12-17-2017, 02:47 PM
Instacup - Instagib Duel Tournament
It's almost time for another round of Instacup - the premiere instagib dueling tournament.
The previous tournament was such a success, that we've decided on turning Instacup into a quarterly tournament, hopefully providing some life to the instagib duel scene.
Whether you consider yourself a duelist or not, there’s still a spot for you in his tournament.
Having fun is the ultimate goal - don’t think it’s not worth joining if you don’t expect to win.
As there will likely be others at your skill level, you should have enjoyable experiences, and great matches by participating in the tournament.
Rules
- This is a two stage tournament. First stage is a group-based round robin, top players from each group proceed to a single-elimination knockout stage.
- Prize fund will be awarded for top 4 players in the knockout stage
- Group stage games are bo3, knockout stage games are bo3. 3rd place game is bo5, grand final - bo7.
- You can automate map selection and switching by typing "/cointoss heads" or "/cointoss tails" in the in-game chat during warmup stage. Starting slash is mandatory. This isn't obligation though, you may use the old-school manual cointoss and map selection.
- The map selection ordering is drop-drop-pick-pick-drop-drop-drop-drop-drop-pick (you shouldn't care about it if you use the cointoss bot, cause it tracks the order automatically)
- Typefragging and idle fragging are allowed, if you need a pause type "timeout" in console. When you are ready to resume type "timein". You can bind it to some keys for your convenience. You may take two timeouts per game.
- Report game results to kougi or Morosophos in Discord, IRC or Challonge PM.
- Save demos.
When?
Friday 19th of January. 20:00 CET
We expect phase 1 of the tournament to take, at most, 2 weeks. This should give the groups more than enough time to face eachother.
This is all subject to change as we start the tournament, and have a better idea of how many participants there are.
Due to the number of players who signed up for the previous tournament, and didn't show up, we expect players to check in a day early by letting us know that they'll 100% be attending their matches.
Players who don't turn up for the tournament, without notifying us, will be removed so that we're able to reorganise and seed the matches without delay.
Where?
Signup here >
Once again we'll be managing the tournament through Challonge, as it does a great job.
Maps?
- Aerowalk
- Asylum
- Azalea
- Bloodrun_a3 (Due to the _ql version's scale being too large)
- Farewell_laserfun
- Finalrage
- Fuse
- Quark
- Stormkeep
- Warfare
- Xoylent
Donations:
We'll be opening up donations for the prize pool. Mirio will be handling the donations. Contact him via Forums, IRC or Discord to donate to the pool.
I'll start it off with €35.
35 EUR kougi
20 EUR by kwakkie
25 EUR by Anonymous
7,77 EUR by Starcom
3,46 EUR by Mirio
13,37 EUR by -z-
Sum: 105 EUR
The prize will be split between the winners, the exact amounts/ratios still to be decided. This thread will be updated closer to the tournament.
Streaming
This time around, I fortunately will have actual broadband, so I'll be able to stream matches to Twitch, or upload demos to YouTube as the tournament progresses.
Admins: .exe members and volunteers.
Come and join our community at #clanexe on Quakenet, IRC.
Discord: Join us here
Happy Fragging!
Find out more on Challonge
Participants (21):
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BOB5768
Ch4mp
cobra
dr. Equivalent
Islinn
JohnnyD
kougi
kwakkie
Lightbringer
Minusacht
Mirio
Morosophos
Off_BeatCrab
packer
pillow
proraide
SealBeater
sinety
SpiKe
Visse