Here is my first attempt at hosting a tournament! The premise is you have 2 lower rated knights lead by a high rated that can observe and coach. My goal is to allow some lower rated players to play with and learn from experienced players. I hope everyone enjoys!

Logistics

Tournament Dates:
Date of play:
September 3rd 14:00 UTC

Signups Close/Draft Starts:
August 13th

TD: SpikeyNoob

Bracket Link: TBD

IRC: TBD

Prize:

Total Prize Pool: $150
Donations would be greatly appreciated!
$100 donated by Exselsior
$50 donated by Spikey

1st: Custom Avatar $100
2nd: Faction Face Avatars $50
3rd: Faction Logo Avatars

Structure

Each team will include 2 under 1900 knights that will take part in the games and a 1900+ king that will ctrl k at the start of each round and assist their teammates without playing. The tournament will follow a single elimination format with the first rounds being BO1 and all the following rounds BO3.

Teams will be selected by a draft. The lowest rated King will select their first teammate followed by the next lowest king. This will continue until all kings have a teammate, then the lowest king will draft their second teammate and the cycle repeats. A kings highest rating on July 30th will be used to create the draft order.

Maps

Map pool:
-INITIALLY UNVETOBLE-
Map Gen 15x15 (8 spawns)
Map Gen 20x20 (8 spawns)

-INITIAL VETO POOL-

10x10
zerg canyon
Crazy Backtrack
Wonder open 5v5 v3b
Desert crisis
Diversity

20x20
The Ditch
Lena River
Pelagial v2
Sirgis
Adaptive Crateria
Seton's Clutch - FAF Version (mid and rock)

(For now the game as the last 2v2 tourny. Subject to change up to the end of signups)

Vetos:
3 alternating vetoes each, low seed vetoes first. High seed picks map 1. Low seed picks map 2. Players veto down for the last map. All maps are viable to veto on the 3rd game.

There is a pool of 13 maps and maps will be selected using a veto and pick system. This means each team has 3 vetos, with the lower seed in the group vetoing first in an alternating pattern. (ie lower seed, upper seed, lower seed, upper seed). Next the higher seed will select the first map, the lower seed the second map, and if necessary teams will resume vetoing maps until only 1 remains with the lower seed vetoing first.

No faction veto will be used for this tournament.

Once a map is picked for a round, the team that selected that respective map will confirm their team setup (who is playing slot 1 and 2) and the lower seeded team will then proceed to pick the slot setup they wish to play.

For mapgen, both teams can enter the lobby and view the map prior to sending in their vetoes. Each team now gets 1 reroll, but must use the rerolled map. Players must host with the tournament settings on when using map gen.

To clarify map picking and faction veto:

1. Figure out whether you use the upper or lower bracket pool.
2. Lower seed (as shown by the position in the group) vetoes first map
3. Higher seed vetoes next map
4. Lower seed uses next veto
5. Higher seed uses next veto
6. Lower seed uses final veto
7. Higher seed uses final veto
8. Higher seed then picks the first map to play from the list of maps in the pool that have not been vetoed
9. Lower seed picks the second map following the same rules
10. In the event of a tie, players veto down the remaining maps until 1 remains with lower seed going first
11. The winner reports the results (including losses and tie games) to their group's tournament director in the IRC channel

Rules

• Late players will be given a sub of equal or lesser rating if available, if not they will play down a player or forfeit
• The king on the higher seeded team will host each game.
• Prize money will be split equally between both the knights and the king

Signups:

Kings:

• Yudi (2535)
• Grimplex (2319)
• YellowNoob (2216)
• Swkoll (2198)
• Sladow (2190)
• Bully (2188)
• RowanMorseYT (2080)
• Edtjuh (1975)
• Archsimkat (1927)
• Auriko (1922)

Knights:

• Exselsior (1884)
• Mr-Skill-Issue (1867)
• Unknow (1858)
• crusher12321 (1849)
• FTXCommando (1848)
• BoomNoob (1846)
• orb (1800) (reserved for swkoll)
• Terminal (1799)
• Cast_Away (1787)
• salnik (1670)
• Penguin_ (1635)
• snowy801 (1600)
• Javi (1561)
• Skuzz (1400)
• Rort (1259) (reserved for swkoll)
• HalcyonWolf (1255)
• Hemfast (1206)
• Talon (1200)
• Rowey (1137)

BackUps:
If you are too low rated to play or the tourny is already full you will be put here

• dman82499 (675)

Credit to vena for the turtest

You know u can ask for help instead of bashing the people spending their free time to make FAF.

Skill issue.

@Immortal-D What is toxic about providing feedback on you suggestions? Why post them if u dont want to discuss it?

Signup! SpikeyNoob 1500

@Jip it just happened yesterday, thats what caused me to create the post. In the end i think i agree that the rating lose does not mean much and it would lead to more abuse if it was a way to unrank a game. Im just salty ig lol.

@espinosaurio What about Morax? I agree ftx will probably win and i think he has my vote but shouldn't we at least let Morax run?

poor dudes

@exselsior exactly!

@xayo i agree

@BulliedNoob I agree.

He already has!

If the rating limit is not an issue then i would like to play. Im diamond but i dont play much ladder.

@melanol said in Increase vision & radar ranges of all units by some 10-20%:

No.

Thanks so much for this awesome contribution. You have truly added a lot to this conversation.

@veteranashe i enjoy ta and fa but they are very different especially in the area of intel. In my opinion we should not look to add back in issues from an old game. So your point is bad (sorry harsh).

Hosting a game with this now, lets see if anyone joins. Thanks for making it!

@blackyps i would not like to see it done for normal games, but if it was possible using some ML for an ai would be quite cool. Even if its not used outside of a dev environment.

@brutus5000 could someone patch the engine to make some outside interaction possible?

@Brutus5000 Seems like this needs updating.