Oceania saturday's! u1500 Ladder 14/01/2017

[biass]

Australian tournaments are back, baby. But not just for Australians!
Hosted by biass and unofficially sponsored by the Break a Wish foundation.
Attendance to these trial tournaments will help shape the scene for competition to come, don't miss out!

Time + date: 14/01/2017 at 10pm AEDT http://itsalmo.st/#timefortourney
Casted by: <Pending>
IRC channel: /join #TourneyOceania
Challonge link: http://challonge.com/OS14012017
These may change at any time, make sure to checkup occasionally to avoid confusion.

Rules are as follows:
Under 1500 (true 1500, not 1450) ladder rating. Players who get caught artificially lowering their rating will be banned from this and all future tournaments.
Double Elimination format. Find the format info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-el ... tournament
If a disconnect results in a loss, a rematch will be decided by the tournament director
A draw results in a rematch, but without a time limit increase, the map played will be decided by the TD as well.
If a match doesn't start within 15 minutes of a T.D announcing the round starting the T.D may disqualify any players causing delay

Prizes!
1st place: Tournament winner avatar, or a tier 2 or 3 prize.
2nd place: A faction avatar of your choice, or a tier 3 prize.
3rd place: A faction logo avatar of your choice.

Maps will be pulled from the following rotation:

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Badlands
Canis River
Cobalt Valley
Crimson Feud
Dry Canyon V3
Ambush Pass
Crossfire Canal
Desert Planet II (10x10)
Eye of the Storm
Farce_in_tha_forest
Fields of Isis
Forbidden Pass v4
Last Oasis
Loki
Niflheim Final II
Open Palms
Burial
Point of Reach v3
Red Rocks
Regor Vi Highlands
Roanoke Abyss
Crashing Waves
Seraphim Glaciers
Standing Stones
Syrtis Major
Tag Craftious Maximus
Theta Passage
The Bermuda Locket
Twin Rivers
Hollow
Vya-3 Protectorate
White Fire v2

Post your willingness in the forum below or PM biassFA in the client to be added to the signups list!

Current signups:
Heaven
Photonic
Sethewho
everywhere116
Agrum
greenman
Xenojade
Raxy
WoundedElk
thebeej
PornMaster27
D10ny5u5
ArchangelsWrath
ParallaxCore

[Heaven]

yes

[This_Guy]

U1500? I call discrimination against my rating!

[Morax]

Thanks to all the rating bugs I could play this tournament seriously if I was willing to get up at 5 AM my time

[biass]

I was considering moving the time an hour or so forward, but a few things still make me hesitant.

1: is that it's moving a bit too late into the night for the playerbase the tournament is marketed for.

and 2: is that (without trying to disrespect) the AUS playerbase has typically lower ratings (at 1461, im currently top 3 in AUS(ladder)) and big names with big rating levels may intimidate newer players who have not really had a chance to prove themselves in a while,
it's happened before in this timezone and it 'kindof' screwed over a lot of people. ("i'm only 800, why am i playing 1.9k players?")

We do have a bit under a week to change anything if a good case is made, im happy to try and accommodate (before the tourney starts)
And of course, the tourney won't start without players! so sign up and unwillingly sign up your friends too!

[Morax]

Do not worry. After waking up at 5 am to play Sir-Prize and Anihilnine in WWPC I will never, ever play a tournament at that time again...

[Sethewho]

Sign me up.

[everywhere116]

Hmm, for me this is 6am, the EQ tournament is at 12pm, and I'm a night person...........oh well, sign me up! I'll get up at 5:30 and win both of them.

[Iszh]

i sign up

[Agrum]

i sign up.