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Re: Clan tournament ideas

2014-02-27T14:44:20+02:00

Maybe there should be a new topic created for such question, but whatever. I'll post it here.

What about creating new irc channel #clans that would be strictly designed for assembling sparrings between clans, recruitment etc.

Btw. there are already 24 clans those have minimum 4 members

Statistics: Posted by machina — 27 Feb 2014, 14:44

Re: Clan tournament ideas

2014-02-20T05:28:29+02:00

Hello,

I should mention that I see a clan war as more of a final later on. Initially some smaller Clan tournaments would be used in order to build up anticipation.

Almost like a double elimination tournament where the clans get draws and face different clans. Maybe each round would take 1 week in a best of 5 matches. Games are only played on friday saturday or sunday leaving the early week for practice.

This way the only difference come clan war time would be that every clan would play every clan. People would be use to the 5 match formt because of these smaller tournaments. They would also help show if the later clan war would be possile at all.

Again the 5 matches would go 1v1---2v2---3v3---2v2---1v1 (As needed as a clan could win 3 straight)

Chevalier

Statistics: Posted by Cheva — 20 Feb 2014, 05:28

Re: Clan tournament ideas

2014-02-20T02:09:35+02:00

Deering wrote:
I get that Sunday might be a better day because people more often have other commitments on a Saturday however taking other time zones into account Saturday may be better.

Eg 7 pm gmt is 5am the next day for me.

5am on Sunday is better than 5am on Monday

Yeah sunday evening evening in the EU is morning for anyone past there, its okay to expect other timezones to have to get up earlier if they want to play, but not exclude them, because I doubt that any people are free monday morning.

Statistics: Posted by Nombringer — 20 Feb 2014, 02:09

Re: Clan tournament ideas

2014-02-20T02:06:35+02:00

Mad`Mozart wrote:
machina wrote:I don't get it. If you can't manage 3 members of your clan (as leader) to log on FAF at the same time, you suck. Also, most FAF users are Europeans. Evenings are just fine for most players.

Didn't know that FA was a MMORPG game, thanks for opening my eyes.

Because of the small number of player even though EU are the most common, I doubt you would find more than one clan with only Euro players.

It would also just arbitrarily add a location restriction to clan tournaments.

Statistics: Posted by Nombringer — 20 Feb 2014, 02:06

Re: Clan tournament ideas

2014-02-20T02:00:29+02:00

I get that Sunday might be a better day because people more often have other commitments on a Saturday however taking other time zones into account Saturday may be better.

Eg 7 pm gmt is 5am the next day for me.

5am on Sunday is better than 5am on Monday

Statistics: Posted by Deering — 20 Feb 2014, 02:00

Re: Clan tournament ideas

2014-02-20T00:32:55+02:00

Because that never works.

"Oh but my 2v2 guy can't play today" "yes but mine can't tomorrow" "blabla", end of the week, the game are not played. Already happened often enough.

Also a fixed time is a making it an important and recurrent event, better for the community.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 20 Feb 2014, 00:32

Re: Clan tournament ideas

2014-02-20T00:15:46+02:00

Ze_PilOt wrote:
If the clan war is happening every sunday evening at 8pm GMT+1, with 10 clans, it's 2,5 months having all your sunday evening free.

I don't get that why do you want to set up an exact day and hour for clanwars. Let the leaders of both clans those are supposed to have a clanwar that week, choose day and hour by themselves. After clanwar, winners simply report game/replay id and result to tournament forums. And that's it.

Statistics: Posted by machina — 20 Feb 2014, 00:15

Re: Clan tournament ideas

2014-02-19T20:28:26+02:00

I support the multiple division system. Maybe you could just have two divisions, and people could place themselves accordingly? Doing well in the A division obviously carries a lot more pride than doing well in the B division, so hopefully good players would want the challenge, and us lesser players could also have some clan fun.

Alternatively, you could use an average rating to divide into divisions.

Statistics: Posted by sasin — 19 Feb 2014, 20:28

Re: Clan tournament ideas

2014-02-19T17:38:48+02:00

If the clan war is happening every sunday evening at 8pm GMT+1, with 10 clans, it's 2,5 months having all your sunday evening free.
I really doubt your 4 players can guarantee that.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 19 Feb 2014, 17:38

Re: Clan tournament ideas

2014-02-19T17:35:11+02:00

I got 4 members in clan (including me) and I doubt that I'm going to recruit more since it's just fine enough for 4v4. Everyone is going to play and no one will be aggrieved because of lack of slots on clanwar.

Also, amount of clans and members in ones is going to increase a lot after official post on Homepage.

Statistics: Posted by machina — 19 Feb 2014, 17:35

Re: Clan tournament ideas

2014-02-19T17:24:29+02:00

For the format of the older clan wars, you need at least 5 players in the clan to have something viable. (considering that it's very unlikely that a clan of 3 will have all his members available every week, and 3 is the minimal amount of players needed to play all games).

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 19 Feb 2014, 17:24

Re: Clan tournament ideas

2014-02-19T17:21:17+02:00

Atm 8 clans have more then 3 players ...
Give it a try?

Statistics: Posted by Dragonfire — 19 Feb 2014, 17:21

Re: Clan tournament ideas

2014-02-19T15:44:51+02:00

Skill differences in FAF are so huge that only clans arranged by highest level players are able to compete (even with rating limitations you still need at least 1 high level player). Unfortunate from a point of view maybe, but there's no denying the facts.

I would, despite my pessimism, like a clan tourny/league. The idea should be treated with care and thought carefully over before making any action though. Thus why this thread exists in the first place I guess

Statistics: Posted by Blodir — 19 Feb 2014, 15:44

Re: Clan tournament ideas

2014-02-19T14:36:04+02:00

You shouldn't say it this way i.e. for highest level players. Everyone on FAF community should feel comfortable to join this tournament no matter he's pro or not. It should be about fun, in the end.

Statistics: Posted by machina — 19 Feb 2014, 14:36

Re: Clan tournament ideas

2014-02-19T12:49:07+02:00

machina wrote:
What's the difference between FAF and WoW? Both are games, that's all. Assembling 25-players raids ain't that hard. Here, only 4 or less required. I just hope that there will emerge a new wave of clans those gonna aim higher than 2/3 active members per clan.

You don't need to be a skilled player to join a raid. Whereas in a FA clantourney only the highest level players will stand a chance. Also these tourneys are planned and prepared for a long time before the actual games, making the commitment much greater than a wow raid. I guess its also relevant to bring up that FAF clans have much more restricted recruitment policies

Statistics: Posted by Blodir — 19 Feb 2014, 12:49