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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
Hello and welcome to the Supreme Computer Cup! Ever wondered how the various AIs of FAF compare? Well I have, and I'm hosting this tournament to get to the bottom of it. This is a 1v1 round robin BO1 tournament between AIs and AIs and AIs and Players. Every AI will play every player and every other AI on classic FAF maps. AIs will be given 1 point for a win and .5 points for a draw. The AI with the most points wins.
The number of players for this tournament is uncapped and I am especially interested in lower ranked players participating. If you are 0-1000 rating, please sign up by posting below. Players above this rating are welcome to sign up as well.
I am also hoping to get a number of AI devs interested and perhaps some new people interested in AI development. I have linked some resources to help new AI devs get started below. The hope with posting this tournament well in advance of its start date will give new AI devs enough time to create a viable AI. AI devs please sign up with the name of your AI below.
All players that finish the tournament will receive the Tournament Participant avatar and the winning AI dev will receive a eternal glory and new avatar:
Date: June 26th Time: 15:00 UTC Chat: /join #computercup Tournament Director: Swkoll
AI Development Resources:
General Rules:
AI Dev Rules:
Would you like to contribute a prize pool for this tournament? You can donate via Paypal to support this tournament.
Map Pool: Cobalt Valley Summer Duel Theta Passage - FAF version
Open Palms - FAF version Polar Depression Saltrock Colony
Crossfire Canal - FAF version Emerald Crater Point of Reach v4
Human sign ups:
AI Sign ups:
Instructions for the tournament:
Group 1: IAMTHEPLOKOKIOPO MajorTrouble Group 2: Protect gonglinyuan Group 3: FemtoZetta CowGod Group 4: graftod666 Dankmemes Group 5: NapSpan Hemfast Group 6: Jip ButelkaOlejku Group 7: Askaholic coufounazeer Group 8: maudlin27 Fury Group 9: RandomWheelchair
I've recently compiled a spreadsheet of every high level 1v1 FAF tournament I could find with a prize pool. For the sake of simplicity, I've defined this as 1v1 tournaments that allow high level players to participate. This excludes teamgame tournaments, rating restricted tournaments, showmatches, and tournaments with weird formats. If anyone wants the raw data, feel free to msg me on discord.
To the best of my ability I've cataloged every tournament that meets the above definition with a prize pool since FAF was created. A full list is below and I know that I've missed things so if you have tournaments that I missed please send them to me. I might expand this dataset to include all FAF events at some point.
The juicy stats: There has been $10337.76 given away since 2012 in high level FAF 1v1 tournaments, with $4,222.01 in 2020 and 2021 so far.
Prize money by year: Early FAF was dominated by no prizepool or low prize pool tournaments. There are dozens of random blitz tournaments for avatars littered throughout the forums. We started to see serious tournaments for 1v1s starting in 2015 with the $500 Prime Commander tournament. Then in 2016 we had the 1st year of LoTS which has been huge for high level 1v1 tournaments.
LoTS has accounted for $6333.25 in FAF prize pools or 61.2% of all prize money. For reference, the seasonal invitationals have had a combined prize pool of $1527.01 or 14.7% of the total.
Prize money by player: I have 43 different players in the spreadsheet, 16 of which have earned >$100. Petric is the highest earning player with $2028.15 earned across 11 tournaments. Nexus has the most tournaments with winnings with 12. The top 4 earning player, Petric, Nexus, Blackheart, and Adjux account for a majority (57.5%) of all earnings.
Current tournament list:
Hello and welcome to King of Crazyrush, a 1v1 Double Elimination Tournament that will determine once and for all who is the best Crazyrush player.
All matches will be a BO1 on crazyrush. All standard tournament rules apply, 1500 unit cap, draws are replayed, players are seeded by ladder rating, no faction veto will be used.
This tournament is sponsored by Pryanichek. Thanks to them for supporting this event.
Date: July 31st Start Time: 14:00 UTC Chat: /join #crazyrush Challonge: https://challonge.com/2culqng1 Tournament Directors: TBD
Prize Pool: 150€ Total 1st - 80€ - King of Crazyrush avatar 2nd - 40€ - Prince of Crazyrush avatar 3rd - 20€ 4th - 10€
Final Results: 1st - Paralon 2nd - Petric 3rd - Tagada 4th - Wifi_
All players 1500+ ladder rating are guaranteed a spot. If there are more than 16 1500+ rated players signed up, a 32 player bracket will be used, otherwise a 16 player bracket will be used.
Sign up by posting below
Signups:
This idea is so cripplingly terrible it's actually kind of amazing. Councilors can already subdivide responsibilities as they desire. This would create so many tiny independent fiefdoms that prevent any sort of meaningful collaboration or progress that the project might just collapse.
Can you imagine a world where their are 3 different moderation leaders each with different policies and rules? It would be insane.
Congratulations to team Super Delicious for winning the Triathlon!
The final standings are:
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.
Hello and welcome to the 2021 Fall Invitational Tournament. The 2nd annual Fall 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 October 16th to fill the remainder of the 16 slots. This is followed by a group stage on October 23rd where the top 8 players will advance to a single elimination playoff bracket on October 30th-31st whose winners will receive prizes and glory, including LoTS qualification points! (See here for details)
All tournaments will be casted on twitch.tv/faflive starting at 14:00 UTC.
What’s changed? Special maps such as crazyrush and hardffa will be put into their own category for the Group Stage and Playoffs rather than being considered normal 5x5s. The map pool in the Group Stage will be increased to 11 (from 10) maps to compensate. Morax's new faction vetoing tool may be used for the group stage and playoffs.
Would you like to contribute to the prize pool? You can donate via Paypal to support this tournament and receive a fancy avatar!
Prize pool: $500 total • 1st: $200, Fall Invitational Champion Avatar, 20 LotS points • 2nd: $100, 15 LotS points • 3rd: $90, 12 LotS points • 4th: $50, 10 LotS points • 5th-8th: $15, 6 LotS points • 9-16th: 2 LotS points
Donated by: $350 - FAF funds $150 – Swkoll
The schedule: October 15, 2021 - Deadline to accept invites October 16, 2021 - Open Qualifier October 23, 2021 - Group Stage October 30-31, 2021 - Playoffs
All events will start at 14:00 UTC.
The qualifier: This is an open qualifier, all players who have not received invites 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 first be seeded by Invitational points, then the qualified players will get to pick their group. 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. Faction veto will also be used.
The playoffs: This is a single elimination tournament with all BO5 matches expect for the championship match which will be BO7. 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). 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.
Invitational points: Invitational points have been updated with results of major tournaments since the Summer Invitational, all players have lost 25% (rounded up) of their points for decay, and then 8 points were given for 1st place in the Summer Invitational, 6 for 2nd, 4 for 3rd, 2 for 4th, and 1 for 5th-8th. 2 points were also given for 1st and 1 point for 2nd in the August League Invitational. First place in Mini LoTS #1 will also receive 1 point. The 1st and 2nd place in the October League Invitational will also receive 2 and 1 points respectively. The invite list will be updated to reflect these results after those tournaments occur. This produced the following list of 14 invites: 20- Tagada 15- Nexus 12- Petric 6- ZLO 5- Paralon 3- Tex 3- Blackheart 3- TURBO2 3- Espi 2- Adjux 1- Yudi 1- Turin 1- Blast Chilled 1- archsimkat
Accepted invites:
It would be interesting if we took the winner of the AI tourney and put it on ladder for a few weeks as an experiment. It could be given a normal rating and then we'd have it queue infrequently (<5 times per day) and only when players aren't finding games.
We'd get some interesting data to see if this is a good idea long-term and players would get some matches when they otherwise would get none.
Hello and welcome to the 2021 Spring Invitational Tournament. This will be a 1v1 tournament based on the format of the 2020 Summer Invitational and 2020 Fall Invitational with some minor tweaks. For those who aren’t familiar, there will be series of invites sent out to previous tournament winners, and an open qualifier on March 13th to fill the remainder of the 16 slots. This is followed by a group stage on March 20th where the top 8 players will advance to a single elimination finals bracket whose winners will receive prizes and glory .
What’s changed? The faction veto system for LoTS made games a lot more interesting so for this tournament we are going to use it for the group stage and finals bracket. The need for the qualifier to be fast paced means it will continue to use the old system.
In order to encourage finishing out the qualifier, qualified players will be allowed to choose which group the want to be in with the highest placing player in the qualifier choosing first, followed by second place, etc. In the interest of time and organizational complexity, invited players will be still seeded as normal.
Lastly, in order to encourage participation of up and coming players in the qualifier, all players with ladder ratings 1500+ are guaranteed a spot (up to a max of 32 players). In the event that this causes the qualifier to have more than 16 players, the first 2 rounds in the Winner's Bracket will be BO1.
It is because of these changes that I am looking for 2-4 assistant tournament directors to help out with the faction vetoes for the group stage and finals bracket. If you are interested in this please leave a post below or message me on FAF.
Would you like to contribute to the prize pool? You can donate via Paypal to support this tournament.
Prize pool: $500 total
Results: 1st - Nexus 2nd - Tagada 3rd - Petric 4th - Paralon 5-8th - Espi 5-8th - JaggedAppliance 5-8th - Yudi 5-8th - ZLO
Donated by: $265 – Swkoll $200 - Morax $35 - archsimkat
The schedule: March 12, 2021 – Deadline to accept invites March 13, 2021 - Open Qualifier March 20, 2021 – Group Stage March 27-28, 2021 – Finals Bracket
The qualifier: This is an open qualifier, all players who have not received invites are welcome to participate. It will be a double elimination tournament with 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.
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 seeded by Invitational points followed by position in the qualifier, and finally by ladder rating. Maps will be chosen by players from a pool of 10 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.
The finals bracket: This is a single elimination tournament with all BO5 matches expect for the championship match which will be BO7. 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). There first two rounds of the Finals Bracket 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.
Invitational points: Invitational points have been updated with results of major tournaments since the Fall Invitational, all players have lost 25% (rounded up) of their points for decay, and then 8 points were given for 1st place in the Fall Invitational, 6 for 2nd, 4 for 3rd, 2 for 4th, and 1 for 5th-8th. 4 points were also given for 1st in 2020 LoTS, 3 for 2nd, 2 for 3rd, and 1 for 4th. This produced the following list of 13 invites:
16 - Petric 15 - Nexus 11 - Tagada 7 - Blackheart 7 - TURBO2 5 - Adjux 3 - Espeperant 2 - Mephi 2 - Turin 1 - Zock 1 - Farms 1 - archsimkat 1 - BlinChIk
Thanks to Javi for the new banner image!
Hello and welcome to the Qualifier Tournament for the 2021 Spring Invitational. The winners of this tournament will fill up the 8 remaining slots in the group stage as well as determine substitutes. Players who have received invites are not eligible to participate (a list of invites can be found here).
This is going to be a 1v1 Double Elimination bracket with BO3 games in the winners bracket and BO1 games in the losers bracket. In the interest of time, the bracket will be seeded based on ladder rating with the 16 highest ladder ratings being able to participate. Each BO3 will consist of a 5x5, 10x10, and 20x20, played in that order.
To encourage participation of up and coming players, all players with 1500+ ladder rating will be given a slot in the tournament up to a max of 32 total players. If this causes there to be more than 16 players in the tournament, the 1st 2 rounds of the Winner's bracket will be BO1.
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.
Date: March 13th Start Time: 14:00 UTC Chat: /join #spring Challonge: https://challonge.com/tmzpzwvw Tournament Directors: Swkoll, Moose
In addition to qualifying for the group stage, 1st place will receive a spring themed avatar TBD.
To signup leave your faf name and ladder rating in a post below (or just msg me on faf).
Signups (32 players max):
Substitutes:
Map Pool: 5x5: Cobalt Valley crazyrush Mirage Rusting Iron Roundel Theta Passage - FAF version Williamson's bridge
10x10: 8 - Badlands_v4 Arcane Map Gen - 10x10 - Tournament Nilflheim - Final II v2 Open palms Sweepwing Sanctum Twin Rivers Vesta Zerg canyon
20x20: Bermuda Locket - FAF version Crossfire Canal - FAF version Gateway and Rose Map Gen - 20x20 - Tournament Norfair Point of Reach v4 Seton's Clutch - FAF version
Having a CDN could fix other non-saturation based issues as (insert random ISP) is less likely to have issues communicating with the nearest cloudflare server than a single dedicated server in germany.
I think this issue is actually quite a large problem. I somewhat regularly get PMs from users with (allegedly) fast internet that are running into extremely slow downloads trying to download coop/mods outside of patching periods. I have no idea how often this is actually due to the server's bandwidth being saturated, but I suspect it is somewhat often. Considering that the percentage of people who will message a mod (and me specifically) about an issue is typically an extraordinarily small percentage of people who experience this issue, this problem may be widespread outside of patching periods. (Someone with server analytic access can tell me if I'm totally off base if the bandwidth actually isn't saturated outside of patching periods)
We should also strive to provide the best user experience possible during patching periods. Creating a 1-2 day window where FAF is basically unusable for users outside of Europe every few months should be avoided if possible. We should not expect the average user to use some random mirror that no one knows about. If players can't play FAF, they go somewhere else and they might not come back. If we have someone willing to set up a CDN that costs $400/month to avoid this issue, we should do it, we can afford it. Will it eat into the the tournament budget? Yes, but ensuring the best possible UX is most important.
Hello and welcome to the Qualifier Tournament for the 2021 Fall Invitational. The winners of this tournament will fill up the remaining slots in the group stage as well as determine substitutes. Players who have received invites are not eligible to participate (a list of invites can be found here).
This is going to be 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.
There is no rating requirement or maximum number of signs ups for this tournament, the number of BO1s vs BO3s in the winners bracket will be adjusted to ensure a timely tournament.
Date: October 16th Start Time: 14:00 UTC Chat: /join #fall Challonge: TBD Tournament Directors: Swkoll + TBD Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
In addition to qualifying for the group stage, 1st place will receive the summer qualifier champion avatar. If there are 10 accepted invites, the top 6 players from the qualifier will advance to the Group Stage with higher places receiving a higher group pick/seed.
Map Pool:
TBD
@archsimkat Let's go B)
Sign up for U3600 Team Kappa Swkoll - 2027 Flying_Olsen - 1500 Total - 3527
Guys, is this the first time the balance forum has successfully produced a balance change?
@espinotorreto go fight @TheWheelie
Let's goooo
@sheikah Is there anywhere we could see a breakdown for what is the % chance for a map type on a given map size?