Finals at 9pm tonight. Team captains, please ensure all members are online and ready a little earlier, we would like to start on time if possible.


P.S. Please make sure you have updated your client in advance.

Congratulations Team 7! The first game was very exciting, thanks in part to 6.82.

Damn, you beat me to this.

Maybe for the next iteration. This tourney was practically in beta mode. We'll definitely implement what we've learned in the next tourney.

Last but not least, a sincere thanks to all the admins, players, and supporters who cheered them on.

IIRC, your captain called you and you said you were out taking a stroll (I think the term he used was gai gai?) If alertz wasn't available to stand in, you'd have forced your team to forfeit.

I can't speak for the other admins, but personally I'd blacklist you from all future tournaments. In this day and age where alarms/calendar reminders are the norm, forgetting an appointment isn't really a valid excuse.

I see. Anyhow, he could have just messaged the group saying he's unwell and we would've postponed the match.

Not so soon I think. I should be hosting a 1v1 tourney in December though, I'll confirm the details later on.

Probably not. Doto iz serius biznes.

Tonight can. I'm already at home.

Alright, I'll come on at 10pm and see who's free to play.

ES was a very good pickup in that game. We needed to push early against a Spec, and a mid-lane ES would get a dagger early enough to defend tier 3s. True enough, we suffered a bit of a setback when it came to going high ground.

Let the server maintenance conclude first.

That's scheduled for December, registration will open sometime next month.

The Twitch stream was a little problematic IIRC. I'm working on an alternative solution, which hopefully we can implement in the second iteration.

For now, the major concerns are on how we can improve the team formation process. The last round saw some teams who were unfortunate enough to get members who didn't share the same level of commitment as them.

I proposed this format before the last tournament, but in the end we opted against it for fear over the tourney taking too long to conclude.

The option for stand-ins is nonexistent due to the mix-and match MMR format. Even in the final, we had a hard time finding a stand-in who was in the correct MMR range so that the games wouldn't be imbalanced.

I'd like to clarify some things:
1. The tournament will be run by just me (and maybe some volunteer mods). It's not in any way associated with this guild, and there will be no player restrictions.
2. I've not decided on the tournament format yet, but I'm looking at some variation of 1v1 play. I'll give the full details when I'm ready to make an announcement.
3. The tournament will involve a cash prize. How large it is has yet to be decided, but given that I'm handling things all on my own, don't expect it to be too much.
4. I might not make the December deadline, there are too many things going on at the moment. One thing for sure though - I intend to make it a yearly affair.