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What about 2 group stages if time allows it?

Top teams receive a bye to the second group stage. During the first group stage (which will be more competitive as well) the top teams can play ‘exhibition’ matches.

Quoted from Tapley ❤

In other news the kind folks over at Multiplay have now donated over 540 quid to the cause by donating 6 free tickets to our Americans friends! Also all this extra exposure and american viewers for the tournament will attract a big sponsor for the i46 tournament so fingers crossed it wont just be a big cash prize we’ll also get some amazing hardware prizes too!

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IM SO HYPED!

I have been to many multiplay events, and this exact thing has been brought up in the css tournaments around i34, the major thing from the multiplay side/css admins is that this is a full community event, the top games/teams come behind everyone having fun. How many people can say that as they were in div3/4 at LAN and didn’t enjoy there opportunity to play against the best teams? I still remember scout headshot wallbanging fatal and jafro from zboard at i30, I still remember headshoting dunc at i40 and having a laugh with him afterwards. This opportunity should not be removed.

Part of the charm has always been mixing the pubbers with the pros and having 64+ teams with the majority of them being community teams, the priority should be the accomodate them to have the best LAN possible, after all they’re the people who will make the event great. The group stages tend to be a bit of a waste of time for the top seeds sure, but it is part of the charm of an i-series, and the knockout system format has never ever been an issue if you ask me especially with the double elimination format.

If you can fit a way in the schedule to keep it the same until you get to the last 6 or so teams and work out another method to fit more matches in then sure why not. If you want to get nearly every Prem/Invite team playing eachother in the latter stages, when they get to the latter stages get them doing some sort of mini-tournament or something, I am sure somebody suggested something good that would work already. Having the Prem teams skip the group stages on the Friday wouldn’t make any difference unless you wanted to seperate the community and that would be a bad idea.

Quality, intense games are still going to happen, that much is for certain even if we might not see TCM play LG or something.

I think the issue is one of exciting games. At least over here on the American side, we are used to our lans being nothing but super intense exciting best of threes between the best possible teams. As the format stands, we will see a lot of games between Mix^ and some random pub team. Which is all good and well for the pub team and might be good for some laughs for sure, but it isn’t the quality entertainment that at least eXtv is used to providing LAN after LAN.

There is also the issue of how will the seeding work, I have seen no showing of the actual seeding arrangement based off groups, but there is a concern that two good teams will match-up in the first round of elimination and we will have one of our best games that early. We want as many of the best teams in the ro8 and 4 as possible.

Idk, some things to think about. This event is more geared towards the non professional teams and it seems that a lot of thought hasnt been put into the spectator value, which is fine, that is the type of lan event that the iseries is, cant expect everyone to be like MLG or ESEA LAN.

Still super pumped for the event, rumour in the schoolyard is that 2 teams is looking more and more likely by the day…

Quoted from shdwpuppet

Still super pumped for the event, rumour in the schoolyard is that 2 teams is looking more and more likely by the day…

50% bro now go make it happen

Quoted from Russian Guyovich

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50% bro now go make it happen

Are we really at 50% because the stupid chipin plugin never effing updates for me, I even did the trick that hildreth posted :/

Quoted from shdwpuppet

I think the issue is one of exciting games. At least over here on the American side, we are used to our lans being nothing but super intense exciting best of threes between the best possible teams. As the format stands, we will see a lot of games between Mix^ and some random pub team. Which is all good and well for the pub team and might be good for some laughs for sure, but it isn’t the quality entertainment that at least eXtv is used to providing LAN after LAN.

There is also the issue of how will the seeding work, I have seen no showing of the actual seeding arrangement based off groups, but there is a concern that two good teams will match-up in the first round of elimination and we will have one of our best games that early. We want as many of the best teams in the ro8 and 4 as possible.

End of the day Multiplay lans are largely a community lan and the prize pool would be no where near this size if tons of community teams didnt turn up and pay their money, want a super intense tournament with 4 teams like ESEA, then expect no prize pot!! :]

Just tell the american viewers to tune in on saturday and sunday and skip friday if they don’t want to be “bored” ;), first and foremost this lan is for the people there, to play tf2 at a lan, to be featured on TV, its their money they are spending this is what we guarentee them. You are more focused on your customers (the viewers at extv) and i am more focused on my customers (the lan attendees) thats all it is tbh, which is no bad thing.

As for seedings, the seedings will work as they always have, the top 4 teams will probably not meet each other until at least the 2nd or 3rd game into the knockouts.