Posted on 15 October 2017 - 12:11 PM

Congrats to Jatheo and iWilly for winning the 2v2 NoDebuff tournament yesterday! They swept the group stage and bracket stage, finishing undefeated with 13 fights won and 0 lost. It was a smooth tournament, a nice test of the group stage format, and ran about 2.5 hours in total.

Smaller Regions

This tournament was our first time hosting an official event on a non-NA/EU region, which was an experimental idea. We've been urged from members of the community to host our tournaments outside of the main regions, and we didn't want to neglect our smaller but dedicated playerbases outside of our typical regions. Our hope was that members of the smaller regions would be more inclined to sign up for the infrequent opportunity to compete at a high level within their own region, but unfortunately signups and turnout were not as good as we had hoped. There were some other factors which played into this, like the late announcement and lack of advertising (both things that we hope to improve), however running a tournament with 9 teams is simply not a practical thing for us to do.

We would probably wait for the community to grow a bit to run another SA tournament. Now, the AU community has been asking about a tournament as well recently. We want to be cautious with this, as again, it's not a good use of our time or resources to run tournaments with so few teams. Do you guys think if we had hosted Build, we would have had higher turnout? If we do at some point decide to host an AU tourney, how can we prevent turnout being similarly poor - should it be a BuildUHC kit?

Group Stages in the Future

Today was our first test of group stages in over a year. Personally, I thought it went pretty well for the teams who attended because they got to play more matches, although the low attendance defeated the purpose in a couple of the groups. I feel like it would work a lot better in a gamemode like Domination where we'll have more reliable teams. What do you guys think about trying a Two-Stage (Group and then Bracket stage) format for Domination, and potentially for future events?

Results & Prizes

Here are the results!

[1st - Champion Title & Permanent Lion Plus]
Jatheo
iWilly

[2nd - 6 months of Lion Plus]
Brokean_
Hermes2908

[3rd - 3 months of Lion Plus]
ArenaPlayer
TewTrailers

[4th - 1 month of Lion Plus]
lechampionkev
TheVicMC

The above players will be contacted about their prizes soon. As always, full results available on our Challonge: http://badlion.challonge.com/sanodebuff2v2

We hope to see a lot of you guys again soon for our $1000 5v5 Domination Tournament! We will have the official announcement for the event (including a new date) soon!

Posted on 15 October 2017 - 12:30 PM

I think group stage in Domination would work, but Im sure double elimination would work even better for this type of events.

Posted on 15 October 2017 - 02:08 PM

GG to everyone that participated in the tournament. Having the first hand experience,the concept of group stages was exciting and it should be used in future tournaments~ (my opinion)

Last edited on 15 October 2017 - 05:31 PM by Robiswell

Please have group stage domination

3000 posts gang

Posted on 15 October 2017 - 05:11 PM

Well played