Classes Duel Tournament[/size]
NEWS: Bracket Stage!
The deadline for the Bracket Stage is Monday, January 6th, 12:00 AM EST (UTC-05:00).
In the Group Stage, participants must duel each opponent in their group in a best 2 out of 3 fashion; each player picks one map, then one map is picked mutually if a third duel is necessary. Map picks for this stage are reset, so you can pick maps you picked in the Group Stage. But, like in the Group Stage, you can only pick a map once! After you pick a map once, you may not pick that map again for the rest of the tournament!
Before every Duel, execute the Draft Pick described later in this post. You may switch between your two classes at will during the Duel.
Every Duel must be to 5 frags, with no timelimit. Issues of stalling Duels for the sole purpose of not losing/wasting time will be brought up to me and will be dealt with individually.
Make sure autorespawn is off if you are hosting a server, so players can switch classes at death.
Remember, Charge Man, Guts Man, Air Man, Plant Man, Mega Man, Proto Man, Rock Man, and Bass are banned from the tournament.
Without further ado, here are the brackets! Please report all results on this thread, with pictures if you can. (Note: the seeds listed in the brackets aren't right, that's the order I entered people into the system).
http://challonge.com/classesdueltop (http://challonge.com/classesdueltop)
1st Place: --
2nd Place: --
3rd Place: EazyDI
http://challonge.com/classesduelmiddle (http://challonge.com/classesduelmiddle)
1st Place: King Dumb
2nd Place: Stonefunk
3rd Place: Sir Juice
http://challonge.com/classesduelbottom (http://challonge.com/classesduelbottom)
1st Place: --
2nd Place: --
3rd Place: --
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Classes Duel is a fun way to play as your favorite Robot Masters while testing out your adaptive skills and knowledge of class counters. Using a Draft Pick system before every duel, players will have 2 classes to use in any given duel and will be banning 2 classes for any given duel. Instead of picking 2 classes to use for the whole tournament, you will choose your options for each duel.
General Rules:
1. All duels will be played in version v3b of MM8BDM.
2. All duels must be played with the version of classes listed in the required wads.
3. All duels must be played in Duel mode.
4. All duels must be played using the Draft Pick system described below. Additionally, Guts Man, Charge Man, Air Man, and all copy weapon classes except for Doc Robot are banned.
4. All duels must take place in servers hosting the Required Wads listed below.
5. All duels must be to 5 frags, with no time limit.
6. The following maps are banned: MM5CRY, MM5GYR, MM8CLO. Custom maps are allowed only upon mutual agreement.
7. Server hosts must ensure that the following parameters are in place:
a) Crouch OFF
b) Chasecam OFF
c) Forced Respawn OFF
d) Skill NIGHTMARE
f) Autoaim OFF
g) Suicide OFF
h) Spawnfarthest ON
i) Mapvotes ON
8. Server hosts must be able to provide logs of any and all matches if I request them.
7. Duels played on the server of one of the duelists will count only upon mutual agreement.
8. Cases of lag will be handled on a case-by-case basis. As general rules, lag related to clients’ local machines (ie, other programs, etc.) will not be excused; lag based on connection issues with the server will be excused in most cases and the appropriate actions will be taken.
9. As tournament host, I reserve the right to add, remove, or change rules as I see fit to maintain a smooth, functional, and equally fair tournament.
Rules for each individual stage of the competition will be released later in the week.
This tournament will run somewhat similarly to my previous duel tournament in terms of structure. That means two stages: a group stage, and a bracket/elimination stage.
First Stage Rules:
a) If enough players sign up, the first stage will be very similar to that of my previous duel tournament. Applicants will be grouped into a number of groups with a manageable number of players in each. Your responsibility will be duel each person in your group twice. For each pair of matches, each player will pick one map. Once you pick a map, you may not pick this map as your choice for the rest of the first stage.
b) If a certain threshold of applicants is not reached (this threshold TBD), then the above procedure will be applied to the entire contestant pool. In other words, you will fight EVERY contestant twice in the first stage, in the above manner.
The second stage is the bracket stage, consisting of one or more classic brackets. If (a) was the first stage, then at least two brackets will be created. One will be composed of the top one or two contestants of each group, the other of the 2nd place or 3rd and 4th place contestants of each group, determined by win-loss ratio, kill-death ratio, and/or a tiebreaker duel, in that order. If there is interest, a bracket(s) can be made for the lower ranking members of each group. These brackets will be subsequently be seeded.
If (b) was the first stage, this serves as the seeding and one bracket will be made. After the first round of this second stage, a second bracket will be made for the losers of the first round.
Second Stage Rules:
1. All matches are best 2 out of 3.
2. All duels will have a fraglimit of 5.
3. For each match, each player will pick one map, and the third will be mutually decided upon. Duelists can decide whose pick to play on first.
4. You may pick a map only once for the entirety of the second stage. Stage one picks o not count in stage two (you may pick a stage you picked in stage one of the tournament in stage two.)
Draft Pick System:
For this tournament, every duel will begin with a draft pick. This will consist of each player banning 2 classes from use, and choosing 2 classes that they may use during the coming duel. The Draft Pick occurs at the start of every match, and will take the following structure:
1. Player A bans one class.
2. Player B bans one class.
3. Player A bans one class.
4. Player B bans one class.
4. Player B picks one class.
5. Player A picks one class.
6. Player B picks one class.
7. Player A picks one class.
Both players may pick the same class(es) if they desire.
Required WADs (watch for updates):
YOU MUST LOAD THE WADS IN THIS ORDER IF YOU ARE HOSTING A SERVER!
Classes-v6g(3b).pk3 (http://static.best-ever.org/wads/classes-v6g%283b%29.pk3)
BrutalDuel-Classes-v1b.pk3 (http://static.best-ever.org/wads/brutalduel-classes-v1b.pk3) (see this topic (http://www.cutstuff.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=5922) for more info)
DuelItemPatch-v3b-2.pk3 (http://static.best-ever.org/wads/duelitempatch-v3b-2.pk3)
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Sign-Up Form:
Cutstuff Name:
In-Game Name(s):
Time Zone:
Location:
Ways to Contact (please include all relevant usernames, etc.):
General Times Available:
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Participant List:
1. Max
2. King Dumb
3. The Killer Nacho
4. ---
5. Kapus
6. Bikdark
7. Awbawlisk
8. Fyone
9. Linnie
10. Orange Juice :l
11. EazyDI
12. Rui-
13. Korby
14. Sir Juice
15. *Alice
16. Perfectlylegit
17. Deviddo
18. Emmanualf06
19. LlamaHombre
20. Stardroid Venus
21. *J. Wallus*
22. Watzup7856
23. SmashBroPlusB
24. Magikarp
As always, please post with any questions or concerns.
Cutstuff Name: Linnie
In-Game Name(s): Linnie, Crapcom, Vaporeon, Then Who Was Phone?, >rape Train (though I won't get to use that one if Charge is banned)
Time Zone: EST
Location: Wild and Wonderful West Virginia
Ways to Contact (please include all relevant usernames, etc.): Cutstuff PM, Skype (Linnie S.)
General Times Available: Uh... I'll just write a general schedule.
All times EST:
Monday:
9:30AM-11:00AM
11:30AM-1:30PM
5:30PM-11:00PM
Tuesday:
9:30AM-10:45AM
7:00PM-11:00PM
Wednesday:
9:30AM-11:00AM
11:30AM-1:30PM
7:00PM-11:00PM
Thursday:
9:30AM-10:45AM
2:00PM-5:00PM
5:30PM-11:00PM
Friday:
9:30AM-11:00AM
11:30AM-1:30PM
6:00PM-11:00PM
And I'm available most times on Saturday and Sunday. That doesn't mean I'm necessarily on the computer for any of these times, it just means that I don't have a pre-planned event taking up my time.
Also, I'm with the "ban Skull please please ban Skull" movement. Skullman is the biggest funkiller in classes.