it is a weird system. however, it takes away the great pressure and dramatic art which final K.O. rounds offer, since you can still win and be first in the tournament although you lost one game ^^, as you can perform well in the other two games.

I only hope the good players don't have to meet each other early in the tournament ;/

Yes green i understood perfectly.


And yes big players will meet each other im sure.

I'm on it. =)
I hope represent France well in this tournament.
It would have to be said to them that the ladder system of GreEn goes well and to look at it.

k0jak wrote:
and thirdly for me, cuizi or kill-o to do well

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*bump*

This contest still needs players. There are roughly two weeks left and well beyond 30 players signed up.

So spread the word, tell your friends, news sites and whatever

I sense it maybe is wrong to give 9 items to the first three players. not so many who see themselves a chance to get there

For my part, i am still waiting for the exact dates, as i plan vacation around the end of september/biginning of october. So there is no point in signing up when i cant play one of the matches...

edit: and now that it is mentioned, i could use a new graphic card too

There are still a few player slots free.

so... uh... *bump*

so when do you know if you have a place or not?

I hope a few days after the registration phase is over.

as the page officially says people will get notified whether they are in by mail (NOT e-mail)

BTW, all the germans here might read the last couple of posts in the pc-max.de thread ... weird information there about not allowing players outside of germany. I'm asking for better and clearer information

okay, I could get a clear statement:

Players living outside of Germany are allowed to play the tournament. However, they will not get any prices if they get ranked 1st, 2nd or 3rd. People who are participating (who signed up on the page) will get informed via mail once registration has completed (once 64 players have signed up).

i think that sucks a bit...and why do i have to get contacted via mail and not e-mail...that's silly imo for us 'outsiders'? especially since i dont like giving my information out freely..whcih i didnt.

Some more information I was able to find out:

As you know the tournament starts with usual K.O rounds, which means that there are 4 K.O. rounds so that the player count gets reduced to 4 players (starting with 64 players). Please note that in every match in all these 4 rounds the maps "a" and "b" will be played. Once 4 players are left the "final rounds" start, which means that each player has to play against every other player, which means that every player will have 3 matches. In all these 3 matches the maps "c" and "d" will be played. I am the one to judge this kind of system, but I think I may say that I do not like it. However: These four maps aren't defined yet.

All players are forced to play on the Nexuiz servers provided by the PC-Max.de Team. As I could find out the german company hosting these servers is "Gameserver Host", and their servers are located in Franfurt, Germany. You can visit the following page to get some IPs of their "test servers", so that you can at least test your ping:
http://www.gameserver-host.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=48

at 30th of September the signup statistics were:

- 43 signups (german players)
- 8 signups (foreign players)

As the event is going to start at the end of octobre the signup period has been extended until 25th of octobre

GreEn`mArine wrote:As the event is going to start at the end of octobre ...

Ah, that sounds good.
Signed up

I had initially signed up but was contacted that I could bot get any prize shipped to me so I withdrew to let other folks have a shot at winning those prizes. I was a bit disappointed that they could not ship to a country next to Germany but was pleased that they did contact me about it beforehand. I wish any friends that will compete in these matches fun and success !

hey gjuys, i got an e-mail last night about it.


i'm still slightly confused.

so what are the rukes, also what maps have been picked to be played?. Also when will i know if i play on the 11th / 12th....saturdays are generally bad imo for people but at times i understand thats the way it goes , but the 11th is really bad for me since its my birthday and made plans which is unfortunate if im scheduled to play then haha

im hoping the games will be played on the sunday for my sake :p

but on a serious not, when will we know?

but enough of my babble.

if someone could help answer the questions above...im struggling to read german and my laptop doesnt seem to have the translate page option

thanks.

I got a email as well. As the prerounds will take place on two days (since it are about 4 rounds) I guess that 2 rounds will be played on saturday and 2 on sunday. There is no more information given, not in german either.

ok, well maybe i can play then, but only during the day, nightime on the saturday is definitely out of the question for me.

I'm squeezing Simon to gather more and more information

The mappool consists of 6 maps. 3 maps for the four prerounds (where player count gets reduced from 64 to 4 players by usual K.O.) and 3 maps for the final rounds. So far Simon chose 5 of these 6 maps and is still occupied chosing the 6th map. The mappool he gave to me was:

Soylent Space
Toxic
Basement
Evil Space
Running Man

Like all of you, I am not fine with that mappool. I just sent him a PM, asking him to substitute Evilspace and Basement (the other maps are fine, imo) with other maps (such as Bloodprison and Warfare). I'm also trying to figure out which three maps are gonna be played in the prerounds.

i like how you didn't suggest aggressor

ok, I talked to Simon and I got quite a lot of information:

First of all, both the prerounds and the finalrounds are played with TWO maps, no "best of three" or so.

The Mappool:

Runningman (Preround-Map 1)
Bloddprison (map without Nexgun, Preround-Map 2)
Toxic (Final map 1)
Soylent (Final map 2)

As 54 People signed up there will be 27 matches at the beginning, resulting in 27 winners. However, to continue we need a even number (28 players), this is why a "lucky loser" of that round is allowed to continue although he lost. Then, with these 28 players, 14 matches are played, having 14 winners, these 14 winners play again, having 7 winners. Again a loser of the previous round is allowed to participate, and then there are 8 players playing 4 matches which result in 4 winners, the final round-candidates

I agree that this method of organising the matches is the best, better than playing a 64 players tournament with 54 players, which would mean that only 22 matches are really played (with 2 players per match) and 10 matches are default wins.

So, here comes the resulting timetable (German Time, Month=Nov 2006):
Saturday, 11th: 11am - 3:30pm Preround 1
Saturday, 11th: 3:30pm - 5:50pm Preround 2
Sunday, 12th: 11am - 12:10am Preround 3
Sunday, 12th: 12:10am - 3pm Preround 4
Sunday, 12th: 3pm - 5 pm Final rounds
Sunday, 12th: evening: publishing the rankings and nominating the winner

At Final Rounds, every of the 4 players plays against the other three ones.

Demos are forced for the final rounds, but not for the prerounds.

The tourney tree isn't created yet, they have to decide whether they gonna compute it by a script or do it manually.

and btw: tChr, are you going to broadcast some of the matches ? Or is someone else going to do it ?

hm. it's impossible for me to play at the given weekend. i'l not even be near a pc that runs nexuiz....

may as well scratch me out, could do the saturday games, but out for birthday maybe all day, plus i wont be at home on the sunday since everyone's staying round my place at uni the next day.

just found out i may be coming back early on sunday...in time for the games if i get that far, so i may as well play the saturday and see what happens.

As already posted in the german speaking PC-Max forum i would like to thank anyone organizing this tournament, all the people that did help with servers, advice, patients, live comments and ofcourse all the players that had the guts to show up. And i would also like ot gratulate the winners.
Despite the chaos caused by a few people that did not show up it was a very very fun weekend and i hope everyone enjoyed as much as i did!
Thanks everyone!

Our first sponsored Nexuiz tournament if over and i hope it was not the last of it..

It was a very fun weekend indeed. I hope there will be more tournaments in the future. And I hope more players will actually play their matches. And that the tournament is more adjusted for international players

Did someone record the live comment? I'd like to hear what was said about me