Quick introduction, I am relatively new to the Guild Wars 2 competitive scene (caster not player) but only really see the Go4GW2 and ESL weekly cups going around both with roughly the same teams competing. I would love for this to become more diverse.
1v1 Tournament:
I recently began organizing/casting a 1v1 tournament held with friends and a few invited random players. This started as a 1 off but now we are running a weekly version with monthly finals (I basically copied how Go4GW2 is ran sorry guys haha). Prizes are given (20g for a weekly winner, more for monthly) and each match is held on Saturday 6PM GMT. We have had such good reception about this that I would love to expand it. We are looking for more people interested in competing (be warned there is a 1g fee for the month of tournaments) and probably more importantly we need tournament admins as I have 0 experience in running tournaments (but was an E-sports caster of another game for a year or so).
For more information you can go to any of the following:
- Twitter me @Div0k (thats a zero not the letter “o”)
- The forum we use for providing information http://auroragla.de/forum_threads/2046244
- My ingame details (Divok.6514)
- Or the weekly signup pages:
+ March Round 2: http://tinyurl.com/CCFTWM2
+ March Round 3: http://tinyurl.com/CCFTWM3
+ March Round 4: http://tinyurl.com/kff5lfr
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Further Tournaments:
As some people that have spoken to me understand, it was not my intention to become the caster of a long series of 1v1 tournaments. I intend to be casting 5v5 (especially stronghold when it appears!).
The only issue is, there are no other tournaments to be casting, at least not to my knowledge. Now I struggled enough organising this 1v1 tournament so I will not be taking that burden on myself, but feel free to use this space to debate, create and organise any fresh tournaments. The game which I come from has so many tournaments that there is actually a lack of casters (even when we cast for about 12 hours a day!) and it really did improve/develop/grow the E-sports community there.
Any/all input appreciated guys!
- Quick disclaimer, there is nothing wrong with the current tourneys at all, I watch every single one and love them all! We just need more!!
I think 1v1s are too matchup based to make a 1v1 tournament single elimination if you want it to be somewhat fair.
I should know. I kinda cheesed the last ESL 1v1 cup by going condi guard against engis (sorry thijsken :<) while the only thing that I couldn’t have counterbuilded (condi ranger :<) lost his match in the other bracket.
In the 1v1 you are locked into a character (so therefore a class) for the entire month. This way you can’t cheese so easily as there will be at least 1 thing your build cant handle
In the 1v1 you are locked into a character (so therefore a class) for the entire month. This way you can’t cheese so easily as there will be at least 1 thing your build cant handle
You can still counterbuild a lot without switching classes. I was guard the whole time and I didn’t have a single hard matchup the whole cup because I got lucky brackets and engi is just too easy to counterbuild against with any class. :<
Like I am saying, I know 1v1 is flawed, although the community around it currently is a lot of fun
But this thread is primarily designed to hopefully get some more 5v5 tournaments going… Or at least show the community that there is interest for such a thing
1v1 isn’t necessarily flawed, only the matchmaking is; how the Tournament is originally set up.
What makes some one a good Duelist is if he wins the majority of his fights.
The issue is, if you have 16 people in the tournament, one player will only be able to fight 4 out of 11 other people. In other words, a person could very well lose against 11 people and win only 4 games.
Tournament needs to be on a Round-Robin system.
How long did last tournament last? I estimate a Round-Robin Tournament will last between 48m to 1h 30m depending on game duration and # of rounds.
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Hello friend. If you are looking for a player who can help with organized tournaments then feel free to message me in game. I’m on every afternoon usually after 3pm central time. I own my own arena that can be used as well. Currently it’s just used by players as a dueling arena. But feel free to send me mail in game if you are looking for assistance.
In the 1v1 you are locked into a character (so therefore a class) for the entire month. This way you can’t cheese so easily as there will be at least 1 thing your build cant handle
You can still counterbuild a lot without switching classes. I was guard the whole time and I didn’t have a single hard matchup the whole cup because I got lucky brackets and engi is just too easy to counterbuild against with any class. :<
I think the reason why you won that 1v1 is because people don’t know how to counter the condi guard (and you should totally beat Rangers as well). And sure you can counter build but good players know how to deal with their counters on a 1v1 level.
In the 1v1 you are locked into a character (so therefore a class) for the entire month. This way you can’t cheese so easily as there will be at least 1 thing your build cant handle
You can still counterbuild a lot without switching classes. I was guard the whole time and I didn’t have a single hard matchup the whole cup because I got lucky brackets and engi is just too easy to counterbuild against with any class. :<
I think the reason why you won that 1v1 is because people don’t know how to counter the condi guard (and you should totally beat Rangers as well). And sure you can counter build but good players know how to deal with their counters on a 1v1 level.
I disagree with both your statements. There is no way for an engi to counter a condi guard, even egun or elixir r don’t help if I know that they have it
Also there is no way for guard to counterbuild a condi survival ranger with sbow s/d that either takes empathic bond and survival of the fittest or bark skin depending on your build. Of course it’s still beatable either way but there is no way that I could get myself an advantage against that build.
Apart from that I would have sugested round robin aswell but I knew that that would take way too long.
I think 1v1s are too matchup based to make a 1v1 tournament single elimination if you want it to be somewhat fair.
I should know. I kinda cheesed the last ESL 1v1 cup by going condi guard against engis (sorry thijsken :<) while the only thing that I couldn’t have counterbuilded (condi ranger :<) lost his match in the other bracket.
use my sword generosity build it wins vs pretty much any condi ranger
unless they use settler which is usually banned ofc.
While counterbuilding will always be an issue in tournaments such as these all it will do is give you a slight advantage. Currently I haven’t seen 1 counterbuild and the tournament has only been won or loss by good plays or misplays
These should be additional rules, imo.
1. It should be double elimination.
2. Not allowed to change builds. The build you use when you first start the match, should be the build you stick with throughout the tournament.
3. You’re not allowed to reset combat at any time.
This weeks signups are live!
If you would like to participate in this Saturdays 1v1 tournament please make sure you have paid the 1g for the Month and sign up at: http://tinyurl.com/CCFTWM2
The prize pool for the March finals has increased dramatically since last week! So this is now very much worth winning!! xD
