Semi Official Stick Online Tournament League!

[Matty_Richo]

What are Semi-Official Stick Online League Tournaments?

These tournaments will be running fairly regularly and will add towards a new ranking system that has been set up specifically for use in tournaments. Tournaments like this will be seeded, meaning that having a high ranking is vital to having a nice run to the finals.

These tournaments will be running a little differently to most player run tournaments. Each tournament will have a host, the host's job is to run the tournaments and decide how the tournament will work (they may want to run it at the pirate ship, or only wooden hammers can be used for weapons, etc.). The host will vary from week to week so we should get a good variety.

The tournaments will also have commentators (that will also vary from week to week), the commentators will commentate (and record) the entire tournament and it will be streamed on Twitch.tv.

These tournaments are run by a team of players including, Lucifer, Igufed, Mr Pwnage and Myself (Danimal is helping and providing the prizes but one of the reasons we are doing this is to lighten Dan's load a bit) so feel free to shoot us any questions you might have.

What are the prizes/why should I enter?

Each of these tournaments will have a prize, the prizes are currently provided by Danimal and are subject to change.
The prizes are currently as follows:

First place: 6 Deluxe Gift boxes
Second Place: 3 Deluxe Gift Boxes
(Third place will be decided via a fight between the two semi-final losers, for the sake of ranking points)
*The deluxe gift boxes can be opened on any account of your choosing. Please inform the tournament host which account you would like to receive them on.
You will also get ranking points no matter where you place.

Rankings

The current rankings can be viewed here (updated fortnightly).

A ranking system has been set up for these tournaments. We use this for seeding the tournaments and also just to give high ranked players bragging rights.

The way the system works is as follows:
1st - 100pts
2nd - 80pts
3rd - 70pts
4th - 60pts
5th (Quarter Finals) - 40pts
6th (Round of 16) - 25pts
7th (Round of 32) - 10pts

A bonus 5pts will also be added if the match you lose goes to 3 rounds.

Ranking points will only count from the previous 5 tournaments so people who go inactive will fall out of the rankings and it also means that one person can't stack up their points heaps to the point where it is impossible for anyone to get ahead.

What can I do?

One of the reasons behind this topic is to give everyone in the community a chance to post ideas, any ideas you have including, types of tournies, different ways of streaming/casting, etc. please post them!

Also get your friends to play and start PvPing. We don't know how long registration will be open to the public but use it to give your friends an opportunity to play and let's build up this PvP scene.

Practice PvPing. Take some time to work on your PvP skills, the tournies will be much more fun and interesting with a lot of skilled players battling it out in epic fights.

[Matty_Richo]

The way the rankings work have been updated to a much simpler (and hopefully more effective) formula.