Holiday Invitational Tournament
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 1:48 am
Raishiwi and myself are considering hosting a tournament around the holidays, and we’d like some feedback to determine how feasible this endeavor is. Matches will be hosted on twitch.tv/raishiwi. We’re putting some money on the line too, and we’ll be fundraising for the prize pool on Raishiwi’s stream.
This will be a sixteen man invitational tournament; the goal of which is to feature 16 of the top Red Alert players. Time and player permitting, I would really love to do best of three group play for the first round, then best of five series for the round of eight and on.
We’re currently targeting the weekends before Christmas and New Year’s, December 23rd, 24th, 26th, 30th and 31st. The holidays work best for us because I work in higher education (Christmas break as an adult FTW) and Raisiwi is a business owner with the ability to close the office for the holiday. We can try to move this around or extend the tournament to three weeks depending on feedback.
We will try to divide the tournament into time-slots, targeting early afternoon and evening for Europe. Each group will play anywhere from 8-12 games, which I believe can be completed around a five hour block. (Assuming we don’t get too many hour-long games).
Playing some matches concurrently and only streaming one to save time is an option, though we’d like to stream everything we can.
Assigning time slots to groups allows us to move around players if they can only fit one slot. Hopefully there won’t be too much of this as I’d like to keep the draw as random as possible.
We will be using Discord to run this tournament. Discord makes organizing events like this much easier, and all players will need to be in the designated channel.
In the feedback I’d like to hear a few things:
1. I would like form a selection committee to determine invites for top-tier players. I want committee members from both NA and EU who play frequently enough to have a feel for the 1v1 scene. It may be tough to have to choose the final couple of invites, but I also want to have a list of alternates in case of no-shows. If you are interested in this committee let me know.
2. We also need a rules committee, mostly to pick a good map pool but also to set rules for no-shows, etc. etc. Tell us if your are interested in this committee.
3. And the most important one, is this tournament doable? If you are a top tier player (you know who you are) let us know if you are able to compete around these times, or if you could if other dates were opened up.
Raishiwi and I have run events like this before, so we’re confident in our ability to run a show. (At the very least it shouldn’t be cringeworthy). Let us know in the comments how interested you are in an event like this and if you are interested in participating.
This will be a sixteen man invitational tournament; the goal of which is to feature 16 of the top Red Alert players. Time and player permitting, I would really love to do best of three group play for the first round, then best of five series for the round of eight and on.
We’re currently targeting the weekends before Christmas and New Year’s, December 23rd, 24th, 26th, 30th and 31st. The holidays work best for us because I work in higher education (Christmas break as an adult FTW) and Raisiwi is a business owner with the ability to close the office for the holiday. We can try to move this around or extend the tournament to three weeks depending on feedback.
We will try to divide the tournament into time-slots, targeting early afternoon and evening for Europe. Each group will play anywhere from 8-12 games, which I believe can be completed around a five hour block. (Assuming we don’t get too many hour-long games).
Playing some matches concurrently and only streaming one to save time is an option, though we’d like to stream everything we can.
Assigning time slots to groups allows us to move around players if they can only fit one slot. Hopefully there won’t be too much of this as I’d like to keep the draw as random as possible.
We will be using Discord to run this tournament. Discord makes organizing events like this much easier, and all players will need to be in the designated channel.
In the feedback I’d like to hear a few things:
1. I would like form a selection committee to determine invites for top-tier players. I want committee members from both NA and EU who play frequently enough to have a feel for the 1v1 scene. It may be tough to have to choose the final couple of invites, but I also want to have a list of alternates in case of no-shows. If you are interested in this committee let me know.
2. We also need a rules committee, mostly to pick a good map pool but also to set rules for no-shows, etc. etc. Tell us if your are interested in this committee.
3. And the most important one, is this tournament doable? If you are a top tier player (you know who you are) let us know if you are able to compete around these times, or if you could if other dates were opened up.
Raishiwi and I have run events like this before, so we’re confident in our ability to run a show. (At the very least it shouldn’t be cringeworthy). Let us know in the comments how interested you are in an event like this and if you are interested in participating.