Saturday Clanwars

Temporary Score Board:


Matches won/Matches played/Games won/Games played

- RSN 1/1/3/3
- TheGBC 2/3/4/8
- Mean 0/1/1/3
- ISP 0/1/0/2


Dear clans,

Ever wanted to know if you're proud humans or bloated meatbags?
Have you wondered whether you're mean machines or tame toasters?


In order to encourage the competitive Zero-K community we've decided to organise weekly clan fights on Saturdays where a tournament isn't scheduled.

The event will consist of a main 3v3 match between two clans, with optional parallel side matches if both clans field enough players.
A scoreboard will be kept up to date in this post to enable easier gloating for all parties involved, except those who lose.

Clans:
- Currently the participating clans will be TheGBC ISP and Mean

Rules:
- First map will be pre-determined, afterwards the clan which lost the previous game picks the map for the next.
- There will be 3 games per match (since there's no elimination but score, all 3 will be played)
- Player substitution between games is allowed.

Schedule:
- The first fight will be held between ISP and TheGBC on 18 July 2015. Further details coming soon.

Notes:
- Any clan who thinks they can participate are welcome to contact either hokomoko or [ISP]Lauri
- Please refrain from acquiring 'foreign players' to your clan in the last minutes before the match.
- Mumble use is highly encouraged, both intra-clan and inter-clan.

May the best clan win,
[ISP]Lauri & hoko

Clan ELOn will bring glory to its name!

quote: 3v3 match

...oh nvm then :(

I wouldn't mind rejoining GBC or ISP in order to beat some toasters

Interesting. I had thought about something like this myself, but being that I'm super biased towards 1v1, I was considering more of a ProLeague-style thing (before remembering a better format later In this post). For reference, ProLeague is (or at least was) a format for StarCraft where 4-player teams would play a best of 5, where the first three players had to use different races, then the other two were free pick, with the last match being played by any of the 4 players. I'm not sure the race/factory restrictions would translate to Zero-K, maybe in terms of limiting map choices (first three must be hills, flatland, and sea in any order), but that was kind of secondary anyway.

3v3 could be neat, though, just at if not past the limit of what one person (or at least I) can cast alone.

EDIT: I just remembered another format that is probably more suitable for both the OP and my 1v1 bias. Basically, each team has 3 players, and winner stays. Ultimately it is a best of 5, but the player requirements are lower, and winner stays is probably more intuitive (if a bit less team focused), than cycling through each player once before letting anyone play.

XCOM would join in, if there's more same-level clans out there. Would be fun!

It would be awesome to see the clan scene perk up a bit around this.

Fly the banner!
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I'll try to be there.

Forever you should account for people not being 100% available for you to summon. I think hoping for more than one game played in parallel is... too early.

quote: each team should submit their rooster 3 days before their game

The OP didn't mention chicken games!

I somewhat doubt a format relying on 1v1 matches would work well for this. One of the aims here is to grow and liven up the clan scene. It makes sense to use a game size that perhaps appeals to the widest audience.

3v3 is a good game size, it's small enough to appeal to duelists, but large enough to appeal to regular attendants of the All Welcome room as well. Not to mention we already have 1v1 and 2v2 tournaments, so choosing some other game size made additional sense.

3v3 was picked in order to be a solid format for an interesting team game between competitive players.

Part of the side matches is to allow exploration of other formats so if these prove to be more interesting than the main match, they'll become the main match.