[OCNA 3s] Group Stage Information & Fixtures

[Tanken]

Haven't been able to get ahold of DA Underdawgs, yet, do we know if they are one of the teams that is supposedly dropping out of the tournament? I would like to begin planning my week and weekend more thoroughly, if so.

[Lt_Anders]

I almost don't think there's any point for us to play our last match

[Jona]

I almost don't think there's any point for us to play our last match

Yeah, I think the rule was the top 4 teams from each bracket advance, and at this point in each bracket there are clear losers (in some brackets it is closer than in others).

[Keshian]

Yeah, I think the rule was the top 4 teams from each bracket advance, and at this point in each bracket there are clear losers (in some brackets it is closer than in others).

Yeah, this first drawn out stage of 5 weeks was rather stupid way of doing it just to drop 7 teams out of 23 (6 of which quit early on) and then tarting from scratch all over again.  Not really that fun.

[GOBBLINKINGREATLEADER]

On the bright side it gave us all time to get used to the way the matches play out and the way the tournament runs, so we should all appreciate that.

[Jona]

Agreed, it was worth it. Also, if the tournament instead skipped right to the next round of single elimination, then all of the non-tryhard/just-here-for-fun teams would only get to fight once, most likely. At least having the 5 weeks allowed for everyone to have 5 matches (or 4 in the D bracket...one of which was a no-show anyways).

[Tydeus]

Yeah this was rather experimental on our (Events Team) part. We clearly have to appeal to more than just the try-hards, so I really didn't like the idea of single elimination from the start. I'll also agree that it does seem a bit odd to have 5 weeks of matches to only drop 7 teams, but due to math (how things line up) there isn't much else you can do. We could give the top 4 performing teams a pass for the first week (why play in a tournament if you don't actually get to play matches?), and only move on 12 teams (thus the first two weeks of the knockout stage would consist of 8 teams, which wouldn't really change the duration of the tournament.

What I've thought about for future tournaments, is to give say, 3 weeks for the teams at the group stage to schedule and play all of their matches, rather than doing 1 match a week.

[Jona]

What I've thought about for future tournaments, is to give say, 3 weeks for the teams at the group stage to schedule and play all of their matches, rather than doing 1 match a week.

This is all you really need to do for people to schedule. That way if they are all around on one day (like a weekend) they could just have back to back matches and get half of them done in a single night. For example at the start of the tourney we scrimmed against two clans right after our first match, simply because lots of clans were around at the time and willing to practice a little. Had we been in the same bracket, there would have been no reason those couldn't have been official matches.

[Keshian]

Could just do double-elimination from the start.  Or set it up for loser's brackets vying for lesser prizes.

[Tanken]

DA Underdawgs are no longer apart of the tournament, so I would just assume the match is in The GURP's favor. Bummer, would have liked the last week to warm up.

[Tydeus]

DA Underdawgs are no longer apart of the tournament, so I would just assume the match is in The GURP's favor. Bummer, would have liked the last week to warm up.

Can always do some scrims

[Canary]

Chaos or Something vs. Ironsides, Ironsides no-show.

[GOBBLINKINGREATLEADER]

Hey Squid guys, what the fuck is happening with our match? Sandy kind of went AFK into the scary IRL world, and Apollo went back to school so we don't have anymore. So I guess I gotta step up and engineer this shit.

[LordLargos]

Goat Squad conceded against the Green Regime

[Kaoklai]

PS over the Horder 7-0