EB Online Tournament 2014: A Call to Arms

[vartan]

EB Online Tournament 2014: A Call to Arms

Introduction
It has been a while and our swords have rusted, but I call on you to polish that steel and ready yourselves for another round of our dearest old friend, Europa Barbarorum Online summer tournament. In the days of old, we would run two or more month-long tournaments during the summer. Last year (2013) proved to us that EB as a multiplayer game was aging, nearing what seems to be its end. In honor of everyone who participated in the development of this great mod, which is now culminating in the first public release of its sequel, let us raise our swords one last time.

Setup
The setup should be familiar to the veterans. For the newcomers to the multiplayer scene, please visit our Getting Started and Rules pages so as to familiarize yourself with the necessary custom EDU as well as our detailed ruleset. Please do not feel daunted! It is simpler than it seems at first glance. This tournament will be a Single Elimination tournament with each matchup being determined by the Best of Three battles. The exception is the Finals which will be Best of Five. Players are seeded randomly.

Sign-ups, Start and End Date
Sign-ups are accepted until Thursday, 12 June 2014, at 11:59 PM EDT (New York; UTC -4 hours). The tournament thus begins on (wait for it!) Friday the 13th of June 2014. I will announce the closure of sign-ups with a reply to this thread and an update to this first post. The tournament ends when the finals are over. I trust the players to arrange their match times among themselves, but please resolve through the end of finals before 31 July 2014, before the release of EB II. Please connect using our Hamachi network (100-792-846; eb).

Prizes

1st Place

Europa Universalis IV
EB T-Shirt

2nd place

Skyrim
EB T-Shirt

Getting Started
Rules
Tournament Bracket

For all suggestions, concerns, questions or concerns, please reply to this thread or feel free to send me private message.

Game on,

Vartan

[vartan]

Reserved.

[BroskiDerpman]

I will be installing hamachi tomorrow, I'll be available to play after that. Just chat me when I'm online on the network as when I'm on I can play.

[Kranos]

can people from TWC sign up there? I brought some guys

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...-Sign-ups-Open

[Vlixes]

Count me in. I hope I can resolve the Hamachi lobby problem I've got since the change of PC.

[vartan]

Awesome, we have 11 members now. Let's get some more players! This will be great :)

[madmatg]

I would love to play but not sure how multiplayer will work on my computer, could someday try a round out with me?

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[vartan]

Tishtar, the way we have it set up, it's simply an elimination tournament. Arranged matches where the first to get 2 victories moves on. Keeps it simple. Though I think it would be worth trying out the scored resolutions sometime. I don't plan on changing anything last minute such as the format, but it's a good idea.

Madmatg, I'll add you to the bracket for now. I hope you are able to play!

[madmatg]

Thanks vartan, I am in China so by schedule may be a little difficult but most of my classes are over for the semester so I'll have extra time

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[Kranos]

Ill have only fugitive internet acces most of this month so Im afraid Ill have to withdraw from this. I hope youll have good fun and the best will win.

[Sepehr Kurden Madig]

Sweeeeeet Sweeeeeet Sweeeeet !!! THANK GOD IM HERE ON TIME !!! and ill be playing as ptolemy (god help me i havnt played the game for about 9 months :( )

[madmatg]

Haha I haven't played multiplayer in like 5 years :0

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[Jiub]

The rules say nothing of a cap on cavalry, except regarding the unit's cost. Is that correct ?
Also, what's so unbalanced in upgrading troops's armor or weapon ?

[Sepehr Kurden Madig]

Hey just one thing ! me and tishtar (im his friend) cant start the tournement till till saturday ! is it ok ? well i have a stable connection and tishtar is on vacation till then ! so if its ok we will start our matches then !

[vartan]

The rules say nothing of a cap on cavalry, except regarding the unit's cost. Is that correct ?
Also, what's so unbalanced in upgrading troops's armor or weapon ?

A long time ago in a galaxy far away the players investigated and came to the conclusion that other than a single experience boost, the blacksmith upgrades (for weapon or armor) were too high-benefit low-cost for the sake of multiplayer. All balancing revolved around redesigning the multiplayer EDU. Very good question, thank you for that.

Hey just one thing ! me and tishtar (im his friend) cant start the tournement till till saturday ! is it ok ? well i have a stable connection and tishtar is on vacation till then ! so if its ok we will start our matches then !

If tishtar is unable to connect to his opponents, he may not be able to play at all. It's something that errs me quite a bit since it's not a new issue. Each year we have a handful of folk who for some reason or another cannot connect to others in the game, despite having a 'normal' Internet connection setup, with nothing that could apparently be an issue...

Also, remember, it is up to the players to arrange with their opponent in their current matchup when they will play their 3 games, before reporting the results here (with replays). I know I didn't mention this, but please, please post your replays here. We not only archive replays for posterity's sake, but just in case we need to review them.

You may notice the seeds in the tournament bracket being shuffled as new players come in. Don't mind this. After I announce the closure of registrations, the bracket will remain fixed. At that point, anyone who for whatever reason cannot play in the tournament (be it a technical issue, or real life) will simply be marked as having lost their matchup, and their opponent having moved on to the next round.

[madmatg]

I would love if someone could help me try this out, I have it all set up but haven't ever tried on this new computer I have. Anybody got time? don't need to play a full game just make sure it loads and connects ok

[Sepehr Kurden Madig]

Guys how can i contact my opponent ? I dont know where to find him !

[madmatg]

Me and my partner are in communication we just have missed each other a few times, we'll get it sooner or later

[BroskiDerpman]

No signs from mrbasso.

[vartan]

No signs from mrbasso.

I'm on a mission to translate some Immanuel Kant from German to English. I'll be done within the next four or so hours. If by the time I return from this mission I haven't heard from mrbasso, I'm advancing BroskiDerpman to the next round. Just putting this here for the record and so we have a rough timeline. Wouldn't call it short notice since it's been a week or longer!

[sonnet]

May I ask if it's possible to join the tournament?

[TWmodding]

sonnet you may take my place.... me and ooji have technical problems with Hamachi after multiple hours it isn't fixed.
Ooji surrenderd so i abdicate and you may take the command against BroskiDerpman

[Adalingum]

Shot off another pm at king of the ring (first one 2/3 weeks ago). Since I'll be gone for a while soon I might withdraw, but I'll report here should that come to pass

Cohors_Evocata / Adalingum

[vartan]

Darn. Alright, I've got @sonnet in for TWModding, awaiting an opponent. Cohors_Evocata/Adalingum, I'm sorry! I'll PM King of the Ring to see if I get a response. Sorry for the inconvenience. @tishtar I'll PM Wise Coffin and Quetzalcoatl as well to see if I get a response, thanks for the heads up.

[sonnet]

Darn. Alright, I've got @sonnet in for TWModding, awaiting an opponent. Cohors_Evocata/Adalingum, I'm sorry! I'll PM King of the Ring to see if I get a response. Sorry for the inconvenience. @tishtar I'll PM Wise Coffin and Quetzalcoatl as well to see if I get a response, thanks for the heads up.

@vartan : sorry I have to withdraw for the moment. I thought I could make it work hamachi with Linux, as I'm using RTW on wine with LInux.
Until I figure this out ,I have to withdraw. Again, sorry

[Adalingum]

@ Vartan: Oops, my bad, I didn't expect you (or anybody else here, for that matter) to respond like that. I should've specified that I did receive a reply to my first pm, it's just that king of the ring wasn't set up yet at the time. My previous post was a notification of my own possible lack of time, not an accusation towards king of the ring, but I agree, it was very badly worded. Again, my apologies. It wasn't my intent to mislead.

[vartan]

@vartan : sorry I have to withdraw for the moment. I thought I could make it work hamachi with Linux, as I'm using RTW on wine with LInux.
Until I figure this out ,I have to withdraw. Again, sorry

You'll be better off running it inside VirtualBox on a copy of WinXP or Win7. Let me know if you're sure then that you won't be playing.

@ Vartan: Oops, my bad, I didn't expect you (or anybody else here, for that matter) to respond like that. I should've specified that I did receive a reply to my first pm, it's just that king of the ring wasn't set up yet at the time. My previous post was a notification of my own possible lack of time, not an accusation towards king of the ring, but I agree, it was very badly worded. Again, my apologies. It wasn't my intent to mislead.

No problem. I just want to make sure whether you two are going to be able to play or not. He mentioned when he registered on the TWC that he may or may not be able to play, so that's a factor I need to consider.

[BroskiDerpman]

So am I versus Sonnet now?

Just for your knowledge I will not be available next week but will be available after that.

[vartan]

So am I versus Sonnet now?

Just for your knowledge I will not be available next week but will be available after that.

MrBasso hasn't come forward so I'll advance you. Sonnet withdrew so the only person who is on standby to take his place is J5298333. I'll update the bracket to reflect this now.

Note: The server has been down the last day or two and I've been very upset, dealing with the company that hosts the server. I'm working each night to get it back to work asap. I'll put the link to the Factional Units List here so people can access it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...nc&usp=sharing

[Adalingum]

Since I'll be gone for about a week after tomorrow, I'll leave it to the organisers here to decide how to deal with my participation. As of writing, I have yet to receive a reply to my recent pm to king of the ring.