Hi guys, so this came to mind recently as I have noticed many "name duel" challenges based on 4v4 arguments.



A few pilots were discussing if name duel's are rightful settlers of grudges between pilots who start arguing over 4v4 games... so... this is what I suggest.



Let's say Pilot A challenges Pilot B to a name duel. Instead of a 1 on 1 duel, the 2 challengers fight 4v4 with other players who have signed up to participate. Let's say there is a pool of 20 people who sign up... Pilot A and Pilot B will have a coin toss to determine who picks first. At this point, each pilot will get to pick 1 player per turn until there is a complete game of 4v4.



The password of Pilot A and Pilot B will be held by a ref and the winner of the match will get the other pilots name.



I think this will be the most fair way to settle 4v4 grudges game style and it's really up to the pilot to pick the right people and determine strategy to win.



This popped into my mind after playing PB where you !join to participate in events. This could be an event on Sunday following league or war zone and could be used to settle "grudges".

Round 11 results:

6/5 4:04 pm Nguyens def Assassins 6-5 log

6/5 4:02 pm Llamas def Happy Mob 11-9 log

6/5 3:59 pm Rebels def StarFire Elite 12-8 log

6/5 2:22 pm !norating def LSF 12-0 log

6/5 2:17 pm Sterling def The Dark 12-0 log



Nguyens vs. Assassins was a 45 minute (minus ossi's peetime) grind.

hedcase8 finished 4-1 vs. Happy Mob, he was in with HWAP 2v4 and Llamas won the game. That's always fun. Happy Mob apparently set their !fullsub incorrectly, using it on a deathsub.

vt 7-2, 5 FR vs. SFE.



The other 2 matches were no-shows.





Standings after Round 11:

1 Nguyens 9-2 49 0.613 -- Nguyens will be #1 after regular season. Congratulations to us, hooray.

2 Assassins 7-4 30 0.609 -- fixed K/D

3 Sterling 7-4 12 0.579

4 The Dark 6-5 11 0.574

5 Rebels 6-5 8 0.461

6 !norating 6-5 -1 0.451

--- PRO / AML SPLIT ---

7 Llamas 6-5 -1 0.458

8 Happy Mob 5-6 14 0.454

9 LSF 2-9 -65 0.386

10 StarFire Elite 1-10 -55 0.416



Nguyens vs. The Dark - 3rd and obviously final in regular <img src='http://www.subspace.co/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> More important for The Dark, although in a 6-6 multi-tie I think they have the others in HtH. Pro might take 7 wins though.

Assassins vs. Sterling - 2nd, still final, winner will claim #2 and get a BYE (or a prac against Nguyens if they want to)

Rebels vs. !norating - 2nd, final, important.

Llamas vs. LSF - Important for Llamas, LSF cannot make pro.

Happy Mob vs. StarFire Elite - Important for Happy Mob, SFE cannot make pro. Unsure if Happy Mob can either. Let's pretend there's a mathematical chance in there with a 6-6 tie...





3pm:

Happy Mob vs. StarFire Elite

Rebels vs. !norating

Assassins vs. Sterling



4pm:

Llamas vs. LSF

Nguyens vs. The Dark

Round 10 Results:

5/29 3:35 pm Assassins def Rebels 12-4 log

5/29 3:31 pm !norating def StarFire Elite 12-2 log

5/29 3:14 pm The Dark def Llamas 12-0 log

5/29 2:32 pm Happy Mob def LSF 12-3 log

5/29 2:28 pm Nguyens def Sterling 12-3 log



9-Volt 4-0, 2AS, 4FR -- Sabrewolf 0% Gun Accuracy for the 4:04 he was in <img src='http://www.subspace.co/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Macuto 6-1, 7FR with 38% DmgE -- Mauler 13:40 of playtime!

All the other games had stats spread more even.





MoC this Saturday

2v2 Tournament the next



Be there or be elsewhere.



Standings after round 10:

1 Nguyens 8-2 48 0.61

2 Assassins 7-3 31 0.595 -- fixed K/D

3 The Dark 6-4 23 0.569

4 Sterling 6-4 0 0.578

5 Happy Mob 5-5 16 0.446

6 Rebels 5-5 4 0.496

--- PRO / AML ----- Keep in mind the playoff standings might not be what you see here.

7 Llamas 5-5 -3 0.463

8 !norating 5-5 -13 0.473

9 LSF 2-8 -53 0.367

10 StarFire Elite 1-9 -51 0.403



I think Nguyens clinched a playoff spot by two games that were basically no-shows. Only the current top 4 could finish at 8+ wins, hooray.

Unsure how the tied games would go for Assassins, but they might be in a tied 7-5 bunch I guess.



Top-down..

Nguyens vs. Assassins - 3rd and final

The Dark vs. Sterling - 2nd

Happy Mob vs. Llamas - 3rd, HM skipping Rebels by repeat gap

Rebels vs. StarFire Elite - 3rd -- Rebels skipping !nr and LSF for "legit" match-ups.

!norating vs. LSF - 3rd



3pm:

The Dark vs. Sterling - 2nd

!norating vs. LSF - 3rd



4pm:

Nguyens vs. Assassins - 3rd and final

Happy Mob vs. Llamas - 3rd, HM skipping Rebels by repeat gap

Rebels vs. StarFire Elite - 3rd -- Rebels skipping !nr and LSF for "legit" match-ups.

Okay, so 2v2 tournament will be June 11th at 4pm EST. Sign up here http://forums.ssgn.net/topic/25826-official-2v2-tournament/#entry275470 or contact/message me in game (Surrey or Surrey+) with your team.

If you have any questions or comments feel free to post here or contact me in game.



Date: Saturday June 11th @ 5pm EST



Sign up:



- Sign-up open until Friday June 10th.

- Post here with your Team Pairing, Team Name (if you want) or message/contact Surrey or Surrey+ in game.

- If you don't have a partner feel free to post and I can try to help you find one or we can match you up with another partnerless person who posts here.



Scheduling:



-Round 1:



* match ups will be selected via random draw

* I will number each team and have someone select number combinations for the match ups

* Match ups will be placed in a bracket system for following rounds



-Round 2:



* Play the winning team from the other bracket in your division

* Should the team amounts be uneven some teams may be awarded a bye, this will be by random luck from their bracket pairings



- Round 3+:



* Continue in your bracket play.



Match Play/Rules:

- Single Elimination

- Matches will be best of 3 (first team to win 2 games)

- No substitutes

- Unlimited lagouts, games do not pause for lag outs, hop back in as fast as you can.

- Pilots may shipchange at any time during the match.

- Each player 'slot' is allowed 10 deaths before that 'slot' is dead.

- There are 3 ways to win a game:

1. Eliminate the other team from the box with simultaneous deaths.
2. Eliminate one opponent by causing 10 deaths. After this the other opponent is eliminated by 1 death.
3. Timer runs out. The team with the fewest deaths wins the game. If both teams have equal number of deaths, a duel will take place between one pilot on each team chosen by the acting captains.
   
   

As the description suggests, post input on your current thoughts about pyramid vs. fixed schedules. Anything else goes too, including who you'd want to add to staff or make the league op.



I wouldn't count on us getting a bunch of new squads for pyramid to work "the way it is intended to", implying that squads actually move up or down meaningfully and we have enough squads not to need a repeat match-up rule.



I don't want to lead people either way initially, so I won't post the couple of "facts" I know about either format <img src='http://www.subspace.co/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



Oh and please, if you can, more than one word replies. ie. Fixed with top X making pro and the next Y making aml playoffs.



And no, we can't really work a 24/7 ladder system into place since we don't have an active bot/web developer to make it a viable option. The only way we could do this at the moment is to have squads play each other and post the result in agreement. But somehow I predict it wouldn't work for very long <img src='http://www.subspace.co/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Forget it.

Round 9 results:

5/22 3:44 pm Nguyens def The Dark 7-0 log -- Should kind of be 12-0, but I felt sorry for The Dark, so let's pretend they ran it out in javelins.

5/22 3:33 pm StarFire Elite def LSF 12-5 log

5/22 3:21 pm Llamas def !norating 12-4 log

5/22 3:02 pm Rebels def Happy Mob 9-7 log

5/22 2:41 pm Assassins def Sterling 12-3 log



In super exciting league news, SFE won a game <img src='http://www.subspace.co/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> Rei finished 6-0 3as 3fr. It looks like LSF out damaged SFE, but SFE got the kills.

In Llamas vs. !norating, Llamas had one or two players pressed for time so they went balls out. This lead to them killing deathknel out by 2:38. Praetor 6-0, 4FR.

Rebels and Happy Mob played tight until 31 minutes, the game was 3-3 at that point. It then ended 9-7 for Rebels.

NINE and Jae made Sterling's game vs. Assassins tricky, both dying twice by 8:54.





Standings after Round 9:

1 Nguyens 7-2 39 0.61

2 Assassins 6-3 23 0.599 -- fixed K/D

3 Sterling 6-3 9 0.556

4 Rebels 5-4 12 0.474

5 The Dark 5-4 11 0.57

6 Llamas 5-4 9 0.445

--- PRO / AML ------

7 Happy Mob 4-5 7 0.475

8 !norating 4-5 -23 0.506

9 LSF 2-7 -44 0.361

10 StarFire Elite 1-8 -41 0.405



3pm:

Nguyens vs. Sterling - 3rd and final, I think it's 1-1

Happy Mob vs. LSF - 2nd, No idea.



4pm, or worst case scenario, when Nguyens vs. Sterling finishes:

The Dark vs. Llamas - 2nd, I'd guess The Dark is up 1-0

Assassins vs. Rebels - 3rd and final, should also be 1-1

!norating vs. StarFire Elite



As you can see I didn't semi-randomly assign the times yet. I think Nguyens will play at 3pm for a change though.

Alright so I'm planning on hosting a 2v2 tournament soon, and hopefully some more events as well. I have created a thread for feedback, discussion, suggestions, comments, etc.



If you are interested please feel free to give any thoughts or suggestions, nothing is dumb, and every concern or question is worth addressing.

[url="http://forums.ssgn.net/topic/25796-2v2-tournament/"]http://forums.ssgn.net/topic/25796-2v2-tournament/[/url]



Thanks,



-Surrey

Alright so I'm planning on hosting a 2v2 tournament soon, and hopefully some more events as well. I have created a thread for feedback, discussion, suggestions, comments, etc.



If you are interested please feel free to give any thoughts or suggestions, nothing is dumb, and every concern or question is worth addressing.

[url="http://forums.ssgn.net/topic/25796-2v2-tournament/"]http://forums.ssgn.net/topic/25796-2v2-tournament/[/url]



Thanks,



-Surrey