prokyVII: cashing in on sauce respect

Finally got around to working on the details:

- since the schedule and format work quite well, we will set a limit to 72 teams for now. Should we unexpectedly reach a lot more signups, we will reconsider and rework the format as well as the schedule.
- added format / schedule to the Tournament Description on toornament
- added the rules on toornament
most important:
--> The map pool features the ETF2L S36 maps, except cp_reckoner_rc2 replaces koth_product. This way it is a lot easier to solve tiebreakers. KOTH makes comparing results on the basis of round wins and losses impossible. We chose Reckoner because it was recently played in ETF2L S35.
--> Golden Cap (which is not played in open group stage matches) has a time limit of 10 minutes due to scheduling reasons
--> There will be a B-Tournament for all teams that got knocked out of the Open groups. No matter how frustrated you may be after your group stage matches, you will play a BO3 against other teams who placed equally. Also, if you win said BO3, you will continue to compete on Sunday. So if you sign up, make sure you can play both days!
--> We will be using the regular config (ETF2L Season 36) for the tournament. We figure it falls upon the leagues to test gameplay-altering changes themselves.

Signups should be up and running now. Feel free to shoot me a discord DM if there are any problems, I will answer within 24 hours

@blankk: not for now, but signing up sooner rather than later secures you the best spots ;-)

Yeah, but it is fairly unrewarding to maintain an e-Sports-Page there, at least for TF2.
Turns out people prefer the anonymity of twitteraccounts etc. over connecting their online-community-presence with their real-life profiles where all friends and familymembers can see how much of a nerd you are.

In the same timespan where ETF2L more than doubled its followercount on Twitter, Facebook page likes went from ~1.400 to 1.450. Admittedly posts were much less frequent there when we realised that there is not a lot of engagement, but still.

Good luck though, it can never hurt to add another channel to try and spread the message! (:

Yak404 is a hottie

Tbf, if you really did cheat and got banned for doing so, nobody would give rat's ass about the fact that you wasted time scrimming. Personally, my compassion with cheaters is fairly limited.

Maybe people just don't like you.

Is anyone else beginning to read funhaver's posts and then kind of losing track of what he is talking about because he is not using punctuation marks I mean it is really annoying and I cannot understand how someone can write like this it drives me absolutely crazy

Regarding CPH, we had reached out to the top 5 NA teams as well as to the AU scene.
Ofc There were funding problems - we could have helped an NA team get there but at the Cost of a cut from the overall prizepool. When FROYO made clear they couldn’t make it this year, a few others tried to make a mix team. Such a team will only ever happen if you can find 6 tippi top players, because nobody is travelling across the pond to play for third place.

Then corona and Australian wildfires happened anyway and everything went to shit.

TL;DR Copenhagen Definetly wants to be an intercontinental LAN. So far it simply has not come together.

Genuinely expected this to be a Rickroll.

This is kinda like the pandemic:

I have no idea whats going on or whats true, so I am simply gonna stay away from everyone/everything and watch some Netflix.

... aaaaaaaand the signups are closed!

Thank you all for your overwhelming enthusiasm, we have reached a dazzling 95 signups! Considering we were expecting something around 30-ish teams, this simply blows our minds.

It also means the waiting list is VERY long. Sadly we probably do not know if any of those teams will get the chance to play yet. The best you can do is make yourself available on friday, hoping teams drop out on short notice!
For clarification, below is the current waiting list:

1.Golden Gyps
2. ez$
3. Les Téchets
4. NC/AB
5. Sora Elektro
6. Feline Funnies
7. Ciganyok
8. Aim Allergics
9. Ocean Man
10. G3C1T4x
11. help tractor mk. 2
12. GM'sU
13. JEWLAND
14. Ceu4ac_6ygeT_CMEIIIHO
15. henry hoover hoover henry
16. L A N D O G G O
17. Straight out of Turbine
18. Apina Lauma
19. Hotline Rebellion
20. The Feds
21. Good Vibe Tribe

All teams that have been accepted must check in to the tournament via the toornament website until 21 CEST tomorrow (thursday)! Check-Ins are open effective immediately!

All teams MUST have their Leader and Deputy join our Discord https://discord.gg/ufNKWXV with their nickname which they used to sign up with on toornament! If you wish to have your Leader or Deputy role assigned, ping a Tournament Admin!

Schedule All times in CEST!!!

Open

Friday, 10th April
16.00: Group Stage Round 1 (1 map)
17.00: Group Stage Round 2 (1 map)
18.00: Group Stage Round 3 (1 map)
19.45: Round of 16 (Best-of-3 maps)

Open Group winners which won their first BO3 will play a knockout match in invite bracket at 21.45.

Saturday, 11th April

Schedule for all 2nd, 3rd and 4th placed teams which won their BO3 on friday as well as the group winners which lost their BO3.
15.00: Quarterfinals (Best-of-3 maps)
17.00: Semifinals (Best-of-3 maps)
19.00: Finals (Best-of-3 maps)
Note: no Bronze place matches!

Invite

Friday, 10th April
16.00: Group Stage Round 1 (2 maps)
17.45: Group Stage Round 2 (2 maps)
19.30: Group Stage Round 3 (2 maps)
21.45: Round of 16 (vs. Top 8 Open Group winners), Best-of-3 maps

Saturday, 11th April
15.00: Quarterfinals (Best-of-3 maps)
17.00: Semifinals (Best-of-3 maps)
19.00: Bronze Match (Best-of-3 maps)
21.00: Grand Final (Best-of-5 maps)

An attempt of a visualisation of the schedule can be found here:
Friday: http://prntscr.com/rtm53n
Saturday: http://prntscr.com/rtmytc

The following will contain loads of very important information. If you are participating in the tournament, you should read it carefully! Disclaimer: wall of text incoming

Today we have decided to expand our tournament one last time (to 72 teams total!). If your team made the cut, you should have received an Email. You can also check this page to see all participants:
https://www.toornament.com/en_GB/tournaments/3268804567799422976/participants/

You can still sign up until wednesday, 8th April, 21.00 CEST, but you will be put on the waiting list.
Current waiting list: (tuesday evening)
73. MixToad
74. opa! squad
75.Golden Gyps
76. ez$
77. Les Téchets
78. NC/AB
79. Sora Elektro
80. Feline Funnies
81. Ciganyok
82. Mr McVities, Grandstanding HobNobs
83. Aim Allergics
+ 6 more

The structure is now final and no more subject to change.
And this is where it gets complicated so open your energy drink of choice and activate your brain:

Invite
8 Invite teams will be seeded into two groups of 4 teams. Each group plays a Round Robin, 3 matches of Best-of-2 maps in order to determine the seeding for the knockout bracket.
All 8 invite teams will make it to the knockout bracket, where they will be joined by the best 8 open teams in a single elimination K.O. phase. All knockout matches are going to be Bo3 maps, with the sole exception being the Grand Finals (Bo5).

So far, so easy.

Open

- 16 groups of 4 teams each. Round Robin, 3 matches with Best-of-1 maps

- after the group stage all 1st placed teams will be put into a 16-team knockout-bracket. These teams will play one BO3 match against another group winner in order to determine the 8 teams that will join the invite teams in the main tournament K.O. phase. [/b] (all BO3s)

- after the group stages all 2nd placed teams will also be put into a 16-team knockout-bracket. They will compete for the inofficial title of "best 2nd placed team".

- We will be doing the same with the 3rd placed and 4th placed team. This should ensure that all teams get to play somewhat even matches at one point, because the initial group stage will likely be very inbalanced. The Round of 16 will take place on friday, Quarter-, Semi- and Finals on saturday.

--> all teams will be playing at least one BO3-maps match after the group stage, no matter how well you did! The winners of this match get to play saturday as well.

Since this is a lot of information, we created a flowchart, hoping this visualisation will help you understand the structure:
http://prntscr.com/rx03go