Rainbow Cup II - Alliance's 4v4

[Rowey]

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[Fearghal]

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ATTENTION !

Please help the Tournament Director by registering early,
AND,
Help speed up the pre-game lobby process by,
reading/understanding the couple of tournament specific rules applicable to this tournament,
This will help tremendously towards starting the tournament in a timely manner.

Read the link below in tourny donations for more detailed instructions and related info.
viewtopic.php?f=26&t=11852&p=163269#p163269
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[moonbearonmeth]

Due to unforeseen circumstances the handling of this tournament has been taken up by me.
I will edit this post with any relevant changes including sign ups and map pool closer to the time.

Rules

Date: 7th July 2018
Time: 16:00 GMT
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/g ... erif&csz=1

Host : Moon moon
Sponser: Fearghal


Prize Pool : $400

1st Place: $220 and this lovely avatar
2nd Place: $120 and your choice of face avatar
3rd Place: $60 and your choice of faction avatar
These can be viewed here https://wiki.faforever.com/index.php?ti ... nt_Winners


For this tournament a faction based colour system is to be enabled as follows:
Each player must pick their color from faction approved colour choices -
see the chart below





Entry Requirements

- Minimum of 100 game
- Team must no exceed the 7200 Global Score cap at the start of the tourney

Lobby Rules
- All start with Random Factions
- Host of the game picks first faction and x's Up ( if aeon was picked by Team 1 then Team 2 can only pick from the other 3 factions)
- Team 2 picks there 2 factions and x's up
- Team 1 gets the remaining faction and x's up
- When All factions selected, Team 1 reveals their remaining 2 slots, then team 2 reaveals their last 2 slots.
- So there should be 2 faction in both teams represented (E.g aeon & sera vs uef & cybran)
- Once all faction have been selected and your colours are correct launch the game.
Note: stipulate teams meeting for the 2nd time will switch the order of reveal process of their first meeting for fairness

If a disconnect or any other disruption occurs, the outcome will be decided by a tournament director, any decisions made are final.
If a match doesn’t start within 15 minutes of the TD announcing the round a TD may disqualify any player causing delay.
If unsure of anything, ask the TD.

Challonge: https://challonge.com/ft4rocy4
IRC: #rainbowcup. This can be accessed by typing '/join #rainbowcup' in #aeolus

Map pool:

Spoiler: show

Disturbed Adaptive
Adaptive Metir
Adaptive Adrastea
Diversity
Seton's Clutch
Gap of Rohan V4 Fixed Pathing
Ythalassa
Maridia
The Requisite
Hyrule
StalinGulag4x4
Lazarus
Badlands
Taylors Pass
canis 4v4 spezial edition

[Farmsletje]

wait why is para restricted xD

[ThomasHiatt]

Unless I'm mistaken there is nowhere where it even says how many players are on each team in this tourney. Is it a 3v3, 4v4 or what? Seems like an important detail you might want to include in the rules.

[Fearghal]

Farmsletje
The paragon is now back in,
thanks for the input.

ThomasHiatt, This_Guy
the tourny is a 4v4 like the 'Rainbow Cup I' except rating bumped up from 7000 to 7200

[Farmsletje]

No it's not. You think turtling for a para is a valid option in high lvl teamgames? Aside from sentons i don't remember the last time someone made it because it's that rare, and even on sentons people frequently choose making a mavor over making a para even though they do have the tech available. If they manage to do it they deserve it. Also, removing para but keeping mavor and yolo is highly unfair.

[Blodir]

ThomasHiatt, This_Guy
the tourny is a 4v4 like the 'Rainbow Cup I' except rating bumped up from 7000 to 7200

Farmsletje
The paragon restriction is to prevent the team that picks first faction on a large map,
from picking Aeon and then turtling to build Paragon.
The other team will not be able to do the same, as it is locked out of building Aeon.
Decision was made for fairness.
When pitching tourny idea to Rowey, I left this particular detail to Rowey to decide between 3 choices:
1-Leave paragon
2-Leave paragon, but "agree" not to build, game stays ranked... or
3-Restrict paragon, games are unranked..
He choose 3, but i would think either 2 or 3 would be best choice?

Check my link for better insight and pics for tourny and the following post for some of my thoughts on the tourny.
viewtopic.php?f=26&t=11852&start=40

Did you mean 3v3?

[Fearghal]

Hi Blodir,,
The "Rainbow Cup I" was a 4v4 u7000 tourny, 7000/4 players was a 1750 avg player rated tourny,
This "Rainbow Cup II - Alliance's" tourny is also a 4v4, but a u7200 limit for a 1800 max avg/team,
----(we had 21 teams enter the "Rainbow Cup I", bumping this tourny rating cap up 200 pts,
----------might get the 16 team entry I am shooting for)
The following planned tourny in the series,
is the "Rainbow Cup III" and will be a u6000 3v3, for a higher skilled 2000 avg/team rating.

[Apofenas]

Something is wrong - i only see 4 factions...