2011 Team Fortress 2 Tournament, this time with ACTUAL medals!

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Welcome to the Stan's Lounge Team Fortress 2 Winter Classic Extravaganza! This is a community tournament, so if you would like to play all you have to do join the community. It is a simple process, just sign up on the boards, introduce yourself, and come play!

To sign up for the tournament, just say so in here, and fill out this form. If you want to see the spreadsheet just check here.

Sign-ups will go until the Friday the 21st, then team captains will be selected. The team captains will divide the sign-ups to teams and then we will start the games. If you still want to play, you can sign up and enter our Free Agent pool! It is NEVER too late to sign up!

Most important thing to remember is that we are trying to have fun, so don't worry about taking anything to seriously.

TEAMS HAVE BEEN DECIDED! List is up now, below! I have a captain for every team but Team One, so if team one could discuss and pick a spoke person, that would be great. Just PM me with the details.

Once you select a team name, just PM me and I will change that as well. Brackets and Maps will be posted soon.

Entire Team is B.A.B.I.E.S.:
Asterith
atomicvideohead
cube
deftly
fuzzybunny
Fxeni
Grubber
Laarrs
Mex
OG_Slinger
Queueball
taer
Tboon
Wembley

Suicide Kings:
absurddoctor
Dimmerswitch
FarmerJohn
FedoraMcQuaid
fleabagmatt
iaintgotnopants
Kannon
Nuean (C)
Piratebob
radical ans
ranalin
speedhtr
Strewth
The_Judge
Titanis

Runaway Processed Canadians:
animefan420
Black Lotus
chesspeiceface
Donut
Jolly Bill
Koz
Latrine
Mr.Plow
Mybrainhz
Norfair
Renji
shawnasaurous
Soulless One
ukickmydog (C)
*legion*

ALT+F4:
Cyrax
Danyboy (C)
Evilhomer3k
FlamingPeasent
Hockosi
Lt. Warhound
Omaha_Stylee
Rexneron
sinkwater
SocialChameleon
Sodagremlin
Sparhawk
TempestBlayze
WanderingToaist

Sad Keanus:
AandnotA
Bad_Mojo
Cheeba
Crispy (C)
DF7
Gumbie
JediK809
Koshnika
NyxSteele
Minarchist
moondragon
mt_clip
Nathaniel
nel e nel
Nevin73
Pop58
TerrorRiser

The Manne-Hattin' Project:
boogle
carrotpanic
Chumpy_Mc Chump
Erikthered (C)
evilseed
Lucky Wilbury
Merphle
nihilo
PandaEskimo
Q-Stone
RukiTanuki
tscottOO
VTSupie
Wizkid

Alternates:
Itsatrap
Phishposer
Coldtouch

The Schedule:

Games will be scheduled to be played during a specific week, it is up to captains to find a day and time that works best. Talk it out and let me know. We will be using the same rules as last time, any questions PM me. I will work out servers with Mex and Evilhomer.

Teams are divided into two groups, Odds and Evens. Games within your group will affect your playoff standings, games outside your group will affect your sexual prowess.

First games will be between February 7 and 11. Teams must decide a game day and time before Monday, the 7th, and PM me.

Match ups:

February 7 - 11: Map CP_Well

Team One v Team Three B.A.B.I.E.S 0-3 RPC

Team Two v Team Four 2.13 8:00 EST

Team Five v Team Six Sad Keanus 0-3 ManneHatten

Febuary 14 - 18 Map PL_Upward

Team One v Team Five Team One Winners

Team Two v Team Six Team Six Winners

Team Three v Team Four Team Three Winners

February 21 - 25: Map CP_Gorge

Team One v Team Two Wednesday, Feb 23, 9 EST

Team Three v Team Five Thursday, Feb 24, 9:30 EST

Team Four v Team Six

Playoff Maps:
Egypt
Steel
Hightower

I'm definitely signing up. Too bad you can't participate this round Psych, it was certainly fun playing with you last time.

I'm in too

I'd be up for something.

Since valve won't seem to give us medals we could coordinate with Ruki and have a set of labelled weapons or colored hattes for the winners.

I'm in. Things I would like to see:

1. Better method for selecting teams. Mex did a pretty good job, but some teams *coughJ5cough* were clearly better than others.
2. I personally would like to see 12v12, and perhaps teams should be selected with this in mind. So you might select 15 people for a team instead of 12 because not everyone is going to show up to every game. If 12v12 isn't possible then perhaps 9v9 highlander would be fun.
3. Longer games. I remember we had one game on Granary that was over in five minutes. It would be nice if games could go for 20-30 minutes. Might need to institute specific rules for each map type for this.

I'm in.

Giggidy, I suggest a draft this time, like I did last time but was shot down

I'm in.

I'm in. I...umm...agree with ukick. I think a draft will probably create the most balanced teams. We should probably have people list class preferences so that people don't get stuck playing something they don't want to in the name of team balance. That said, I'm willing to play anything.

iaintgotnopants wrote:

I'm in. I...umm...agree with ukick.

That was hard for you to say wasn't it.

In. And yes, drafting could be good. Also prefer to have a full 12 than some of the 8v8 or whatever it was we ended up with. If we have to drop it to 6 teams of 12+ instead of 8 teams, that would be more fun probably.

I'm definitely in, and I think a draft would be neat. I don't really know how that stuff works, so I will leave that to you fantasy football experts.

Anyway, I agree with shooting for larger teams. We had a hell of a time getting our whole team together last time. I don't think we ever had everyone together in the same server at once.

Also, it might be helpful to use Google Docs and Calendar to organize this stuff.

Re-reading the Summer Tourney thread, one of the suggestions I rather like for selection boiled down to:

* Select howevermany captains are needed
* Captains take turns drafting players to teams
* Teams are then randomly assigned to captains (so they have a vested interest in trying to create balanced teams)

I'm probably in - work has decided to explode on me (and is likely to be on fire for the next six weeks), so depending on when we're looking to start I may have to pass.

Dimmerswitch wrote:

* Teams are then randomly assigned to captains (so they have a vested interest in trying to create balanced teams)

Booooooo hiiissssss

Dimmerswitch wrote:

Re-reading the Summer Tourney thread, one of the suggestions I rather like for selection boiled down to:

* Select howevermany captains are needed
* Captains take turns drafting players to teams
* Teams are then randomly assigned to captains (so they have a vested interest in trying to create balanced teams)

I like, especially the last section.

Count me in!

I'm in.

In.

In like, much as last time, Flynn.

EDIT: Did we ever hear what happened to the medals?

Also in.

Dimmerswitch wrote:

* Teams are then randomly assigned to captains (so they have a vested interest in trying to create balanced teams)

I don't see how this wouldn't happen without the captain swapping. Each captain is going to pick the best team they can which should create the most balanced teams (unless one of the captains wants to lose for some reason).

I'm in... I am sodagremlin in game. I'll second the draft. Maybe our all star players can be captian so they get divided up right away.

I'm in for whatever madness this is.

oh oh!!! PICK ME PICK ME! I'm in =D

Stele wrote:

In. And yes, drafting could be good. Also prefer to have a full 12 than some of the 8v8 or whatever it was we ended up with. If we have to drop it to 6 teams of 12+ instead of 8 teams, that would be more fun probably.

Yeah, the last tourney had like a 20-30% absentee average on every match, so I'd hope for teams of 14 or so...

I'll play. And this time I won't suddenly take a plan 2,000 miles the day before all of the events and let everyone down!

One issue to keep in mind when doing a draft is the general skill level of the captains themselves. If every picked team is equally balanced, the captain him/herself could still make it unbalanced.

I'm interested too, as long as we don't start up the actual games for a few weeks.

Koz wrote:

One issue to keep in mind when doing a draft is the general skill level of the captains themselves. If every picked team is equally balanced, the captain him/herself could still make it unbalanced.

Just from the past tournament, it's REALLY hard to balance all teams, and even then, teams with less skilled players can win if they have good communication.

Last tourney's winners, J5 had absolutely the best communication, and coincidentally UNO was very chatty too. 1st & 2nd place in a really close final...

I'd suggest ukick and Erik as team captains because if were in the same team they would roll. Fortunately I'm new at this game and I can be on either of their teams n_n

Im up for it!

I'm in.

But don't promise us medals when we all know you're just going to break our hearts.

Supie checking in.

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