[TPA1] Tournament Players Association

[Lindax]

Sorry Bart. I was referring to them talking to each other about possibly creating another type of league.

Obviously they are more than welcome to discuss the TPA here.

Lx

[MudPuppy]

At this point in time my intention is that it represents a cross section of the tournaments found in CC. The plan is to run a variety of tournaments, one per week, to accumulate standings and such throughout the year. Each tournament is required to be open to all as an inclusive event. The exception is that there are certainly tournaments that do not need to be open to freemiums due to game load however if possible I would encourage all TOs to be open to all....

The vision here is to run for a year with 52 tournaments of a variety of types to represent the overall picture of CC tournaments. This means that all game play and such that that is used in tournaments should show up in tournaments in the TPA. This doesn't mean that any of the other suggestions are wrong but at this point I'd like to run through a year as things are currently. After the first year is over I'd like to re-visit the suggestions and see what can be improved but I would like to run through the first year and see how it works out too. I've been pleased with the events and the organizers thus far. We should start seeing some ending events shortly which will give us a scoreboard to work with as well.

Anyway, please keep the suggestions coming as I said, I'd like to revisit after this first year is over to see what, if anything needs to be changed and what suggestions we can put in or should put in.

The TPA is off to a great start and I concur that no major changes should be made until we get a full season completed in order to maintain continuity in Year 1.

For now, my only suggestion is to better meet bart's vision of trying to "represent the overall picture of CC tournaments" which has not yet been the case. 1v1 is probably the most popular format style among tournaments yet the TPA doesn't have its first traditional 1v1 scheduled until Week 12. There are also 3 assassin tourneys, including a Major, planned for the first 4 months when that style makes up ~3% of overall CC tourneys. While, I enjoy the variety of including these non-traditional formats into the TPA mix, I think we're off to a start that is skewed too heavily on the less-popular specialized tournament types.

EDIT: Corrected # of assassin tourneys in 1st 4 months from 2 to 3.

[barterer2002]

The reason there are 2 assassins early is that the first major is the assassin tournament. Prior to each of the majors there will be a "warm up" of a similar styling approximately 3 weeks prior. Thus since we have our assassin major scheduled for the Summer Major (the season where there is fewer players at any particular week) we've had two assassin tournaments in. We'll probably only have 3 or 4 all year long but because of the major, we just will have 2 early in the season. There are plenty of 1v1s coming in and while your complaint is that there isn't a "traditional 1v1" until Week 12 there have been several tournaments already that are in the 1v1 mode and there will be plenty.

With the scheduling, the purpose is generally to set is so that there aren't two identical modes back to back. Thus we don't have 1v1 or terminator or assassin or team or whatever in back to back weeks

In general the idea is that there are 5 main types of tournaments (singles, 1v1, teams, assassin, terminator).

In our 52 weeks the breakdown should be something along the lines of

Assassin 3
Terminator 5
Teams 10
singles 17
1v1 17

Give or take a few here to match up with what the TOs are looking to do. I haven't compared this to the schedule to see how we're doing on that at this point but I will.

[barterer2002]

The schedule is updated to include Lindax's entry. Jace, I thought I added yours last week and apologize since I appear not to have saved it.

[Jace22]

The schedule is updated to include Lindax's entry. Jace, I thought I added yours last week and apologize since I appear not to have saved it.

It's alright Bart, I just figured you were having a busy week.

[HighlanderAttack]

The first event is winding down. We are starting the finals now.

Game 7150357


Finals announced:

Here are the four players that won to advance to the finals


Zivel
crbluth
killmanic
HighlanderAttack


Good Luck in the Finals--winner wins first TPA event

[barterer2002]

Drop me a PM when you're done so I can get the standings up when they're done.

[Lindax]

Happy birthday barterer!

Lx

[barterer2002]

Thank you

[barterer2002]

I have swapped the events for July 5 and August 2 due to some scheduleing issues. jrh_cardinal will now be hosing the July 5 event with DJ Teflon moving to August 2 for his speed tournament.

[poptartpsycho18]

Next tourney: Master of Assassin [TPA]Taking Sign-ups!

[poptartpsycho18]

Currently in sign ups
Master of Assassin [TPA] June 21, 2010 Jace22

[barterer2002]

Sorry, I cut and pasted and missed part, I'll go fix it right now.

[poptartpsycho18]

Sorry, I cut and pasted and missed part, I'll go fix it right now.

Danke

[HighlanderAttack]

HA's Manual 64[TPA](Winner: Zivel)


Zivel has won the first ever TPA event. I want to thank everyone for playing and helping to make this a very smooth tourney. I hope to run a few more tourneys for the TPA and I believe I have one of the Majors. I will go through each game tonight and post the final standings.

Thanks again for playing.

[HighlanderAttack]

Final Placement of the first TPA event: Barterer will score and add the scores to the table.

Player ******* place
Zivel ******* 1st
crbluth ******* 2nd
HighlanderAttack ******* 3rd
killmanic ******* 4th
japser_be ******* 5th
adam666 ******* 5th
sonicsteve ******* 5th
Kinnison ******* 5th
keiths31 ******* 9th
Phr34ky ******* 9th
hwhrhett ******* 9th
jrh_cardinal ******* 9th
LB Ninja ******* 13th
ga7 ******* 13th
barterer2002 ******* 13th
Drew483 ******* 13th
Darin44 ******* 17th
White Moose ******* 17th
danryan ******* 17th
maasman ******* 17th
Bones2484 ******* 17th
Evil Semp ******* 17th
MudPuppy ******* 17th
jpcloet ******* 17th
kratos644 ******* 17th
Blinkadyblink ******* 17th
DimnjacarStef ******* 17th
ubcman64 ******* 17th
padsta ******* 17th
Gilligan ******* 17th
SirSebstar ******* 17th
Enormastitz ******* 17th
drunkmonkey ******* 33rd
jonty125 ******* 33rd
krasnyckyj ******* 33rd
vykingsfan64 ******* 33rd
benga ******* 33rd
amazzony ******* 33rd
redbugal ******* 33rd
discotits ******* 33rd
phantomzero ******* 33rd
masterhighlander ******* 33rd
MrGlassB ******* 33rd
Serbia ******* 33rd
shoop76 ******* 33rd
Risky_Stud ******* 33rd
Night Strike ******* 33rd
der sniffter ******* 33rd
stevieQ ******* 49th
dowian2 ******* 49th
ZionT ******* 49th
Timminz ******* 49th
JBlombier ******* 49th
denominator ******* 49th
shaneback ******* 49th
kuma32478 ******* 49th
kevlove102 ******* 49th
cgblack ******* 49th
Lindax ******* 49th
Erland ******* 49th
dtellis ******* 49th
LucaV ******* 49th
coacheberhardt ******* 49th
JoshyBoy ******* 49th

[adam666]

is anyone else having trouble looking at the scoreboard or is it just me

[sonicsteve]

no - I can't see anything either - I registered, but it tells me I don't have permission to view.

[barterer2002]

Alright let me see if i can figure it out.

[barterer2002]

OK I've changed the settings, it should work now so lets check and let me know.

[barterer2002]

Just FYI to any TPA players that aren't active in one of my tournaments. I'm going to be out of town from the 2nd through the 14th with limited to no internet access. I'll take care of any issues that arise after I get back (or before the 2nd if they arise before then)

[kennys777]

Is it possible to join the association at this time?

If so, please add me.

Thx
Kennys777

[sonicsteve]

Hi Kenny,

Just join either poptartpsycho or marval's TPA tournaments, both are available in the create / join part of the forum - you'll automatically be in the Association.

GL

[jrh_cardinal]

Here is my tourney: JRH's Random Escalators






it's open to freemies btw

[Zivel]

Posting here to remember that I was at the top of the TPA league once, lets see how long it lasts