[Ruscour]

Ruscour's Skyrim Community Map Open

And it's done!

http://challonge.com/rcmo1

delete had a flawless run through the tournament, not dropping a game! Huge congrats to him, FUS RO DAH.

Although there were a LOT of people missing, good games were had and it was fun overall. I learned a ton about running tournaments and I have a lot to think about before my next one.

Congrats to TADivinity on second place, total gosu in the making.

A huge thanks to MazEi for streaming, everyone loved his casting. Also thanks to everyone who showed up and nirvAnA for plugging the tournament around the place!

There will be a next time...but until then, I will be releasing a replay pack of the best games and doing a writeup about the tourney, with match analysis and maybe an interview or two as well.


Introduction

Hello, I'm Ruscour. Out of boredom, I am hosting this tournament, where people shall fight to the death for my amusement. As for incentive to play, I have to give to the winner a copy of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, in the form of a key that you can activate on Steam. Depending on the response to the tournament, I am considering adding a monetary prize as well. This is my first time hosting a tournament, it was something I always wanted to do, so hopefully I don't mess it up ^^

For everything you need to know about Skyrim, check out deL's review here!

Oh who am I kidding, this is all you need to know:

You Tube

You Tube

For further incentive to play, even if you suck, I'll be randomly selecting anyone who shows up and giving them a beta key to Tribes: Ascend.

So what's the catch? The catch is this: the map pool includes exclusively community maps. There will be no ladder maps, and no tournament maps. We've seen tournaments around the globe host contests, a community map made its way into the next Arena of Legends, yet nothing of the sort has penetrated SEA. Hopefully we'll see tournaments try adding some community maps in the future.

This tournament is open, so the only requirement to play is that you have a SEA account, I don't care if you're bronze or grandmaster!

When and Where

This tournament is scheduled for Friday, 6th January, starting at 7:00pm GMT+10 (Brisbane time); so that's 8:00pm daylight savings time (NSW/Victoria/etc), 5:00pm Perth time, etc, figure it out from there.

On the SEA server, join the channel RCMO to find your opponent. A bracket will be posted once signups are finished!

Format

This will be 32-man single elimination tournament. To keep things quick, it will be Best of 1 in the Round of 32 and Round of 16, and then Best of 3 up until the finals which will be Best of 5.

The starting map for each round is as follows:

Round of 32: Concrete Dreams(Bo1)
Round of 16: Ohana (Bo1)
Round of 8: Overgrown (Bo3)
Round of 4: Sanctuary (Bo3)
Finals: Cloud Kingdom (Bo5)

Standard "loser picks next map" style. For example, in the Round of 8 if you lose on Overgrown, the next game is hosted on the map of your choice. If you win on that map, then your opponent picks the last map. Pretty simple stuff.

All results must be PM'd to AsGRuscour.385 at the conclusion of the series.

Uh, what else...race-picking is fine as long as you let your opponent know beforehand, bring any disputes to me, and I have the right to disqualify anyone if they're caught being a dickhead.

Map Pool

Unfortunately, there are a lot of great community maps that aren't published on SEA, or that aren't updated! There's enough, however, to use for a tournament. The map pool is as follows:

[TLMC] Ohana by Plexa
[TLMC] Sanctuary by Plexa
[TLMC] Cloud Kingdom by Plexa
TPW Overgrown by TPW
TPW Artifice by TPW
TPW Concrete Dreams by TPW
TPW One Must Fall by TPW

Stream

Unfortunately living in rural Queensland doesn't give me the 'nets to stream. If anyone wants to volunteer to stream, that can observe the games (casting is a bonus), please PM me! All replays will be released.

Signups

To sign up, simply post in this thread with the following details:

In-game name and identifier
Race and League
where you're from!

and you'll be signed up! If you can't make it and you've already signed up, be a good guy and let me know.

Quick Comments

	Zealo:	:)
	Flamga:
	nirvAnA:	Awesome initiative. Moved to news :)
	Maynarde:	I want to sign up but you know, arrow + knee
	TCPLemminks:
	Rageboredguy:
	xGKingdelete: