WPMarshall's 1v1 'Into The Beta' Tournament

What is the rule about playing the 2nd match? whenever my opponent and I can find a good time by the end of next weekend...or do we need to wait till all 1st round matches are completed?

Thanks,

Also, who should I talk to about a FFA Point Tourney idea I had

Hey guys! Cocktopus here. You can call me Hyperspace51 or Hyper for short if you want, but I need to know when skankykush wants to battle me. I can play today, tomorrow, or sunday. Tonight, I have to drive my parents at 6 and at 9 so yah. Please PM me or Steam chat me. My name is Cocktopus on steam. Thanks!

its best to PM them using the forums, i also meet up with my opponet on the PA IRC Chatroom at irc.esper.net #planetaryannihilation. there are also a ton of other players that chill there (never seen less than 45 people logged in at once) that all are trying to improve their game, or are already one of the top PA players.

No matter what happens with your match, come chill with us and join the ladder.

Hope to see you there

seriously there needs to be better organisation of those tournaments.

- people may not be "on their own" to organise their games. This will take weeks to finish a tournament.
- there must be a fixed date and a fixed time frame, even now, when the game still is in beta
- someone must organise and check who is there and who is not there on time and kick out those who didnt show up, then the brackets should be created, not the other way round
- tournament must be finished within 3-4 hours, or split to several 2 -3 hours sessions

this will probably get much easier with proper ingame support like friendslist, maybe chat rooms without IRC and other functionality but right now tournaments, that go over weeks and you have to get arranged with everyone all the time is not working imo.

I recall the tournaments in GPGnet as one good example:
- everyone could sign up
- Tournament director could start tournament and get everyone automatically in one chat room
- he kicked those who werent there
- he created the matches and directed through the whole tournament, which lasted regularly about 2 to 3 hours

I agree. People just take the liberty of olaying exactly when they want when no time frame. 2v2 tournament is a perfect example. Still nowhere near completed a week down the line. It's a little off putting for me.

Its good to have deadlines, but I don't like the idea of having to play the game in such a short time period. It excludes a lot of players and (from my experience of other tournaments) puts a lot of strain on the website of the tournament host. If any problem occurs with either the game or the website then the whole tournament turns into a mess.

Completing a tournament over a weekend can be done, but I don't think it should be the default style of tournament. For me the minimum deadline I would suggest is to play the game within 48 hours. I would also outline what happens when the deadline is missed.

I think the whole idea of this tournament is to run over several days or even weeks. It is just impossible to throw 50 people from all over the world into a bracket and hope they will be able to play it out withing a few hours?
Since the current tournamens have no cash on them I doubt a deadline is very important anyway.

at least a deadline for each round would be usefull, maybe 2-3 days per round.

Is there any other way to contact your opponent then via the forum Pm system? as i'm getting no reply... also what happens if I never get a reply?

You really cant have the deadline of, all rounds played within these 3 hours till the community gets bigger...right now its hard enough to get 50+ players to sign up for a tourney, let alone have them all in the same game playing time zone.

One day I could see it like that....a tourney set to start at 8PM PST and run till 11PM PST for 3 Saturdays in a row or something.

Still no reply from my opponent and I've been trying all evening, but he did message me earlier so maybe just in a different timezone and asleep or something...

Gorerillaz and I will be playing this evening. You'll be PMed the result!

maybe a comment function can be added to the match-page on pa-tournaments.com this would be a cool way to directly communicate via the page and can be proof at the same time, if someone doesnt react on it.

'Fraid my opponent and I are exactly 12 hours apart so I just woke up and he's going to bed.
Dunno how we're going to sort out a game as I can't really play in the mornings. If we
Can't work something out I'll let you know.
In future it might be a good idea to try and match nationalities together to avoid this kind of problem (unless you already do and I was just unlucky).

They tried to do that in the king of the alpha tournament. It worked well, but one of the problems was that there were more Europeans and you had brackets with a load of good players and brackets with no known players. You had more competitive matches in the European brackets then in the quarter-finals.

It would be better for the website to ask what time your available and work from that.

All is well, we're playing this evening so should have the result to you in 6 hours or so.