TOC3: The Bracket, the Maps and the Rules

[Doc Paterson]

This will be a condensed version of the massive post that was lost to forum issues.



If your name is listed first, you won the coin toss, and you'll start as player one in game one. For game two, you'll be player two, and, for game three (if necessary), you'll revert to player one (A wordy way of saying "switch sides every game." )

If you're late for your match, your fate is in the hands of your opponent. If they don't want to reschedule with you, that's that- They'll advance and you won't. Starting at (or before, if both players agree) 19:00 GMT, May 5th, you must play at least one match with your opponent. Playing more than one game on that initial day is encouraged. You have until 19:00 GMT on May 12th (the start of Round Two) to finish your matches. I'd like the winner of the set to either post the replays in the replay archive (I'd prefer this), or, PM them to me. If you don't know how to do this, ask someone.

* * *Special Note * * * I will only consider bending the rules to accomodate scheduling issues if you are a former TOC Champion. (Fortunately, there aren't many of those.)

If you have any questions about anything, PM me, and I'll respond as quickly as I can.

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ROUND ONE

The maps to be played for Round One:

Match One: Silverhead Crossing
Match Two: Charge
Match Three (if needed): Den of Onis

First to two wins will advance to the next round.

Here are the matchups for May 5th, 19:00 GMT:


EASTERN LEAGUE

Nordmann vs. Garison

Dragonking vs. EOE

Mythological vs. Training Dummy

Jami vs. Gallifax

Duthlet vs. PhD

Roman Loyalist vs. Waterd103

Galdi vs. Velensk

wsultzbach vs. Becephalus


WESTERN LEAGUE

Wintersmith vs. Wintermute

F8 Binds vs. Ultimatum479

Yogin vs. Cackfiend

Pietro vs. BMintern

Zatz vs. Taurus

Bast vs. Soliton

Kollle vs. LeakyPens

Pagan vs. khiM

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ROUND TWO

The Maps to be be played for Round 2:

(Best of Three)

Match One: Hamlets
Match Two: Blitz
Match Three: Sablestone Delta

Here are the matchups for May 12th, 19:00 GMT:

EASTERN LEAGUE

Garison vs. Dragonking (DK wins, 2-0)

Mythologicacl vs. Gallifax (Gallifax wins, 2-1)

Duthlet vs. Roman Loyalist (Roman Loyalist wins, 2-0)

Velensk vs. Becephalus (Becephalus wins, 2-0)


WESTERN LEAGUE

Wintersmith vs. ereksos (ereksos wins, 2-0)

Cackfiend vs. Pietro (Cackfiend wins, 2-1)

Taurus vs. Bast (Taurus wins, 2-0)

Kollle vs. Pagan (Pagan wins, 2-1)


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ROUND THREE

The Maps to be be played for Round 3:

(Best of Five)

Match One: Caves of the Basilisk
Match Two: Meteor Lake
Match Three: Charge
Match Four: Den of Onis
Match Five: Sulla's Ruins


Here are the matchups for May 19th, 19:00 GMT:

EASTERN LEAGUE

Dragonking vs. Gallifax (Dragonking wins, 3-2)

Becephalus vs. Roman Loyalist (Becephalus wins, 3-0)


WESTERN LEAGUE

Cackfiend vs. Ereksos (ereksos wins, 3-0)

Taurus vs. Pagan (Pagan wins, 2-0)

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Round Four

Round Four will begin at 19:00 GMT, on June 2nd.

The maps to be played:

(Best of Five)

Match One: Blitz
Match Two: Hamlets
Match Three: Silverhead Crossing
Match Four: Sablestone Delta
Match Five: Caves of the Basilisk


Final Round

Becephalus vs. Ereksos

The maps to be played:

(Best of Seven)

Match One: Charge
Match Two: Sablestone Delta (I'd like you to use the newest version-
http://star.walagata.com/w/paterson/June24Sablestone)
Match Three: Den of Onis
Match Four: Blitz
Match Five: Silverhead Crossing
Match Six: Caves of the Basilisk
Match Seven: Hamlets

[waterd103]

i don't see any rule about the timer......what's the rule about the timer?

[Cackfiend]

theres no timer.

[Becephalus]

I see no comment on release we are using? Typically it is most current, but I wonder if the players are aware of that?

[Cackfiend]

at one time he had stated it would be newest STABLE release

so the tournament will be played under 1.2.4

[Doc Paterson]

at one time he had stated it would be newest STABLE release

so the tournament will be played under 1.2.4

At the time of the tournament's planning, 1.3.1 was the available dev release, and as it had some problems, I thought it'd be best to play on stable, and announced that the tournament would be played on the stable server. Even though we have a solid dev release right now (1.3.2), I don't think I should change that original statement- A lot of the entrants may not have had time to adjust to some of the major changes.

Next tournament will be dev though, so be prepared.

[Yogin]

Hey Cackfiend,

I PM'd you, but haven't gotten any responses. Are you available to reschedule our match tonight or tomorrow night? I'm organizing a birthday party for a 1 yr old during match-time tomorrow so won't be able to make it. After the party is fine, Sunday is fine, or Friday night.

-Yogin

[waterd103]

what? no timer?????? ..........................................

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so there is no pressure to do a move.....
so i can take liek 1 hour for each of myturns as can my opponent, so basically, the games will take very long....

[Ultimatum479]

Or you could move quickly because the incentive not to do otherwise is that you'll be wasting your own time.

[waterd103]

i will not waste my time, i will use it to increase my chances of winning....

[Velensk]

.................

Pressure is not needed for this game.
It should not take you more than 5-10 minutes at most to figure out your moves
Time limits lead people to make unwize choices because they rush, but in reality not much time is realy needed.
Intentinal stalling will call in requests for your removal from the tournament.
Take your time, however don't stall, and it should not realy take you very long.

[ChaosZephyr]

another tourney huh?well this sounds fun and good luck t u all

[ChaosZephyr]

hm...im guessin i missed tourney #2 and 3 but i guess theres always a #4 lol

[Ultimatum479]

F8 couldn't make it at the scheduled time, so we agreed to play Sunday. He never showed up; I waited from morning 'til well into the night. I got no response to the two PMs I sent that day. Today the same scenario happened, and again he has not replied to my PM. I have AP exams the coming week, so I can't wait any longer. Since I really would hate to just lamely win by default, I'm playing the only person on the wait list who was present at the time, Thrawn.

[Becephalus]

sounds good ultimatum