About this tournament

At a glance:

- Registration ends: Friday, August 21th at 10 PM UTC
- Tourney date: Saturday, August 22th (Kick-Off: 2 PM UTC - will approx. last 3-5 hours)
- 2v2
- BO3
- Single Elimination (might switch to Double Elimination if only four teams will sign up)
- Max. combined rating: u2200 (global rating, fetched from July 26th)
- Max. individual rating: u1250 (global rating, fetched from July 26th)
- $100 cash prize and Dojo avatars for the winners

 in case only four teams sign up, we might switch to double elimination instead

We are going to give Nuggets' new tournament page a go. Find detailed information and registration here: Super-Noob Olympics #8 - 2v2

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out either in this very thread or through Discord (please scroll down to category "tournament chat" and use channel: "open tourney discussion"). We will respond as soon as possible. Please do not send private messages here on the forums or on Discord. Thank you.

About this tournament series

The "Super-Noob Olympics" are our entry-level tournaments. First and foremost, they are meant to be a sparring floor for beginners. Map pools will be appropriate for the skill level e.g. usually avoiding 20x20 and high reclaim maps. As beginners tend to be less familiar even with the "classics", we try to release the map pool somewhat early in order to provide you with some time to practice.

About the Dojo tournaments

We alternatingly hold entry- and mid-level tournaments on a monthly basis, also alternating between 2v2 and 3v3. Usually, we run our events on the 4th Saturday of the month with 2 PM UTC being the kick-off time.

Current rotation:

• Average Joe 2v2 (u1650 individual, u3000 combined)
• Super-Noob 3v3 (u1250 individual, u3300 combined)
• Average Joe 3v3 (u1650 individual, u4500 combined)
• Super-Noob 2v2 (u1250 individual, u2200 combined)

On said tournaments page, you can also find the hall of fame and all previous results including replay IDs and lineups. If you want to research an opponent who took part in one of our previous events, you surely can.

About the Dojo

Do you want to take part in one of our tournaments, but you don't feel ready yet? Join the FAF Dojo Discord, find a trainer (either as an individual or as a group) and put in some hours to gain more confidence in your own competitiveness.

What You Can Expect From The FAF Dojo

• A (mostly) voice-based community of 500+ players from all over the world
• Like-minded people willing to improve
• A wide range of skill levels (0-2000+)
• An experienced trainer team (incl. several top 50 players)
  • Replay reviews
  • Training sessions (as a group)
  • Training sessions (1on1)
• Guides, e.g.
  • Hotkeys
  • UI Mods
• In-house tier lists resembling the ranks of a Judo school
  • 1v1
  • Team games (”global”)
• A wide variety of options to practice, e.g.
  • Sparring (trainees only - unrated)
  • Sparring (trainees and trainers - unrated)
  • 1v1 challenges
  • TMM queue
• Events
  • Tournaments
  • Community nights (sometimes not FAF-related)

Further information can be found here: FAF Dojo Home

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FAF Dojo 1v1 Night

Our 1v1 night is a get-together for Commanders of all skill levels being interested in playing 1v1. The recurring date of the event is the 2nd Saturday of the month, kicking off at 19 UTC. We meet in the “1v1 Night” voice channel on the FAF Dojo Discord. The exact schedule varies from one 1v1 night to the other.

Further information can be found here: 1v1 Night

I don't agree tbh. Most people won't know about the log file, and it would probably just lead to more toxicity.

The key binding I'm referring to:

• Orders > Toggle all unit abilities

What it does:
It lets you e.g. toggle the walking ability on Salems, stealth on air units, and so on...

Current behaviour on ACUs:

Aeon / UEF ACU

• Toggles: Shield (Field)

Cybran ACU

• Toggles: Stealth

Seraphim ACU

• Toggles: Absolutely nothing.

Why would I ever want to deactivate any of these upgrades once I've unlocked them?

My suggestion:

Let it toggle the auto-overcharge instead. That way, it would be useful kind of all game long, and the hotkey would finally be functional for all factions.

Thanks for considering.

yeah, shout out to hybrid for crushing our dojo event

Cancelled, less than four participating teams.

Easiest fix would probably be to delay the refresh rate of the custom game list by say 5s.

That would be huge. But even then, the player base is too small. Quake had a super small competitive scene as well in the end, nonetheless ID kept it alive for very long, and even kept hosting the QuakeCon for the QPL finals. Unfortunately, there is no publisher support for FAF. You can tell the difference in production value if you compare the average FAF stream to QPL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI4M5u5IxAA

@ZLO said:
Edit2: so basically my point is that at 1rst game was popular, but was not that great, but later it is great, but no longer popular

If the mechanics or balancing are crap, there's literally zero percent chance to become a big esport title. The only way around that is if we're talking successors for an existing series like Counter-Strike. There's a huge fanbase willing to wait.

"talent" is overrated. and if experience does lead to more competent in-game decisions, ... i don't know how you'd call that, my man... i'd call it skill.

it's called gaining experience.

seems to be fixed.

Map pool has been released

You gotta save T3 > T2 > T1 for them to be in said order when cycling through.

There's some problem with the old replay server or sth. Anything that's older than 2, 3 years or sth along these lines cannot be accessed as of now. I'm pretty sure the team will look into it at some point, but I believe it ain't high prio.

@Nuggets Stop hallucinating!!!!

@KnownSniper Have you tried unsigning in hindsight like Neytron and pretending it never happened?

And we need it to unlock at 30.000 games.

Congratulations to our winners!

1st place: "Average Stealth Enjoyers" (TheCommissar, DarkStalker69, Kageyama177)

Thanks for everyone that signed up for the tournament ; those that joined to play today and watched the stream.

Next Super-Noob event will be held on August 22th, and it's going to rotate back to 2v2.

@KnownSniper Someone already set it to germany for the swamp german!

Still some slots left

4th team has been completed. We are going to have a tournament! Signup now to join the fun, four more slots available