So now that things are back up, anything happened?

PurpleJazz vs Nerd

1st Choice: Swingin' Jazz (PurpleJazz)
Score: 5-4
Winner: Nerd
Comments:

I honestly played absolutely awfully here, as I had just come home from school and had not had the chance to have a "warm up" yet. I totally messed up the start, I gave away a 2-0 lead and he shot up to 2-4. This was due to a constant string of mistake after mistake, all which could have been preventable. I managed to even the score out to 4-4, but I died on an airhit and he made the last score.

2nd Choice: Jungle's Edge (Nerd)
Score: 5-4
Winner: PurpleJazz
Comments:

Once again, I played like an idiot here, although I seemed to have more luck this time. Just like the previous game, I had a 2-0 lead, but then I started playing too offensively and he overtook at 2-3. I then increase the score to 4-3, although I died on an airhit in which Nerd made the score 4-4. I got the last kill and so I won 5-4.

3rd Choice: Security Breach v2 (Neutral)
Score: 5-0
Winner: PurpleJazz
Comments:

It wasn't until this round that I actually started playing well. I don't usually do well here in duels and after losing 0-5 to Warrior I was worried I might lose this, however turns out I just needed to use different tactics. I played very defensively, camping the bases a lot, which really worked out in the end. :P

Overall Winner: PurpleJazz (14-9)

Thanks to snz for hosting!

That was very close O.o.

Just a reminder that the following matches have to be played until the end of next week.

Sliver vs Raven
FawFul vs FireSworD
Enigma vs Dragon

Currently I'm clear about the more active players on each of these pairs, so in case the other one doesn't show up at all, I'm sort of certain who progresses. However you are supposed to play your duel as soon as you both are able to do it. Refusing without a good reason to keep postponing the match is not appreciated.

Veg Vs. Fox

BBswing (my choice) 2-5
KMC (his choice) 5-4
Rainbow Hills 5-1

Robee hosted. These were pretty weird games. I didn't lag all that much but espescially at BBswing I got hit at the lamest moments. It was 2-2 until like 30 seconds before the end. That's when he scored with 1h, I hunted him, he killed me instead (so 4-2 then instead of 3-3) and then I let him rush the last score as it was 2 seconds till the end anyway. I felt like I didn't really have control but that 3-2 was just a damn airhit at such an important time. Other than that no lag. He obviously played as good as me otherwise we wouldn't have been at 2-2 after 9.5 minutes. Good job. Perhaps he was better than me here even.

KMC was just as close except this time I felt like I had control over the level and had the upper hand most of the time. I hit him several times at RF/Bouncer power ups and didn't think I'd lose until I was 4-3 behind. Still, after each kill, I thought I'd have him trapped but one way or another it never quite worked out the way I planned/hoped. He had his chances here obviously but this time at the most crusial point I played the best/most careful. Heh.

Both games I played taking huge risks which perhaps I shouldn't have but I felt it was needed to kill him. In KMC it worked out at least although barely.

The 3rd round was Rainbow Hills which we both never dueled in. I had a lot of luck this time with the lag rather than bad luck which I could have had too. Somehow everything would work out the way I wanted and so heres the score. I played more careful here too but I just controlled the level. It wasn't until 3-0 that he scored 3-1 in a rush, I rushed 4-1 right after and had him at 1 heart.. Basically the opposite of what happened to me in BBswing.

Anyway, gg. If you continue to play this way you'll be able to get far. Heh. You played really well. I was really surprised espescially the first 2 rounds were just .. so close. I could have lost this easily.

Edit: I hope for the LB to hurry up a bit. I think I'll be kicked to the LB next match.

Snooze vs Bluespaz

BBSWING (my choice) 5-2

Jungle's Edge (his choice) 5-4

i won, gg

I'm having a bit of trouble encountering Dragon on msn, so I sent him an e-mail and I'll just hope for the best.

I heard he'll be available Friday/Sunday. So try to look for him around then.

And don't mind to contact Warrior when he's on. Warrior is his brother after all . Talking to Warrior will likely result into you dueling Dragon, too

FawFul vs FireSworD should be played as soon as possible. If not, then it gives me a hard time to decide which player is more active and motivated to progress. So please, play your match until 20 GMT,(about 8 hours from now on) and it's better for us all. Right now the missing part is FawFul, so he can either show up, or more likely forfeit.

Same goes for Sliver, who has been refusing to duel continuously, although he had the time and ability to play it a long time ago already. If anyone of you see Sliver, tell him that he's got 8 hours remaining to contact and start dueling Raven, or else he receives a forfeit loss.

Alright, in the end I had to give FawFul a walkover from FS, since no suitable moment for playing it was ever found by them. I did this with by throwing a dice, since the decision would have been really hard by finding out which side was more active etc.

So, Sliver somehow managed to show up 35 minutes before the announced deadline, and so Raven vs Sliver was played...or half-played. They played their first round in KMC, which Sliver won. Raven gave up the game before the round 2, so Sliver progresses. I was not watching the whole first round, but I heard there were some annoying conflicts, thus Raven decided to forfeit.

Dear players, those who have not yet played against their new opponent, please play as soon as you can. Although I trust everyone have been fair with the deadlines for now at least, I remind you that the deadlines are not there so that you can delay your match until the very final hours. Whenever there is a suitable moment when both you, and your opponent can play, please do so.

The new deadline for WB Stage 3 and LB Stage 2 matches is: November 8th.

Tiebreaker for WB Stage 3 is Rainbow Hills as mentioned earlier. LB Stage 2 and 3 tiebreakers are both Security Breach v2 as you probably know.

Good luck!

it was either both us saying when we should play (which never happened after all due not being able to be online) or FS mostly calling late in the evening. i could accepted of course and asked earlier in the evening, however i wasn't somehow asking. about duelling after eleven, i seriously get tired and lose my keen eye so that wouldn't work out either. even i 'progress' like this, it just stinks.

So then still play? It's not like I think it matters. We just need someone to progress. If you play against FS before you play against Quickz, I don't think it matters. Although if you slow down the tournament cause you want to face FS first I guess it will be annoying for Quickz and others (and others..). They might actually like to play soon .

MS-Musti

And finally we were able to play. Thanks to Foly for hosting.
First, lets mention that Musti played as jazz for some reason and we was ill. It caused him to have not 100% motivation which confused me because I was unsure wether it was a trap. He also let me chose his level, which was TCS.


Then I picked AYB


Final Score 9-1 to MS.

GG, next is Kev[CDF].

Nice. Just to mention the remaining tiebreakers are.

UB 4th stage(semi-finals) - Galactic Warfare
UB 5th stage(finals) - Toxin Twister

In the Grand Final I will let the players choose the tiebreaker themselves, in both first and a possible second match. In case they cannot come up with anything that both like, I don't hesitate to pick myself.

MS-Kev
Medieval Skyscrapers: 5-0 (my pick)
Security Breach V2: 4-2 (his pick)
Final Score 9-2 to me.
He started very well on sbv2, but I managed to make a comeback. GG!

Well, 3 matches done in less than 24 hours is for me reason enough to post the results here..

First FawFuL had to send me to the LB, which he did quite fast ;D
Swingin' Jazz (Qz's choice): 5-0 FawFuL
City of the Sn00zE (Faw's choice): 5-0 FawFuL
Overall: 2-0 (10-0) FawFuL

Then I immediately played against PJ in the upperhalf of the LB ..
Jungle's Edge (Qz's choice): 3-5 PurpleJazz
City of the Sn00zE (PJ's choice): 5-2 Quickz
Rainbow Hills v.2 (tiebreaker): 5-1 Quickz
Overall: 2-1 (13-8) Quickz

.. and today I played vs. Master Sven in the LB
Jungle's Edge (Sven's choice): 5-1 Quickz
All your Base CTF (Qz's choice): 5-4 Quickz
Overall: 2-0 (10-5) Quickz

Now I'll have to wait for Veg and Warrior to see who'll be my next opponent! ^^ Good luck, guys!

That's some nice dedication, Quickz.

Anyway, nearly all of the matches were somewhat done much before the deadline. I only had to knock out Micky myself, since he was sort of misbehaving. So that way FireSworD gets a walkover, his next opponent is Czech. We have seen some really nice surprises during the last stage as well.

So, the new deadline for WB Stage 4(semi-finals) and LB Stage 3 is November 15th.

Also a reminder, that the tiebreaker is Galactic Warfare.

Originally Posted by Vivando

I only had to knock out Micky myself, since he was sort of misbehaving. So that way FireSworD gets a walkover, his next opponent is Micky.

His next opponent is Czech

That's kind of rare from me. Thanks for correcting.

im out, jj2 mp sucks

I predicted it even before the tournament started. :P

..so did I

I'm going to continue playing despite the fact an overwhelming amount of the current jj2 audience is eastern and the fact I have to put up with lots of bs in duels. I still have high hopes for this tournament even though there are quite a few walkovers etc.

Apology to Czech, but I am not going to duel you with (both?) rounds on a eastern host, as I brought up when I first signed up for this tournament and I am keeping my word. Through all the matches I've played lag is a big factor when it comes to winning duels, although there are exceptions sometimes. Hopefully we'll be able to settle it this weekend.

Veg Vs War 3-2(x2) in BBswing and JE (OT in JE). Played in zeal duels. Lag wasn't a very big factor in either of these duels except last kill

screenshot 2nd round: http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/1248/96988684.png

One of the duels seems to be requiring deadline extension, since another player isn't showing up again. However I'm not letting this to delay the rest of the tournament, since there are now fewer players participating, and I don't want this tournament to take too long.

Anubis vs Czech - Deadline November 29th (Tiebreaker - Rainbow Hills)
Fox vs Raven - Deadline November 29th (Tiebreaker - Rainbow Hills)
Warrior vs Quickz - Deadline December 13th (Tiebreaker - Galactic Warfare)

sliver vs FawFul - ABSOLUTE Deadline November 22nd (Tiebreaker - Galactic Warfare)

CC upper bracket final

Horrible draw ;P

Originally Posted by Vegito

CC upper bracket final

no one is surprised

CC Upper Bracket Final was partly played, until it 'paused' last night.

Anyway, sliver showed up at the last moments(again.) Well, apparently he has lost his motivation on this tournament, since FawFuL won him 5-0 on both rounds in no time. So a forfeit loss wouldn't have made a difference, perhaps. Sliver's next opponent is to be announced yet, so he'll have a little more time there.

The other deadlines in my previous post stay, plus there is now a new one.

FawFuL vs Vegito - Deadline December 6th (Tiebreaker Toxin Twister) (This game is currently in progress though)

Why do I think that Warrior Vs Quickz has a *VERY FAR AHEAD* deadline? Compared to even, the UB final?

I support Team CzEcH ;o

1-1 at the moment.
2-0 SBv2, 2-3 TCS after 2-2 at OT. Hm. ICI as last level and still I'm not excited really. Wtf?

Which numbnutt picked TCS?

Faw did. I dueled him yesterday as a training there. Lost 5-1. Trainings work, I almost won but bleh lag wasn't meant to be.
Anyway, 3-0 in TT. Heh. TT was lame though, I cto'd twice where he once almost scored but his virusscan popped up. I guess there's an answer for everything.
Once he actually did score but I was CTOing for some .. long time, I couldn't see anything not after the score either. Therefore we actually did -1.

SBv2 was my choice, obviously. Actually FS tipped me to just choose a level I can easily control or that is balanced. That was a good tip cause I never had too many problems there. Let's say he didn't get too close to killing me or at least not on my screen.

TCS he was leading 1-0 with 6:23 to go then we had to stop.
Today I immediately took control and made it 1-2 but then an airhit killed it for me. Lost due to his controlling at the end.

To show how my CTO looked like when Faw scored 1-1 .. here:
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/7566/lolh.png
As you see, Im still with flag even nor ever died

i guess the biggest problem was i hate playing with time, veg got the first score in sbv2 and in TT. seeing the beginning of the match you couldn't really predict who would gonna have the first score anyway. it's just i let him score more because i had to try something after his first score and i didn't have that much time. -- playing with time . In TT i should have get the first kill.. i had a crush of hits on Veg, however not killing him. got annoyed and deconcentrated after a while which made me run into him. Veg was starting to play better after a while too. (so once again i had to try something to make it 1-1). didn't work out. sbv2 and TT are both campy maps, we both played very defensive. to be honest, if i would play a lot of matches to veg.. i actually think i could win some. we both played pretty well.. but it became odd sometimes due lag and luck. though people maybe noticed that veg is slightly better in sbv2, which is probably so because i didn't really know how to control it very well. what i noticed after a while was that veg stayed in the middle a lot XD.


veg, i actually was very annoyed my virusscanner popped up. it seems it made me deconcentrated too. i was controlling in the beginning stuff, when i was more concentrated.

You actually killed me first in TT. Except that you didn't score fortunately for me. It was a CTO of mine too so I sorta thought "Ha. Justice"
Anyway, after that I got the upper hand anyway yeah, heh. You had the first kill, you just forgot to control .

Through the tournament I have noticed that some maps just don't fit for duels very well in general. I learned that from those games that were played in them, so I will be picking maps more carefully in the future, don't worry.

Also I guess the time-limit can be raised a bit. Perhaps the 15 minutes that was used in past tournaments is just suitable. With that the players will have a bigger chance to comeback if they lose a score or two in the begin of the game, plus the matches will be fairly easy to schedule still. However, this tournament goes with the 10-minute limit till the end.

This tournament has also progressed well. I'm impressed. Only a few games remain, and two players(FawFuL and Vegito) have already ensured a prize for themselves. There is one more prize left, and one of the remaining players can win it. Those players are: Warrior, Quickz, sliver, Czech, and Fox. Good luck!

And thats when we have to wait for 2 duels to happen ...
But hey, as I asked. How comes that Quickz and Warrior had so much time to duel? More than the upper bracket finals?

Basically because the other side of the LB is late. The winner of that match can't duel his next opponent anyway until the another side is clear.