So it starts in 40 min? i got a msg from a caster for the tourney, but i accidentally closed the box, i dont even have an opponent yet heh im confused

Unstable87

Australia226 Posts

November 27 2010 00:35 GMT

#448

Preliminary rounds start in 30 min,

Spades you were seeded so you start playing in round 2, join us in chat here http://webchat.quakenet.org/?channels=2bhfxopen&uio=d4

if you have anymore questions

Unstable87

Australia226 Posts

November 27 2010 00:53 GMT

#449

Games start in 10 minutes.

please JOIN THE CHAT http://webchat.quakenet.org/?channels=2bhfxopen&uio=d4

so you can report your games and talk to admins incase of anny issues

[SG] Jasper

United States26 Posts

November 27 2010 02:00 GMT

#450

Lots and lots of no-shows.

EGLzGaMeR

United States1867 Posts

November 27 2010 02:00 GMT

#451

I have not seen my opponent yet (Mios 567)

Rampager

Australia1007 Posts

November 27 2010 02:16 GMT

#452

Just gonna throw down some honest criticism:

1) The scheduled start time was pulled back by an hour very recently which I imagine screwed a lot of people (1pm AEST became 12pm AEST)
2) It's a manually updated system of over 400 competitors, it takes forever for anything to be updated. It's hard to read mod annoucements on a channel where everyone's text is the exact same colour.
3) Because of 2, people are just randomly leaving because there's no way to know whether your reported result of a no-show or a win was recorded, when people are waiting more than playing they leave. Resulting in more no-shows.

Solutions:
1) No idea what happened here.
2) Use a tournament system that automatically adjusts the brackets when players enter a result on a webpage. Doing things manually for a repetitive task is the reason we have programming languages

Ah well, I'm sure it would smooth out once we're past the ro2.

slained

Canada966 Posts

November 27 2010 03:26 GMT

#453

I really think you should allow all games to be played fast as possible.. Tournaments take about 5 x as long when you don't let people advance to play the nxt round until everyone is on the same round.

Skew

United States1020 Posts

November 27 2010 03:48 GMT

#454

yea so i sit in channel msging the main admin 3 hours and during this time he managed to never tell me about the new brackets and DQ me

somebody joked off 1k, nice tournament lmao

FXOpen

Australia1844 Posts

November 27 2010 04:16 GMT

#455

Hi guys,

I appreciate the feedback. From 1 minute after start time, we were receiving 50+ pms saying "my opponent isn't here".. It was a failure on our part to try to play a game within a time difference.

We then had to create new brackets after a 320 man no show. Turning it into a 64 man tournament.

We do apologise for the time zone confusion. At the same time, AFKing in chat doesn't help much either.

All being said, managing the tournament has been a nightmare, the problem really with the original brackets was that the gap between the games being played was so huge that there was going to be someone in semi finals without playing a game.

We have decided now that future tournaments will either be invite only based on 1) reptuation and 2) global ranking, or very small public tournaments.

It is easy to criticise, but in the end of the day, 1 happy gamer does leave with 1k in their pocket.

There are still some pretty good games in the tournament, with azz lzgamer, moonglade, edge, deth... capoch..

In the end, we learned alot from this, and will change the way things are done in the future.

ROOTdrewbie

Canada1392 Posts

November 27 2010 04:19 GMT

#456

its messed up because of the date, why didnt you just put that it started at 5pm PST 8pm EST or whatever, that is ridiculous, it is a NORTH AMERICAN tournament and it starts on "November 27 1 GMT" if anyone just skims over it it starts on saturday afternoon lol

FXOpen

Australia1844 Posts

November 27 2010 04:34 GMT

#457

It was an open tournament. And was hosted in Sydney. The bias was the problem and we will sort this out for our next event.

Also we were unable ot launch a website of ours for our own bracket/reporting system. Probably should have waited until we have that set up before hosting a tournament.

As I said before, it was a painful experience and lessons were learned.

You have no idea how many time I have facepalmed myself.

Liquid`Sheth

United States2095 Posts

November 27 2010 06:17 GMT

#458

Just please keep in touch guys. Optik or Darkcell please just msg me either here or on b.net. ROOTSheth.798 We shall figure it out! : ) Thanks again for this tournament, and sorry guys who didn't get to play via time.

Ftrunkz

Australia2474 Posts

November 27 2010 07:26 GMT

#459

On November 27 2010 13:19 drewbie.root wrote:
its messed up because of the date, why didnt you just put that it started at 5pm PST 8pm EST or whatever, that is ridiculous, it is a NORTH AMERICAN tournament and it starts on "November 27 1 GMT" if anyone just skims over it it starts on saturday afternoon lol

??? The tourny was australian hosted? If anything it was an australian tournament that allowed north american participation... the time clearly said GMT....

RIDICULOUS complaint, rofl.

Blink`

United States2 Posts

November 27 2010 07:35 GMT

#460

On November 27 2010 16:26 Ftrunkz wrote:

Show nested quote +

??? The tourny was australian hosted? If anything it was an australian tournament that allowed north american participation... the time clearly said GMT....

RIDICULOUS complaint, rofl.

How is that a ridiculous complaint when all he asks for is US times (considering 1 - it's on the US server, 2 - the date on GMT was one day ahead of US, so americans thought 27th/28th but in reality it's 26th/27th in the US since it's 1 AM GMT. Would have helped to put US times in the tourney info - and it definitely wouldn't have hurt. (And if it's Australian hosted why not put aussie times up there too)