AusNS2.org June 2014 Draft Tournament
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Melbourne, AU Join Date: 2013-04-01 Member: 184576Members, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver, WC 2013 - Silver, Retired Community Developer
Melbourne, AU Join Date: 2013-04-01 Member: 184576Members, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver, WC 2013 - Silver, Retired Community Developer
[x/post AusNS2.org thread: ausns2.org/showthread.php?1050-AusNS2-org-June-2014-Draft-Tournament]
Bracket Page: Click Here
It is time again for another Draft Tournament! This tournament will be mostly the same, with a few things that we are changing this time around to include more people, and make the teams that little bit fairer. We have had very successful tournaments in the past and we are looking to improve on this with every tournament we run.
The changes are as follows:
- Now open to US/SEA NS2 players!
- There will be an extra team grading process after the draft night for fairness.
- AusNS2.org Forum Signup is mandatory.
Tournament Dates:
Sunday 15th June 2014 and Sunday 22nd June 2014
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Draft Tournament Map Pool:
ns2_summit
ns2_tram
ns2_descent
ns2_veil
ns2_caged
ns2_biodome
ns2_jambi
To signup for the Draft Tournament, fill out the form below and you will be added to the pool of players. On the Draft Night, team leaders will pick players from that pool and teams will be formed to play in a 2 day tournament over 2 Sundays. Teams will be reviewed by the admins for fairness based on player skill as dictated by the signup forms and our personal but objective discretion.
The team with the most round wins, wins the tournament.
The score and bracket for the tournament will be hosted by challonge.com.
Bracket Page: Click Here
Rules:
1. Round Robin tournament rules as dictated by the Admin team and those on challonge.com
2. If players are unavailable for the Draft Night, they must contact an Admin during the signup period or make it known publicly in the forum thread.
3.Open to Australian, New Zealand, American and South-East Asian players.
4. All teams and players are subject to shuffling and movement depending on skill and fairness as judged by the Admins in the grading process.
5. AusNS2.org Forum Signup is mandatory for contact, information delivery and rewards.
6. All other League Rules apply before, during and after matches.
AusNS2.org Mumble Details
IP Address: mumble.ausns2.org
Port: 6034
Team List: Click Here
Comments
Only a couple days into signups, and we have a lot of people signed up so far, so thanks guys!
Remember, this tournament is open to US players if you are willing to stay up and play these games that is!
It's looking like it is going to be an extremely fun tournament with a lot of players at many different skill levels, so there has never been a better time to come play with the Aussies in a casual no pressure tournament like this
Comp mod.
Most likely I'll be streaming a few of them. Depends how I'm going as its about 6 hours straight of games.
This is looking like a really great tournament so far with 85 signups!!!!
I will be posting the team list when we get teams sorted out and finalised after the grading process. You can keep up with the scores here where the bracket is hosted.
I will hopefully be streaming as much as I can on both the Sunday's on twitch.tv/ausns2 and kid will be streaming as much as he can on his channel at twitch.tv/kidstreams! Hope to see you there!
Here is the final team list!
You can keep up with the scores here where the bracket is hosted and to know who will be playing who in each round!!!!
For the first weekend, Sunday the 15th of June here are the round times:
(All times are in AEST, for timezone conversion, I like this website: everytimezone.com )
Round 1: 4-5pm - ns2_summit
Round 2: 5-6pm - ns2_tram
Round 3: 6-7pm - ns2_descent
---1 hour break---
Round 4: 8-9pm - ns2_veil
Round 5: 9-10pm - ns2_caged
For the second weekend, Sunday the 22nd June, here are the round times:
Round 6: 4-5pm - ns2_biodome
Round 7: 5-6pm - ns2_jambi
---1 hour break---
Round 8: 7-8pm - ns2_tram
Round 9: 8-9pm - ns2_summit
Remember with the international and closely skilled nature of this tournament and the huge amount of games that have to be played, these times are subject to being moved, changed or completely and brutally dismembered.
Again, I will hopefully be streaming as much as I can on both the Sunday's on twitch.tv/ausns2 and kid will be streaming as much as he can on his channel at twitch.tv/kidstreams! I think Ren26 will be jumping in to cast a couple games as well!
twitch.tv/dragonmith
And my upload speed is just too slow... sorry guys, no heavy breathing and low quality streams anymore
I was expecting an email, or a reply, or a private message. I just now had learned that I was actually drafted. Perhaps this is my fault for not checking after applying.. but this time zone thing is really to blame. Right now it is 12:54 pm here in cerritos, california. Which would mean I would be ready for the round at or around 8-9pm if the time was to be that time. But instead, seeing as this was from australia, it is now 5:00 in the morning on monday for australians.
I woulda had to play at or around 3:00 am.. which was impossible given the circumstances. So I guess, in short, apologies for not showing up. I didn't really check too much into the timezone thing without saying I could do it, blindly.. I knew it would be early in the morning and at the time I was accepting of that.. but really, ever since then I've swapped my sleeping schedule around and started sleeping through the night (for a change).
@kmg we came second
1) There is only 6 points separating the top 8 teams
2) The top 7 teams all won at least 4-5 of their 9 matches
There were some close, tough games in there
Also, I make a great housekeeper! (welding rts, building in base, making sure everyone uses coasters... :P )
We have a follow up post coming soon with all the information from the Draft, but also what is coming up for the AusNS2 community. Stay tuned.
And so ends the June Draft Tournament. A Big thanks to everyone who played, the captains for organizing their teams, and to our lovely casters who captured all the games. We had some great rounds that were much more even this time than our previous drafts. This new format has proven to be a good formula for future drafts. We do encourage feedback, and we will take it on board when planning the next draft.
For those who missed it, here is a summary of the winners and scores:
The Winners:
The Bracket:
For all the new players that played in the draft, we hope you enjoyed competitive NS2, and we hope you stick around to play in our future competitive events. We encourage you all to either join an existing clan by posting in the clan thread, or start a new clan yourselves. I know there are definately several new people from a variety of different skill levels wanting to join the comp scene after the draft, so we encourage you all to make yourselves known on the forums or on mumble!
Also, off the back of the Draft Tournament, we have announced our next major Tournament:
The AusNS2 Rising Stars Tournament, aimed at lowed level clans. More information can be found on the AusNS2.org website!