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April 2010 2v2 Demigod Community Tournament - Rules and Registration

April 2010 2v2 Demigod Community Tournament - Rules and Registration

DG Community - we are in the process of organizing a Demigod 2v2 tournament.  This tournament is open to all that would like to participate, but does require that you follow this thread for updates, etc, as the majority of the communications including brackets will be published here. 

This thread will provide the latest tournament rules, 2 man teams that have registered, and individuals that are looking to be a part of a team but do not currently have a partner.  If you'd like to participate and don't have a team, indicate so here.  Then, make efforts either in this thread or via pm to form your own team. If you are unable to form a two man team, don't worry.  All of the individuals that have indicated that they'd like to participate and were not successful at forming a 2-man team will be randomly placed into teams on the cut off date.

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

Tournament Rules:

  • You may only select characters as indicated in the grid below:

  • Each match in the tournament will be the best 2 out of 3 games
  • All matches will be played on cataract with default settings (the only exceptions being AI HP on Very High and AI Gold/XP on low)
  • After teams are formed, they will be randomly placed into a bracket to determine who will fight who.  Everything will be random initially in round 1.  In the following rounds, the winners from one game will play the winners from another based on location in the bracket starting from the top on to the bottom.
  • Each team will play 1 round on light side, then 1 round on dark side.  If there is a 3rd round, the team that had the fastest win in game 1 or 2 gets to pick the side they want to be on (keep in mind the following rule).  
  • The team that is on the dark side must pick their characters and ready up first.  Then the light gets to pick and the dark side does not have a chance to adjust their characters. 
  • To track your wins, you must do the following - post the replay at gamereplays.org.  If you have issues with gamereplays, upload the file to rapid share and provide us with a link.  Also, provide a link to the match in the pantheon and let me know if its a win or loss.  The winning team should do this for each and every match.
  • UberFix 1.02 must be used (http://forums.demigodthegame.com/374315) UberFix is a mod that simply fixes many of the bugs in Demigod.  Check the modding forum for everything that is fixed by UberFix 1.02. 

How will we handle crashes:

If there is a game crash, the players involved in that match should see if they can come to a consensus on the probable outcome of the match.  If there is no clear winner, the 2 teams should replay the match using the exact same demigods and sides (light/dark).  If there was a clear winner at that point in the game, then that team should be awarded the win.  If the 2 teams disagree on the outcome, a third party will review the replay of the match and render a decision.  Be aware that the 3rd party must agree that a specific team was going to win or the results will be thrown out and the match redone.

How we will handle invalid game states:

The lastgamereplay file is still created in the event of an invalid game state, so it is still possible to review the results of a match.  In the event of an invalid game state, players should attempt to resolve the issue exactly the same way as game crashes.  If you believe foul play occurred, submit the replay along with any screen shots, etc, as evidence and we will review.  If there is a CLEAR consensus that a team is willingly triggering invalid game states, that team should be disqualified after a thorough review of the facts. Please be reasonable, though.  We all know that Demigod has its bugs and its still pretty easy to encounter an invalid game state even if no one has intentionally triggered it.  If your game does crash, it might be advisable to take a screen shot of the crash as proof.

Also be aware that we know invalid game states can occur without any foul play.

Prizes:

Outside of prestige in our small community, there is also a cash prize thanks to community contributions.

Currently, the total amount pledged for this tournament is $199.95.  Of that $199.95, I have received $99.95.  If you would like to contribute to the pot, please pm me and I'll get you the needed info to send me a payment.  If individuals do not come through on their pledges, I will not be personally covering the difference.  My goal is to collect the pledged amount before the tournament starts and I will be providing updates as I receive the pledged money.

Please thank our contributors and consider contributing to the prize yourself.

Bracket: 

Round 1a/1b results are here:  http://forums.impulsedriven.com/380837

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Reply #226 Top

@pacov: Ok thx dude, just hope we'll be able to find the replay with all the replies

fair point. 

Reply #227 Top

Quoting FutileEmotion, reply 223
I would like to register as well.  FutileEmotion + Tshughes, with SocialistRyan as an alternate.

Interesting

Reply #228 Top

FINALLY. King of Thorns, HAS COME BACK...TO DEMIGOD...

*Holds for the peons chanting the Kings name*

All seriousness aside, I want to sign up for the tourney and my partner?

GM-Re.......GM-NINKI. You may be thinking, why in the BLUE HELL would you want to team up with that fembot. Well the answer is simple, I might be...."Out of shape" and in my endless selflessness, I don't want to hold back any better teammate of mine, however, Ninki has no chance of winning, thus, NO PROBLEM.

And this point, I can only imagine Ninki is screaming in glee at the top of his already high voice, jumping up and down, fist punches and ALL while "Girls just wanna have fun" blazes in the background...Know your role and shut your mouth ninki, you Miley Cryus loving, Justin Bieber lusting HERMAPHRODITE.

...IF YOU SMELLELELELELELEL....
        ...What KoT... 

                    ...Is...

                             ...Cooking...

And come this following week, if you still can't smell what I am cooking, you will...AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM LIN-...Wait, wrong character.

*Raised single eyebrow*

Reply #229 Top

Quoting Queen, reply 228
FINALLY. King of Thorns, HAS COME BACK...TO DEMIGOD...

*Holds for the peons chanting the Kings name*

All seriousness aside, I want to sign up for the tourney and my partner?

GM-Re.......GM-NINKI. You may be thinking, why in the BLUE HELL would you want to team up with that fembot. Well the answer is simple, I might be...."Out of shape" and in my endless selflessness, I don't want to hold back any better teammate of mine, however, Ninki has no chance of winning, thus, NO PROBLEM.

And this point, I can only imagine Ninki is screaming in glee at the top of his already high voice, jumping up and down, fist punches and ALL while "Girls just wanna have fun" blazes in the background...Know your role and shut your mouth ninki, you Miley Cryus loving, Justin Bieber lusting HERMAPHRODITE.

...IF YOU SMELLELELELELELEL....
        ...What KoT... 

                    ...Is...

                             ...Cooking...

And come this following week, if you still can't smell what I am cooking, you will...AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM LIN-...Wait, wrong character.

*Raised single eyebrow*

 

May I guess... Youre gonna use Queen of Thorns in the tourney? Seems to fit. :D

Reply #230 Top

WHATTT!! A DEMIGOD TOURNAMENT?!?! :drool: :drool:   WOW am I lucky or what, just to return to demigod in time! You can't have a Demigod tournament without me. Count me in. I don't have a partner yet, I'll play TB most likely so according to chart my partner should have a lot of options. So if any one wants to be with me pm me or post a reply to this. I'll be warming up today for demigod and get into competitive shape.

 

For now add me to free agent please, till I get a partner.

 

Thanks.

AtMa,

Reply #231 Top

Adding King_of_Thorns + GM-Ninki as a team.  I don't think its fair to participate and serve as an alternate, so I'm removing Ninki from the alternate slot (this would make 3 possible teams that Ninki could play in).  Willing to listen to arguments on this though. 

Reply #232 Top

also - AtMa's alive?  Holy crap.  Guess I'll have to raise Kokujin and Kassaum from the grave as well :)  Adding AtMa to the free agents. 

Reply #234 Top

Quoting King_of_Thorns, reply 228
FINALLY. King of Thorns, HAS COME BACK...TO DEMIGOD...

*Holds for the peons chanting the Kings name*

All seriousness aside, I want to sign up for the tourney and my partner?

GM-Re.......GM-NINKI. You may be thinking, why in the BLUE HELL would you want to team up with that fembot. Well the answer is simple, I might be...."Out of shape" and in my endless selflessness, I don't want to hold back any better teammate of mine, however, Ninki has no chance of winning, thus, NO PROBLEM.

And this point, I can only imagine Ninki is screaming in glee at the top of his already high voice, jumping up and down, fist punches and ALL while "Girls just wanna have fun" blazes in the background...Know your role and shut your mouth ninki, you Miley Cryus loving, Justin Bieber lusting HERMAPHRODITE.

...IF YOU SMELLELELELELELEL....
        ...What KoT... 

                    ...Is...

                             ...Cooking...

And come this following week, if you still can't smell what I am cooking, you will...AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM LIN-...Wait, wrong character.

*Raised single eyebrow*

Lol too bad you've already choosen, you should have tried to find this guy http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/player/52945.  I've seen him around and he's way better than Ninki.

Reply #235 Top

A few suggestions to you folks that are planning on participating:

  • If you haven't registered, do so now.  There are less than 12 hours to get registered for this.  You miss the deadline and you are out.
  • If you are a free agent and really want a specific partner, get off your butt and try to contact that person.  Once registration closes, if you are a free agent, you will stay a free agent until I randomly assign you a teammate.  If you are on a team already, you will stay on that team.  You can't change things once registration closes.  
  • Take some time and read the rules.  There are quite a few of them (sorry guys, but there are) and you need to understand how that will impact you.  Character selection alone will make some great players into weaker players.
  • If you haven't used the uberfix mod, you need to read up on it and understand what it fixes.  Some of the fixes are minor and don't really impact game play, while other fixes make some pretty big differences (read up on Oculus for instance).  I would strongly suggest you host uberfix 1.02 games and get some practice in.  
  • Practice!  Many of the teams that have registered already play alot of 2v2 games together.  Knowing your teammate and how they play can go a long way towards increasing your chances of winning.  Even those of you that will be randomly paired up will have some time to practice before the tournament starts up. 
Reply #236 Top

Quoting pacov, reply 231
Adding King_of_Thorns + GM-Ninki as a team.  I don't think its fair to participate and serve as an alternate, so I'm removing Ninki from the alternate slot (this would make 3 possible teams that Ninki could play in).  Willing to listen to arguments on this though. 

I wasn't aware that Ninki was for sure participating, if he is he won't be used as an alternate Pacov.

Reply #237 Top

woah...we are pretty close to 26 teams :D

If this is single-elimination (it is, right?) that's four rounds, with a team getting a bye in round 1 and another in round 2.  That round 2 bye is going to be worth its weight in gold though, seeing as it pops you directly into the semi-finals...

Reply #238 Top

Quoting GM-McShane87, reply 234



Lol too bad you've already choosen, you should have tried to find this guy http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/player/52945.  I've seen him around and he's way better than Ninki.

Sounds very tempting, but did you know Ninki thinks he is better then you? I lol'd. I don't even see The_Rock as a free agent. Might test him out, just by having the name The_Rock we already have more in common then me and Ninki. I don't even know what DG Ninki is good with, IF any.

Quoting GM-Mithrandar, reply 233
I can't wait to cursh your team with your old partner koush

Know your role, Jabroni! Don't think I'm above asking Renz to sabotague.

 

Oh and Pacov, I haven't played demigod in 6 weeks due to PC repairs. If you gotta give me a match, give me the latest slots, I only just managed to repair my computer in time for this tourney and I'm rusty.

 I haven't even asked Ninki to team up, but I doubt he would object. I'm gonna look for this "The Rock".

Reply #239 Top

If this is single-elimination (it is, right?) that's four rounds, with a team getting a bye in round 1 and another in round 2. That round 2 bye is going to be worth its weight in gold though, seeing as it pops you directly into the semi-finals...

Yeah - single-elimination per match -best 2 out of 3 games.  If you are eliminated, you are out of the tournament. 

Back to what RAWRRRR and Ninki were talking about re: providing commentary, I'm a fan of the commentary, but not necessarily having you guys acting as a spectator in the actual game.  If connectivity is perfect, then I really don' t have any objections, but the more players, the more bandwidth required, and that might mess with the experience of the players in the match.  Maybe we could do something like that, but I we'd need to be sure it didn't impact the match.  So, we can always have you guys take the replays and add the same type of commentary (for instance, rawrrrr+ninki+abornexile (if I'm remembering right))... you could each get in the same vent channel and watch the replay at the same time and provide commentary during that.  Just some thoughts.

Reply #240 Top

So many noobs so little time.... this is going to be fun. \o/

Reply #241 Top

guyyoulove play a game with me!

Reply #242 Top

Anyone know what happened to ABornExile and shred_demon's attempt to make a trial commentary? In the other thread ABornExile had said he was going to try to make one, but then I never saw anything from them after that.

 

Reply #243 Top

Quoting Ptarth, reply 242
Anyone know what happened to ABornExile and shred_demon's attempt to make a trial commentary? In the other thread ABornExile had said he was going to try to make one, but then I never saw anything from them after that.

 


because hes bin hiding out away from every one he knows on skype for the last week or 2

Reply #244 Top

I'd like to make a suggestion for the tournament format, the current format of random team matchups in single elimination is faster, but not better. It is very likely that the final matchup will not be the 2 best teams and therefore be anticlimactic. Most likely the better teams will eliminate each other earlier on and the final match and semifinals will be one sided. Also single elimination can take a few of the best teams out in the first round if they are placed with each other. I propose that instead, we have all the teams play each other once in a  best 2 out of three matchup, and then the teams with the 1-4th amount of wins play each other. Then the winners of those 2 matchups play each other for the finals. That way the 2 best teams will face off at the end, and the chances of good teams getting to play only one matchup because they played a better team the first or second round, won't happen. It will also reduce the possibility of flukes or random occurrences to take better teams out of the tournament. You lose one matchup, you're DONE, if you have a crazy close 3 games and then you lose, its over for your team, the other team moves on, and lets say those 2 teams were the best, then the other team wipes the floor with the rest, and only 1 game in the entire tournament was important. Not exciting, not fair.

 

The only problem with this idea is it will take more time to complete. If you guys don't want to play that many games that's ok, but I think it will make it more interesting, and more thorough. If there are too many teams, and it will take tons of time for everyone to play each other, we could divide the teams into 2 groups, have the groups play the other members in their group to determine the best teams, then the top teams from each group play each other in the finals. There are other ways to organize it as well that reduce the number of matches. The main point of this format of a similar one is that even if you lose one matchup you are not immediately out. This will prevent top teams from eliminating eachother early on, and make the finals way better. Also increasing the length of the tournament makes it better as well. If all in one big group its the most fair and will definitely have the two top teams in the last matchup, the more groups you divide the teams into the more chance this will not happen. Anyways let me know what you guys think.

Reply #245 Top

As for the commentary we've been real busy, were definitely going to have a demo commentary this weekend, stay tuned :)

Reply #246 Top

Quoting King_of_Thorns, reply 238

I haven't even asked Ninki to team up, but I doubt he would object. I'm gonna look for this "The Rock".

I wouldn't risk it with The Rock, clearly it's not gonna happen.

It's also not that I'm objecting, but I'm not really sure when I would be able to participate. I'm in Montreal from the 23-25, I have some workshop to attend from the 21-23, and I have meetings with my supervisors on the 20th, and meeting with students on the 21st so for all of next week I'm pretty much going to be MIA for most of the time unless it's after midnight or something. I also need to begin data entry so I can actually complete my dissertation.

So.... yeah. I don't know Koush. Besides, you're not even part of my family. I also hope you know that I don't listen to your type of grandma music, so "Girls just wanna have fun" would definitely NOT be a song that I would be choosing. "Party in the USA" would've been more correct, but I've moved on from those days. It's all about JB now.

I'm not gonna be home until after the midnight deadline, so if you need to find me text me through msn or ask Shane to text me if it doesn't work from xfire.

And anyway, don't think for a second that we wouldn't have a chance of winning. I've played with GM enough times to know each and every one of their weak points that we can take advantage of. If anything, I'd be most worried about the teams I've never even heard of.

Quoting GM-Mithrandar, reply 233
I can't wait to cursh your team with your old partner koush

Not if I can help it.

Quoting King_of_Thorns, reply 238

Sounds very tempting, but did you know Ninki thinks he is better then you? I lol'd.

You left by the time Obscenitor started playing rook. You would have been FURIOUS with Shane but you'd never admit it just so you wouldn't have to admit you were wrong.

PS. Pacov - I'm also the alternate for Janook & magnus, even though magnus is only part of the sub-clan.

Reply #247 Top

Thundercle and Atmax44 should be awesome to play with, given that they are one of the top TB players.

I wonder if Darz (qot) is going to join the tourny.

Reply #248 Top

Quoting King_of_Thorns, reply 238

Sounds very tempting, but did you know Ninki thinks he is better then you? I lol'd. .

 

Hahaha you wouldn't believe me if I told you how insane Ninki's become since you've been gone, but that is near the top of the list of his crazy comments.

Reply #249 Top

It's almost midnight!

Reply #250 Top

so I'm a little confused now...are Koush and Ninki a team or not?  And if not is Koush a free agent or not playing?