Upcoming PACE events

Upcoming tournaments hosted by PACE:

April Assault - April 19th @ 5pm UTC. 9am PST. Noon/12pm EST. 3am Sydney Sunday. 6 rounds for 64-32 players. 7 rounds for 65-128 players.

Glory of the Gamma - May 24th @ 5pm UTC. 9am PST. Noon/12pm EST. 3am Sydney Sunday.
32 player invitational. Single elimination with Bo3 for semifinals and final. Everyone with 10 or more points in any regular tournament get invites. After that the top players from PAStats filling in the remaining slots tell 32 players are confirmed. Invites will be sent out 2 weeks prior to start date.

Any idea if the Master of May (May 10th, 64players swiss) will still proceed as planned?

What server region is it hosted in?

Largely depends. Each map's host region generally depends on the host player. If both players are from the US, it'll be the US, if both are from the EU, the EU.

If they are from different regions, it depends on the player who has the top bracket, since he/she is the host, so his/her region will be the hoested region.

Also depends when casters are hosting the game.

These just get earlier and earlier. Is there a reason? Not as if 3am is suitable for anybody in Australia.

One région will always be screwed up and oceania has the smallest player base atm

Super is correct on one reason, is that Oceania and asia are the smallest player base in the competitions. but also the fact is there getting almost longer and longer too it seems. so earlier start makes it so europeans are not up tell 2am playing.

We could do the Master of May and also not allow anyone that is already qualified via having 10 points in a tournament to enter it.

Which I believed was the point, consequently my question .

I don't know how other regions work, but the UK has moved from GMT to BST. I'm assuming that this means the tournaments start at 1800 in the UK, rather than the organisers pulling a Google and using GMT as shorthand for "UK local time"?

I didnt know it switched names. alright. BST it is lol.

You're never wrong with UTC

Using UTC makes everyone's life easier

changed it to UTC!

Well GMT is UTC and BST is GMT/UTC +1. So currently a 1700 GMT/UTC tournament would have an 1800 start time in the UK. We're GMT for about six months and BST for the other six months.

http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/eu/bst.html

Doesn't it work the same in the US? My recollection for example is that EST changes to EDT. For example you have 9am PST, but the US west coast is currently on PDT (assuming all states operate the same way), so it would be a 10am start. Is that what you meant?

Or you save all this confusion with a single UTC start time and a link to a UTC conversion clock.

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx?y=2014&mo=4&d=19&h=17&mn=0

This is why the organisers just give a time in UTC and use a countdown timer. Otherwise bad things happen

EDIT: Here's your timer

I'd just like to point out that we have the smallest playerbase in the tournaments because getting up to play in a tournament at 5 in the morning on a weekend is ludicrous.

I'm not sure we're really getting our stuff together however, so that's not helping numbers of players.

A lot of the time Australasian players will sneak onto the US servers, because we're pretty used to playing with a ping of ~110milliseconds. Oddly the ping difference is actually worse for NZ to SE-Asia than to Western USA.

I'm not sure that playing in the EU is that feasible to be honest. I think when numbers increase at some point that you'll find most AUS/NZ players are playing with each other, with south east asia to south africa, or across the pacific to the western coast of the USA.

I prefer conversion, makes it easier to put in a diary. Countdown on the PACE page would be handy though.

I would suggest to replace Master of May by three regional tournaments: one for America, one for Europe/Africa (I seriously doubt there is any1 from africa, but we are mentioning anyway) and one for East Asia and Australia, and they should all take place in the same weekend if possible.

Could the April Assault make for frequent use of multi-planet maps. My specialty seems to be interplanetary expansion, so I'd appreciate a chance to make more frequent use of it.