Dawn of War 2 Tournament: The Ravener Cup [1 vs 1]

Lurk

While we are not bitching or moaning about it, it’s nice to think that we play Dawn of War 2. To know more about Dawn of War 2, go to the official thread.

This is a one versus one round robin tournament that will take place over a course of several weeks. The deadline will be announced once I figure out how quickly matches are gone through. You can apply to join the tournament at anytime, but you can be disqualified from inactivity. To join the tournament, please post in this thread. I will need the following information:

- Your Windows Live Name
- Your Steam Name
- What times you are often available and in which time zone you reside.

The format is round robin and it is fairly simple. You try to play each contestant tournament once (and only once if it's a tournament game). If you win, you net yourself a point. If you lose, you get nothing and shame. Everyone is responsible to arrange games their own games, don't ask me to assign matches for you. If there are issues where players cannot face each other at any time due to timezone differences and personal commitments, talk to me and I'll try to figure something out.

Before a tourney game is played, it needs to be announced who is fighting who in this thread by one of the players. At the end of match, the replay must be saved and posted alongside of the result of who won the game.

The following things are banned: Ravener Alpha, dicks.

At the end of the tournament, the person with the most points or Kinderparty wins.

Current Contestants:

Lurk (GFWL ID: Saltek, Steam ID: Sirot)
Timezone: EST (-5 GMT)
Times Available: I am free anytime past 3pm on most days, busy till 10pm on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.

Core (GFWL ID: defconcore, Steam ID: defconcore)
Timezone: Central (-6 GMT)
Times Available: Typically Monday - Thursday between 2-7 or so maybe sometimes on Sundays.

DodgeBlan (GWFL ID: DodgeBlan, Steam ID: DodgeBlan)
Timezone: +10 GMT
Times Available: ???

Akira (GWFL ID: MechaAkira, Steam ID: KillAllRaveners)
Timezone: EST (-5 GMT)
Times Available: Usually after 10 or 11pm from tue-fri and most times sat-mon.

Sepah (GWFL ID: Seppah, Steam ID: Sepah)
Timezone: ???
Times Available: Free Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Available after 9:15 pm UTC/GMT on Mondays and Thursdays. Available after 6:45 pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Retzinsky (GWFL ID: Retzinsky, Steam ID: Retzinsky)
Timezone: BST (+1 GMT)
Times Available: 11am to 11pm

CanisAquilus (GWFL ID: CanisRedux, Steam ID: CanisAquilus)
Timezone: ???
Times Available: Whenever.

Goomba (GWFL ID: TradingPanther, Steam ID: Goomball)
Timezone: Central (-6 GMT)
Times Available: 8 - 12 usually.

Dudbolt (GWFL ID: Folandil, Steam ID: Folandil)
Timezone: Central (-6 GMT)
Times Available: This is a hard one because I work night shift on Sunday-Tuesday and from Friday and Saturday. I sleep during the day and I'm usually awake by 7pm but I can be up as early as 5pm.

Corp.Shephard (GWFL ID: Cpl Shep, Steam ID: Corp.Shephard)
Timezone: EST (-5 GMT)
Times Available: Anytime after May 16th?

Kinderparty (GWFL ID: StuGDeployed, Steam ID: ???)
Timezone: EST (-5 GMT)
Times Available: After 3:30 pm on weekdays, after 2pm on weekends.

CrumblyCracker (GWFL ID: CrumblyCracker, Steam ID: CptPoni)
Timezone: EST (-5 GMT)
Times Available: Most days past 7.

Metal Gear Solid 2 Demo (GWFL ID: Enders8, Steam ID: Enders)
Timezone: EST (-5 GMT)
Times Available: late or mid-day most days.

pyromaniac221 (GWFL ID: pyromaniac221, Steam ID: ???)
Timezone: ???
Times Available: ???

Zen Vulgarity (GWFL ID: ZenVulgarity, Steam ID: ZennyV)
Timezone: EST (-5 GMT)
Times Available: After May 12th, sometime after 9pm.

Astns (GWFL ID: Astns86, Steam ID: PAstns)
Timezone: GMT
Times Available: Anytime.

CorporateLogo (GWFL ID: CorpLogo, Steam ID: Emtarkanderundersgunderson)
Timezone: EST (-5 GMT)
Times Available: weekdays after 6:30, weekends whenever

Woggle (GWFL ID: Woggle 0, Steam ID: Woggle)
Timezone: EST (-5 GMT)
Times Available: Usually available after 9pm eastern, on more but irregularly on weekends. Sometimes during the day, but no guarantees.

Tarranon (GWFL ID: Logan Tier, Steam ID: Tarranon)
Timezone: EST (-5 GMT)
Times Available: I work as a server so hella random. For the forseeable future, Mon&Wed any time, other days after 11:30 at the latest.

Rocky (GWFL ID: Worldmatco, Steam ID: http://www.steamcommunity.com/id/b_heart)
Timezone: Central (-6 GMT)
Times Available: uh mid afternoon weekends, and uh after 3 p.m. monday-wednesday

YOU CAN START PLAYING NOW

Akira

http://steamcommunity.com/id/KillAllRaveners

Yes this is actually my steamID right now wwoooooooo

McAllen

Fuck that was fast. Grats Kinderparty.

TheCrumblyCracker

CrumblyCracker
http://steamcommunity.com/id/CptPoni

EST, available most days past 7. RL aside obviously.

Akira

Oh no the Kinderparty circlejerk-fanclub has infiltrated even this sacred sanctum!

Sepah

Lurk wrote: »

While we are not bitching or moaning about it, it’s nice to think that we play Dawn of War 2. To know more about Dawn of War 2, go to the official thread.

This is a one versus one round robin tournament that will take place over a course of several weeks. The deadline will be announced once I figure out how quickly matches are gone through. You can apply to join the tournament at anytime, but you can be disqualified from inactivity. To join the tournament, please post in this thread. I will need the following information:

- Your Windows Live Name
- Your Steam Name
- What times you are often available and in which time zone you reside.

The format is round robin and it is fairly simple. You try to play each contestant tournament once (and only once if it's a tournament game). If you win, you net yourself a point. If you lose, you get nothing and shame. Everyone is responsible to arrange games their own games, don't ask me to assign matches for you. If there are issues where players cannot face each other at any time due to timezone differences and personal commitments, talk to me and I'll try to figure something out.

Before a tourney game is played, it needs to be announced who is fighting who in this thread by one of the players. At the end of match, the replay must be saved and posted alongside of the result of who won the game.

The following things are banned: Ravener Alpha, dicks.

At the end of the tournament, the person with the most points or Kinderparty wins.

Current Contestants:

Lurk (GFWL ID: Saltek, Steam ID: Sirot)
Timezone: EST (-5 GMT)
Times Available: I am free anytime past 3pm on most days, busy till 10pm on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.

Core (GFWL ID: defconcore, Steam ID: defconcore)
Timezone: Central (-6 GMT)
Times Available: Typically Monday - Thursday between 2-7 or so maybe sometimes on Sundays.

DodgeBlan (GWFL ID: DodgeBlan, Steam ID: DodgeBlan)
Timezone: +10 GMT
Times Available: ???

Akira (GWFL ID: MechaAkira, Steam ID: Kill All Raveners)
Timezone: EST (-5 GMT)
Times Available: Usually after 10 or 11pm from tue-fri and most times sat-mon.

Sepah (GWFL ID: Seppah, Steam ID: Seppah)
Timezone: ???
Times Available: Free Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Available after 9:15 pm UTC/GMT on Mondays and Thursdays. Available after 6:45 pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Retzinsky (GWFL ID: Retzinsky, Steam ID: Retzinsky)
Timezone: BST (???)
Times Available: 11am to 11pm

CanisAquilus (GWFL ID: CanisRedux, Steam ID: CanisAquilus)
Timezone: ???
Times Available: Whenever.

Goomba (GWFL ID: TradingPanther, Steam ID: Goomball)
Timezone: Central (-6 GMT)
Times Available: 8 - 12 usually.

Dudbolt (GWFL ID: Folandil, Steam ID: Folandil)
Timezone: Central (-6 GMT)
Times Available: This is a hard one because I work night shift on Sunday-Tuesday and from Friday and Saturday. I sleep during the day and I'm usually awake by 7pm but I can be up as early as 5pm.

Corp.Shephard (GWFL ID: Cpl Shep, Steam ID: ???)
Timezone: EST (-5 GMT)
Times Available: Anytime after May 16th?

Kinderparty (GWFL ID:StuGDeployed, Steam ID: ???)
Timezone: EST (-5 GMT)
Times Available: After 3:30 pm on weekdays, after 2pm on weekends.

Charts to follow who played who will be forthcoming. We currently have 10 participants, but I think we can have 5 more without getting a lot of problems.

This is incorrect, my Steam ID is Sepah.

McAllen

I hope there's a really strong ork player going into the competition. That would make for a good show.

Metal Gear Solid 2 Demo

Enders8
http://steamcommunity.com/id/enders
Reside in EST, available late or mid-day EST most days

Akira

McAllen wrote: »

I hope there's a really strong ork player going into the competition. That would make for a good show.

Corp.Shephard is in and (presumably) playing Orks, he's really high ranked.

pyromaniac221

I'm in. GFWL is pyromaniac221.

I've never played a 1v1 game before.

TheCrumblyCracker

And he beat the shit out of me without even trying! He even used stormboyz! I can't wait to play some of you guys.

I can't wait to get my ass hammered!

Lurk

I might consider to expand the tournament to 20 people if we get that many people. But that would mean that each person is going to play 19 rounds. Is that too much?

Zen Vulgarity

ZenVulgarity
http://steamcommunity.com/id/ZennyV

Probably sometime after 9 PM EST normally AFTER 5/12/09

Corp.Shephard

Hopefully this will be after the upcoming patch?

It will almost have to be for me. My final exam is thursday, then I have like until Fri-Sat before I have to go on what I expect to be a week trip (until Friday 15th). If the patch is coming next week, well unless they dip into the weekend...

I will most certainly heft the banner of the orks, although I have been preforming like a rube in 1v1s lately.
My 1v1 record with eldar is better than my ork one now...

Edit: my Steam ID is same as my username on the forums:
Corp.Shephard

DudBolt

I don't think I'm good anymore, but I did manage to play against a lvl 50 Space marine yesterday and I gave him a run for his money. I'm only lvl 21.

Edit - I should also mention that I am free on Wednesday and Thursday nights

CanisAquilus

Dont worry about it man, my play ability is like, thirty, maybe fourty percent of what it once was.

Goomba

CanisAquilus wrote: »

Dont worry about it man, my play ability is like, thirty, maybe fourty percent of what it once was.

Don't worry, if you do pick up orks nobody will be able to tell the difference.

Edit: Or they won't be able to tell because you'll randomly leave the game for fuck knows how long for some reason and the other guy will be waiting for like two or five hours while you're playing Soul Calibur. >: (

Akira

Goomba wrote: »

Edit: Or they won't be able to tell because you'll randomly leave the game for fuck knows how long for some reason and the other guy will be waiting for like six hours while you're playing Soul Calibur. >: (

rts

Believe it or not I actually wish I could participate in this...but I am leaving in a couple of days and will be gone for awhile.....you lucky bastards. Somebody else better be complaining about Orks for me while I am gone.

DodgeBlan

any tourneybros online now?
I am potentially an easy victory

Retzinsky

Woooooooo, let's get this failtrain underway. I will be playing Eldar and my W:L right now is 5:6. Yes, less than break even. Should I win one game you will need to be prepared for me to declare it an epic victory and say that I "dominated the tournament."

Also, BST = British Summer Time. It's GMT+1.

Astns

Despite having not played DoW2 for an age, I think I'll join this sausage festival.

SteamID - PAstns
GFWL ID - Astns86

GMT is my timezone.

I'm available to play pretty much all day and night every day.

Retzinsky

Dodgeblan and myself are about to have a clash of the e-peens. Game one is on!

Astns

I suggest that replays of all tourney games be saved and posted.

Retzinsky

I beat Dodgeblan, was a Farseer mirror. Replay is here

And now, in line with my earlier ridiculous proclamations: I AM DOMINATING THE TOURNAMENT. EPIC VICTORY. NUMBER 1.

(Let me have my glory while it lasts. Please.)

DodgeBlan

I suck sooooo bad. I think I'm gonna have to go back to tyranids

Sepah

DodgeBlan wrote: »

I suck sooooo bad. I think I'm gonna have to go back to tyranids

Unfortunately the 2 Guardian start does not do so well anymore, as its incredibly power hungry and you probably won't have the grenades for the first fight.

I just don't understand it.

'Well, everyone is complaining about Tyranids, and Tyranid players are complaining about Grenade Spiking. Lets nerf Eldar.'

Astns

Sooo anyone want to play now?

I'll take you all on.

Retzinsky

Maybe the people who aren't on the list in the OP yet should wait until they are just in case Lurk closes registrations or something else happens. Not that I don't want you to play, but it could get confusing if we have fresh sign-ups starting to play matches right away before it's clear who is and isn't in the tournament.

CorporateLogo

I'd sign up but I haven't played online once.

So if you need a scrub in the league, I'm your guy!

GFWL: CorporateLogo

Lurk

We currently have 17 participants. I will allow three more people to sign up before the doors close just for logistical reasons.

Currently, you are expected to play all 19 games until I see issues and would have to change the policy. Currently I expect the Tournament to end on May 31st.

I am not sure what the patch will do to this tourney though... I am afraid of waiting for it because then it will never come, it's like watching water boil : /

CanisAquilus

Anyone want to play?

Zen Vulgarity

Hey Lurk, when are you planning on STARTING?

Because I can't even PLAY until May 12th.

Corp.Shephard

Tournament has already started, I think. If you're in the OP, find a person to play, play them, post it, and revel in your glorious victory/shameful defeat.

Lurk

It pretty much started. I am going to note victories which are pre-patch and post-patch (if it ever comes).

You have basically all of May to play the games. Maybe even more, depending on average progress.

DeadOnArrival

I had considered joining this carnival of fools but I dare not tread the murky waters of DoW2 any longer lest my sanity be put at stake.

Also the format of the tournament is a little screwed Lurk. Usually round robins are precursors to a bracketed knockout tournament. What I mean is, Kinderparty might be (lols might) the best one here but if he only has time to play against 5 other people due to incompatible timezones he'll still lose by a massive margin.

I say treat this as the preliminaries and have the 8 people with the most points partake in a small bracketed tournament with 3 rounds for the final victory. More fun that way too.

Lurk

DeadOnArrival wrote: »

I had considered joining this carnival of fools but I dare not tread the murky waters of DoW2 any longer lest my sanity be put at stake.

Also the format of the tournament is a little screwed Lurk. Usually round robins are precursors to a bracketed knockout tournament. What I mean is, Kinderparty might be (lols might) the best one here but if he only has time to play against 5 other people due to incompatible timezones he'll still lose by a massive margin.

I say treat this as the preliminaries and have the 8 people with the most points partake in a small bracketed tournament with 3 rounds for the final victory. More fun that way too.

Well, I am going to wait to see how things go first. There is a big window of opportunity to get games in, but what you're thinking is also very viable.

I am up for a game right now, gimme a heads up in vent.

Lurk

Retzinsky and I are going to be engaged...in battle.

CanisAquilus

http://www.gamereplays.org/dawnofwar2/replays.php?game=47&tab=upcoming&show=details&id=79615

The first game is done.

I decided to take on old Astns, whom I thought was cool and played orks, but turned out to play TYRANIDS!

To the man's credit, he didn't build rippers, but he did poop out spore-mines like a dirty whore.

Still, overall astns was a gentleman throughout the whole sortie, and it was a fun game.

Astns

CanisAquilus wrote: »

http://www.gamereplays.org/dawnofwar2/replays.php?game=47&tab=upcoming&show=details&id=79615

The first game is done.

I decided to take on old Astns, whom I thought was cool and played orks, but turned out to play TYRANIDS!

To the man's credit, he didn't build rippers, but he did poop out spore-mines like a dirty whore.

Still, overall astns was a gentleman throughout the whole sortie, and it was a fun game.

Ditto old chap, watching the replay is quite hilarious

I was so painfully bad

Lurk

Oh man, I got messed up big time by Retzinsky. That gravity blade is killer.

I need practice.

http://www.thestudentreview.com/DOW2/2p_calderisdunes.2009-05-06.15-39-11.rec