Last edited on 07 October 2017 - 05:42 PM by Ny_

Congrats to TheVicMC and Zytoh for winning the 2v2 BuildUHC tournament this Saturday! They came out of the losers' bracket to ultimately defeat Jezii and KarliXon in the Grand Finals by a combined score of 6-2. It was one of the smoothest tournaments we have run, and ultimately ran about 3.5 hours.

New Helpers

Thanks to everyone who applied to be a tournament staff! We just accepted our second wave of helpers in the last month, which meant we had a lot of people helping out today. That was a big part of why things ran so smoothly, and their help was really appreciated. If you still want to apply though, feel free to! We hope to review apps and add new helpers more frequently in the future, to help us run events more often.

Server Issues

We had a few problems with the network lagging around midday which caused some delays. Overall nothing too terrible happened and most of the delays were limited to 15 minutes or less. Thanks to Rigner for helping out with some command/chat lag problems during the tourney! The devs, as always, are working on making the network more stable, particularly when our player counts are high (on Saturdays).

BLC

We decided this tournament to make Badlion Client mandatory for every player, after last arena tourney when we had an issue with no screensharers being around in the semis. I personally think it went pretty well, the list of people who couldn't run it was fairly short. What we decided on for the policy this week was, for a player to be exempted from our BLC requirement, he/she had to submit a BLC Bug Report on the forums. This worked fairly well, and it may be how we choose to do this in the future. The bug reports help devs find and fix the most common issues, which will eventually lead to a better client experience for everyone.

We also plan on making the majority of our future tournaments BLC-required. We do however, recognize that around 10% of our playerbase uses Macs, so we will still host some future non-cash prize tournies that don't require BLC.

What's Next

This was the end of our Summer Series, which I think was a great success. Looking ahead, we have the Domination tournament and the Invitational coming up for the Diamond Series. We also are planning to host EU and SA arena tournaments very soon based on some feedback gathered by Community Managers. Additionally, we will be running the Season 14 Global tournament at some point. The tournament staff have discussed it, and we feel that running tournaments much more frequently is better for the competitive scene. We hope to run tournaments year-round as frequently as we have these past few months. What other tournaments do you guys want to see (and what regions)?

Results & Prizes

Here are the results!

[1st - Champion Title & Permanent Lion Plus]
TheVicMC
Zytoh

[2nd - 6 months of Lion Plus]
Jezii
KarliXon

[3rd - 3 months of Lion Plus]
overhyped
CristianPvp

[4th - 1 month of Lion Plus]
jofa56
ItsSheepMan_

The above players will be contacted about their prizes soon. As always, full results available on our Challonge: http://badlion.challonge.com/nabuilduhc2v2

We hope to see a lot of you guys again in 3 weeks for our $1000 5v5 Domination Tournament! Also, keep an eye out over the next couple days for details regarding something for next weekend. ;)

Last edited on 08 October 2017 - 03:19 AM by Zicuri

Congratulation guys!

Last edited on 07 October 2017 - 04:05 PM by asapape

!!! congrats to the winners

Last edited on 07 October 2017 - 04:06 PM by Ny_

"when someone is perfect you change for them" -zicuri ❤

Posted on 07 October 2017 - 04:08 PM

Congrats to the winners!

Posted on 07 October 2017 - 04:08 PM

Fun tournament :P and congrats to the winners

Last edited on 07 October 2017 - 04:19 PM by LFT

"Love is Love" - zicuri

Posted on 07 October 2017 - 04:36 PM

gg

Posted on 07 October 2017 - 05:02 PM

Congratulations to winners

Posted on 07 October 2017 - 05:06 PM

:)

Posted on 07 October 2017 - 05:19 PM

Congratulations to winners

Posted on 07 October 2017 - 06:17 PM

I have always been interested however I always get confused about the rules on participating the tournaments whilst being Tourney Staff

I messaged Listen about this a few months ago and he said:
"Tourney staff are allowed to play if we come to a unanimous decision to allow them to do so. This depends on numbers and practicality, although it is advised against if you're a tournament helper"

That comment put me off for a while, but Ive recently noticed that dev_revs, zicuri, blaszczak, arrowless, lft and ginie have each played a tournament whilst tourney staff.
This makes me want to apply again, but I'm worried that I might be forced to ref a tournament rather than be able to participate.
But then again I'm sure you must be pretty lenient if many of the staff have been aloud to play (including an admin)

Posted on 07 October 2017 - 06:18 PM

Also GG to Zytoh and Vic

Posted on 07 October 2017 - 06:25 PM

Grats

Posted on 07 October 2017 - 06:31 PM

gg

Posted on 07 October 2017 - 07:03 PM

We've sorta shifted our policy a bit recently. Generally I'd say if you want to play, it shouldn't be in more than half of tournaments. So zicuri, dev, etc. have been playing the objective gamemode tournies but helping out for the arena ones. I don't see a problem with this, as there are various other ways to help out (contribution to discussion, spreadsheets, and other stuff). We don't let you help out with day-of stuff on a tourney you're playing in, however.

Posted on 07 October 2017 - 08:01 PM

Congrats to the winners!

Posted on 07 October 2017 - 08:26 PM

"when someone is perfect you change for them" -zicuri ❤

Posted on 08 October 2017 - 02:52 AM

Congrats to the winners and the new tournament staff!
I applied for tournament staff one nonth ago, before the first wave, so I assume I've been denied. To apply again, we have two wait two months like the other staff branches?

Posted on 08 October 2017 - 09:35 AM

@AdamChen Congrats on first place!