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:

• AI Tutorial
• AI Markers Tutorial
• Example AI mod
• AI Development Discord <-- very active

General Rules:

1. Games are limited to 45 minutes long. Games that go over 45 minutes are considered a draw and participants should move on to the next game.
2. Games will be played with all default settings except Observers: On
3. Unlike typical tournaments, draws will be counted as draws and not replayed.
4. Participants will report results in the #computercup irc channel after each game.

AI Dev Rules:

1. No cheating AIs (no AIXs). This is to encourage the development of AIs that can compete with human players on an equal footing. For the purpose of this tourney, cheating is considered to be doing anything a player could not theoretically do without cheating themselves (ie resource bonuses, map vision cheats, banned exploits). There is no restriction on the apm of your AI.
2. AI Devs are limited to 1 AI for the entire tournament.
   3. AI Devs (or someone else they designate) must be available the day of the tournament to manage their AI through the AI vs AI matches and troubleshoot any issues.
3. Final AI versions must be uploaded to the vault on or before June 25th at 23:59 UTC, modifications after this point must have the approval of a Tournament Director.
4. AI devs can choose which faction their AI will play for each map or have it play all random.

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:

1. Askaholic
2. NapSpan
3. FemtoZetta
4. Jip
5. Protect
6. Hemfast
7. ButelkaOlejku
8. coufounazeer
9. CowGod
10. gonglinyuan
11. RandomWheelchair
12. Dankmemes
13. graftod666
14. maudlin27
15. MajorTrouble
16. IAMTHEPLOKOKIOPO
17. Fury

AI Sign ups:

1. RNGAI (creator relentless): RNG Standard, Requires AI-Uveso to be active
2. AI-Swarm (creator Azraeel): Swarm Terror, Requires AI-Uveso to be active
3. SACUAI (creator Skouby)
4. AI: DilliDalli (creator Softles)
5. AI-Uveso (creator Uveso): Adaptive
6. Sorian AI (creator Sorian): Adaptive
7. Marlo's Sorian AI edit (creator Marlo) : Requires AI-Uveso to be active

Instructions for the tournament:

1. Join the #computercup irc channel, you can do this by clicking the "+" in the chat window and typing "#computercup"
2. Check what group you are in (below), this will determine which maps you play vs which AI. This ensures every AI plays each map a somewhat equal amount of time and players get different maps each game.
3. Starting at 15:00 UTC, everyone is going to start playing their games vs AI using this chart below from top to bottom. Everyone's first game is vs RNGAI, then AI-Swarm etc.
   
4. Each AI mod will need to be downloaded from the vault (guide). Some AIs will require AI-Usevo to be active to work (RNGAI, AI-Swarm, Marlo's Sorian AI edit). If AI-Usevo is on please enable "Ai Map Marker Generator": "Autogenerate Always" in settings. (guide) Sorian AI is built into the client and does not require downloading.
5. Host each game, all games should use default spawns (slot 1vs slot 2), you can pick whatever faction you would like, AIs should be played on random, except for DilliDalli and Marlo's Sorian AI edit whose faction picks can be found in the chart where Yellow is Seraphim, Green is Aeon, Cybran is red, and Blue is UEF. (hosting guide)
6. Play each game and report the result in the #computercup channel (ie won vs Sorian AI)

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

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:
$735.04 total
• 1st: $310, Fall Invitational Champion Avatar, 20 LotS points, 8 invitational points
• 2nd: $150, Faction Face Avatar, 15 LotS points, 6 invitational points
• 3rd: $100, Faction Icon Avatar, 12 LotS points, 4 invitational points
• 4th: $55, 10 LotS points, 2 invitational points
• 5th-8th: $20, 6 LotS points, 1 invitational point
• 9th-12th: $10, 2 LotS points
• 13th-16th: $0.01 (US only), 2 LotS points

Donated by:
$350 - FAF funds
$150 – Swkoll
$100 - Morax
$90 - Lord Voldemort
$20 - archsimkat
$20 - Yudi
$5.04 - WolfSAW

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 has also received 1 point. The 1st and 2nd place in the October League Invitational have also received 2 and 1 points respectively. This produced the following list of 14 invites:
21- Tagada
15- Nexus
12- Petric
6- ZLO
5- TURBO2
5- Paralon
4- Tex
3- Blackheart
3- Espi
2- Adjux
1- Yudi
1- Turin
1- Blast Chilled
1- archsimkat

Accepted invites:

• Tagada
• Nexus
• Petric
• ZLO
• TURBO2
• Paralon
• Tex
• Blackheart
• EspinoTorreto
• Adjux
• Turinturambar
• Blast Chilled
• archsimkat

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:

• IMBA Cup
• IMBA Cup II
• Grand Masters Cup
• The Universal Resurrection Cup
• Prime Commander 1v1 Tournament
• 2016 LoTS
• 1st 2017 Blitz
• 2017 LoTS
• The Galaxy Cup 2018
• 2018 LoTS
• FAF Masters Cup 1v1
• 2019 LoTS
• 1v1 All Welcome
• Blitz Tournament Series
• 2020 Summer Invitational
• 2020 Fall Invitational
• 2020 LoTS
• 2021 Spring Invitational
• 1v1 Mapgen Tournament
• 2021 April League Invitational

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:

1. Tagada 2390
2. Petric 2360
3. Tex 2275
4. Paralon 2210
5. TheWheelie 2122
6. ZLO 2064
7. Blast_Chilled 1921
8. YUNG-96Noob 1920
9. archsimkat 1869
10. Free_Francias 1836
11. harzer99 1789
12. Rezy-Noob 1769
13. Wifi_ 1760
14. Nightmare 1752
15. GrunttiNoob 1733
16. Neytron 1570
17. Javi 1406
18. Exselsior 1316
19. CaptainKlutz 670
20. Alina-Kiss 276
21. Aid 0

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:

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

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.

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

• 1st: $225
• 2nd: $100
• 3rd: $75
• 4th: $40
• 5th-8th: $15

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

Accepted invites:

• Archsimkat
• Espeperant
• Nexus
• Petric
• Tagada
• TURBO2

Thanks to Javi for the new banner image!

Some of these points have already been addressed but I'd like to take a stab at it as well.

The reason organizations typically require some sort of minimum activity level is because their activity usually requires coordination regarding shifts or other real time cooperation. If someone doesn't show up to their shift at the food bank, they interfere with operations and might not be invited back. There is no equivalent issue in FAF moderation, mods complete tasks almost entirely independently with a small amount of asynchronous communication on zulip. If we institute some minimum activity requirement, that doesn't turn low activity mods into high activity mods, it turns them into not mods. This just reduces the total amount of moderation work being done and you've just made the problem worse. That said, we probably should remove some of the totally inactive mods because users may be attempting to contact them regarding moderation issues but are possibly being ignored.

Of course the main issue is that mod work is generally terrible: it's stressful, time consuming, and tedious. People do it because it needs to be done, not because it's fun. The mod team receives about 10-15 reports per day. Of those about about 2/3s can be completed in ~5 minutes because they are malformed/duplicate reports or are easily processed (insults in screenshot/replay, etc), the other third require lots more effort. I'd estimate they take about 30 minutes average with very high variance because they require replays to be carefully analyzed, sometimes multiple times. Some back of the envelope math would say that roughly 2-3 hours of moderation work per day is required to process reports, every day. This rate assumes it is an experienced mod who can process reports efficiently by doing them in parallel and is well versed in the rules and moderation policies. If a new mod is doing them it can take 3-5 hours to process 1 days worth of reports.

That doesn't include the time moderating the many other moderated platforms: aeolus, forums, discord, the time handling the reports that don't make it into the report database because they are made direct to a mod, the time sent on anti-smurfing efforts, the time helping people with random issues, the time spent on training and onboarding new mods, or the time spent reviewing appeals and other issues. It takes about the equivalent of a full time employee's time to moderate FAF at the current level of moderation.

In addition, the overlap between the people that should be moderators and the people that want to be moderators is quite small. Most applicants are generally unsuitable due to prior bans or limited time as part of the community. For the remainder of applicants that aren't completely unsuitable, a conservative approach is generally taken to avoid ending up with mods that could cause serious issues down the line. Of the people we do accept and onboard only about half of them end up being active mod after a few months anyway.

Creating two tiers of moderators may seem like it solves the problem, but does not actually provide any sort of benefit. Say a junior moderator reviews a report and says we should ban Player X, I can either trust Player X and ban them in which case we could have just made them a full mod, or I can review the report myself to see if their call is correct, in which case they just wasted their time. Part of the training process for new mods already includes an existing mod walking the new mod through our moderation process so their is no real reason or benefit to creating two tiers.

It'd be great if their were a wealth of qualified people ready and willing to volunteer many hours per month moderating FAF. It would also be great if everyone on FAF was nice and respectful and didn't require moderation, but both are fantasies. The only concrete policy that could be made to fix would be to lower the bar for the qualifications we look at to accept moderators, but that's a dangerous thing to do and I don't think the mod team is ready to do that.

Side note: angelofd347h is one of the most active mods right now and should definitely be in the "does lots of stuff" column.

I mean this is basically what I do for my tournaments. If you do GSL groups, what typically ends up happening is the elimination of the 1st seed vs 4th seed matchup. I like having that matchup there because I've been experimenting with giving prize money to 3rd place in groups. I also think it can be a good opportunity for the 4th seed to get solid tournament experience. It doesn't really cost the tournament any time and if the worse seed doesn't want to play it, they can just forfeit. GSL format has bigger advantages when all the games are being casted and eliminating that 1vs4 is good for the viewer experience.

My system also does this sort of snake seeding instead of snake draft. This is done mostly for time and organizational complexity, but it also acts as an activity incentive/reward for tournament performance. The only cost is you sometimes get imbalanced, although often the fact that subs sometimes need to be brought in last minute usually leads to certain group being weak anyway.

I'm not sure Group D is the worst for Yudi even. I think Yudi has the highest 1st place chances in Group D than any other group. Under snake seed Group D is typically the Group of Death but also the group that typically has the greatest potential for any player to take 1st. Perhaps Yudi should weigh in with what group he would've picked if he had the choice.

For the reference of other people who are trying to help you:
The FAF account is not linked to any steam account.
The Steam account is not linked to any FAF account.
The Steam account's games are publicly visible.

There is no reason this shouldn't work. The mod client doesn't let me manually link steam accounts, but perhaps someone with direct access could help you.

For context, the existing image is already 2.3mb.

Almost forgot to post the map submissions for the playoffs:

Paralon crazyrush
espi daroza's
tagada the ditch
turin bermuda locket
adjux hardffa
zlo roanoke
nexus arcane

Let's go

Congratulations to Tagada for winning the 2021 Fall Invitational in a decisive 4-0 series over second place Espiranto-! And congratulations to Nexus for winning the Bronze match 3-0 over Adjux!

Congrats to Nuggets, the only player to successfully predict the entire playoff bracket on challonge!

Thanks to all 32 players who participated and the hundreds of viewers who tuned in on twitch.tv/faflive!

Thanks as well to:

The Tournament Directors who helped make this event possible: HintHunter, f1lthycasual, and Morax.

The Tournament Donators who helped make this the biggest ever prizepool for a seasonal invitational: Morax, Lord Voldemort, archsimkat, Yudi, and WolfSAW.

My co-casters on twitch.tv/faflive: archsimkat and farms.

And finally to, Rowey, Fury, Javi and the entire promo team for helping promote this event on the FAF youtube channel and elsewhere.

Final Results:
1st - Tagada
2nd - Espiranto-
3rd - Nexus
4th - Adjux
5-8th - TURBO2
5-8th - Turin
5-8th - Paralon
5-8th - ZLO
9-11th - Tex
9-11th - Petric
9-11th - Archsimkat
12-16th - Blackheart
12-16th - JaggedAppliance
12-16th - BlinChik
12-16th - WoundedElkNoob
12-16th - BlastChilled

1st and 4th place should contact Brutus for their prize money, all other players should contact me for payout.

@zlo The real big brain move is to predict your own loss to hedge your bets.

Playoffs:

Welcome to the playoffs for the 2021 Fall Invitational! The top 8 (+/- 1) FAF players have made it to the final stage of the tournament where they will compete for the lion's share of the $735 prize pool, including a $310 1st place prize!

Playoffs Predictions:
For the first time, spectators can win a fancy avatar by correctly predicting the bracket on challonge!

Just go to https://challonge.com/wyh9oheb and click "create a prediction" and fill out your predictions for the bracket. Be sure to put your FAF name and 3rd place prediction in the Prediction title! See example:

Notes: You don't need to use a real email for challonge, FAF nor myself are going to store/use it for anything. The "TURBO2" field is a stand in for whomever wins the TURBO2 vs archsimkat tiebreaker.

Playoffs Schedule:

Saturday 13 UTC - TURBO vs archsimkat, sudden death tiebreaker
Saturday 14 UTC - Round of 8 starts, Semi-Finals to follow
Sunday 14 UTC - Bronze match starts, Finals to follow

Semi final players should wait for casters before beginning. All games are BO5 except finals which are BO7 and the sudden death tiebreaker which is BO1. Players have 3 vetoes each and use the same faction and map pick rules from group stage.

Date: October 30th-31st
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #fall
Challonge: https://challonge.com/wyh9oheb
Stream: twitch.tv/faflive
Tournament Directors: Swkoll and HintHunter

Maps:

5x5 Mapgen
7.5x7.5 Mapgen
Stickleback Ridge

10x10 Mapgen
Arcane
Daroza's Sanctuary
Open Palms
Twin Rivers

15x15 Mapgen
20x20 Mapgen
Bermuda Locket - FAF version
Roanoke Abyss
The Ditch - FAF version

crazyrush
hardffa

Update: due to timezone issues, TURBO and arch will play their BO1 at 14:00 utc immediately before the playoffs on Saturday.

Congrats to Tagada, Espiranto-, Adjux, Nexus, Turin, Paralon, and ZLO for advancing to the playoffs next week! There were some pretty incredible upsets including Turin winning Group C 3-0 and Adjux taking a series off Nexus 2-0 to win Group B!

Thanks to my co-host farms for casting with me of twitch.tv/faflive. We reached 159 peak viewers and 116 average viewers, a record for a Seasonal Group Stage stream!

Thanks to my great Tournament Directors HintHunter and f1lthycasual, this event wouldn't have been possible without you!

And thank you to all the other players, donators, and viewers who made this tournament possible.

Players advancing to the playoffs please send me your map submission ASAP! I have only received it from Paralon so far, if you sent it via FAF I may not have received it due to the token logout bug, please send it via discord.

There were two issues that cropped up during the tournament that I need to address.

First, Jagged and Blackheart both appear to have forfeited vs each other. As TD I'm going to rule that because of this they tied for 4th place in their group. The prize money that would've gone to 3rd place will be redistributed to higher prizes.

Second, archsimkat and TURBO2 both perfectly tied for 2nd place in Group D. There are two tiebreaker ways to settle this, total win-loss: where archsimkat would advance and seed position: where turbo would advance. Neither method is specified in the tournament rules, so it doesn't seem fair for me to rule by fiat one way or the other. To resolve this, I have asked both of the players to play a BO1 to determine 2nd vs 3rd place in Group D in the next two days, expect updates to follow.