Guild Wars 2

This Saturday is a follow up to the amazing Thursday Event. You can check out the rules here: SOAC Tournament II

SOAC Held what could only be called the first real shoutcasted tournament and it went amazingly well. Check out this post Game Thread for how it went! WE had a great time with an incredible setup. This Saturday will be for those who want to go again or if you didn’t get to go and want to go.

Time: Saturday 10am PST GMT-8

Coach Gibbly’s Necromancers

Current Saturday NA Necromancer Sign Ups

reedju.5786
Bhawb.7408
Kravick.4906
Kharne.4235
cerulean moth.2743
TheStarflyer.9641
Xaragon.3520
OreoWolf.9564

If you are unable to make the event please post here, or let zoose know ahead of time! Great work on Thursday guys

Sittingonacouch.com Bracket:
Shoutcasted by – Daemonlasher and Jumper http://www.twitch.tv/soacgaming

1. Nettle’s Thieves vs 8. Rangers
4. Gibbly’s Necromancer vs 5. Guardian

Black Avarice
Saturday
No recording capabilities
NA

You know it
Either day works
Yep. If we’re lucky I’ll even have the old footage up by then
NA

Bhawb.7408:

You know it
Either day works
Yep. If we’re lucky I’ll even have the old footage up by then
NA

haha, bhawb, I may need you or one of the other guys to captain the weekend event since I am usually out of town.

Bhawb.7408:

You know it
Either day works
Yep. If we’re lucky I’ll even have the old footage up by then
NA

Seriously, you are killing me bhawb

You’ll have to teach me how to manage the custom arena stuff, but that aside I could do that.

@reedju: Caution – Side effects of too much Bhawb exposure include death, heart disease, and stroke. Less severe effects such as vomiting, dizziness, and extreme annoyance and rage may also occur.

Iris Ashensoul
Any day after 5pm EST
Not currently
NA

IGN: Yski Deathleaf
Day Available: Saturday – Thursday would be 4.30 am Friday for me (assuming I didn’t fail basic addition again) and school starts at 8.00 am!
Record Capability: Awesome!
EU or NA: EU

Oh like heck im in I call being the necro team…again…with the same people as last time..

That necro in the vid wrecking in a 2v1 on the battle of khylo map was awesome. He just took out a warrior and a guardian like it was easy mode.

I am still waiting on that video Thor :P. Great work with the signups as always Necromancers.

yski.7642:

IGN: Yski Deathleaf
Day Available: Saturday – Thursday would be 4.30 am Friday for me (assuming I didn’t fail basic addition again) and school starts at 8.00 am!
Record Capability: Awesome!
EU or NA: EU

EU will be on at a totally different time that works for you guys. I am just putting one sign up since it’s both sides.

Bas.7406:

EU will be on at a totally different time that works for you guys. I am just putting one sign up since it’s both sides.

Well, count me in for the other times as well then!

This Thursday Don’t Miss out!

Is anyone in the saturday group interested in getting together before hand to test builds, play a few practice matches, and plan out synergy? Thanks to MightyAi I have a few builds/playstyles Id like to try out. Also I am aiming to record for this event and want a chance to get a dry run in. This goes for any necros or anyone interested in the event, just PM me or whisper me in game.

This week, come on Necro’s where are all the tournament guys this time around!

Only a few more spots needed. Let’s go! This Thursday 5:30pm PST/GMT-8

If we can sign up for more than 1 (I play necro as well, but signed up for Guard) then I’ll go to this one too.

NA
Aerlume
I can record via twitch
Thursday

ArcTheFallen.7682:

If we can sign up for more than 1 (I play necro as well, but signed up for Guard) then I’ll go to this one too.

NA
Aerlume
I can record via twitch
Thursday

You can sign up for both, just let us know your number one preference. We will try to keep you in the preferred play, but if it’s full, than we will bring you to the other one.

Bas.7406:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

If we can sign up for more than 1 (I play necro as well, but signed up for Guard) then I’ll go to this one too.

NA
Aerlume
I can record via twitch
Thursday

You can sign up for both, just let us know your number one preference. We will try to keep you in the preferred play, but if it’s full, than we will bring you to the other one.

Preferred is Guard! And thanks for the quick reply.

I played in the first extravaganza on the necro team, if you have the room or need the help you can count me in.

IGN: Prytok
Day Available: Thursday
Record Capability: None
NA or EU: NA

Are any of the necro’s going to be streaming the event?

IGN: cerulean moth.2743 (mothrascales)
Day Available: saturday
Record Capability: none currently, but willing to install capability if one is recommended
NA or EU: NA
necromancer

Bas.7406:

Are any of the necro’s going to be streaming the event?

Not set up for streaming yet, but I’ll have recordings (and this time less wait… maybe).

IGN: Soulgant
Day Available: Thursday
Recording Capability: none
NA
Necromancer

The Miasma
Either Day
None
NA

Okay so two big notes of news. We are asking people not to stream the events to help push people to the shoutcasters to give them a chance at practice. You can record it and put it up on youtube later.

Secondly we are going to be grabbing some of the top tournament guys to lend their name to the teams and coach (not play) the players, to talk strategy, specs, and general coaching.

A new post is coming soon that will state more as to why!

If you need any help from me; let me know, I’ll also participate if needed.

Gibbly
Thursday (evening)
Streaming or full hd record
NA

Anyone who signed up and is not on the Thursday or Sat team, please be ready to sub in or if you have a thief or Ranger alt we need a couple of each :P

I can sub for any class if necessary.

<- TheMightyAltroll.3485 (I have loads of toons, so no standard ign)
Either Day
None
NA
I use all classes.

TheMightyAltroll.3485:

I can sub for any class if necessary.

<- TheMightyAltroll.3485 (I have loads of toons, so no standard ign)
Either Day
None
NA
I use all classes.

Fantastic! I know how busy you and Myrmidian have been! I will put you in with the Thieves for now, since I think it will be harder to find a Thief than a ranger ;p

Funny, I was just theory crafting for Thief today.

To be honest, my prediction for this tournament, is that it is between Necromancer, and Ranger. I’ve fought in all-class teams, and few have the capability of standing on their own.

I’m not sure who will win, all I know is I’m going to become a hermit if we lose to the warriors.

TheMightyAltroll.3485:

Funny, I was just theory crafting for Thief today.

To be honest, my prediction for this tournament, is that it is between Necromancer, and Ranger. I’ve fought in all-class teams, and few have the capability of standing on their own.

They are in the same bracket. It might happen for semifinals :P. Only problem is the Engineers have a full team and started practice the Rangers are two man down.

The Warriors are working with their coach already, and discussing builds, and I believe will be practicing. The necros have done this before, but don’t think they have practiced yet!

I have a feeling that some teams will surprise us because they will be organized and ready to go, while other teams will try to wing it.

Do we have access to our coach? I’m practicing at least solo tonight so I’m not rusty tomorrow.

And honestly, I don’t think many of the teams will win unless they just completely out play everyone. As of now, some of the classes just don’t have good enough build variety to be able to manage different roles, and/or the “super” build the class has isn’t gimmicky enough to carry them.

Bhawb.7408:

Do we have access to our coach? I’m practicing at least solo tonight so I’m not rusty tomorrow.

add Gibbly in game, and message him ;p

You mean I have to do things? Ugh, fine, time to stal… I mean message gibbly.

Sorry I have had work. I will be on as of 2pm central today. I am hoping to get everyone on and maybe some practice scrims going.
If you guys have any questions just pm me in game.

I should be on not long after that, hopefully some of the other guys will be able to manage to get online to get a bit of practice going.

I hope we can get better coordination and a coach for Saturday. I’m sorry to say, but I was embarrassed by the tournament.

Gibbly is still coach for Saturday, and honestly I loved him as a coach. He kept perfectly with the spirit of the event, which was to help newer players get into PvP, along with create a lot of community support, get some shoutcasters going, and just overall breath some life into the PvP community. We basically kept the same builds that we were normally running, but with input from a great player, and then someone to guide us a bit through the match. In my opinion, that was the point, to make a few of us noobs come out as better players in the end in our own way, not spoon feed us a set of builds specifically made to counter the team we know we are facing.

It wasn’t a serious tournament (we were severely out leveled/experienced in our games), and we weren’t taking it super seriously (guardians were practicing days before hand, we screwed around in a private arena for a few hours). The main points were totally fulfilled, and it was a ton of fun for those involved, and that is what matters.

I was fighting your team.

I was embarrassed.

I heard how your coach was coaching.

I was more embarrassed.

I watched how you fought Warriors.

I was incredibly embarrassed.

I watched how you LOST to Warriors.

I facedesked. I’m sorry Bhawb, that was awful.

TheMightyAltroll.3485:

I was fighting your team.

I was embarrassed.

I heard how your coach was coaching.

I was more embarrassed.

Imagine that, but instead of fighting giving gold for the prize pool to make a GW1 pvp reference that noone understood…

Every Necromancer I knew that was watching that was embarrassed by the Necromancer performance. I was hoping we could prove that we were good. No. We lost to WARRIORS. You didn’t even fight on point once. Iris was the only one fighting on point at any one time, or rather, the only one surviving.

Fun, or not. Pay to play, or not. We’re representing our class. Guardians and Warriors certainly did.

I hate being that ‘one’ guy to point out other people’s flaws, but that was downrite awful. Failure of strategy. Failure of communication. Failure of builds. None of you even focused on any single target.

TheMightyAltroll.3485:

Every Necromancer I knew that was watching that was embarrassed by the Necromancer performance. I was hoping we could prove that we were good. No. We lost to WARRIORS. You didn’t even fight on point once. Iris was the only one fighting on point at any one time, or rather, the only one surviving.

Fun, or not. Pay to play, or not. We’re representing our class. Guardians and Warriors certainly did.

I hate being that ‘one’ guy to point out other people’s flaws, but that was downrite awful. Failure of strategy. Failure of communication. Failure of builds. None of you even focused on any single target.

I appreciate your point of view. It’s too late to change coaches, and personally while I didn’t agree with everything he did. I thought he did a great job talking to the players, and in the consolation game letting the players go all minions for fun. He tried somethings they didn’t work. Let’s give him an opportunity before crucifying him.

Oh wow, was is really that bad? I couldn’t watch it live (fell asleep :P), but when I first saw the match-up list I thought: warrior vs necro… free win xD (apparently not)

This wasn’t meant to be a serious tournament. Its why guardians were doing serious practice a day before and had multiple level 30-40 players, and we were messing around in a custom arena for a few hours before, with level 10-20s. You want to prove that Necros are good? Don’t do it in a self-proclaimed tournament for amateurs.

I’m sorry that amateur players in an amateur tournament for fun weren’t up to your high standards, but frankly, I don’t care at all. This did everything it was supposed to. As someone on the team who was actually there the entire time (as in, didn’t look in for a few minutes), Gibbly was an amazing coach who actually took what I consider to be the core desire of the tournament seriously: to teach a couple of complete noobs something about tournaments, and help us become better players. He didn’t just hand us a bunch of pre-made builds he had to counter warriors, he asked what we ran on our own, helped us refine the builds a bit, then gave us some coaching. I had an absolute blast playing, and I couldn’t care less that we lost to people who were obviously better than we were.

Seriously, if you were taking this tournament as a serious event meant as anything more than to have fun, then you were doing it wrong.

@Flow, think of it this way. What do Necromancers cry about the most? Hard CC and condition cleansing. What did every single warrior bring? Hammer and condition cleansing. They played to win, we played to have fun. They won, we had fun. Win-Win situation in my book.

I would love to be part of the necromancer team let me know if a spot becomes avialable

Still practicing and building solo for saturday if anyone would like to join. I would like to see us build a little beforehand so we can exploit the fact that we have such a wide range of viable builds. That being said, thanks for representing us this time guys, awesome job! Hopefully we will win it big this next time around.