KING OF THE RING #1: Maplist

[PACO]

Hello KOTR participants,

With exactly one week to go until the big tournament, I'm releasing the tentative maplist. It will remain the same, barring a riot. For the first FFA DM Tournament that GU is hosting, I opted to choose a maplist that the average player should know. Tempest and Phobos are likely the two least played maps on the list however the times that I've played them, they ran pretty well. If you haven't played Tempest or Phobos ever before, then you haven't played the single player tournament.. and that just makes me sad.

At the moment we have 53 signups and counting for the tournament. I'm not expecting all 53+ people to showup however I'm expecting 5 rounds and 5 maps to be the most likely scenario. If we can get 60+ people and 6 rounds I would be ecstatic and for this reason, I'm releasing the maplist based on all possible scenarios of rounds that we might have.

(Liandri - Curse][ - StalwartXL - Deck16)













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(Liandri - Curse][ - Phobos - StalwartXL - Deck16)
















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(Liandri - Curse][ - Phobos - Tempest - StalwartXL - Deck16)



















The tournament will start at 3pm EST. Make sure that you are in irc.utchat.com #ipug by at least 2:40pm EST so that we can get you set up and into the proper server. The only constant in the maplist, based on the rounds is that it will start with Liandri and end with Deck16. If you have any questions or comments about the maplist, please put them in this thread.

Happy fragging and best of luck on Sunday.

PACO

[Shotman]

do you have the map pack of the maps that you and n0b created?

[HuMPtY]

perfect maplist

[InfamousRaider]

Good map list. Do you think we should create a new channel for the league to keep as little side chatter out so that people know when and what server to get into?

[Carras]

stalwart-xl is a spawnkill fest and shouldn't be included in league play. the other maps don't have near the amount of exposed spawn points as the stal-xl. I know everyone likes the map, probably from all the freebie frags, but i wouldn't say it's worthy for competition.

I doubt I'll get many to agree with me, so I think it makes the most sense, instead, to have it be the first map played in every series. It makes a good scrub elimination map, not necessary a pro elimination map.

[toymac]

i agree, remove stalXL insert malevolence

[HuMPtY]

dont do it! stal 4ever!

[Cy]

Malevolence is definitely better than StalXL for match play. I'm a big fan of Anachronism, personally.

[toymac]

anachronism.. such a great map. haven't played it in I don't know how long
I would love to see it added. would be a great fit for a 10 man deathmatch

[PACO]

I considered Malev but ultimately went with StalXL. Will StalXL be frag heavy? Yes. It will however be different than 2v2v2v2 iTDM, you won't have a partner and it won't be as easy to control spawn-heavy locations. Anachronism looks pretty cool. The reason I won't put it in is that for this first KOTR tournament, I want to go with a classic theme. The next tournament will probably have a new maplist.

KOTR will be a bi-annual event. The next one will be in the summer. We're going to keep track of player accolades. If people want a KOTR belt, they're going to have two opportunities a year to get it and if people want a new funky maplist for the next tournament, I would be happy to oblige.

[Carras]

what's your take on putting stal-xl first or second?

[PACO]

[Carras]

You're putting more weight on a map decided by spawnkilling
In the earlier rounds, i'm thinking people will have more of a chance to survive a spawn from lower acc's

i guarantee stal-xl is going to be a cheap win in the later rounds.
Should be on the early side..

it doesn't matter how bad a person wants it if they don't get a chance to spawn, or frag, for a full minute

[HuMPtY]

its the same for everyone! anyone can spawnkill/be spawnkilled

[Carras]

[Cy]

[Carras]

if it ain't ogl it aint' old skool =D

[TriAngleChoke]

those maps are good enough for me

[kud]