Weekly Tournament Club

[Shooby]

I hope more people sign up, or it'll just be me and Kiara.

5/29 Sign Up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SXugATrhw3pi1IRpEp6zw0mHB_KjyIgxE0o5hbLpTfA/viewform?usp=send_form

 

[Icedise]

I'd really like to see more information about this before signing in anything...

Is this EU, NA or worldwide event? What is the game mode? What kind of tournament mode are you using? Who is hosting this? Is this for real teams of PUGs?
There is so many questions...

 

[Shooby]

1. Yeah, anywhere. But I won't know what do do about lag.
2. Whatever the standard game mode is.
3. Don't know about tournament modes.
4.I'll host it.
5. PUGs?

 

[Icedise]

5. PUGs?

Pick-up-groups. It basically means that single person without a team can take part on the tournament and they will form a team with other players without a team and compete against similiarly formed teams.

 

[Shooby]

You get to pick your team and if you can't get one, then you'll have to find one or not compete at all. Full refunds too.

 

[Setu]

Free, monthly, and online tourneys sound nicer to me. Lag shouldn't be too much of a problem, especially in the metagame. But who knows, maybe nintendo servers will screw things up.

 

[Shooby]

The joke was that a full refund will still be $0.

 

[Kat]

Meaning no offence here and you may by all means have this pre-planned but a little more organisation may be needed for tourney stuff. As far as I was aware Squidboards as a community was going to form a kind of league/ladder for the site to run over a period of time once we had more info on the game and teams had been formed. Generally more facilities are required for tourneys too. VoIP clients and servers, pre-organised time and from the previous responses on the Forms document how much could you organise it in advance?

People (as far as I'm aware) haven't really had time to organise teams, neither has it even been established that pre-organised online tournaments will be possible. I'm all up for the idea but If you want more people to get involved you might need to make things a little more organised.

Now a PUG group I could definitely go for but pick up games generally require a little more organisation too. Captains are picked from a pool of players amassed on a VoIP client and assigned channels and teams are then picked usually so yeah. Definitely up for seeing it happen and even helping out but I feel a little more is needed. Again unless you have all this figured out but then do let us know.

 

[Lyn]

This sounds really cool but I'd need to see how the game launches and how viable having tournaments actually is to do anything like this. Good luck, though. :)

 

[iDaylon]

How about we wait a couple weeks after launch before organizing events like this? I'm sure majority of the players would rather get a feel of the game before joining a tournament.

 

[Setu]

How about we wait a couple weeks after launch before organizing events like this? I'm sure majority of the players would rather get a feel of the game before join into a tournament.

AND it isn't confirmed when nintendo will even unlock ranked battles...