Curse

yesitsrob · Mar 29, 2007, 06:38 AM // 06:38

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Originally Posted by Standings

1 Esoteic Warriors
2 Idiot Savants
3 Mostly Harmless
4 Winners Remorse
5 Ominous Latin Name
6 Team Everfrost
7 Rus Corp
8 Battery Powered Best Friend
9 Bambis Don’t Say
10 Time Is Running
11 Serious Sin
12 Temporal Flux Reality
13 Listen To
14 한 얼
15 Zero Files Remaining
16 Supernova Jpn
17 Chimera of Intensity
18 Accident Prone
19 X Attention Disorder X
20 Powerpuff Boys
21 Rise In Superior Competition
22 Forlorn Savior
23 Storm Bearers
24 Team Quitter
25 Newbs On Tour
26 Fame Factory
27 Bruderschaft der Verdammnis
28 I Agony Realm I
29 Servants of Fortuna Victrix
30 Synthetic Gods
31 Revive Teammates
32 Spectral Agony

So top 32 is funny. The top 16 even funnier, including a very low ranked Korean guild who got through because someone in FFs failed.

QQ missed top 16 because their opponents sucked.

Team Chaos Theory completely dropped out of the top 32 after their loss to OUT because their opponents sucked.

In conclusion 10 - 35 is rather dependant on how bad your opponent is. And also shows the importance of winning round 1 and 2 - losing both makes you finish at 29 even if you win your remaining 6. So arguably, the opponent you get in round 1 can help you a lot. Getting one of the top teams will practically screw you over for the rest of the tournament

. Even if you are normally a top team too.

In conclusion, while MOST the good teams made it to the top 16, a lot got unlucky and missed it. Too much luck involved though imo

And where the hell are vD?

Elrodien · Mar 29, 2007, 09:03 AM // 09:03

It was an unusual competition, but I'm glad I was a part of it. My ex-guild finished 123rd or something. Looking forward to my transmorgifier potion - whoopeeeeeeeeee!!!

Good luck to the teams that made it to the top 16.

Yue · Mar 29, 2007, 11:13 AM // 11:13

Yeah. we got pretty unlucky.

Div · Mar 29, 2007, 04:53 PM // 16:53

Yeah, and the fact that a lot of the top teams gave up after figuring out scheduling sucks or that they took a loss or two makes this tourney even less appealing...

tricolorsp · Mar 29, 2007, 05:20 PM // 17:20

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Originally Posted by yesitsrob

So arguably, the opponent you get in round 1 can help you a lot. Getting one of the top teams will practically screw you over for the rest of the tournament

. Even if you are normally a top team too.

this is not true...
the problem is losing to a crap guilds in the first round, cause you wont get points and wont get a high OPwin%

We faced iQ in round1 and still finished in top16... in fact i think iQ helped us a lot since they boosted our OP win % and made us fight weaker guilds in rounds 2,3 and 4.

yesitsrob · Mar 29, 2007, 07:16 PM // 19:16

Right, but you maybe got lucky with the rest of your opponents? those weaker guilds you faced in rounds 2,3,4 might not have been _that_ weak in respect to others in the tourney, our round 3 and 4 opponents finished on something like 3 and 6.

If you lose game 1 - you're going to face a loser in the 2nd round too - chances of your loser in the 2nd round being any good are not so high.

If you lose the first 2... chances of facing anyone good in remaining 6 rounds is so low. (since guilds on 0 points by round 3 will likely be bad)

we lost our first match, and then got Nap for our 2nd round and lost that too. this kind of sucked for us... when you're on 0 points for round 3 you are not going to get good opponents, you are going to get bad opponents who will overall give you a terrible win-loss ratio.

We had 2 tough matches and then 6 complete stompings. Including one opponent who finished on 3 points.

The lower the points you get at the start, the higher the chance of you facing a team that will give you a bad WL ratio in later rounds.

Mystic- · Mar 30, 2007, 12:06 AM // 00:06

We lost to PnH 1st round who then totally screwed us over by going inactive and loosing/withdrawing from tourny games so we where extremely lucky to win our remaining 7 games :@

You just got tomahawked · Mar 30, 2007, 01:11 AM // 01:11

<----lost 300 ectos because Custo decided he liked WoW and as a result didn't get into the top 16. GG [QQ]

yesitsrob · Mar 30, 2007, 07:28 AM // 07:28

In other news: Sportsmanship awards.

1. Forsaken Wanderers – Wins permanent transmogrify potion and skill pin set per roster member

2. The Shadow Knights – wins skill pin set per roster player

3. Legion of Losers – wins skill pin set per roster player

4. Bruderschaft der Verdammnis – wins skill pin set per roster player

5. Storm Bearers – wins skill pin set per roster player

I guess the question is, what idiots sent nomination for quite possibly the most UNsportsmalike team in the tournament.

FlyingCube · Mar 30, 2007, 02:45 PM // 14:45

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Originally Posted by yesitsrob

I guess the question is, what idiots sent nomination for quite possibly the most UNsportsmalike team in the tournament.

I really dont want to get into the whole dV thing AGAIN, but pretty much all the other guilds we played suggested us for it. Not our fault dV screwed themselves over and ACE cancelled at the last minute of the fallback time. Its not like we were trying to not play teams, hell, we all woke up at 4am for our match with supernova jpn (who are pretty cool guys anyways, even though they ran sb/ri

)

Hauki · Mar 30, 2007, 04:04 PM // 16:04

Yea, the list of sportsmanship awards is possibly more amusing than the top 16 itself.

zhou · Mar 31, 2007, 04:54 PM // 16:54

Meow lost to Vibe, we had an error in match 1 due to anet servers and they didn't let us restart.

thanks Anet, gg

in match 2 they had a counter to our build and they played well, gg Vibe

Aera · Mar 31, 2007, 05:22 PM // 17:22

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Originally Posted by zhou

Meow lost to Vibe, we had an error in match 1 due to anet servers and they didn't let us restart.

thanks Anet, gg

Wow so far for sportsmanship...

Legendary Shiz · Mar 31, 2007, 07:30 PM // 19:30

Sportsmanship in video games is retarded, if I decided to trash talk and you decide to take it seriously that's your problem. If you don't show up for a scheduled time or don't bother to schedule a time you lose, its your own fault. If you have an e7 you shouldn't expect the other team to not take advantage of it. Sure, this is a game. But who's playing to lose?

Mystic- · Mar 31, 2007, 08:53 PM // 20:53

Above post. QFT. Harsh but QFT.

Thomas.knbk · Mar 31, 2007, 09:25 PM // 21:25

How is it bad sportmanship? They had an error and they lost. Who knows what woud've happened?
Second match they didn't, but he said 'they played well, gg Vibe'

dgb · Apr 01, 2007, 03:10 AM // 03:10

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Originally Posted by zhou

Meow lost to Vibe, we had an error in match 1 due to anet servers and they didn't let us restart.

thanks Anet, gg

in match 2 they had a counter to our build and they played well, gg Vibe

Hard to feel sorry for a guild that only gets where it is because Izzy hasn't balanced the game...

Lafayette · Apr 01, 2007, 06:09 AM // 06:09

I wanted Vibe to win, but I think Meow is a good guild which, after their matches, deserved to be in the top 32. They do what they can to win. It's not their fault Anet's game balancers are somewhat lacking in ability. At least they're not running blood spike.

Surena · Apr 01, 2007, 07:50 PM // 19:50

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Originally Posted by Legendary Shiz

Sportsmanship in video games is retarded, if I decided to trash talk and you decide to take it seriously that's your problem.

You don't decide, you do. There are no excuses for trash-talking, just confess being retarded and immature - way cooler imotbh.

iQ ran SR-Abuse on Jade and lost gloriously against eF. How sweet.

Thom Bangalter · Apr 04, 2007, 06:41 PM // 18:41

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Originally Posted by Serena

iQ ran SR-Abuse on Jade and lost gloriously against eF. How sweet.

and eF used soul reaping to win that game and later went on to win gold capes with HEXES ON JADE.

You can't fault iQ (or eF) for running some gimmicky crap on Jade that everyone hates on the ladder, for two reasons 1) it's a tournament, so you play to win, and 2) who knew that necro was going to be able to maintain veil on 8 people thanks to those spirits?