Hello all, its that time of the year again where we show our setons skills at top tier gameplay! This year we will have a resulting 2024 King of Setons and 2024 Prince of Setons (Queen or princess, whatever your heart desires!) Please go on ahead and register your team and read through the information below! Looking forward to the tourney and answering any questions till then.

Date: November 16 2024 (May adjust due to 2 bracket system)

Start Time: 2:00/1400 UTC

Chat: /join #SetonsClutch24

Challonge: (Pro) https://challonge.com/s7loe86y

https://challonge.com/du74i5zh

Tournament Director(s): Syndicus

Broadcasting:

https://www.twitch.tv/pmbmizer
https://www.twitch.tv/Foleybts
https://www.twitch.tv/pedrobear99 (Kuhwa)
(If you are broadcasting, please let me know in the comments!)

Rewards:

- Prince of Setons 2024

- King of Setons 2024

**High Bracket
1st: King of Setons - $300
2nd: Prince of Setons Avatar $100

**Low Bracket
1st: Prince of Setons - $200
2nd: Faction avatar

Current rewards:

$300 -FAF
$50 - PMBMizer
$100- Aurand
$50- FedoraFreak
$50 - Syndicus
$50 - Active Backlash
If you would like to add to the pool please contact me on discord at .syndicus or Syndicus#9058

Tournament Format:

Swiss Tournament 4v4
A Swiss tournament is a competition format commonly used in gaming, where participants do not get eliminated after a single loss. Instead, players are paired in each round based on their current scores, so they compete against opponents with similar performance, making it fair and engaging for all skill levels.
Top 2 teams will fight in last final match for 1st and 2nd place
Entry information:
Please arrive 1 hour - 30 minutes before tournament is hosted for check in.

Allyby:

If player naturally disconnects throughout the game, team will have option to continue. Although Must have 4 players to start game.
If by chance the game disconnects due to server issues, (multiple people) the game or match will be null. In this event a new game will be hosted. In the event the servers go down, the tourney will be postponed to a later date.

Map:

Seton's Clutch 4v4
Settings: Balance: Fixed, (Players will not play same slot twice) Full-Share, 1500 max unit
We will have a maximum of 10 team entries

Rules:

• As of now we will have single signups , --> highest rated for each team will be team captains for their respective bracket.
• If player of team or teammate does not show up substitutes will be allowed if available for current team. If in any case the replacement is unable to show or team does not show they will be disqualified.
  Player will not play the same slot twice in a row.
  Players will choose random factions.
  Players will have a predefined team setup upon launching the game. Players will not switch around upon opposing team joining hosted game.
  PLAYERS WILL DM TD PREDEFINED SLOTS PRIOR TO JOINING HOSTING/JOINING LOBBY
  Please note more changes are to follow, those changes will be shown in bold for this thread!
  Let's get it on!

Captains will be picked on the 13th November.
We will have a short twitch stream where player picks will be held for both brackets. Advise to look at the tournament discord channel on the FAF main discord for more information or questions. https://discord.gg/dxertZpX
Pro Bracket:

Amateur Bracket:

Current signups:
Mize
Monstarslayer
Nuggets
Deli
Siilentbug
TheWeakie
Seraphim-noob
Vindex
InsidiousNoob
Lolichan
Swatoslav
Yew
Whiteheart
fedorafreak
Unknown
Nory
Foley
VIP
GULMO
Protect
ZUM
Luesches
waffelznoob
Robogear
Resistance
Ikigami
Hybrid
Winter-
EpicBennis
Haidovic
Doqqel
Sainserow
WarDaddy_
Shadysocks
Bloo_dream
Autonoob

Seton's Clutch Best team of 2023 tournament!
Date: 4 November 2023 November 11 2023
Start Time: 2:00/1400 UTC Continued 1600 UTC 12 November 2023
Chat: /join #SetonsClutch
Challonge: https://challonge.com/tlpthogt
Tournament Director(s): Syndicus
Broadcasting:
www.twitch.tv/PMBMize
www.twitch.tv/Syndicus

Rewards:
$400- Prize for winner of tournament

Donated by:
$100- Mizer
$50 - Syndicus
$50 - JT_
$50 - CheeseBerry
$50 - FedoraFreak
$50 - Exselsior
$50 - Man_on_the_Moon
If you would like to add to the pool please contact me on discord at .syndicus or Syndicus#9058
Tournament Format:
Double Elimination
This tournament format tends to be used for more casual events as it provides a way to ignore the concerns of seeding that more competent players have by having a "2nd chance" bottom bracket. It takes losing at least 2 series to be knocked out. The format also tends to have an additional match to determine the final winner in the case that the winner of the bottom bracket beats the winner of the top bracket. The existence of this extra game in the case of a loss is the extra security the winner of the top bracket gets for never losing a series.
Entry information:
Please provide name of team and players.
Please arrive 1 hour - 30 minutes before tournament is hosted for check in.
Allyby: If player naturally disconnects throughout the game, team will have option to continue. Although Must have 4 players to start game.
If by chance the game disconnects due to server issues, (multiple people) the game or match will be null. In this event a new game will be hosted. In the event the servers go down, the tourney will be postponed to a later date.
Map:
Seton's Clutch
Settings: Balance: Fixed, (Players will not play same slot twice) Full-Share, 1500 max unit
We will have a maximum of 10 team entries
Rules:

All members of team must arrive at check in time of the tournament. If by chance player is missing for some odd reason, there may be exceptions for substitutes.
Team will have a combined rating of 6700 rating cap.
Must have rating by the day of sign up. No rating manipulation. If suspected will result of disqualification.
All members of a team must have minimum rating of 1100
Looking through feedback, I have decided there will be no personal rating cap. Therefore there will be no exceptions towards the the minimum and combined rating.
Starting on 12 November 2023 players will not hand base over to the highest rated player of the game for the purposes of having a slight eco advantage. Giving units is accepted but not entire bases. This just changes the entire point of adding a rating cap. If suspicion is found of this type of gameplay, team will be disqualified. Exceptions include ACU being killed by enemy, user has a disconnecting issue (user must provide proof)

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Team Windows AI 6700/6700 (LOCKED)

1. Cortana (2000)
2. Riot- (1700)
3. KuhwaKlimakleber (1900)
4. Ullona_Oss (1100)

Team Rocket Blast 6800/6700 (Last minute buffer) (LOCKED)

1. Mr_Blastman (1500)
2. John (2000)
3. Protect (2100)
4. ErgoPr0xy (1200)

Team Raspberry Pie 6700/6700 (LOCKED)

1. Man_on_the_moon (2000)
2. SwatoSlav (2100)
3. Maro (1500)
4. QuantumTyphoon (1100)

Team Friendship-And-Gaming 6700/6700 (LOCKED)

1. PMBMizer (1400)
2. GFY_DePonny (1700)
3. FedoraFreak (1500)
4. VIP (2100)

Team JTizzle 6700/6700 (LOCKED)

1. JT_ (1600)
2. Accidental_Aeon (1700)
3. Gulmo (1900)
4. LoliChan (1500)

Team 5head 6600/6700 (LOCKED)

1. Aurand (1200)
2. Exselsior (1800)
3. Nory (2200)
4. legat_pit (1400)

Team 300$ 6700/6700 (LOCKED)

1. cZARJc (1700)
2. FFF (1900)
3. HorohLoxMato (1800)
4. Nooby-Pl (1300)

Team Kappa 6700/6700 (LOCKED)

1. Yudi (2400)
2. insidiousnoob (1800) BlInChIk (1800) (Substitute)
3. Melanol (1300)
4. BoneKing (1200)

Extras:
Nuggets (2100)
Deli (1900)

BlInChIk (1800)

Syndicus -Finally a tournament I can get into! 1300

@chisato As discussed with Farms, it is difficult to find the sweet spot in which both levels of players (Moderate and Pro) are able to play at the competitive level (rating wise). The idea here is to include more than just the pros. As well as to avoid such team, stomping down the others due to a large skill gap (ex: stacked 2K teams), which is why the 6600 is justified. Simply put, the tournament is hosted for a greater amount of players in the FAF community!

@Cortana @FtXCommando @CheeseBerry Thanks for your inputs for the tournament. I think I now have a more general understanding of what is to be adjusted here. I have adjusted the minimum rating to be 1000 rating and have adjusted the ceiling to be 2300 rating. If you have any ideas on or changes for what I adjusted please send me your suggestions.

This comes as a hard decision and ultimately I do understand the concerns of everyone . I was hoping the issues were to be solved before the tournament. Unfortunately there still lies bigger issues with the game in general. I will follow up with the Dev's to see where we are at by the end of the work week and seeing if its plausible to even play it this weekend.

I will still be adjusting teams as we go.

Due to ongoing concerns for the state of the game. I'm going to postpone the tourney till next Saturday. I will include 2 more team entries due to the surplus of player entries. Everyone else will be substitutes in case player misses event hit time. If in the event we don't get the sufficient rated players on the lower end of the rating 1500 or less I will allow 100+- past combined rating.
In the meantime, please post replay numbers where any bugs that may cause disruption to the game, in the "bug reporting" section on the FAF discord.

@vindex Yeah its changed now.

Lower bracket: Congrats to Team Winter- and Team Rewersant!

High bracket: Congrats to Team Macromachine and Team SS!!

Something to be said about this, and all moderation actions/rules, which I know may not be part of this discussion at hand but, can we please stop with manipulating the ban hammer for everything. Sure, some players will act out at times, sure things happen (ill admit ive acted out at times), but what I've been seeing more and more lately, is players being banned instantly. We've shied away from the idea of warning players, for their actions. Maybe ask, how is their track record from the offense they had before, and from now with the new offense they gained. Was the player warned about their actions, and how recent was it? Sometimes all it takes is a pat on the back, and a brief reminder , to say "Hey, if you keep doing this, you will be banned," according to whichever FAF regulation. That's what some games do, depending on the violation. And that is also how player base population is retained. And I know someone might argue, "Well this person so and so has been a bad player before so they deserve nothing but a ban," again, I think just because they've had offenses in the past, doesn't make it that they are immune to receiving warnings and of course this also depends on the violation. We are a small community as is, let us, as the player base, moderate it as well, with the foe feature. If we don't want to play with someone, let us handle it. Sometimes we find ourselves waiting in a lobby for hours because certain players are banned, which in turn ruins our gaming experience because we are stuck waiting for a player that will give us a quality game.

@waffelznoob Relax its just the name of the tourney, you're still the best bully XD

@deli I don't think so to be completely honest. I think when you hit 2K, you've hit a barrier of how much skill is possessed by that player. Of course this is subjective to what types of maps are played (Ex. 2K dual gapper vs 2K TMM player). It isn't as dramatic until you reach like 2500 because in that regard, in order to have possessed that many points, that player would have had to win multiple games against other 2Ks to be able to gain points going past, which would show superior skill. As you may know there are not as many players that achieve 2500. I think allowing 2100,2200,2300 to be considered 2000 is fine.

I have made the last changes for the tournament, I do apologize if there was any misconceptions. As of now anyone is allowed in the tournament with the respect of the minimum and combined rating requirements.

This will be the last of any significant changes as we are exactly one week away from tournament day.

@exselsior Signup is over when all teams are full or 1 hour before tournament