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When does the tournament start? any info?

This has really been dragged out way too long. It's almost been going on 4 months now and the playoffs haven't even started? We've been waiting for 4 weeks now for all the tiebreakers to be over and with summer here I have to wonder how many teams will have participation issues due to vacations and such.  I love the concept of this but with all the problems the first season has been a real disappointment to me. And at this point it's almost like this league has been placed on the back burner.
Edited by thunder59, Jun 20 2012 - 01:56.

patience

The only time the league has been "on the backburner" was E3 week, and that's only because lord_farquad (our eSports Manager) was there shoutcasting, and attended MLG Anaheim to learn a bit about live events.

This is the first of what we plan to be regular seasons. But the reality is that a season is not going to be quick.

Will playoffs be starting this weekend(June 30)?

I've pretty much given up on classic league.  the ham fisted and medicore way its been handled is insulting to all the teams who have spent there gold supporting this joke of a tournament.  GG wargamming for once again making mer regret giving you a dime.

 vladdaimpaler, on Jun 25 2012 - 07:15, said:

You gave them money? o.O

any word on when the tournament will start up again? would be nice to know so we can plan for it.

 JustBaker, on Jun 25 2012 - 20:50, said:

Should be on upcoming Saturday, 6/30.

can we get some info before Friday please, Wargaming?

 ed_anger, on Jun 26 2012 - 15:35, said:

No soup for you!

the bracket is up: http://worldoftanks....ason_I_Playoff/

Thanks for getting the info out early.

yay for 4 days notice!

There will be a news article shortly. Currently I am just cross checking, and re-cross checking everything. Please feel free to PM me if you think you see an issue with the playoff page.

One very nasty bracket that has 2 Forge teams and a NDP team before making it into the money rounds.
Edited by Pendan, Jun 26 2012 - 22:02.

 Pendan, on Jun 26 2012 - 22:00, said:

I agree and I really dislike the bracket layout. The best teams in this whole thing - Red Sky, No Dumb Pubs and two Forge teams are forced to fight each other before any of them are guaranteed gold. That means that out of these four excellent teams, only one of them is allowed to get gold and that seems very unfair.

Unfortunately Forge is not the only clan-based team this layout kills - Kbear will have to fight Kbear on their second match. Stug Lyfe and NDP2oo (two goon teams) are forced to fight each other on the second match too.

Then on the third match Forge (Vlad@Tanks) is forced to fight Forge (Tank Mart). Affirmative Action Alpha is also forced to fight Affirmative Action Bravo.

All this happens before anyone is guaranteed gold. If winning this thing means beating one my clan's teams early on then I'd rather not win at all. You need to arrange the teams so a clan isn't fighting itself early on.
Edited by BigCheese256, Jun 27 2012 - 00:28.

 lord_farquad, on Jun 26 2012 - 21:52, said:

Is this current layout subject to change? I understand having 6 27-point teams in the top and 7 in the bottom, but I get the feeling the total points of all teams in the bottom half of the bracket outscore the top half.

So I did some quick calculations using Flakker's table. I divided the top and bottom half of the bracket into four min-brackets, thus making 8 mini-brackets total. I then proceeded to count the total number of points in each bracket and found what I believed to be patterns and anomalies.

Top Half

Mini-bracket 1: W-A-R to 37th Elite = 194 points
Mini-bracket 2: Shock and Awe to Gvn-mini = 194 points
Mini-bracket 3: WFPK to A TEAM = 191 points
Mini-bracekt 4: SSGS1 to Kare Bears = 195 points

Bottom Half

Mini-bracket 5: A-A Bravo to [DaDs]Army = 193 points
Mini-bracket 6: S.I.M.P to BD = 192 points
Mini-bracket 7: No Dumb Pubs to RS = 197 points
Mini-bracket 8: Reddit to IL Bravo = 193 points

So it seems that the total point sweet spot is 194 + 1 point, therefore, mini-brackets 3,6 and 7 do not follow. It think it is definitely possible to arrange the mini-brackets to equal 194 points total.

Next I checked the first round matches. Total points for teams playing each other in the first round equaled 48 or 49 points, however, this was not the case with the following matches:

Mini-bracket 3 - CB4  vs ACA "Granados a Caballo" = 46 points
Mini-bracket 4 - SSGS1 vs NDP2oo = 50 points
Mini-bracket 6 - RELIC Loz vs VETS = 51 points
Mini-bracket 6 - ACA los viejos vs P-I-G = 46 points
Mini-bracket 6 - RELIC Corky vs BD = 46 points
Mini-bracekt 7 - [Forge] SSST vs AAD = 51 points

Then there are the brackets with teams from the same clan which have been noted by BigCheese, although he left out Relic.