Final results of quali. rd. 2 - Page 3

Pand · 05/06/07, 12:28 AM

Originally Posted by Kinv

Comon what would be better then blizzard using 2 day old armory date for the 1st qualifiers? Doing it for every round of the tournament!

im sure we'll eat our own destiny when the time comes, heh

syeren · 05/06/07, 1:23 AM

Originally Posted by Digo

Wait, so if I understand this correctly, there are no pre-arranged matchups, you just log on this special server and hope that other teams are online so you can play some games and maybe get your rating up?

Yes, Blizzard was apparently far too busy to regulate their own torunament, so left the players to do it amongst themselves, which resulted in this amazing stage of the tournament for the US.

Jaz · 05/06/07, 6:24 AM

How exactly is everyone getting their news on all of this? Is there some website I don't know about?

Drully · 05/06/07, 12:39 PM

Originally Posted by Jaz

How exactly is everyone getting their news on all of this? Is there some website I don't know about?

No, not really, that is the whole damn problem about it..., as a spectator, you basicly stand in the dark.

For Informations I use:

http://www.worldofming.com/forums/

http://www.ampedesports.com/

http://www.shadow-gaming.com./

and this forum..., well, and sometimes even blizzards pages..., on very view occasions...^^

And some teams info/blogs from:

http://www.millenium-source.org/inde...blog&Itemid=30 (if you can read french, that side is perfect, nice blog of a top team (EU) and sometimes the write some stuff in english...)

http://www.teampandemic.net/features

Jaz · 05/08/07, 7:52 AM

Thanks.

There really seems to be a gap though for a forum used by high level PvPers very actively, like an equivalent to EJ. This forum is all I need for PvE stuff, though I understand that's not easy to achieve.

vhell · 05/08/07, 9:54 AM

Originally Posted by Jaz

Thanks.

There really seems to be a gap though for a forum used by high level PvPers very actively, like an equivalent to EJ. This forum is all I need for PvE stuff, though I understand that's not easy to achieve.

One's coming

lotar123 · 05/08/07, 9:56 AM

Originally Posted by vhell

One's coming

You mean this one or at another location?

If its the later case,
please post url

Drully · 05/09/07, 7:47 AM

Originally Posted by syeren

I have some bad news, GRAMMER POLICE have apparently been disqualified from the next step of the tournament due to account sharing amongst the team, hence the reason why they are not number 1 in the qualifiers :/

It's sad, because to put it lightly, they dominated the European Scene when they were playing to go through.

"Grammar Police was disqualified because some of their players ebayed their account, and GP did have a 6-0 record against FTP."

Quoted from Ming. I do not know where he got that information from.

Kink · 05/10/07, 7:03 AM

Please do not quote Ming =/. It makes me feel dirty.

This "tournament" is a complete joke though. It really should have simply been an organised test of skill. Currently it is simply a fiasco. Personally I would step down out of sheer protest. Blizzard have not given this ANY thought and simply rushed it.

It would have been so easy to simply adopt a World Cup style of table. Place the teams into their own mini tables. Have each team play every other team 3 times. The winning team from the 3 game set gets 3 points, draw is 1 point, and a loss is 0 (and yes, you can draw games). After all teams have played eachother, the top 2 scoring teams per table join a "Knockout round" where the losers of a 3 game series are removed from the tournament, the winners progress to the next stage.

The players themselves could use a simple web interface to update who wins/loses each game (both teams must enter the same value of course =). All Blizzard needed to do was organise a table and let the players play the games.

Instead we got... Nothing. What a complete joke. Very dissappointed in this really.

Telesis · 05/10/07, 8:38 AM

Originally Posted by Digo

Wait, so if I understand this correctly, there are no pre-arranged matchups, you just log on this special server and hope that other teams are online so you can play some games and maybe get your rating up?

Leads to a lot of scouting, so it seems.

I think everyone agrees that this first season was poorly planned, and somewhat poorly executed, but I do have some hope that they'll make the second season a bit more equal and competitive.

Viluliina · 05/10/07, 9:52 AM

Originally Posted by Jaz

There really seems to be a gap though for a forum used by high level PvPers very actively, like an equivalent to EJ.

You can ask away in here, multiple people who do high lvl PvP still read these forums, mainly due many having heavy PvE backgrounds.

Viluliina · 05/10/07, 9:53 AM

Originally Posted by Kink

"Knockout round"

I like the sound of that!

Viluliina · 05/10/07, 9:55 AM

Originally Posted by Digo

Wait, so if I understand this correctly, there are no pre-arranged matchups, you just log on this special server and hope that other teams are online so you can play some games and maybe get your rating up?

Yes, and this resulted in teams dodging opponents that were 'hard' for them and apparently win trading too.

It was all very confusing from the start till the end.

Viktus · 05/10/07, 10:17 AM

Our paladin decided to quit the game the last week of qualifiers, but we got into the tournament anyways due to the large ammount of disqualifications.

We got the team together the 2nd day I believe and got in 3 games. Attempting to play again a few days later, there was literally no one on the server. Well, horde side at least.

As far as I can tell, ratings were basically established within the first couple days before the tournament died out.

syeren · 05/10/07, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by Drully

"Grammar Police was disqualified because some of their players ebayed their account, and GP did have a 6-0 record against FTP."

Quoted from Ming. I do not know where he got that information from.

If you play on an account which isn't yours it is known as 'account sharing' to Blizzard.

As for where I got Information, yeah GRAMMER POLICE are a pretty bad source for information on them.