[finished] Commandonut 1v1 Blind Tournament

Commandonut 1v1 Blind Tournament
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After a year and a bit, Commandonut Casual is back!

Blind?
The maps will be entirely new, nobody will have played them before the start of the tournament except the map makers and they will be distributed at the start of the tournament. It will be accommodating for less experienced players since nobody will have played these maps.

Furthermore, it is in a Swiss format so everyone will get 4 or 5 games, and they will be against players of a similar skill level. New players are encouraged to sign up.

Format: 4/5 round Swiss depending on player numbers
Date/Time: Saturday August 4th @ 17:00 UTC (18:00 BST, 19:00 CEST)
Expected run-time: 3h30m
Maps: New maps; they will be distributed at the start of the tournament.
Caster: WPMarshall

Rules & Sign up​

Ah have a flight booked that day. May try to change it. Cool format. Enjoys

Damn have job that day might take day off cause of it.

Are there any rewards? ^_^

You get a coloured name in Discord (gold, silver, bronze). What more could you possibly want?

Unfortunately I don't have any money so I can't afford real rewards. Stay tuned for later tournaments; there may be some rewards for those.

I would occasionally donate for tournaments/awards at https://exodusesports.com/ but it's been nearly a year since they did anything.

Didn't want to insult you. I thought what about a game with someone from uber like reward.

Exodus tournaments have been moved over to the community discord where they have been hosted irregularly ever since we stopped the tournaments hosted through the exodus website. If people are willing to donate to prize funds for tournaments it is welcomed, they will not go to waist. Contact me if anyone want more info. Was going to host a 150 GBP tournament late August but it crashed with me moving cities so it is delayed for now.

Live at https://www.twitch.tv/wpmarshall !

Final Standings
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Thanks to all who played and watched; the tournament went very smoothly overall.

https://flubbateios.com/stats/tournaments.html Super Stats tournaments page. All tournament games are listed here. On the Challonge page, there is a link attachment to all games that were not byes.(to the game's Super Stats page).

Congratulations to Princess Fox for winning, Antrex for coming 2nd, and Diskraip for coming 3rd.

Special Thanks & Awards:
@n00n for being the biggest disappointment.
@acesoyster for mapping and help with organisation.
@wpmarshall for casting and mapping.
@Pwn4two for mapping. He also wins the award for making the most rage-inducing system: "Icecream Donut Utensil"
@Thatsonofabroom for being the most over-confident.
@kelwin99 for absolutely destroying @acesoyster on @wpmarshall's stream.

7 people failed to sign up correctly.

We may return with another tournament later this month. All the maps are available on the Blind Tournament Map Pack and they should shortly be available on the respective mappers' map packs.

Ultimately, the blind map format was a lot of fun and I look forward to a potential sequel to this tournament.

The bot worked really well Flubb, was clean as a whistle once it got going

While I didn't play and just spectated, I really liked the format as well. It puts more focus on reacting to circumstances and as you said, creative use of map features. And while it is true that this continuously requires new maps, we do have quite a few talented map makers here (yourself included of course).

Some tournaments in the past also had a format where the maps would only be released x days before the start of the tournament. This allowed the contestants to practise a bit and explore the map in more detail while still being unfamiliar with the strategies that other players might have developed for those maps. This could also be an interesting option.

I like the idea of releasing the maps just before the tournament begins

Would be nice if we could make the make unavailable in between tournaments until we've used them several times.

And/Or if you have enough maps, group them and use each group every second or third tournament.

Or swap out the oldest half of maps each tournament so you always have something new. Could be a year until you rotate back to the original combination. By then,everyone has forgotten about them.

Then again, releasing them a couple of days earlier would help negate the advantage to the returning players over the new ones.

Yes this tourney was great and felt "special", partially because of the new maps but also because it's been a while since you commented a tourney, and because a lot of good players showed up (and some very fun unorthodox players like Antrex).

As a spectator I don't mind seeing the same maps played often (probably since a spec is just passive whereas you're active / casting); I would actually like to see a tourney hosted on classic maps like classy barren, overcooked pizza, etc. I still really like playing on these older maps, but I'm not a very active 1v1 player.

Andreas had a tourney last year with maps that had never been used in tourney before (some of yours were used) and it was really fun too. So maybe no real need to make new maps for every tourney; there are tons of great maps out there that haven't been used in tourneys (I really enjoy playing on your "Solitude" map for instance).

My 2 cents: not a fan of multi planets systems for 1v1s, especially when players can spawn on more than 1 planet.

I really like this as a format.... I also would say I think no one seeing the maps before the day is better if possible.... Being able to read a map and come up with a strategy on the fly is a skill in of itself far too many 'pro' players rely on practicing and learning the optimal builds for a specific map. This gives a different type of player a chance to shine imo, and as @wpmarshall says resulted in some unusual plays. The more time you give to players before hand, the less of that you'll see I think....

Those maps were specifically designed to be very hard to play - the metal was far away from the base to make expansion harder, a lot of the metal was not clustered so it would be hard to defend, there was a looming threat of naval on three of the maps, and the final map was a 5 planet system.

Just watched it and I gotta say the maps are all nicely designed. My favorite is the Setons map just for nostalgic reasons. In the past I gave a couple of tries to search for the right seed and never got a proper one. How big is the planet? The map feels really big!

I agree with most of it. Each map has different playstyles and it doesnt suit everyone. For instance one specific creator had maps with 9 metals at the spawn. For me thats a lot of metal en I didn't really like it. Why? Beceause the base layout gets very important en attacking gets less important. I remember getting smashed by AndreasG en his ally by a nuke under 10 minutes? Not my cup of tea but the tactics are completely different (am I going to build an anti nuke within 10 mins?). On the other hand on bigger maps you could get these really huge battles which we're really cool!

The other way around is a map with almost no metal. I hate it when I get the feeling that I can't progress properly in the game. Almost no metal means things can get out of hand very quickly.

Again I think the maps in the tournament we're really good. 3 mex at the start is enough and the raiding was good to see. They looked pretty too.

I did had the feeling that naval didn't really mattered that much on Setons because of dox getting everywhere and air getting everywhere in time. Thats a different discussion though (balance).