Clan Invitational Bracket

Hypnotik: For those of you wondering, yes, of course I'm reading this topic.   For sure there are a few minor changes to the tournament that I would make for the next one (and yes, I agree, there has to be a next one). I will be organizing a meeting for the teams involved to go over this tournament, and all of the little details of it, so that everyone who was involved can have their say. Start thinking about how you would format it, how you would seed it, how you would like qualifications to be earned for the tournament. Any of the little things that could make that big difference and turn this into an even more successful event. Unfortunately, due to scheduling of all of the parties involved here at WGA, this will probably have to be after PAX.   I will address two issues ahead of time.   Training room/tournament options (such as the need for 14 instead of 15 players, fog of war, etc.) - I've been working on showing the need for this for quite a while, and one of the benefits of the Map Exhibition series of tournaments and this event itself is that it is showing that there is a foundation of players looking for events like this that mimic CW rules (as closely as we can, currently). What can you do to help? Keep playing in these types of events to help show that they are also sustainable resources for you to entertain yourself, and watch the next major clan tournament. The viewership that we saw this weekend is a good showing of support for this, and I imagine it will only grow in upcoming tourneys as well.   The seeding for this tournament - Several people suggested to just use the clan rating system. As a bit of history, development of such a system had been one of the priorities I started this job with (and the same goes for Q, too) - even though it was on the dartboard already, the two of us pushed for it to get done quite often, and I'm sure the devs at HQ can confirm that we were as annoying as we could be about it. When I found out early this year that it was finally going to get done, we were ecstatic. There are two issues that caused us not to use it this time around; 1) During the planning process of this tourney (concepts began in February, btw) and until a little while before it came out, we were unsure of the exact release date; and 2) Even after it came out, we wanted to give it time to ensure the integrity and stability of the Clan Rating system before planning any events around it. In hindsight, I can look at it and say that that would have likely turned into a fairly interesting bracket setup, but I made the decision to go a different way - a bracket in which your method of qualification determined where you would be placed (based mostly on difficulty of the task, how many competitors were likely to attempt to achieve it, which event they qualified in and what the competition level was likely to be at in there, and you may have also noticed that no two clans that qualified during the same event faced each other in round 1).   Sorry for the wall of text, hopefully it answers a few questions you guys might have had and can make you guys see a little bit better why things were the way they were this time around, and that I won't stop working on improving stuff around here for clans.   -Hyp