Ayjayirl's Back Garden Invitational Online Tournament.

ayjayirl

Doctor DooM wrote: »

I didn't see meds or A-trak online tonight, soz.


Maybe tomorrow.

Meds, I thought we said 8pm Monday?

Ry

Where are the Recordings???

Xinkai

Both players did a no-show.

Disqualify them both.

Doctor DooM

Ry wrote: »

Where are the Recordings???

There was no one online.

Prob a good thing, I'm not feeling the mae west right now. Early sleep was good.

ayjayirl

It is getting to a point where I'll have to make a decision on giving myself a by.


Meds........ I am left with little choice.


Tonight would have to be the last chance. I have tried to get you online to play this for 2 weeks now. (nearly) . Whats the story?

ayjayirl

Does anyone know if meds is gonna play this match?

Ry

ayjayirl wrote: »

Does anyone know if meds is gonna play this match?

Fck him!

PPC

ayjayirl wrote: »

Does anyone know if meds is gonna play this match?

He was last active on boards yesterday, so i'm guessing he's probably seen the post.
Maybe send a pm and give him 2 days to reply with a date?

UberPrinny_Baal

He seems to be a hard guy to get ahold of.

It would be pretty lame though for a semi-final match to be decided by disqualification though.

Placebo

this whole tournament is lame
fairplay to ajay for setting it up and investing time into it
but people need to cop on, its understandable that people are busy with work etc but it doesnt take hours, WE DEMAND RESULTS

ayjayirl

Right, I have sent him a pm. Uber - I agree, I dont want it to be a by, I want to beat him to get to the final .

If he can't play the game tonight though I need to do something.

K.O.Kiki

Tough love is all he'll understand.

BTW, not to be a dick but this tourney has gone on for ages

Scavenger XIII

I can't believe it's still getting delayed when just about all the group matches were done on time over a single weekend.

prenelf

If you're going to have another one let me know. I need a fix before the next inferno.:D

ayjayirl

Right, I think what I'll do is set the final for Sunday night. That way if Meds is a no show on the forum or xbl, he'll just have to forfeit and the final will go ahead.

Anyone have any objections?

Is Sunday ok for those concerned?

GorySnake

So WHO won between A-Trak and Foamy?

UberPrinny_Baal

Sounds good AJ

GorySnake wrote: »

So WHO won between A-Trak and Foamy?

HYPE!!!

bush

SRS will someone just tell us who won that match? Its not hype anymore.

Placebo

bush is right, GET OFF IT

A-Trak

Not sure if Dooms gonna get a chance to record this before the final, so agree there's no need for the hype

Result:

Foamy won 10 - 8

Scavenger XIII

A-Trak wrote: »

Not sure if Dooms gonna get a chance to record this before the final, so agree there's no need for the hype

Result:

Foamy won 10 - 8

Disappointing, I was totally expecting an elaborate bluff there.

ayjayirl

Right so.

Foamy

are you ok to play the final on Sunday night? Does anyone want to get invited to the lobby so they can broadcast it or is recording it good enough for people?

Meds..... There's still time......

ayjayirl

Placebo wrote: »

bush is right, GET OFF IT

Bitter

Placebo

not at all, im glad i got out early. This all sounds frustrating and to think it all started off with great potential and hype, dogs doing the draws, images, videos.
Now were at the 35th page using spoiler tags, just in case.

ayjayirl

Placebo wrote: »

not at all, im glad i got out early. This all sounds frustrating and to think it all started off with great potential and hype, dogs doing the draws, images, videos.
Now were at the 35th page using spoiler tags, just in case.

Wha-evs Farz.

Christmas break. This ain't the premiership.

Tourney will be concluded this Sunday.

Ry

ayjayirl wrote: »

Right so.

Foamy

are you ok to play the final on Sunday night? Does anyone want to get invited to the lobby so they can broadcast it or is recording it good enough for people?

Meds..... There's still time......

Yeh and don't reply here for super hype spoiler reasons :rolleyes:

I bet

Foamy

really is foaming at the mouth to get this over and done with.

Speaking of

Foamy

. I haven't seen

Foamy

fight in a long time. I wonder if

Foamy

Foamy

would

Foamy

Foamy

Foamy

I really hope

Foamy

wins.

This post is how I view this tournament thanks to how it's gone, thanks to it's participants. AJ's done something for the players by sorting this **** out and putting up with it and you lads have pissed about and basically **** all over it by not getting your ass in gear for a couple of fights. Sort it the f*ck out, sit down and play the ****ing fight then **** off and dont enter this type of thing again if you can't dedicate 2 minutes from your precious time spent most likely picking your nose wankin off to porn to sit down and play a game you play all the ****ing time anyway thanks.

GGs!

P.S.

If you read this you are gay!

Doctor DooM

To be fair Ry, it's only one guy fecking around, it's just unfortunate he's gotten the whole way through the tournament, and putting AJ in the difficult position of having to bye himself. Tisn't fair to paint everyone with the same bush.

Except Farz, it's prob all his fault somehow.

FoamyMushroom

I can play the final on sunday night if thats grand with ppls?

Doctor DooM

FoamyMushroom wrote: »

I can play the final on sunday night if thats grand with ppls?

I'm pretty sure AJ wants to do it Sunday indeed

Placebo

Doctor DooM wrote: »

To be fair Ry, it's only one guy fecking around, it's just unfortunate he's gotten the whole way through the tournament, and putting AJ in the difficult position of having to bye himself. Tisn't fair to paint everyone with the same bush.

Except Farz, it's prob all his fault somehow.

bush

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Tisn't fair to paint everyone with the same bush.

What have I got to do with this?

Ry

Well it definitely seems like there's been a lot of arsing around on various fronts.

ayjayirl

Ry wrote: »

Well it definitely seems like there's been a lot of arsing around on various fronts.

Not really, just trying to get people to play their matches when they arrange them was difficult, and to be fair to most, they did and as I said at the start of it, it will take participants help to keep it running smoothly. I don't know why Meds turned out to be so unreliable.

It seems longer cause Christmas put it on hold for basically 2 weeks.

Foamy v me in the final lads. Tomorrow at 8pm.

UberPrinny_Baal

My group was mad pro, so props to Yreval, Monkeyto and Misty.

Everyone came online at the time we agreed, we paired off and did our matches, swapped around and did the other matches. Everyone sent their results to me, and we were done in about an hour.

Placebo

proposition to ban MEDUCATION from the forms so?

Doctor DooM

Placebo wrote: »

proposition to ban MEDUCATION from the forms so?

Well, if I banned him, I'd have to ban other people who've said they'd turn up for tournaments and didn't...

Serious answer in case anyone is wondering: People only get banned on boards for misbehaving on boards.

I've no idea where meds is or why but for all we know he might have a very valid reason. No wagon circling please, and apologies if I came accross that way.

Placebo

I WAZ only playin brian

Doctor DooM

Placebo wrote: »

I WAZ only playin brian

OH right.


*Unbans Farz*

ayjayirl

FoamyMushroom wrote: »

I can play the final on sunday night if thats grand with ppls?

8pm?

Lag test first and then go time!

FoamyMushroom

Yea! Sounds good to me.


BRING IT OOOONNNNN!!!!

bush

Can I stream this ajay?

bush

Stream starting now

http://www.justin.tv/bush80#/w/767383408

ayjayirl

Foamy takes it. 10-2

congrats foamy. Cross up vortex is an arse pain.

.. For you Ry..

UberPrinny_Baal

Gratz Foamy

ayjayirl

Right guys, the tourney is over now. Congratulations to FoamyMushroom. As the Irish Online Champion, you will have to defend your title at the next one.

The running of this tournament was disrupted a bit by Christmas but all in all I think it went ok for the first one. I learned a few things:

1) Farz is crap - Probably the most important determination from the tourney.
2) Ibuki's vortex is broken -
3) Recording FT10 matches, commentating on them and trying to upload them on my interweb connection, whilst improved somewhat, is still very time consuming. Special Thanks to Doomitron for his help with this.
4) I think we could easily run another one with a bigger pool
5) Getting players to play their matches on time - For the most part, everyone was great in this regard (Thanks to all). Christmas didn't help matters and I know that life just gets in the way (as it should really). I think we have to accept the fact that when running something like this, things like this happen and we should have a pre-arranged course of action. This was a lack of foresight on my part and one that should be addressed for the next one.
6) Unless there are objections, I am thinking of running another one. A little bit more structured with a more players - that is if there is interest in another one.
7) I want to also thank Bush for broadcasting the final match.


Any thoughts or comments from anyone?

K.O.Kiki

Would you not consider switching to a faster format, e.g. FT5?

Fergus_

I forgot to mention.

I have broadcasting equipment, I used to stream on JTV so if you need any matches streamed, I can do it if Bush isn't available.

I'm up for a 2nd online tourny!

ayjayirl

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Would you not consider switching to a faster format, e.g. FT5?

Might be an idea. I'd keep the finals and maybe the semi finals as a FT10 with the knockout stages before then and after groups to FT5. Might make sense, especially with larger numbers.

I was also toying with the idea of making this online tournament a regular thing for Ireland online. just a thought. We could hold the tourney periodically, open to all Irish players (Including Northern Ireland). Its main purpose is to put some highlight on the regular Irish players, use it as a medium to attract new players to come to inferno and other live competitions. Players might not go to an event but might take part in an online tourney as its just the sitting room away. The sense of involvement might bring a few more Hound like players to the scene. I know I have met Irish players online that I have never seen on boards/inferno. Not to mention that there are alot of players outside Dublin who might find it beneficial to play in this to get the cross mojoulation between players. I would probably not have played Sairus online without the tournament. Not through any reason other than we just wouldn't normally play online against each other. As a result my Rose match up is better than it was before. Pity my Ibuki match up is still rubbish.
Plus its free - apart from the heartache
It will also give some structure to getting match up practice at a competitive level. (God knows I need it).

I'd be willing to run the next one but like inferno, I think it would be best to alternate the organisers between the coalition of the willing.

We could even start to seed the tourneys after a short while based on results. BTW - here is the finishing order for the tourney:

Rankings:
1st: FoamyMushroom
2nd: AyJayirl
3rd: A-Trak
3rd: Meducation
5th: Sairus
6th: Yreval
6th: Banjo_B
8th: UberPrinny_Baal

For rankings for the players who went out in the first knockout stages I just used games won in the match. If I got it wrong let me know.

Also rans:
Farz
Chopper
Scavanger VIII
Future Guy
Rob2D
Unky Chop Chop
Misty Chaos
Monkeyto

Thanks to all you guys for making it happen.

I leave it to the community to decide on Yeah/Neigh. Any objections?

UberPrinny_Baal

ayjayirl wrote: »

Rankings:
1st: FoamyMushroom
2nd: AyJayirl
3rd: A-Trak
3rd: Meducation
5th: Sairus
6th: Yreval
6th: Banjo_B
8th: UberPrinny_Baal

Haha, bottom of the top tier.

I liked this tournament for a couple of reasons:

(1) It didn't exclude people
(2) It actually ran
(3) It actually finished
(4) Match videos with commentary were mad hype!

I think the difference between FT10 and FT5 from the perspective of the tournament is pretty negligible when people sit down to play. FT10 gives people time to try and adapt to a match when they're losing.

It definitely ads the most time when it comes to recording, uploading and commentating though. Maybe it should be up to Doom?

ayjayirl

Guys, this has nothing to do with Azza's tourney. His actually inspired me to do something like this. His was an invitational. Agree or disagree with him isn't really the issue. As a result we have an opportunity, with community interest, to run an open online tourney.

Any tournament with a limited number of places will exclude people.

Which raises a question. If we are to run a regular on line tournament, should be limit numbers or just make bigger pools/groups? I would say to not have a limit at all, just use bigger groups/pools.

Re: recording - Doom has no problem with the level of recording etc, he has just been pretty sick recently so it has slowed him down.......further.

He's got The Hiv