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New comcast tournament, comment your interest
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 2:21 am
by Ripsn
Its that time again people
FiveAces & SoScared from the Comcast Shoutcast team are teaming up with Ripley` for another Bullet filled nuke-fest of epic clusterfuck proportions.
And in keeping with our usual OpenRA flair, there is a twist.
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Introducing: the comcast Tag team tournament.[/align]
Teams of 2 going head to head in a 1 v 1 / 1 v 1/ 2 v 2 Series
Team members will battle their own 1 v 1, followed by a combined 2 v 2.
This format offers for alot of Screen smashingly awesome games to cast..
More information to follow. please register your interest so we can get this ball rolling.
Cheers
Ripley`
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 8:50 am
by klaas
This sounds like an AWESOME format, I'd love to play, hope to find the time at the right moment.
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 10:06 am
by kyrylo
We don't have enough good 2v2 maps. What's the map pool?
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 2:27 pm
by Mo
I'd be interested
Kyrylo, you've gone way ahead of me since we first started together, but perhaps you want that tag team partner like old times?
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 2:36 pm
by PersianImmortal
A Tournament named after this most despised ISP in the states nice
Looks fun though.
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 3:00 pm
by Murto the Ray
Sounds good to me
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 7:11 pm
by SoScared
IT'S HAPPENING!
kyrylo wrote: ↑
We don't have enough good 2v2 maps. What's the map pool?
The official 4 player maps aren't very good I agree. There's actually a great deal of good maps for 2v2's but you'll have to use many of the 6 and 8 players maps. E.g. official maps such as Asymmetric Battle, Cold Front, Doughnut, Haos Ridges, Vegetation. Plenty of custom maps too I'm sure.
Perhaps a preset map pool for 2v2's would make it all more helpful.
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 9:33 pm
by FiveAces
Alright, let's grab our can openers and crack this Pandora's Box that is the upcoming
Tag Team Tournament!
The general idea was to have a
competitive 1v1/2v2 format
that would result in interesting and competitive matches without excluding newer players.
SoScared and myself will provide a
prize pool, split 60/30/10 between 1st/2nd/3rd place;
it is currently expected to be
around $ 150 total.
Keep in mind that this is just a sneak preview and
not the official tournament thread yet,
as we are still not 100% sure on the whereabouts and important cornerstones of this new format;
thus,
some things detailed in this thread might still be subject to change
(The name, for example, is just something I came up with because I couldn't resist the temptation of the CCCC alliteration.)
We will try to expand the map pool before the tourney kicks off;
until further notice,
here's a non-comprehensive 2v2 map pool:
(Some 6-player maps are included, as they work just as well in a 4-player setting)
Our detailed setup and schedule (including marketing, announcement videos and timeframe)
will be revealed in due time; expect this event to
take place late February!
Cheers!
FiveAces
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 9:40 pm
by kyrylo
Mo wrote: ↑
Kyrylo, you've gone way ahead of me since we first started together, but perhaps you want that tag team partner like old times?
Ehhm, "started together" sounds a bit strong.
We've played about 2-3 games like 3 months ago, sure. That said, I am not 100% sure if I'll be participating (but I voted "yes").
SoScared wrote: ↑
The official 4 player maps aren't very good I agree. There's actually a great deal of good maps for 2v2's but you'll have to use many of the 6 and 8 players maps. E.g. official maps such as Asymmetric Battle, Cold Front, Doughnut, Haos Ridges, Vegetation. Plenty of custom maps too I'm sure.
Perhaps a preset map pool for 2v2's would make it all more helpful.
That definitely works (and I suspected this would be the answer), but we still need more good 2v2 maps. Maybe not for this particular tourny, but for future tournies. By the way, I have made one 2v2 map -
Sandspit. I agree its design is not conventional but on this map you can actually see navy clashes
I am happy to fix balance issues or make small layout changes if needed.
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 10:10 pm
by Ripsn
Thankyou all for your comments and questions. scoping out interest is what this thread was about, and by the looks of it there is a solid ' YES '
thankyou for clearing things up FiveAces.
obviously there is much conversation and organization to be had. so as mentioned above
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Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 11:29 pm
by raymundo
I like the format of the tournament, I am definitely in! I think the last tournament I played in was a bit flawed because it was ffa, our matches were 3 teams of 2 and that can be a bit unbalanced. This isn't to say it was not fun though!
I am going to to try making some new 2v2 maps, they may not be good enough for a tournament but that remains to be seen!'
edit: wow actual cash prize? hell yes!
map making *Shower thought*
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 11:23 pm
by Ripsn
raymundo :
"I am going to to try making some new 2v2 maps, they may not be good enough for a tournament but that remains to be seen!''
maybe the trick there is to focus on one map until it is perfect rather than a few because its fun =)
too many people, not naming normans, oops i mean not naming names , tend to pump out a lot of quick half-baked maps rather than focusing on one and getting it perfect.
which is what we need.
imho
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 11:52 pm
by anjew
Is this is Red Alert only?
Re: map making *Shower thought*
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 12:05 pm
by Norman_
Ripsn wrote: ↑raymundo :
"I am going to to try making some new 2v2 maps, they may not be good enough for a tournament but that remains to be seen!''
maybe the trick there is to focus on one map until it is perfect rather than a few because its fun =)
too many people, not naming normans, oops i mean not naming names , tend to pump out a lot of quick half-baked maps rather than focusing on one and getting it perfect.
which is what we need.
imho
i wonder if this ripley ever uploaded a good map.. i remember i saw one ripley map loong time ago but it was also only a shit map lol
norman made some nice td maps with everything a good map needs. he worked really hard and a long time on some single maps, so i have to mention this lol but true, most of the old ra maps ive uploaded are ugly, unfinished and just shiiiit.
maybe 10% of the 129 maps i made are good/
perfect ones
whoops
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:31 pm
by shpooky
sounds fun
count me in