EF 2v2 AT Tournament 1

That's right, the first EasternFront.org tournament is officially announced! So grab a co-commander, polish those boots and get ready to wage war.

Signups are now CLOSED!

TOURNEY BRACKET:



Format: 2v2AT - Swiss* (1pt per win) number of rounds TBA - One game per round (500VPs, standard resources) - Top 2 scoring teams after all rounds play a final, best of 3 series, to decide the winner - Factions and Maps are to be decided between the players. If a decision cannot be reached, contact a referee and a coin flip will decide.

*Swiss Tourney - Similar to a round robin format, you will never be knocked out of the tourney but instead earn points based off the number of games you win. Teams that lose in the first round will play each other and teams that win will play each other. This ensures everyone has the most evenly skilled matches possible. The two teams with the most points after all rounds will play out the final.

Factions allowed: Soviet Union, US, Wehrmacht and Panzer Elite.

START TIME: 18:00 GMT (20:00 CET) 11th September. Please arrive at least 15 minutes early, or arrange your first round game before this time, or you risk disqualification due to delays.

If you are unhappy with this start time leave a message and, if we can work out a new time that everyone is happy with, we'll go with that. The time will not be changed after the Thursday before the tourney.

Use the following timer to set your clocks and take into account daylight savings in your country. Link not working? Copy it to your browser address bar.

http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/customcounter.html?day=11&month=9&year=2010&hour=18&min=&sec=&p0=0

Match results:
Post all match results in this thread! (including replays). Your game will be forfeit if you, or your opponent (if he's nice enough) are unable to provide a replay. Screenshots are not required.

Please name your replays appropriately so it is easy to identify them. Use the following format:

Round No.: Team 1 vs Team 2

Eg.
Round 2: GodlikeDennis/EFAllActionNoPlot vs Retake3/ColonelLiberachi

You may also post them on GR and simply provide a link to them if you wish (using the same naming format).

A crash/disconnect will only mean a replayed game if you are ahead of schedule or if the game had only just started. If you are not, a coin flip will decide. If one team was clearly winning, an appeal MAY be requested quickly by a referee. Send the replay to them and they will decide a clear winner or choose one based off a coin toss. If you are unsure of what to do, contact a referee immediately.

Restrictions:
The only maps allowed are:
Duclair
Etavaux
Linden
Lorraine
McGechaen's War
Pointe du Hoc
Rails and Metal
St. Hilaire
Wolfheze
Kursk
Tannenburg

You must have the latest version of EF to play. It is currently 1.23.2

Prizes:
Fun
Bragging Rights!

To avoid NAT errors, please check your connection to Relic Online:
- start COH, login
- press alt-tab
- open web page: http://www.canyouseeme.org
- test ports 6112 & 30260
- if the test fails, you must open the ports in your router & software firewall.. see http://portforward.com for configuration of different brands of routers.
Note: If during the tournament you still can't connect to your opponent, there is an option to use hamachi. Download here: ]http://hamachi.brothersoft.com/hamachi[IP address redacted]

Please check your connection BEFORE the tourney begins. If you still have difficulties after following these steps, visit the following thread:

http://easternfront.org/forums/index.php?topic=4456.0

All the action will be in the Play CoH Mods chat channel & this thread. Try to be there 15 minutes in advance to avoid delays or even disqualification. If life gets in the way of this momentous event, please advise me (via PM) as early as possible. If you are not sure you can play, sign up as a reserve team instead.

I would advise voice chat programs (such as teamspeak or ventrilo) to teams so that they may communicate more effectively.

If you would like to play in the tourney but don't have a partner, post your name in this thread, followed by -teamless to allow me to find you a partner. Someone else may also feel free to offer to be your partner. If you don't have a partner for certain, I cannot guarantee that you will be allowed to play in the tourney.

At least one member from each team should add myself (GodlikeDennis) to his/her Relic Online friends list. Type /addfriend GodlikeDennis into chat to add me. You will also be required to add any other referee, should there be one.

Dragon has volunteered to be a referee [RO: EFDevDragon93]

Confirmed Teams:
BudwiseReborn / NosliwReborn
Retake3 / ColonelLiberachi
Purlicator / Sandland
VoopBakon / PolkovnikPeca
3PastelE1choops / SupaSoca
HawkSilk / Dezzick
ROclVio88mm / ROclPetrut
Xavier44 / LeadCuresCancer
Blaed / Nigttbolt

Reserve Teams/Players without partners:
Spieel -teamless
Nickpol15 -teamless
LeutnantSNUG / LeutnantYau
KlausOnEasternFront -teamless
Blackbishop -teamless reserve

Last edited September 11, 2010 at 2:32 PM by Dragon93

Aeww, Got something planned for the 11th, no tourney for me :(

I would suggest allowing Americans.

You think so? I was tossing up whether or not to allow it. We'll include US then.

Me and Nosliw will play.

BudwiseReborn & NosliwReborn

i need to find someone to play with :( not pr0 but decent :D !

I would like to play but I am in need of a partner,
So Spieel-teamless

I think cairnelwizard is my panther, reserve it unless he says something otherwise. I have no idea if my ports are good or not and the website didn't help much so I downloaded hamachi, hopefully that would help. Also the chat channel should be "Play COH mods" for 2 good reasons.

1. It is the official EF Channel many EF players are on.
2. It dosent have lots of players, so it should reduce confusion.

Good luck everyone, but beware! Am going to win those bragging rights!

Seeme/Cranialwizard ftw

Gotta improve though...

Seeme and CranialWizard, are those the actual relic online names you have? Not retake3 etc.?

Oh no, Am Retake3.  And my mate is ColonelLiberachi.

Also can you change the channels?

Seeme wrote:
Also can you change the channels?

Explain.

The chat channel should be "Play COH mods" for 2 good reasons.

1. It is the official EF Channel many EF players are on.
2. It dosent have lots of players, so it should reduce confusion.

There's not really any confusion but if it bothers you it can be changed.

Yea, its just that so many EF players are in there it would just be easier.

Looking forward to it.

For those who are unsure if their ports work or not, even after following the steps, I will host a test game every few days for several hours and you will be able to check your connectivity there. The times for these games may not be advised ahead of schedule. Today is such a day, I will have a 4v4 in the lobby for a few hours while I am afk.

Last edited September 1, 2010 at 7:41 AM by GodlikeDennis

damn it i cant play on that day (real life biz)
best of luck to all players
where do you post the replays??? gamereplays?

i am in my ro is nickpol15 same as my forum name

All replays will be uploaded to this thread, or linked to the GR upload in this thread.

I haz been working on plans :D

Excellent >:)

put

LeutnantSNUG
LeutnantYau

on the reserve team

Ok signing up :P

Purlictor and Sandland

I'm liking the 'no brits screwing up our tourney' mentality :P

Only 4 teams will play? Come on!

Signups are still open for a few more days and there was some interest in the thread I put on GR as well. There's a few teamless people I can put together too.

Lets go people, lets not let all me and my mates practice go to waste!

VoopBakon (CoH name) throws his hat into the ring with my partner PolkovnikPeca

Last edited September 5, 2010 at 5:02 PM by Voop_Bakon

PolkovnikPeca (CoH name) agrees to throw his hat into the ring with my partner VoopBakon

Last edited September 5, 2010 at 5:00 PM by Polkovnik_Petr

hmmm... too bad that brits are not allowed :) why is that?

I was just thinking that if you need some random factor for the 1st match for example you might use the automatch with teams playing random since nobody else is using it atm it should get you the random sides and map :)

I might be up for the tourney to have some games, my RO is KlausOnEasternFront although my usual teammate is visiting holland at the time of the tourney so I'm also looking for somebody to play with.

seq13 wrote:
hmmm... too bad that brits are not allowed :) why is that?

I was just thinking that if you need some random factor for the 1st match for example you might use the automatch with teams playing random since nobody else is using it atm it should get you the random sides and map :)

I might be up for the tourney to have some games, my RO is KlausOnEasternFront although my usual teammate is visiting holland at the time of the tourney so I'm also looking for somebody to play with.

Because currently you can't consider them as "balanced".

And auto-match dosent work.

Aww, no manu?

Brits are currently excluded because they might be more balanced now but they're still no fun. They're also eternally broken in 2v2s because of the mobile HQs and resource sharing.

Automatch does so work. Also, the tourney bracket works in such a way that it can't be set like that. The best I can do is randomise the team seedings.

About 8 teams so far taking into account teamless players so if we can get to 12 I'll be quite happy.

Last edited September 6, 2010 at 3:25 AM by GodlikeDennis

Sign LeadCuresCancer and myself up... our RO names are the same.

I have an idea, ill make an account called "Mesee" and sign up and play 2 tourneys at once.

you can count me in, I'll let you know if I found somebody to play with by myself :p

i want to play with my partner , 3PastelE1choops & SuperSoca :)

Ok then I said in the 1v1 tournament thread if a 2v2 came up I may get one of the boys in so...

HawkSilk and Dezzick.

Regards Hawk (Silk)

Hurray! Hawkys here!

Unfortunately, it looks as though my partner, LeadCuresCancer, has abandoned me... I would still be willing to play, however, if a teammate would be assigned to me.

Could the teamless players msg each other and maybe play a few games to see if they can decide between themselves if they can arrange their partners. Unfortunately, the last person to sign up as a teamless will have to be excluded if there's an odd number of you.

Also, I'll be hosting a test server Midnight tomorrow (GMT) for about 12 hours. Please check your ports in this time and make sure you can connect.

Last edited September 8, 2010 at 6:21 AM by GodlikeDennis

What Godlikedennis also failed to say according to the rules,

Sign ups are due Thursday!

OK i've found my mate
Team is :
ROclPetrut / ROclVio88mm

Alright, looks like LeadCuresCancer is back in it after all... sorry for the confusion.

18 hours Left for sign-ups.

GodlikeDennis / EFAllActionNoPlot will no longer be participating. I will still be tourney coordinator up until the day of the tourney but during it, Dragon will be your go-to man. This is only a small change in the running and will have no impact on your tournament. Make sure you read and understand all the rules (particularly those on posting replays, map/faction choices, time and chat channel) before the tourney and check your connectivity to make life easy for everyone.

For all those who were really looking forward to getting wooped by me, we can arrange a game afterwards :P.

Last edited September 9, 2010 at 8:50 AM by GodlikeDennis

What happened?

University happened.

That's a shame, maybe next time. But I would still like to play you one day.

GodlikeDennis wrote:
University happened.

Early September...isn't that freshers week(2 weeks) where you don't have to do anything apart from partying in the student union and checking out the newly arrived birds for 'recruitment'? lol

I remember those 'tough years'  ;)