Community Tournament: The Second Phase

Hello all, it's two weeks (bar a few days, but you can forgive me for the EC right?) to the day that we did our initial post of the idea and now we are ready to begin the second stage of the tourney design, sorry to say people but we won't be doing multiplatform tournaments straight off, I've listed the reasons below, but honestly they all boil down to the fact that, unfortunately, the first couple are going to be test runs for all the rules, regulations and how we actually run it.

Console: Xbox 360 (More explanation below)
Game:- Undecided halo game (More explanation below)

Ah yes multiplatform tournaments we have dismissed this claim. All joking aside there is a real reason for doing one game and one platform only. First of all, everyone apart @Dj has no real experience running tournaments so we are expecting growing pains.

Secondly designing a cross platform tournament is difficult to say the least and as such we’d like a bit more time to develop it (I’ve been thinking a point system but we’ve got no clear idea yet).Thirdly we’d like to test everything in stages (that’s why a lot of the features beyond the bare bones won’t be there from the start), to see if it’s easier to do what would be three tournaments or to do one platform every now on rotation.

Essentially speaking, we don’t know how to do everything we want to try and for reasons of familiarity (Yes the majority (who are designing it) of us have halo and use the xbox) ease of set up and other such reasons we have decided on something very local to the majority of us to ensure that the tournaments that come up will be as awesome as we can make them.

That's it for now, we'll be thinking of the date (probably some time Post-EC) during the next two weeks or so, but any suggestions on date or time would be most helpful.


Edit:- Just to help out, here's a preliminary guidelines for tournament, this one anyway.


Rules
● All weapons will be allowed in the game.

● Respect your opponents at all times, If the referee feels like you are going too far you'll be asked to
stop (No worries about this though, the referee will only ask if someone complains)

● Only small maps will be used, so no vehicles.

● All power ups will be used in the game.

● Continued camping of power weapons and power ups is not sporting.

● Teams will be 2 v 2 (If you can’t find another player for a 2 v 2 in the tourney then all opposing teams will choose one player to fight for their team).

● A choice of five game modes will be offered: - Team slayer (Swat, normal slayer and Free for all) , Team Swords(Low grav), Team Griffball (???), Team gravity hammers (Low grav) Team races.
● Both teams must agree with the choice, otherwise the referee will have the deciding choice on what game mode.

● The referee will be the host and will kill himself (to avoid his presence on the game). If there is a issue the referee will decide on the action and the players will follow it. If the players feel that the referee has been unfair then they can save the game clip (a feature that halo has) and send it to one of the heads of the tournament. At which point 3 people (one Player who hasn’t fought the teams, one who has fought the teams and one of the organisers will decide on the appropriate action).

• The maps will be randomised to the small maps, if the teams continue to disagree over the map, then the referee will choose for them.

I'm gonna vote Reach, better more responsive multiplayer, lobbied Firefight is good too, and I like the graphics updates just 'cause.

Honestly it doesn't matter to me, maybe once I've practiced more, but it would be nice to know which game we are going to use so I can plan accordingly. I will still be allowed to tell people I will f*ck their couches though right? Oh and die in a fire? If not I might have to mute myself...

Should be fine, the referee will only ask to tone it down if another player dis likes it.

Oh shit guys, this shit is really going down! *readies plasma sword* I'm ready to shank me a bitch! Let's do work @DJayRaIDeN!

Hold on let me get some cheese, you can practice on that.

Oh, is that how it is going to be? Better check your kidneys Gman, check em! RAWR!!

I did, they are still there, your sword however is in next door's wall.

So when is this going down anyway? I've got both games now, I need to know when we're going to be kicking ass, and whos team I'm on, etc

Sure, I'll write up a update now and post it in a mo.

Oh, I'm going to make you eat your words Gman, eat them with a side of humble pie! And you will love! And then you will pay tribute to the Rawrasaurs!

Seriously question though. Do we need to map packs for the various games? Since I'm pretty sure I don't have any of them.

Yeah..I also need to know that too, because if I need to d/l some map packs, that'd be good information to have

Also need to know which game is going to be played as well

Player list as it stands:-
Justin Simpson
Gmandam
MikeSnipe1692
Goddess
Comanche warior
Belsnickle
KingofBulgaria
DjayRaIDeN
Talon30813
Breefolk
Kimsparks
EagleScoutDJB (Decided to drop out)
Andy Chick
Synthal
MissFish
S1v3rw0lf
wastelander75 (Has dropped out due to work related time suck ups)
Thomas Bluml
Vernon Tuitt III
Amalthea 327

Teams will be done in two ways, first of all you would be allowed to choose your own partners. If by the time the tourney date there are people who don't have partners will be offered to go into a random poll where a random number generator will match them with another person.

Secondly here's the tourney structure, don't mock because this was done in paint.


Teams will be able to choose their team names for themselves if they wish, these teams will then again be put into a random number generator where they will be matched with other teams. Once four matches is done innitally team nine will be moved into the losers bracket (to help balance the brackets not because they suck). Then the tournament will proceed as planed.

As a side bar, unless there are free map packs and the such, we won't be using DLC.

Edit:- As a note we have decided that the tourney will be held on this saturday or 07/07/2012. Team names and team mates must be submitted by thursday via PM/ Forum post or some other method. The bracket will then be set up at on friday.

The time will be set at Saturday 7:30 PM GMT or 2:30 EST.

Also we are going to close joining now. Sorry to say but if there are no issues anyone who wishes to join will have to wait. @EagleScoutDJB your friend is not included in this but I have informed you of the rules he will be operating under.

Dates you need to know:-
Thursday 05/07/2012 = Team name and team composition to be made know to be hosts.
Friday 06/07/2012 = Brackets to be decided (who goes first, who plays who and who plays who)
Saturday 07/07/2012 7:30 pm GMT/ 2:30 EST = Main tournament begins.

Times are movable if needed, just Pm me or @DJayRaIDeN for changes if needed.

Referees :-
@DJayRaIDeN
@Gmandam
@Amalthea327
@Goddess

A special chat room will be made in the HTL chatroom function to allow this to be made easier.