Rookie tournament 2 & and veteran tournament

[neo helbeast]

Whelp ladies and gentlemen pretending to be ladies, it’s that time of year again.
Summer Tournaments 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0cqEAixwhA
2nd Rookie Tournament

With the price drop that happened last month we got a huge (okay it’s more like twenty guys, shut up, that’s not the point, it’s a metaphor) influx of new players. Since we had a very successful Rookie last time I thought to myself let’s do it again. There have been some slight modifications to the rules so make sure you read them.


RULES

• A microphone is required

• You can only choose one VR for the Tournament

• This will be streamed live over the internet be on your best behavior

Prizes
1st Place: $50 gift card to Best Buy
2nd Place: $25 gift card to Best Buy
3rd Place: 1 month Gold

Time and Date: Not set yet

Entry Fee: None

For non-oratan members

To register: Either message your Gamertag and VR to Neo Helbeast , Nightmare Medic or Sandsfel. We’ll take it from there.

Or register and post at:
http://www.oratan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=266

For Oratan Members:

1. Click Reply
2. Post VR
3. ????
4. Free Money

It's that simple

[neo helbeast]

Whelp ladies and gentlemen pretending to be ladies, it’s that time of year again.
Summer Tournaments 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0cqEAixwhA

RULES

• A microphone is required

• No Rank limit

• You can only choose one VR for the Tournament

• This will be streamed live over the internet be on your best behavior

Prizes
1st Place: $100 gift card to Best Buy
2nd Place: $50 gift card to Best Buy
3rd Place: 3 month Gold or 1600 points

Time and Date: Not set yet

Entry Fee: None

For non-oratan members

To register: Either message your Gamertag and VR to Neo Helbeast , Nightmare Medic or Sandsfel. We’ll take it from there.

Or register and post at:
http://www.oratan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=266

For Oratan Members:

1. Click Reply
2. Post VR
3. ????
4. Free Money

[shamanic_beat]

Temjin/Vet

[Zaarock]

RULES
• There is now a maximum rank limit of Master Chief
If you are a Lieutenant or above YOU CAN NOT ENTER THIS

• Twinsticks cannot be used

These rules seem pretty useless.. why give an advantage to beginners who have played mostly player matches instead of ranked. Twin sticks dont have a big advantage vs the 360 pad and I'd imagine its negligible with rookies.

[neo helbeast]

Point 1: That rule is in place to keep the general skill level on the same level and differentiate between the two tournies. I may change the ruling if it proves unpopular.

Point 2: To cut down on the complaining. This way there will be no whine-fest about how it's "unfair". I know it doesn't make that big of a difference, I've posted this in someplaces, well, this is my feelings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr0ZyMPFJeU

Point 3: Lalalalala I can't hear you. *puts fingers in ears*

[neo helbeast]

whew new trailer

[Exorcet]

Oh good, I come back in time to make this maybe. I don't know what rank I am though, I should have not played ranked lol.

If I do enter, I'll need to win, so I can use the prize money to pay for the mic I need to buy now lol.

Anyway, I'll post again to confirm if I'm joining or not.

[Schooly D]

I'll sign up with Apharmd S, veteran

[DeepInTheHops]

I'll sign up. Using Specineff, of course.

As far as the rules go...
- It's hard to cap people for the rookie tournament. Like Zaarock said, going off of rank isn't really fair, but I guess it's the only objective measure we have. The only other thing I could think of would be to allow anybody who hasn't participated in a previous tournament. You could probably make an exception for the last batch of rookies, since I don't think any of them became regulars. You'd probably have to make an exception for the winner though... "Two Time Rookie Champion" doesn't quite sound right.

- Not allowing twin sticks... do any rookies even have twin sticks? And how will this be enforced, anybody who manually rotates or uses a lot of curve dashes will be disqualified? Can they use the twin stick setting on the pad?

- Requiring a mic will surely help the logistics, but two things come to mind:
* Last tournament's winner didn't have a mic, just an example of preemptively disqualifying good players
* That eliminates CrazyDazed

[neo helbeast]

I'll sign up. Using Specineff, of course.

As far as the rules go...
- It's hard to cap people for the rookie tournament. Like Zaarock said, going off of rank isn't really fair, but I guess it's the only objective measure we have. The only other thing I could think of would be to allow anybody who hasn't participated in a previous tournament. You could probably make an exception for the last batch of rookies, since I don't think any of them became regulars. You'd probably have to make an exception for the winner though... "Two Time Rookie Champion" doesn't quite sound right.

- Not allowing twin sticks... do any rookies even have twin sticks? And how will this be enforced, anybody who manually rotates or uses a lot of curve dashes will be disqualified? Can they use the twin stick setting on the pad?

- Requiring a mic will surely help the logistics, but two things come to mind:
* Last tournament's winner didn't have a mic, just an example of preemptively disqualifying good players
* That eliminates CrazyDazed

Point 1: the rank cap was an attemp to keep the player skill in the same general vacinity. Again I may remove the cap if it proves unpopular.

Point 2: see point 1

Point 3: I will make exceptions. It's only to make staff cutdown on legwork. I.E. Typing messages.

[FruitieDinosaur]

I'm willing to play either tournament you want me in, Helbeast. I'll be playing Fei Yen.

Edit: Rookie Tournament

[jamtero]

I'd be down for the rookie tourney with spec, but I do use twin sticks tho.... Its all good if its a no go.

[neo helbeast]

Allright some updates. Final tournament dates are June 19th for the rookie tournament and june 26th for the veteran tournament. With that I need to ask that everbody edit in their post which tournament your playing just so I can get this right. Last thing, I am rescinding the twinstick and rank cap limit.

[Exorcet]

Vet tournament, Cypher.

I can't make Rookie (unless something goes horribly awry [kind of]).

[neoKEN]

Bal-bados the Revenge.

[MentholMoose]

I can make it. Veteran tournament, Grys-Vok.

[PhantomPhotonX]

Temjin/Veteran

There. Was that so hard to figure out?

[Vash]

Temjin/Vet

[neo helbeast]

Temjin/Veteran

There. Was that so hard to figure out?

*Pretemd there is a very large question mark here, in the style of Metal Gear Solid*

I don't get...

[PhantomPhotonX]

What I meant was, I could have typed ?????/????? as my sign-up post and you probably could have filled in the blanks. BTW, I don't believe it has been explicitly stated, but I assume we are using normal tournament parameters, i.e., 2 rounds, single-elimination?