[Pongo]

Inaugural AusCraft2 Down Under Derby [SEA]


The Down Under Derby is a monthly tournament open to players of all skill levels from the SEA server. With $100 up for grabs each months it's a tournament to keep your eye on.


Register at: http://www.auscraft2.com.au/registration.html

Entry Requirements: SEA Account

Registration Dates: 1st April - 20th April

Tournament Dates: 1st May - 1 round per day. Check-in starts at 6:15pm. Matches start at 7:00pm

Time Zone: Eastern Daylight Time (GMT +10 hours), that's Melbourne and Sydney Time.

Where: Online

Prizes: 1st place - $100 AUD

Spectators: Not permitted

Referees: Quarter finals, Semi Finals and Grand final will be refereed by AusCraft2 Administrators.

Player Requirements: Players are to check-in via our website, as well as contact each other in game and play their matches. Winners are required to submit their replays via online forms on our website. No log-ins are required in order to make the process quick and easy.

Bracket: Will be posted at http://www.auscraft2.com.au/inaugura...der-derby.html shortly after registration closes. Registered players will be notified of bracket release by e-mail.

Edit: Bracket has been released

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Format:

* The tournament is played out one round per day, with the winner of each match up advancing to the next round.
* The opening round is a 'Bye-Round'. Players who register early have a greater chance of not being included in this round and will be entered straight into 'Round 1'.
* Each round will be a best of 3 (BO3), with the grand final played as a BO5. Maps must be played in the order listed below.
* Losers are eliminated (there is no losers bracket)
* There are no restrictions on player numbers in the tournament which means the number of rounds / days for the tournament will vary (128 players equates to a 7 day tournament).
* Tournament end date will be announced when the tournament brackets are released.


Maps:

BO3 Rounds. Maps to be played in this order:

Game 1: Xel'Naga Caverns
Game 2: Tal'Darim Altar LE
Game 3: Shakuras Plateau



Finals / BO5 Round. Maps to be played in this order:

Game 1: Typhon Peaks
Game 2: Metalopolis
Game 3: Backwater Gulch
Game 4: Scrap Station
Game 5: Tal'Darim Altar LE



Additional Information:

Visit our website www.auscraft2.com.au for additional information and if it isn't there use the 'contact us' form on the site. Alternately post in this forum and we will try to get back to you.

[Benji]

High quality banner.

[Pongo]

Originally Posted by Benji

High quality banner.

I stayed up nights making it, I truly did ;-)

[deL]

3 weeks @ 1 game a day for $100?

I can see a lot of no-shows and headaches in getting people to turn up every time. Consider shortening the tourney or running a different format like team/national leagues or something.

[PiG]

Originally Posted by deL

3 weeks @ 1 game a day for $100?

I can see a lot of no-shows and headaches in getting people to turn up every time. Consider shortening the tourney or running a different format like team/national leagues or something.

Yeah I agree showing up every day at a set time is REALLy hard. You probably want to make the times more lenient, say 24 hours and even there will be alot of no-shows.

On a plus note its awesome to see SEA getting a tournament that will hopefully actually stick around and using an automated reporting system.

[Pongo]

Originally Posted by deL

3 weeks @ 1 game a day for $100?

I can see a lot of no-shows and headaches in getting people to turn up every time. Consider shortening the tourney or running a different format like team/national leagues or something.

I should clarify. Registration is open for three weeks, we wanted to give people a good heads up.

The tournament is open and will run one round a day (so 128 people would take 7 days; 64 would take 6 days and so on...).

If the general vibe is a more relaxed timing window as PiG has suggested I'm sure we can make that adjustment fairly easily.

Ideally we'd like to get things running as smoothly for as many people as possible so thanks for the input folks, it's all very helpful.

[deL]

OK 1 week is better.

However, having 1 set per day is kind of restricting if you wanted some kind of live stream or anything like that. People can probably squeeze out 2-3 rounds at least per day and that gives a good comfortable casting window. My reasoning is that when people show up try and get them to play as many games as is reasonable because they might no-show next time.

[iM tgun]

Doing it one game per day is kind of stupid, imho. Some people work odd times on odd days and need to schedule around them, such as myself. Playing a friday night is nigh impossible, so I suggest playing it through a set day.

[nirvAnA]

what del said and its silly to make people commit a day staying at home if its just one game

[YJY]

I can't seem to sign in, it says page error, reload. Can you please sign me up? YoonYJ.680

[Jabberwocky]

Tried signing up but getting the page error too. Sign me up! Jabberwocky.467 / Terran

[Pongo]

YoonYJ and Jabberwocky, both of your submissions were received and you will be scheduled into the tourney.

Thanks for persisting with the site, this is the first I've heard of any stability issues. I'll do some testing over the next couple of days and see if I can't iron out any gremlins.

[Pongo]

Hey Folks.

Just a reminder that registration for this tournament closes in just over two days, so if you'd like to compete but have not yet registered, you'll need to do so very soon.

Register at: http://www.auscraft2.com.au/registration.html

The format is staying as advised in the OP (1 round per evening), at least for this month. We'll move to fine tune things for Derby2 and will be seeking feedback from participants after finals.

Thanks for everyones support and involvement.

GLHF!

[SiZeMaTTeRs]

Btw, to all who register for this tourney, the tourney bracket is out at their website.

[Pongo]

Originally Posted by SiZeMaTTeRs

Btw, to all who register for this tourney, the tourney bracket is out at their website.

Thanks Size.

Add to that, all participants have been notified of this via the e-mail address they've provided us with.

Edit: I should probably link to the bracket on the website hey :-p Can be seen here http://www.auscraft2.com.au/inaugura...der-derby.html

[SiZeMaTTeRs]

Hi Pongo, perhaps u can place the bracket link into your post #1 as well.

[Pongo]

Originally Posted by SiZeMaTTeRs

Hi Pongo, perhaps u can place the bracket link into your post #1 as well.

Holy giant bracket batman! LOL

Looks like I managed to embed it but now how to hide it...

Does anyone know what the html code to hide it (like spoiler code on tl say)? ♥

[SiZeMaTTeRs]

I cant edit your post #1 on the bracket, perhaps u could a "spoiler" tag on the bracket.

[Pongo]

How do i add a spoiler tho? [spoiler] [/spolier] ? :-s

[SiZeMaTTeRs]

Originally Posted by Pongo

How do i add a spoiler tho? [spoiler] [/spolier] ? :-s

Yup .. thats correct.