2v2 Tournament Guide

[Matty]

2v2 Tournament Guide

The 2v2 Brackets are finished, look here to find what bracket you are in,

If you have a question that isn't explained here, don't be afraid to ask!

To find each member of each team, go here

Tournament Basics

For the 2v2 Face Off, we're utilizing a double elimination format. There were many reasons for this, but it is mostly because we feel that single elimination can be quite unfair to some players, as they might not be fairly matched early on. The losers bracket is the left hand side of the table, and the right hand side is the winners bracket. Both will run simultaneously.

This will add some complications to the event. As you should know, for the first section of this tournament teams will be split into 8 groups of 32.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia
A double elimination tournament is a competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost two games or matches. It stands in contrast to a single-elimination tournament, in which only one defeat results in elimination.
A double-elimination tournament is broken into two sets of brackets, the Winners Bracket and Losers Bracket. After the first round, the winners proceed into the W Bracket and the losers proceed into the L Bracket. The W Bracket is conducted in the same manner as a single-elimination tournament, except of course that the losers of each round "drop down" into the L Bracket.

Each round of the L Bracket is conducted in two stages, the first stage consisting of the winners of the previous stage (or losers of the very first round of competition) playing their matches, the second stage consisting of the winners of the first stage against the losers of that same round of the W Bracket playing their matches. This is to allow the losers of each stage of the W Bracket to "filter down" into the L Bracket.

For example, in an 8-competitor double-elimination tournament, the losers of the first round enter the first stage of the L Bracket - the L Bracket quarterfinals - and compete against each other. The losers are eliminated, while the winners proceed to the second stage of the L Bracket - the L Bracket semifinals - to face the losers of the W Bracket semifinals. The winners of the L Bracket semifinals proceed to the L Bracket finals, with the winner of that game being the Losers' Bracket champion.

The championship finals of a double elimination tournament is usually set up to be a possible two games. The rationale is that since the tournament is indeed double elimination, it is unfair to have the Winners' Bracket champion eliminated with its first loss. Therefore, while the Winners' Bracket champion needs to beat the Losers' Bracket champion only once to win the tournament, the Losers' Bracket champion must beat the Winners' Bracket champion twice.

You will remain in your assigned group until you are either eliminated, or should you win the group, you will be entered into the second and final section of the Face Off. This will comprise the 8 winning teams, one from each group.

In the group stages, your assigned group will have both a number (1-8) and a covenant species. For example, Group 1 is named after the Covenant engineer - 'Huragok'. This is intended to help you recall your group number more easily, as well as adding a greater sense of identity.


Organising Your Match

Your first port of call is to check out which group your team has been placed in here. Teams have been assigned a group at random.

You can also find team contact details in their original signup post here, or check out team information in the thread created for your teams result reporting.

In each group board, there is an up-to-date tournament bracket detailing which teams are due to play in the current round, as well as showing previous results and potential future team meetings. View the parent board here.

Each round will give you at least a week to organise and play your game. Those in the losers bracket will always have a week to play, but those in the winners bracket will have a weeks break to practice in later rounds.

Make sure you have the latest version of the map and gametypes for each round, because otherwise your game will be void. If you are unsure, re-download the files prior to your match.

Either team may host, but you must reach an agreement. Host makes very little difference, and it's advised that the team with the best connection hosts the match.


Organising Your Time

The best way to communicate with your opposition is through the visitor message board. Its fast, easy, gives a notification to the recipient, and most of all - the staff can see it as proof that you actually put effort into organizing a time to play. If your opponent's lack of availability causes you not to play, those who put in the most effort and were the most accommodating on times will be counted as the winners.

To avoid this situation, try to arrange your games earlier in the week so you have time to rearrange them in the event of a problem arising. If you can't play during the week, try to arrange to play on a Saturday rather than the Sunday.

Remember you also need to give yourself time to report the match results.


Reporting Your Results

Immediately after your match, save the films from each game. In the event of a complaint, those films will need to be provided.

After your match, you are required to post the results on Forge Hub. We requirea screenshot of the last few seconds of each match (to show the final score), as well as the post game carnage report for each match, which can be accessed from your bungie.net service record.

Post your results as a new thread in your group's board. Only one thread should be created per match!

If you have a problem with the match and wish to report this to the staff, state the issue clearly at the top of the match results thread. In the event of a disputed result, the organiser's decision is final.

[ChI SoX FaN]

Question: If we use AIM to try and contact the other team, and they do not decide to play, can we send in the AIM log as proof of attempting to setup the match?

[Matty]

Originally Posted by zTo SoXFaN25

Question: If we use AIM to try and contact the other team, and they do not decide to play, can we send in the AIM log as proof of attempting to setup the match?

Yes, but we advise you to use the visitor messaging system built into ForgeHub (click on the persons name and there it is) because we know that it won't have been tampered with, and therefore is conclusive evidence.

[CaMOfo]

The link to the group isn't working.

[ChI SoX FaN]

Originally Posted by CaMOfo

The link to the group isn't working.

Here is the Link

[Matty]

Originally Posted by CaMOfo

The link to the group isn't working.

Fixed,

[Bl00D F1R3]

So dose this mean we half to make our match and choose our partners or are you going to tell us?

[Jebus1001]

I know that the rounds are each played with 3 gametypes (at least the first one is) but is it best 2 out of 3? Or rather play all 3 and post all results regardless if someone won the first 2?

[ChI SoX FaN]

Originally Posted by Bl00D F1R3

So dose this mean we half to make our match and choose our partners or are you going to tell us?

You will have to setup the match with the other team that will be given to you tomorrow on the brackets

Originally Posted by Jebus1001

I know that the rounds are each played with 3 gametypes (at least the first one is) but is it best 2 out of 3? Or rather play all 3 and post all results regardless if someone won the first 2?

The matches are best of 3. (First team to win 2 games wins). And its up to the other team if you want to play the 3rd game if its not necessary

[A SouthPark Kid]

Hey Matty niec thread i helped me alot, i think everyone should read this (post it on the Front page. But are we suppost to give you the videos of the game?