[bigfatrat]

neogrant, on 26 July 2010 - 07:11 PM, said:

Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 Cash Ladder Tournament!




Credits:
Kindly sponsored by Fireworks, run by Strike-Team.
CNCTube for featuring all replays.
GameReplays.org for providing commentary, and further exposure of the tournament.

What must I do?

Qualify in the TOP 16 of the Red Alert 2 Quick Match Ladder, August 2010.Confirm (the potential top 20) with us that you will be able to play on the 18th September. (We hope to get this finished in a day) 19th September will be a run over if we can't finish on the 18th.However, If a player has been proven to lame or cheat during the qualifying month, they will miss out on entering the tournament.

What happens after that?

If you happen to be lucky enough to get into the top 16 you are automatically entered into the tournament. We will take 5 reserves in-case players are unable to turn up. (so top 20 as a backup)

Maps to be played in the Tournament?


You won't be assigned a map for your matches, but you must choose a map from the map pool. If you don't and play with what is in the map pool, instead play your own map choice you will be disqualified.
Games are best of 3, you will only be able to play a map once within each stage. So 1st stage is your first 3 games, the 2nd stage is your next 3 games etc.
Player 1 will choose the first map, Player 2 will choose the next, Loser of round 2of3 will choose the final map.


How will the brackets be made?


Rank 1 will play Rank 16
Rank 2 will play Rank 15
Rank 3 will play Rank 14 (And so on.)

Finals

Will be best of 5 games.
Hopefully having commentary (VOD's), and live streaming for Strike-Team users to watch live.

Terms of entering the Tournament

-No engineering enemy buildings (except for tech buildings) - accidental or not
-No bug abuse ('alting', 'self-spy' or other things that the game was not intended to do). - accidental or not
-No trainers or map-revealers
-No intentional disconnecting/reconnecting/washing
-No 'pushing'
-Only 1 nickname per person (players can use multiple nicks in the ladder, but only 1 of their nicks can be used in the tournament)

NOTE: Players MUST be available on the day otherwise they are considered 'forfeited' and a reserve will take your place.

Prizes


1st place - 100 euros (not to mention a great reputation!)
2nd place - 50 euros
3rd place - 25 euros

Where to meet?
Meeting will take place in Korean Bunker 2, at 7PM BST.

Totally awesome idea. I am very happy to see tournaments.
My question, what about the Americans? We don't use Euros,
Thanks guys

[neogrant]

bigfatrat, on 28 July 2010 - 01:49 AM, said:

Totally awesome idea. I am very happy to see tournaments.
My question, what about the Americans? We don't use Euros,
Thanks guys

Hehe, It will be converted on paypal

[t3h J3w]

FalseGod, on 28 July 2010 - 01:36 AM, said:

all im saying is that you will disqualify a person from entering the top 16 if they are once proven to use an engineer while qming thru the month, thats kinda bs, i have supported your toruny from day one man, and your idea is great, and i respect your choices because your the sole proprietor the this tournament, but the fact is people use engi's sometimes, root has many times, i have many times, michel tried to engi me and even showtime has been guilty of using engi's vs me, now that probably isn't their main game plan, but they use them and which should be fine because it's part of the game as we all can agree, what im trying to say in short hands is :

Yes, the rules for the MAIN TOURNAMENT should be no Engineer use ect......but for the sake of qming, the top 16 that make it should be able to utilize engineers thru out qming the month because they will be playing players that are chinese and don't care about this tournament, or me....because as much as i would love to be in this tournament, im not going to be going engineerless vs some players in some situations.

I think you lost your mind man. You can live without those engis. They are chancy anyway.

neogrant, on 27 July 2010 - 10:48 PM, said:

Its a site that hosts many portals for games. The global administrator for CNC there methuselah , has been great. Not sure what the traffic is, you could take it from here, but give or take a few thousand i think http://www.statbrain...amereplays.org/

nice. well done.

This post has been edited by t3h J3w: 28 July 2010 - 04:32 AM

[pwnt]

people only engi when they care to much. no fun in engiing someones mcv

[iNs0MNiaC]

pwnt, on 28 July 2010 - 04:41 AM, said:

people only engi when they care to much. no fun in engiing someones mcv

Yeah enging a mcv is no fun, but enging their first warfactory is pretty amusing.
Also the amounts of flame and crying that follows is pretty amusing too.

[CandC]

Well, just to understand exactly.
People can eat engis and people can get into enemy`s tech oil?

[Fireworks]

CandC, on 28 July 2010 - 02:43 PM, said:

Well, just to understand exactly.
People can eat engis and people can get into enemy`s tech oil?

Yes & yes. It's too hard to prove the first 1, & the second one is easy to defend against. The only rule that I've added really is 'no engi'ing enemy buildings', the rest are standard Strike-Team rules. I know there are a lot more lame things like

-stopping an MCV from redeploying using a dog
-blocking building placement using a dog
-refusing to quit when your enemy has 100+ ground units w/ a few buildings left & all u have is an unreachable naval yard w/ NO units
..and so on

But I didn't wanna make too many rules or else no one will participate.

This post has been edited by Fireworks: 28 July 2010 - 10:07 PM

[CandC]

thank you

[tojo668]

-No bug abuse ('alting', 'self-spy' or other things that the game was not intended to do). - accidental or not


nice to see they consider alting as a bug abuse as it is

[PuNiSh3eR]

is this money coming out of your pocket? where u gettin this money to just give away lol

[JoKuJaK]

Fireworks, on 27 July 2010 - 12:06 PM, said:

Engi eating is too hard to prove coz ppl sometimes leave their dogs near the enemy's base after scouting & 4get about them.
With the map choices, that was neogrant's idea, but I agree w/ him. We have to give lesser-skilled players SOME chance of winning. I mean, I've ALREADY taken away engi-rushing, which is some player's MAIN tactic.
But I'm sure w/ ur skills & experience, those things shouldn't b a problem.

engi eating is not hard to prove, just restart the game if some retard is to much of a noob to pull his dog back

and the map choices.. well as long as the map pool is good it shouldnt be much of a problem.

just put engineering on, because all kinds of deadly tactics are on..

[Fireworks]

PuNiSh3eR, on 30 July 2010 - 08:22 AM, said:

is this money coming out of your pocket? where u gettin this money to just give away lol

Yes. I'm not rich but I'm pretty comfortable. I jst thought that since better prizes increased activity like the EA sponsored tourny in 2008, maybe we could do it again, but this time w/ REAL cash & not jst gift certificates (which was still pretty good). This is sort of like my 1 big paddle b4 our ship sinks, lol.

This post has been edited by Fireworks: 30 July 2010 - 04:09 PM

[Fireworks]

JoKuJaK, on 30 July 2010 - 01:39 PM, said:

engi eating is not hard to prove, just restart the game if some retard is to much of a noob to pull his dog back

and the map choices.. well as long as the map pool is good it shouldnt be much of a problem.

just put engineering on, because all kinds of deadly tactics are on..

1 game I had not long ago, on GSF, I was at TL spot. I purposely put a dog next to the two houses at the bl to stop my enemy from garrisoning it. He must have way pointed his engi a little too far coz my dog ate it, hee hee.
Let's jst see how this tourny goes then we'll make adjustments for the next one.

This post has been edited by Fireworks: 30 July 2010 - 03:57 PM

[superjunkie]

So it begins on de 1e of august?

[Fireworks]

superjunkie, on 30 July 2010 - 04:08 PM, said:

So it begins on de 1e of august?

"de 1e"? Umm... The qualifying month is in August 2010, but the tournament itself is on September 18th 2010 (Korean Bunker 2, at 7PM BST)
BST=British Summer Time, which is GMT + 1 hour.