pool: Current Prize Pool $1000
Current Donators:

• FAF - $1000
• Legend of the Stars - $300

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE: Please contact Swkoll or post in this thread directly.

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Prize Pool:
1st - $325 + 1st place LotS avatar + Custom avatar of your design
2nd - $270 + 2nd place LotS avatar
3rd - $225 + 3rd place LotS avatar
4th - $100 + 4th place LotS avatar
5th-8th - $65
9th-12th - $30

Rules:
This tournament will run via the new set of tournament rules.
Official FAF Tournament Rules

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Invited Players:
This year there will only be 8 invited players based on the Invitational points system.

1. Tagada
2. Nexus
3. Yudi
4. Turbo2
5. Espi
6. Zlo
7. Grimplex
8. Tex
9. Banani
10. Blast_Chilled
11. BalanceSlaveNoob
12. Rowan
13. Turin
14. Archsimkat
15. StormLantern
16. Shen

Should one of these top 8 not with to accept the invite the next player in the list will be invited.

This tournament will have 2 qualifier stage tournaments to make up the additional 8 players entering the 16 man group stage.
Then a 16 man group stage split across two different days to maximise casting before entering a final 8 man battle until we get to the Gold, Silver, Bronze and 4th place matches.

Qualifier 1: 26th November 2022
Qualifier 2: 3rd December 2022

Followed by a 16 player round robin event group stage.

Group Stage - split between Groups A & B, Groups C & D.
Groups A & B : 10th December 2022
Groups C & D : 11th December 2022

Round of 8 and Semi-Finals: 17th December 2022.
Finals Bronze and 4th Place matches: 18th December 2022.

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Qualifier 1 - 26th November 2022:

This is a 1v1 Double Elimination bracket with BO3 games in the winners bracket and BO1 games in the losers bracket. The bracket will be seeded based on ladder rating.
This tournament is only open to players currently placed in 1v1 Masters, Grandmasters, and/or those with 1800+ ladder rating.
There is no maximum number of players. The number of BO1s vs BO3s in the winners bracket will be adjusted to ensure a timely tournament.

Date: November 26th
Start Time: 15:00 UTC
Chat: /join #Qualy1
Challonge: https://challonge.com/8gx6cjw7
Tournament Directors: Swkoll
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Link: LOTS 2022 Qualifier 1
Prizes:
The top 4 players of this tournament will fill 4 slots in the LOTS 2022 player list.

A separate post will follow for signups to this tournament.

Qualified Players:
Banani
Blast_Chilled
BalanceSlaveNoob
Rowan

Qualifier 2 - 3rd December 2022:
This is a 1v1 Double Elimination bracket with BO3 games in the winners bracket and BO1 games in the losers bracket. The bracket will be seeded based on ladder rating.
This tournament is only open to players currently placed in 1v1 Masters, Grandmasters, and/or those with 1800+ ladder rating.
There is no maximum number of players. The number of BO1s vs BO3s in the winners bracket will be adjusted to ensure a timely tournament.

Date: December 3rd
Start Time: 15:00 UTC
Chat: /join #Qualy2
Challonge: https://challonge.com/zn70sb4p
Tournament Directors: Swkoll
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Link: LOTS 2022 Qualifier 2

Prizes:
The top 4 players of this tournament will fill 4 slots in the LOTS 2022 player list.

A separate post will follow for signups to this tournament.

Qualified Players:
Turin
Arch
StormLantern
Shen

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16 Player Group Stage:
Group Stage - split between Groups A & B, Groups C & D.
Groups A & B : 10th December 2022.
Groups C & D : 11th December 2022.

3 Map Veto's Each
Faction Veto's used.

Day 1:
Date: December 10th
Start Time: 15:00 UTC
Chat: /join #LOTS22
Challonge: https://challonge.com/opa1ftvj
Tournament Directors: Swkoll
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Streamers: Endranii and Farms

Group A :
Tagada
Harzer
ZLO
Rowan

Group B :
Nexus
Turin
Blast_Chilled
StormLantern

Day 2:
Date: December 11th
Start Time: 15:00 UTC
Chat: /join #LOTS22
Challonge: https://challonge.com/opa1ftvj
Tournament Directors: Swkoll & NoOneCares
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Streamers: Endranii and Willow's Duality

Group C :
Yudi
Banani
Espi
Tex

Group D :
TURBO2
Grimplex
Archsimkat
Shen

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Final 8 Playoffs:

These matches are BO7.
3 Map Veto's Each
Faction Veto's used.

Date: December 17th
Start Time: 15:00 UTC
Chat: /join #LOTS22
Challonge:
Tournament Directors: Swkoll
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive

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Final 4 Playoffs:

These matches are BO7.
3 Map Veto's Each
Faction Veto's used.

Date: December 18th
Start Time: 15:00 UTC
Chat: /join #LOTS22
Challonge:
Tournament Directors: Swkoll
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive

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Substitutions:
In the event players are unable to attend a substitute will be brought in.
These substituted are from the Qualifier Stage Tournaments.

Player Cards

With Thanks to:
Javi - Finalising Design
Fichom - Icons & Card Border
NOC - Images & Quotes
Swkoll - Micro, Macro, Chaos values

This man has clearly not matched many setons if he thinks we only play a certain way

Your over the rating limit
2063 + 2471 (2200) = 4263

@spikeynoob

How about let people who actually use them and know how and when to use them to make the decision.

Hello and welcome everyone to the first Qualifier for Legend of The Stars 2022 Championship.

The top 4 players of this tournament will fill 4 of the 8 remaining free slots for the LOTS group stage.

Player who have received invites are not eligible to participate. (A list can be found here).

This is a 1v1 Double Elimination bracket with BO3 games in the winners bracket and BO1 games in the losers bracket.

The bracket will be seeded based on ladder rating. Each BO3 will consist of a 5x5, 10x10, and 20x20, played in that order.

This tournament is only open to players currently placed in 1v1 Diamond, Masters, Grandmasters, and/or those with 1500+ ladder rating

There is no maximum number of players. The number of BO1s vs BO3s in the winners bracket will be adjusted to ensure a timely tournament.

All standard tournament rules apply. In the event of a tie in position occurs (ie 7-8th) which is needed to determine whether a player will advance to the group stage, a BO1 will be played to determine who advances.

Signups will close 15 minutes before the start time (November 26th 1445 UTC).

Date: November 26th
Start Time: 15:00 UTC
Chat: /join #Qualy1
Challonge: https://challonge.com/8gx6cjw7
Tournament Directors: Swkoll, NoOneCares
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive

Prizes:
The top 4 players will advance to the LOTS 2022 Group Stage.

To signup leave your FAF name and ladder rating in a post below.

Map Pool:

5x5:
Crimson Feud
Theta Passage - FAF Version
Firelight
Crag Dunes
7.5x7.5 Mapgen - Tournament - 2 Spawns

10x10:
Vulcan's Reach
Oracle
10x10 Mapgen - Tournament - 2 Spawns
Syrtis Major - FAF Version
Forbidden Pass - FAF Version
TAG craftious
Autumn
Souvenir
Twin Rivers
Daroza's Sanctuary
15x15 Mapgen - Tournament - 2 Spawns

20x20:
Assupian
20x20 Mapgen - Tournament - 2 Spawns
Crossfire Canal - FAF Version
Point of Reach V4
Norfair

Signups: - Include your 1v1 Rating and if you have one then your League Rank
Banani - 2232
Blast_Chilled - 2098
BalanceSlaveNoob - 2041
Shen - 2006
archsimkat - 1927
Lucifier - 1925
Unknow - 1843
lkvxnw4q8hrtpnd - 1587
HomeLander - 1482
Spikey-Noob - 1290

Qualified Players:
Banani
Blast_Chilled
BalanceSlaveNoob
Rowan

Just kill your opponent in the T1 stage. All problems solved

Mapgen 7.5 by 7.5 count as 5 by 5 maps in tourneys unless specifically detailed otherwise.

So basically you just made it noob friendly
And those of us who have half a brain and more than 5 apm are still basically fine.

I think out of all the past 1 year of tourneys badlands has been in every map pool.
Please fix

As swkoll said its easier for us if they are ranked, I dont mind either way as long as people accurate tell us their scores.
If there could be a Win/loss/draw visible even when unranked it would be perfect.
This is a matter being discussed to be covered in the upcoming FAF Official Tournaments rules

Official FAF Tournament Rules.pdf

Please see the attached pdf file for the Official Tournament Rules regarding tournaments.

Additional rules can be added by Organisers if they wish.
Rules can also be ignored if instructed by the Organiser.