Conquer Madness!!! (winners in OP)

[Elaterate]

Congrats to our champions!!!

Elaterate
Caymanmew
misteryforall
kaiser szami
zabeast

HOSTED BY: Elaterate and shoop76

College Basketball is right around the corner and even if you're not a fan this is going to be a fun and long, just like a basketball season, Tournament... March Madness=Conquer Madness!!!


Looking for 24 Teams of 5 players each EDIT** This Tournament will have a total of 20 Teams


There will be 3 "Stages" to this Tournament.

Your 5 player Team will be broken down into Mainly 2 teams, 1 Triples and 1 Doubles (You choose, but you cannot change them throughout the Tournament) but you will be playing Quads games as well.

Your 5 player Team will pick ONE map/settings to be your "Home" map/settings for ALL 3 different teams. (Same map/settings for all teams)

There will be 4 "Conferences" with 6 teams each (EDIT** 5 teams in each conference now) and the placement of what teams are in what Conference will be determined by the NON-CONFERENCE part of our Season/Tournament.

Stage 1 - NON-CONFERENCE

This will be played in games of QUADS. Your Team will play a total of 10 games, 5 home and 5 away alternating week to week. Match-ups will be random and you will never play the same team twice. Each player in your 5 man team will play 8/10 of the games set up as so...

Game 1: Player A,B,C,D... Game 2: Player A,B,C,E... Game 3: Player A,B,D,E... Game 4: Player A,C,D,E... Game 5: Player B,C,D,E... Games 6-10 repeat same order of games 1-5.

Once all teams have completed their 10 Quads games I will place the Teams into Conferences based on the records through those 10 games

Example: 1st-2nd-3rd-10th-11th-12th; 4th-5th-6th-13th-14th-15th; 7th-8th-9th-19th-20th-21st; 14th-15th-16th-22nd-23rd-24th

STAGE 2 - CONFERENCE GAMES

Your Triples Team and your Doubles Team will play 2 games at home and 2 games away against each one of the 4 other Teams in your Conference coming to a total of 16 games for both your Doubles Team and your Triples Team .

SCORING: Just like in Basketball how a 3-pointer is worth more then a 2-pointer there will be a scoring system and the Triples games will be worth more then the Doubles games...

30pts for each Triples game won.... 20pts for each Doubles game won. (Only used during CONFERENCE stage)


After all Conference games have finished the top 2 teams with the most points from each Conference will lock up a spot for the final stage with another 8 spots going to the remaining 8 teams with the highest scores that didn't make the top 2 in their conference.

Tiebreaker(s) will be determined by 1 Quads game, Classic map, sunny, escalating, no trench, chained.

Seeding for this FINAL STAGE will be determined by overall scores with the top team from each Conference automatically earning a #1 seed.

FINAL STAGE

16 out of the 20 teams entered will make this.

Round 1 -
Each Triples Team will play 5 games, 3 Home - 2 Away (higher seed gets extra home game)
Each Doubles Team will play 4 games, 2 Home - 2 Away.
Best of 9 games (played simultaneously) moves you onto next round, losing 5+ out of 9 games ends your tournament.

Round 2 - 8 Teams - Same as Round 1 - Best of 9 games (played simultaneously)

Round 3 - 4 Teams - Best of 12 games with Tiebreaker game if needed - 6 Triples games, 6 Doubles games (3 Home, 3 Away for each team)

Round 4 - 2 Teams - CHAMPIONSHIP - Best of 16 games with Tiebreaker game if needed - 8 Triples games, 8 Doubles games (4 Home, 4 Away each)


TIEBREAKER GAME: Quads (You choose team) - Classic map, Sunny, Escalating, Chained, No Trench

STAGE 1: New game invites will be sent every Sunday.
STAGE 2: New game invites (4 for each team) will be sent every other Sunday (skipping Dec. 23rd).
STAGE 3: New game invites for rounds 3 and 4 sent TBD

ALL Games will be played with a 30 round limit.


There WILL be a Prize pool of 8500 Credits AND Stars!!!

Prizes

1st Place Team - 1200 Credits + 1 Blue Star (each player on team)

2nd Place Team - 500 Credits + 1 Pink Star (each player on team)

Please choose which College Basketball Team you would like to represent (No repeats please) and thanks for taking the time to read this and/or join my Tournament.

[Elaterate]

I will be using this Comment board to post the Teams as they sign up....

Team # 1: (Princeton Tigers) - Robespierre__, Uckuki, Iamcaffeine, Ukey, Zidane - 21 (Poison Rome/Escalating/Chained/Fog)

Team # 2: (N.C. St. Wolfpack) - swimmerdude99, hjelp, CaronylKluster, Conde180711, *pixar* (Conquer Rome/No Spoils/Chained/Fog)

Team # 3: (Oregon Ducks) - Elaterate, caymanmew, Kaiser Szami, misteryforall, ZaBeast (D-Day: Omaha Beach/No Spoils/Chained/Trench/Fog)

Team # 4: (Duke Blue Devils) - itsthegeneral, Wizz00, igotaished, bluesblazzer, jfm10, G0rgatr0n (Lunar Wars/No Spoils/Trench/Fog)

Team # 5: (Missouri Tigers) - MyNameIsJack, Mojo2222, Mageplunka69, TheTrueNorth, Ecor (Baltic Crusades/No Spoils/Chained/Trench/Fog)

Team # 6: (Northwestern Wildcats) - Evil Semp, Lord Banner, DukeHazzard, denominator, smwhitey , updalions (Baltic Crusades/Flat Rate/Chained/Fog)

Team # 7: (Notre Dame Fighting Irish) - Will Lee, Lord Arioch, knowman, bobbythomson, celliottii (WW-II Poland/Escalating/Chained/Fog)

Team # 8: (TCU Horned Frogs) - joshzam, Ragian, Darin44, tokle, pershy (Tribal War - Florida/No Spoils/Adjacent/Fog)

Team # 9: (Michigan St. Spartans) - DBandit70, bfunny27, dustin800, Robin Williams, JoelNRob, serram, Phil Gates, artillery77 (Waterloo/Flat Rate/Chained/Sunny)

Team # 10: (Kentucky Wildcats) - groovysmurf, JPlo64, madmom, Denise, MudPuppy (France 2.1/No Spoils/Chained/Fog/Trench)

Team # 11: (South Carolina Gamecocks) - shoop76, Tin trumpet, enormastitz, akabob2, generaltaken (Arms Race/No Spoils/Chained/Fog/Trench)

Team # 12: (Pitt. Panthers) - Shoe555, onecoolbiker69, King Edward 3rd, Thor60, Killuminati19 (Pearl Harbor/No Spoils/Chained/Fog)

Team # 13: (Grand Valley St. Lakers) - catstevens, stollmike, casperr, slaylark, Hawkeye (Eurasia/Flat Rate/Chained/Fog)

Team # 14: (Illinois Fighting Illini) - cpusurfer, GloriousPack, Trevor33, Tucktovich, Prince_Tottenham, worldconquer (Oasis/No Spoils/Chained/Fog/Trench)

Team # 15: (Syracuse Orange) - jytreberg, dan the general, rmjw10, General Bax, tfh182, Amos811, anonymus (Jamaice/Flate Rate/Chained/Fog)

Team # 16: (Northen Illinois Huskies) - keefie, Jurasu, brsteelers74, badmunkay, fc1966, GreenBaize, Johnny Dickshot (Classic Cities: Pot Mosbi/Escalating/Chained/Fog)

Team # 17: (Kansas Jayhawks) - Domination_44, J1mathman , TDJ-D, D3A7H, sportsgod24 (Tribal Wars: Florida/Escalating/Parachute/Fog)

Team # 18: (Maryland Terrapins) - itake, craigv, mdhill, bariclaw, elddir (USA 2.1/No Spoils/Parachute/Trench/Fog)

Team # 19: (Ohio State Buckeyes) - All Black Rugby, davekettering, MTIceman41, emilywink, Astoriana (Rail South America /Escalating/Parachute/Fog)

Team # 20: (UNLV Runnin Rebels) - mint-murray. c c, mcshanester29, Bullinger, cazmart - (Salem Switch/Nuclear/Parachute/Trench/Fog)


https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?res ... wKwzKG6OPg

[tfh182]

sign me up sounds great.........

[ZaBeast]

wow, expecting 120 people? Isn't that a bit ambitious? (not that it's a bad thing, I just think it's unlikely you'll get 120 people in. Surprise me )

For stage 2, I feel it would be better to pool the conference like the final is. Having the 6 best team in one conference is like having an over-the-top "group of death". And it gives no incentive to perform on the non-conference stage as you should end up with an easier conference if you do poorly.

What's the tie-breaker for two teams qualified for the final that have the same score (how would you determine in which seed they are)?

Final stage, round 1 & 2 --> shouldn't it be best of 9? (4 doubles+5 trips)

Finally, isn't the game load going to be pretty high? 10 team games per week for the conference stage, and you need to add to the games that will carry over from the 1st week for the second week. I would stretch at least that part up if I were you.

[Caymanmew]

wow, expecting 120 people? Isn't that a bit ambitious? (not that it's a bad thing, I just think it's unlikely you'll get 120 people in. Surprise me )

For stage 2, I feel it would be better to pool the conference like the final is. Having the 6 best team in one conference is like having an over-the-top "group of death". And it gives no incentive to perform on the non-conference stage as you should end up with an easier conference if you do poorly.

What's the tie-breaker for two teams qualified for the final that have the same score (how would you determine in which seed they are)?

Final stage, round 1 & 2 --> shouldn't it be best of 9? (4 doubles+5 trips)

Finally, isn't the game load going to be pretty high? 10 team games per week for the conference stage, and you need to add to the games that will carry over from the 1st week for the second week. I would stretch at least that part up if I were you.

My understanding is that the Conference stage will have 10 games over 10 weeks not 10 games a week for 10 weeks.

[Elaterate]

wow, expecting 120 people? Isn't that a bit ambitious? (not that it's a bad thing, I just think it's unlikely you'll get 120 people in. Surprise me )

For stage 2, I feel it would be better to pool the conference like the final is. Having the 6 best team in one conference is like having an over-the-top "group of death". And it gives no incentive to perform on the non-conference stage as you should end up with an easier conference if you do poorly.

What's the tie-breaker for two teams qualified for the final that have the same score (how would you determine in which seed they are)?

Final stage, round 1 & 2 --> shouldn't it be best of 9? (4 doubles+5 trips)

Finally, isn't the game load going to be pretty high? 10 team games per week for the conference stage, and you need to add to the games that will carry over from the 1st week for the second week. I would stretch at least that part up if I were you.

I like to ambitious

For Stage 2: Just like in college basketball there are conferences out there that have way more stronger teams then the "smaller" schools so that is why I designed it that way. I really hope a team wouldn't throw a game to get into what they see/think is a weaker conference.

Final Stage: Round 1 & 2 I kept at best of 7 so the next round(s) would be more games without getting out of hand with the game load for the players.

Finally about the game load for the conference stage... it is not 10 games/week... it is 2, 1 Triples and 1 Doubles, both either at home map or away. When I said "coming to a total of 10 games/weeks" I meant a total of 10 games for each the Triples Team and Doubles team in a 10 week period. So only 1 game/week would be sent out to each individual team during the Conference Stage. I expect some games to carry over and that is why it is only 1 a week per individual team during that stage. Forgot to mention how I wanted the final stage games to be sent out/played simultaneously... thoughts on that?

Edit* This was very early in the morning and my math was wrong. Correct game count has been edited in O.P.

[ZaBeast]

I still feel the best teams in the non-conference stage should be somewhat separated in the conference stage. 10 week to determine in which conference you play with, but with nothing to show at the end seems a bit pointless. Maybe at least do something like 1-2-3-10-11-12; 4-5-6-7-8-9; 13-14-15-22-23-24; 16-17-18-19-20-21 or other variations if you still want some conferences stronger than others.
Makes more sense for the conference games. For the final stage, 4 at a time is fine, I would send the championship ones in 2 batches though.
You haven't replied about the round 1 and 2 of the finals that are supposed to be best of 7 but have 5+4 games.

[Elaterate]

I still feel the best teams in the non-conference stage should be somewhat separated in the conference stage. 10 week to determine in which conference you play with, but with nothing to show at the end seems a bit pointless. Maybe at least do something like 1-2-3-10-11-12; 4-5-6-7-8-9; 13-14-15-22-23-24; 16-17-18-19-20-21 or other variations if you still want some conferences stronger than others.
Makes more sense for the conference games. For the final stage, 4 at a time is fine, I would send the championship ones in 2 batches though.
You haven't replied about the round 1 and 2 of the finals that are supposed to be best of 7 but have 5+4 games.

I did, I wanted to keep rounds 1 & 2 in the final stage best of 7 games (up to this point every player has been receiving 1 game invite a week, this just bumps it up but not much) to keep the game load reasonable and also so that the amount of total games your team plays increases each round after round 2 without getting out of hand. Another reason I have it at best of 7 in those first rounds is because there won't be teams playing each other with the same seed, rounds 3 and 4 you can be playing a team with the same seed. I like the 4 at time idea. I was also putting thought into the 1-2-3-10-11-12 idea as well, thanks for mentioning it.

[ZaBeast]

I still feel the best teams in the non-conference stage should be somewhat separated in the conference stage. 10 week to determine in which conference you play with, but with nothing to show at the end seems a bit pointless. Maybe at least do something like 1-2-3-10-11-12; 4-5-6-7-8-9; 13-14-15-22-23-24; 16-17-18-19-20-21 or other variations if you still want some conferences stronger than others.
Makes more sense for the conference games. For the final stage, 4 at a time is fine, I would send the championship ones in 2 batches though.
You haven't replied about the round 1 and 2 of the finals that are supposed to be best of 7 but have 5+4 games.

I did, I wanted to keep rounds 1 & 2 in the final stage best of 7 games (up to this point every player has been receiving 1 game invite a week, this just bumps it up but not much) to keep the game load reasonable and also so that the amount of total games your team plays increases each round after round 2 without getting out of hand. Another reason I have it at best of 7 in those first rounds is because there won't be teams playing each other with the same seed, rounds 3 and 4 you can be playing a team with the same seed. I like the 4 at time idea. I was also putting thought into the 1-2-3-10-11-12 idea as well, thanks for mentioning it.

My point is you say they are best of 7, but also say there are 4 doubles and 5 triple games (total of 9). So which one is it?

[Elaterate]

Now I see what you mean, I can't math at this hour lol. Fixing now...

[BabySasuke]

id join

[jytreberg]

I'd love to join a team if this gets rolling.

[DBandit70]

Hey elaterate I was wondering if the tourney is open for joining

[Dukasaur]

Some extra discussion has been trimmed from this thread per the organiser's request. The tournament is open for business.

[Elaterate]

Hey elaterate I was wondering if the tourney is open for joining

Yes. Bring a Team or I can try to put together teams with people that come without a team

[Swimmerdude99]

Save the NC. State Wolfpack a slot.

swimmerdude99
CaronylKluster
Conde180711
*pixar*
hjelp

[itstheGeneral]

PUT ME IN PLEASE.... 5 PLAYER TEAM TBA SOON..

[BabySasuke]

Missouri tigers
Mojo2222
Mageplunka69
TheTrueNorth
Ecor
MyNameIsJack

Baltic Crusades, Fog Trench No Spoils Chained

[Robespierre__]

Save the Princeton Tigers .... I got five in the works ....

OK so far ....

Robespierre__
Uckuki
Iamcaffeine
Ukey
Zidane - 21

Dubs: Uckuki & Zidane - 21
Trips: Ukey, Caff, Robes

Poison Rome (Escalating, Chained, Fog)

[hjelp]

I can John team 2

[Evil Semp]

I will get a team.

Team name TBD later.

One Question. If a sitter is needed should it be someone on your team? I am going on vacation in Oct.

Here are my team members.

Lord Banner
DukeHazzard
denominator
updalions
Baltic Crusades. Flat rate, fog, chained

[Elaterate]

I will get a team.

Team name TBD later.

One Question. If a sitter is needed should it be someone on your team? I am going on vacation in Oct.

A sitter from your team seems like it would be easier on the sitter to watch the games for you but as far as I know as long as the sitter is not on the opposing team in the game you need a sitter for anyone else should be fine to use as a sitter.

[Will Lee]

I will get back with a team. Sign me up for now, please.

[joshzam]

In, please. Team details to follow...

Thanks!

[DBandit70]

in please

I'll be back with my 5 player team

team) Michigan St. Spartans