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[Hypnotik]

Hello Clan Wars players,

 

The time has come for April's Clan Wars Map Exhibition, and this time we feature 3 maps - Serene Coast, Severogorsk, and Malinovka - all of which were re-worked for the 9.0 update (you can see our recent article detailing some of these changes here).

 

Changes since previous Exhibitions:

• The battles on the final day will now begin at 4:30 PM instead of 4PM
• The battles on the final day will now be played using the built-in tournament system, rather than training battles.

 

Register for this tournament!

 

Each Clan is ONLY allowed to submit ONE team.

All players on each team MUST be in the Clan represented by the tournament team.

 

Prizes

1st: 80,000 Gold

2nd: 40,000 Gold

3rd/4th: 20,000 Gold

5-8th: 10,000 Gold

 

In addition, all teams that make it to Day 2 (the top 40) will receive 1,000 Gold.

 

Note: All prizes are awarded to the Clan Treasury.

 

Schedule:

Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Final Day
April 19, 2014	April 20, 2014	April 21, 2014	April 22, 2014
Map: Serene Coast Stage Type: Round-Robin Battles Begin: 5:00 PM PST # Teams Advancing: 40 Guaranteed Prize: --	Map: Severogorsk Stage Type: Round-Robin Battles Begin: 5:00 PM PST # Teams Advancing: 8 (2 from each group) Guaranteed Prize: 1,000 Gold	Map: Malinovka Stage Type: Playoff Battles Begin: 5:00 PM PST # Teams Advancing: 4 Guaranteed Prize: 10,000 Gold	Map: Captains' Choice Stage Type: Playoff Battles Begin: 4:30 PM PST # Teams Advancing: -- Guaranteed Prize: 20,000 Gold

 

Map Previews:

Serene Coast: 

  

 

Severogorsk:

  

 

Malinovka:

  

 

Mini-Map Changes:

Spoiler

Serene Coast	Severogorsk	Malinovka

 

 

How the "Captain's Choice" works:

Each captain of the 4 semi-finalist teams will submit their map choices to Hypnotik via PM in a way similar to the example below:

Spoiler

TEAM 1
TEAM 4
TEAM 2
TEAM 3

Team 1 will submit their map elimination choices for 3 situations:

• Their first match, against TEAM 4
• The Championship match, in the case that they face TEAM 2
• The Championship match, in the case that they face TEAM 3

 

• If both teams eliminate different maps, the remaining one will be played.
• If both teams eliminate the same map, a coin toss will determine the map played between the two remaining.

 

[Hypnotik]

[TTIME]
	[TTIME]
[RDDT]
	Map	[OTTER]
[OTTER]	Serene Coast
	[OTTER]
[D-O-S]
			[NTR]
[RELIC]			Champion
	[TMPLR]
[TMPLR]
	Map	[NTR]
[NTR]	Malinovka
	[NTR]
[HAVOK]

[Hypnotik]

You also may have seen in the recent article that togood2222 created a series of videos about the changes in each of these maps between version 8.11 and 9.0. Here they are if you didn't get a chance to see them yet:

 

Severogorsk

 

Serene Coast

 

Malinovka

[WanderingOtaku]

Is this under the assumption that 9.0 will be released at least a week before April 19th? Because it would seem rather mean to the teams if they have little to no time practicing on the reworked maps.

[Huck_]

SuperSaiyanMark, on Apr 07 2014 - 15:56, said:

Is this under the assumption that 9.0 will be released at least a week before April 19th? Because it would seem rather mean to the teams if they have little to no time practicing on the reworked maps.

The 9.0 patch was released to members of the better clans last week, so it should be fine. 

[Allu_o7o7o7]

Hypnotik, on Apr 07 2014 - 18:57, said:

• If both teams eliminate the same map, a coin toss will determine the map played between the two remaining.

 

inb4 every match on the final day is a coin flip between malinovka and serene coast

[_IndioDoMato_]

I wonder, how is it going to stay the release of 9.0, will occur before the event? why we have to train right.

[Hypnotik]

SuperSaiyanMark, on Apr 07 2014 - 12:56, said:

Is this under the assumption that 9.0 will be released at least a week before April 19th? Because it would seem rather mean to the teams if they have little to no time practicing on the reworked maps.

Part of the challenge of this tournament series is the fact that these maps are new (or recently re-worked), and clans have to try multiple ideas to see what works. Maps that are brand new will have more lead-in time than re-worked maps, since you should already have a pretty solid strategic foundation to work from with re-worked maps.

 

Allurai, on Apr 07 2014 - 13:53, said:

inb4 every match on the final day is a coin flip between malinovka and serene coast

That can be part of the strategy of map picking. If both teams don't like a map, and know that the other will likely vote it off, you can pick a different one to veto, and get the exact map you want. Or maybe both will get do this strategy and get stuck on that map they don't want. It's the esports equivalent to the Prisoner's Dilemma.

 

Huck_, on Apr 07 2014 - 13:00, said:

The 9.0 patch was released to members of the better clans last week, so it should be fine. 

This is why we've had it for a while in [WGA-A]. We haven't found another clan close enough to our level yet to give it to (not even WGA-B), but you guys in OTTER always have the test server, right?

 

matheusseifador, on Apr 07 2014 - 14:08, said:

I wonder, how is it going to stay the release of 9.0, will occur before the event? why we have to train right.

If 9.0 is not released in time for this tournament, the tournament will get pushed back by a week at a time until 9.0 is available.

[Flashram]

Can we not have the CW campaign started already though? I'm itching for the soviet medium...

[Fasty]

Wait... I am confused... I thought Pearl river was making its new debut on patch 9.0 too. Is it not finished or is it just not included?

[Hypnotik]

Fasty, on Apr 07 2014 - 18:39, said:

Wait... I am confused... I thought Pearl river was making its new debut on patch 9.0 too. Is it not finished or is it just not included?

Pearl River will also have its day... soon^TM.

[fuzzzywuzzzybunny]

Huck_, on Apr 07 2014 - 22:00, said:

The 9.0 patch was released to members of the better clans last week, so it should be fine. 

so i guess otter has to wait for 9.0 like the rest of us lmbo 

[_IndioDoMato_]

by the way, has a planned release date of 9.0?

[Hypnotik]

Now that registration is complete, here's the look ahead at the tournament:

 

There are 50 teams which met the entry requirements. Since 40 teams move on to round 2, that means that 10 teams will be eliminated tonight (and the other 40 will earn 1,000). Tonight's matches will be used in seeding the groups for tomorrow night, when only the top 2 in each division will make it through to the playoffs, so play your best to get the easiest road to success tomorrow night.

 

Tonight's matches begin at 5:00 PM PST (8:00 PM EST)

 

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3
A Snoo Snoo Corrupted Tankers FNRIR JAGERMEISTER TTIME Templar Knights Transformers [TF] Troll Free Zone Vengeance força brasileira ( FBR )	!!!NTR (FBB) Força Blindada Brasileira -Smoke- BMA - VICTORIAS CON SUDOR CHILE NPEEK Phantom Brawlerz We Be Rustlin YODA's JEDI emagdnim	ARBOK Crimson Blade D-O-S Deviate [DV8] Hardware Husares de la Muerte [HUSAR] Intangible Love for Clams M-M-E R3V3NG3ANC3 WINCHESTER
Group 4	Group 5
ANVIL CORVO HavoK ICYDEATH B_I_A KING MGL-A RELIC Reddit [70] Wulffepack Aelfrich rga	1RAD Imperial Guards Ponyz 24th Knights of the Red Table [KRT] MSD PLSGO The Demon Brigade Thugz! Tundra VORTEX zeus

 

 

The following clans had players removed from their tournament teams because they are not in the clan represented:

Spoiler

Tundra
PanzerSabot

 

HavoK
truemetlle, _Lion

 

MGL-A
ganbat_pro, SaiHNaa_MN

 

Intangible Love for Clams
GrannyW

 

M-M-E
clos12

 

Reddit
MuchDoge

 

ANVIL
TheGreenTank, OldManBill

 

KING
LoveZN1st_CN

 

WINCHESTER
Kurt_Meyer1944, ericomoll

 

JAGERMEISTER
ozzyray69, Le_Frog

 

RELIC
Hellsfog

 

Husares de la Muerte [HUSAR]
dont_cry, DanielCampos, samy1105, Skrillexfhm, ganicuzz

 

(FBB) Força Blindada Brasileira
BandoLucasBR

 

Deviate [DV8]
Latorious

 

MSD

deaniboy

 

A Snoo Snoo
WhatTheFlank, Cookielicous, LVLAsian, Pietrus

 

VORTEX
GTA_SESSHOUMARU

 

[Hypnotik]

Here are your groups for Round 2. There was another tie for the last few spots in, and each of these 41 teams has earned the 1,000. The map this round will be Severogorsk. Only the top 2 teams in each group will move on to the next round, the playoffs.

 

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4
!!!NTR RELIC -Smoke- ICYDEATH B_I_A 1RAD KING NPEEK Corrupted Tankers ANVIL Hardware BMA - VICTORIAS CON SUDOR	Intangible Love for Clams HavoK We Be Rustlin Crimson Blade Imperial Guards Ponyz 24th CORVO Phantom Brawlerz Deviate [DV8] The Demon Brigade MSD	PLSGO D-O-S Reddit YODA's JEDI Knights of the Red Table [KRT] WINCHESTER M-M-E Vengeance Troll Free Zone MGL-A	TTIME Templar Knights JAGERMEISTER força brasileira ( FBR ) Thugz! Tundra R3V3NG3ANC3 FNRIR CHILE A Snoo Snoo

[themusgrat]

Apologies to Otter last night for letting you run rampant through the group. We had to go lose to reddit's 13th subclan.

[themusgrat]

Good fights to everyone today. Hilariously fun map tbh. Props to Winchester, after yesterday we didn't really take the battle seriously, you guys pulled it off well.

[Hypnotik]

Congrats to the top 8 clans, you guys are guaranteed at least 10,000. The tournament bracket has been updated at the top of this topic, and battles will be scheduled tomorrow morning. Battles begin at 5:00 PM PST, and they will be played on Malinovka.

[Hypnotik]

I've heard map selections from all teams except TTIME. The map for the NTR/TMPLR battle will be Malinovka, the others will be determined either when I hear from the captains of TTIME or at 3PM PST when their time runs out.

 

The OTTER/TTIME battle will take place on Serene Coast.

 

OTTER/TTIME: 4:30 PM PST

NTR/TMPLR: 5:00 PM PST

 

Good luck.

[stevezaxx]

my prediction for the winner? Clan [CTD]!