Dawn of War 2

Update: Steam group for the tourney has been created, click here to join the room.

This is the thread for questions and suggestions about the June tournament's rules. The original announcement can be found here.

Tournament Rules

All games will be 1v1.

Time and Date

• Day 1 will be Saturday, June 12th.
• Day 2 will be Sunday, June 13th
• Day 3 will be Saturday, June 19th

To see the system in a simpler picture format, click here (updated).

Format - Day One

• Best of three
• Qualifying round 1, featuring 64 players, winners advance to qualifying round 2
• Qualifying round 2, featuring 32 players, winners advance to tournament proper

Format - Day Two

• Best of one
• "A" and "B" bracket
• "A" bracket, Round 1. 16 players, winners advance to Round 2 "A", losers drop to Round 2 "B"
• "A" bracket, Round 2. 8 players, winners advance to Round 3 "A", losers drop to Round 3 "B"
• "A" bracket, Round 3. 4 players, winners advance to Semi-finals "A", losers drop to Round 5 "B"
• "B" bracket has no Round 1 as all players begin in "A" bracket
• "B" bracket, Round 2. 8 players, winners advance to Round 3 "B", losers are eliminated
• "B" bracket, Round 3. 8 players, winners advance to Round 4 "B", losers are eliminated
• "B" bracket, Round 4. 4 players, winners advance to Round 5 "B", losers are eliminated
• "B" bracket, Round 5. 4 players, winners advance to Round 6 "B", losers are eliminated
• "B" bracket, Round 6. 2 players, winners advance to Semi-finals "B", losers are eliminated

Format - Day Three

• Best of three
• "A" bracket, Semi-finals. 2 players, winner advances to Finals, loser is eliminated
• "B" bracket, Semi-finals. 2 players, winner advances to Finals, loser is eliminated
• Final round. "A" bracket champion faces "B" bracket champion, best-of-three, winner takes all, loser is eliminated

To register

To register, head here to the Dawn of War 2 E-sports forums, and enter your Games for Windows Live username, as well as your Steam contact details. As with past tournaments, an official Steam group will be set up to organize matches. To register and play in the June tournament, you must have a valid, unbanned GameReplays.org account, Steam account, and GFWL account.

Match Results

It is up to the winner to post the match replay for the outcome of the match. All matches must be uploaded to GameReplays' replay portal. A new game event called "June Tournament 2010" will be created for uploading replays from this tournament for easy sorting.

If a player drops out of the match, Referees will determine the match's results, and the replay will still need to be posted.

Rules

Drops/Disconnects:
If a player should - for whatever reason - drop or disconnect during a match, the result of the match may be arbitrated by tournament moderators pending review of the replay. It may be arbitrated as a loss for the dropping player or potentially a win if it is obvious they had an irrecoverable lead late into the game. It may also be asked that the match be replayed. If the opposing team volunteers in goodwill to replay the match, the match may be replayed. If your opponent drops: take a screenshot showing that they dropped from the match, then save the replay and get both to a tournament organizer immediately.

Sportsmanship:
You will respect your opponents, the tournament organizers and anyone else involved in the tournament at all times. Trash-talking and verbal abuse in game will not be tolerated and will result in a disqualification. If your opponents are being abusive during a match, again take a screenshot of the abusive language in chat. Do not stop playing the match. Play the entire match out and then bring the conduct of the offending player(s) to the attention of a tournament moderator after the match. At the discretion of the tournament mod, the player(s) may be disqualified if their behavior was inappropriate but please remember that this is for us to judge. Do not assume they will be disqualified: take a screen shot of the offense and then continue to play all matches fully.

Any player being similarly offensive in any of the chat lobbies will also be disqualified from the tournament.

Bans:
There are currently no banned exploits or glitches. If there is one that is easily abusable and can be proven in a replay, send a private message to Ninjabutter, Alxander, or blaqk as soon as possible and we will take it under discussion.

Rulings and Rule changes:
The rules of the tournament are subject to change up until the day of the tournament itself. If an unforeseen circumstances arise during the tournament and a new ruling must be made, it will be made by a tournament moderator at that point in time. If you have an issue with something that happens during the tournament, you may address it to tournament moderators.

Please note that the rulings of tournament moderators are final. Our decisions cannot be appealed and complaining persistently over a ruling may result in a disqualification and potential exclusion from future tournaments. Please understand we will do everything within our power to make our judgment calls as fair as possible but questioning our authority will not help your case or be tolerated and serves only to further delay the tournament.

So, it's double elimination, basically?

And how are maps picked? is there a preset 1st map or what?
Who picks hero 1st?
Any chance of more info on the prize itself (pix :3)

With the Final, if the winner of A bracket loses a best of 3 to the winner of B bracket, does B win? This makes for a more climactic final, but the spirit of double elimination is that you keep on playing until you've lost 2 rounds and whoever is last left without 2 losses is the winner, by making the final winner takes all, B has an advantage of sorts.
The other option is harsh on the winners of B though, if they got knocked out in round 1 due to a bug but managed to make it all the way to the final, beat A only to find out that means they NOW have a real chance, they'd be really pissed off.

Your picture has a round 7, has that been removed, or does the loser of A semi final play the winner of B semi Final?

What time GMT are the games? Couldn't find it, please clarify.

1. Can i still play if i for example cant show on 12th and be put to B bracket?

2. Sooo in last day its already not a double-elimination? Somehow this is not right i think, it should be like full double-elimination system. Its totally unfair for A bracket semi-finalist.

The start time should be 5 PM / 17:00 GMT to make it feasible for Europe and the US.

Regarding the tournament brackets, I'll be posting an updated clear version later today. Cheers to Bogger for the site link!

I'm assuming this means the FC bug?

I'd recommend against punishing this because sometimes the FC weapons are designed for different situations, and while it can be exploited it's unfair to limit a player from using a weapon that would be ideal for a given situation because he bought a weapon beforehand.

Aye, that's part of why I didn't address it. It's also very hard to prove that it's intentional abuse, rather than a situational decision, and we can't just ban the FC entirely.

hi were can we found the group on steam? and when begin the tournament in europe?

So its tomorrow but what time and where are the brackets ?

For Brisbane, Australia it would be @ 3:00AM...

This post has been edited by pomdomz: Jun 11 2010, 22:57 PM

I live in Argentina what is my time play?

Bye

Newer, cleaner test brackets for those that wanted them; hopefully this is easier =p Marcos, I don't know what time zone you're in. Just put "time zone converter" into Google.

We're at 58 people so far, once we get the last six I'll put the actual names into the brackets. If we still aren't at 64 within the next few hours I'll just plug in what I do have and add the rest in manually.

If I understood it correctly its within 45 min so any steam channel we should be in or where are the brackets?

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/GR_DoW2JT/

Brackets are going up in a few minutes.

Brackets are up - Go here, click on the Tournies tab, click Browse/Search, and search for "GR DoW2 Tourney - Brackets". You can also just search for DoW2 as a game and it'll be like the second one from the top.

nvm all sorted

This post has been edited by pomdomz: Jun 12 2010, 16:32 PM

Just to clarify:

We can change faction/hero as much as we like right?

Yes, you may change factions and heroes.

Any possible way to still play in this? as a potential fill in?

For Argentina Buenos Aires it would be 2 pm?

Bye