Spring 2012 1v1 Tournament - Signups

posted on April 14th, 2012, 7:40 pm

Just because the big map, and elims comment (other thread), cloakers seems to have slight advantage, so choose Borg/Fed/Dom vs Kl/Rom, its likely your opponent accepts blue skies

[Arash8472]

posted on April 14th, 2012, 10:22 pm

Last edited by Arash8472 on April 14th, 2012, 10:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.

are you referring to this comment?

I'm not planning to join the tournament, but let me give you a friendly advice (as one of the few I know you like to play dominion  ): if you are planning to play a non-cloaking race, veto Blue skies. I played a lot on that before, and both the distance between the main base's and the layout of the expo's make it horribly biased towards cloaking races. Duel II is the closest to be a good tournament map in my opinion. (even if it's pretty boring for most of us)

I really suggest you do not trust this source and experiment yourself. This proves almost nothing as to how it is "biased" towards cloaking races.
In my perspective ''Blue Skies'' offers more than what Duel 2 offers. In this case more than ''3 lanes'' If Elim is stating that having more than 3 lanes against cloak races is over powered then I must advocate the following:
Starfleet Command is over powered and must not be used in matches,
Klingons cannot build from their Battle Yard,
Dominion must not build more than 5 of a single type of ship,
Romulans must not build their Intelligence Center AND Cloaking Generator,
and finally the Borg must not build more than 2 miners + no other ship except Scout cube and Probes + No other stations except Borg nexus and Transmission Matrix.

Basically I am trying to say this:

Blue Skies = enemy is forced into getting cloak detection to protect themselves and those who don't   need to learn how cloak and "anti-cloak" works.

Duel II = enemy is not forced but may research cloak detection and naturally cannot adapt to different situations presented.

posted on April 23rd, 2012, 10:04 pm

ok 2 points of conceren,

1. have tourney brackest been constructed so that we all know who our first opponets are?, i'd like to know so i can research my opponets.

2. the earlest i'll be able to play my matches is may 5th, around 3pm, to 8pm, mountain time, america.

posted on April 24th, 2012, 5:07 pm

1. Not yet, but i thought i could open a topic for the results on weekend with provisional brackets, by now everybody can still sign up

2. The date should not be a problem, for the time you should watch if your opponents are available, otherwise send a personal message via forum for example

posted on April 24th, 2012, 7:50 pm

Sign me up please!

posted on April 24th, 2012, 9:39 pm

Sign me up please!

Yaay i was hoping you would join, i haven't played aginst you in ages.

posted on April 24th, 2012, 11:17 pm

Well hopefully you'll get your chance; I'll probably be eliminated by the 1st round       

posted on April 25th, 2012, 8:19 pm

spretz will play

posted on April 27th, 2012, 2:00 pm

hmmmm maybe i culd join this  ammm whats the max number of peaple

posted on April 28th, 2012, 7:49 pm

i would say 16 currently, at the moment, with you joined, the tournament format looks like that:


Group of 5 -> best 2
Group of 5 -> best 2

wildcardgame with the third best players (+1) -> Group of 5

Final played by the 2 best of this five players

posted on April 29th, 2012, 2:13 pm

Oh good than sing me up  im in a mood to win a nother turney 

[0viking0]

posted on April 29th, 2012, 3:49 pm

Last edited by 0viking0 on April 29th, 2012, 3:57 pm, edited 1 time in total.

After some observing & tryouts of Blue Skies with many different players and many different strategies in last few months my vote goes back to Duel II (although I hate it). Blue Skies is unbalanced map. Period.

...and after few successful 4v4 maps I will try to make new decent 1v1 map in cooperation with few others. I know its hard, but I'll try.

posted on April 29th, 2012, 4:44 pm

I would recommend making a map pool with several 2v2, 3 player, or 1v1 maps . Then players can choose maps on consensus, so that they are aware of which ones supposedly favor one faction or another  .

posted on April 29th, 2012, 5:23 pm

I would recommend making a map pool with several 2v2, 3 player, or 1v1 maps . Then players can choose maps on consensus, so that they are aware of which ones supposedly favor one faction or another  .

That could work. Esp. if they have same factions.

posted on April 29th, 2012, 6:40 pm

I'm okay with the map pool, but only 1v1 maps obviously.  Fleet Ops isn't balanced for playing a map with less than the full number of players.

There's also Early Bird, although it has its own quirks and problems giving defensive races an advantage over Borg, and to some extent Romulans.

I think 1v1 Battlezone and Balance of Power both deserve some consideration as well.