Announcing Battle of the Beasts, The First Official Planetary Annihilation Tournament

#NailedIt

Oh that's fine, everyone steal my glory.

A picture is worth a thousand words. And only one of y'all included a link that had a picture of the in-game unit. #JustSayin

Not so sure we can get a thousand words out of this one.

I am ready
All players with their 1v1 rankings on the unofficial ladders below
Also make sure to enable PAStats during the tourney so I can track you guys

Sorted by PA Ladder



Sorted by IRC Ladder



Place your bets

Just for those who aren't aware:

PA Ladder = ELO
IRC Ladder = TrueSkill

You really should include their PA Ladder position as well so we have something more directly comparable. Oh, also thanks

I'm sorting out an odds table now.

One minor point: MasterOfN0ne != MasterOfRoflness

Yeah was only player I wasn't sure of. Does anyone now if he's on pastats ?

Somehow I doubt it...

This is how I see the odds:
PA Gods 8/11
Team pink 11/10
Supergoddebros 7/2
8/1 Bar

We'll see. I've got a first draft table drawn up already. Gonna run this past Uber first but I'd quite like to run a charity bookies tab off this tourney. (As in, if the bookie wins, any proceeds to a charity yet to be decided).

im going to bet on the underdogs.... mega millions is nothing..

Yeah also these are the 1V1 ratings. And you guys have been practicing together for a while and make a good team. So you might overwhelm Godde and Giggle. Going to be interesting matches for sure.

Hyperion can rise from the ashes.

*clopsey smiles*

BATMAN NEVER LOSES.

To address the concerns over this being invitational: we'll open it up in the future. I don't want to commit on a 200-person, gigantic tournament right now because that overhead seems like oh dear god while we're trying to make and polish a game, but will future tournaments only be invitational? Nah, dawg.

There's a couple of reasons we kept this one so intimate. Foremost, we wanted to create something that could be viewed in its entirety in an afternoon. I think we picked some (read: not all) of the most electrifying players in the game right now, so folks are going to get to see five-six hours of incredible, entertaining play.

As I strongly suspected might be the case, not going to be able to run a charity tab on this. For what it's worth, here's the table I drew up for odds. Please note though that this is for informational purposes only, and neither Uber nor I condone it's use for any gambling activities on this tournament.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhQLEzXxEMJfdDVPYS1LMVJpc0t5UEdLQlJPdkJKQ2c&usp=sharing