Crossfire Intel ESL Challenge *update*
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3 Jan 2009, 02:08
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News
The seedings that result from this competition will be used to create the poules and groups for the upcoming offline event. Every attending team that wishes to be seeded must play in this tournament.
In order to get the best possible seedings, and to give every team the chance to play as many matches as possible, a special tournament system will be used.
We will start with a Groupstage with 8 groups of 4-6 teams (depends upon signups).
ALL teams will then play a single elimination playoff stage as a 1 day cup. The date for the playoff cup will be announced once the signup numbers are known. Teams that finish 1st in their group will form one 8-slot playoff bracket, with 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. placed teams similarly forming their own 8-slot playoff brackets. In the end there will be 4-6 of these 1 day cups at a time (again, depending on signups) with 3 rounds played per cup.
While this is the seeding tournament for Crossfire Intel Challenge 7 we still allow EVERY team to sign up. Teams already signed up for CIC7, though, have their spot guaranteed.
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Format:Signup:
Maps:
Slots:
Duration:
5on5Free for ALL -
Until 9th January 23:59
To be announced
max. 48 teams
January - 21st February
Your adminteam for this cup will be as follows:
Sn4kE, eiM, 
M1st3r, 
Notorious, 
FoaMeA, essAh, Krosan, 
h3llUpdate:
After consultation with the admin staff we decided that only the first round of the playoffs will influence the seedings (poules). This in order to keep the influence of availabilty as low as possible regarding the lan seeding. The cups will though still be finished to find the winners of this competition!- CIEC Signup
- ESL Newspost
- CIEC Static Information Page
- ESL EU ET Mainpage
They can't really make seedings for cic7 if 50% players of the team are mercs :D, atleast I have other stuff to do so I can't be playing 5 hours in a row
I understand though.
gym 2-3 times a week (not on the same days as af pracs)
school 5 times a week + going 2 times per week to extra school in the evening
and other stuff like this month gotta work in the post for 3 weeks to get some money
doesn't leave 5 hours for ET per day, only can play it in the evenings.
but if the admins decide to do it like this, then I guess there is no other way, as whining won't bring us a solution at all, which is what Matias does :-)
Fuck, 5 hours a week would already suck.
Also it are only 3 matches. So a schedule around 19cet 20cet 21cet should be no problem.
Furthermore there is a delayweek planned and if we dont have any delays your first match could just be played in the week before the cup = problem fixxed
try more one-day cups pls thx
sad.
What's the groupstage for? Deciding the one day cup seedings? ";D"
I think so yes.
Lol, please stop trolling.
also there is no way to only let the payed teams play as there are only two yet ;)
And it should be quite obvious that some teams will not come to lan while others are probably still deciding
Lazy?
Then again, I'm a spectator, for the players this system might not be that preferable.
+1
The group stage is like I said five weeks without a 1daycup system, which means you can plan your matches yourself, and fit it to your own availability. At the end of the groupstage you'll have a perfect skill-based result of firsts, seconds, thirds, ... This is normally already enough for a CiC7 seeding.
If there are 6 groups, we have 6 firsts. These 6 are seeded 1 to 6. These 6 will battle it out in a 1daycup, just like the seconds will do that for themselves too. In the 1dacup playoff, we decide who is seeded which specific spot in 1 to 6. Now if you're using a merc and fuck up that 1daycup due to unavailability, then you're still seeded 6 (in the worst case).
Theres plenty of other things those teams can play in.
Your call though.
Let me remind you all that administrating cups next to their normal days life is also not easy!