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| blade55555 United States. April 10 2012 15:15. Posts 14259 | Profile Blog # |
Hello all and as the title says, this is a recruitment tournament. This is a 32 man tournament single elimination bo3 every round. To join post in this thread with your name (example.392), rank (masters xxx points). This is only open for players ranked masters or above. Do not sign up if you are on a team already, we will just ignore it as we are looking at growing undiscovered talent!
The selection process will not be just how far in the tournament you get, if we think you are good or have potential as long as you are willing to commit we will contact you. There will be observers in random matches (so you don't need to upload those replays if there is an observer in your game). To make sure nobody gets the wrong idea, this is not sponsored of any sort and joining won't get you a trip to MLG/IPL if that is all you are looking for in a team.
This tournament is being held to locate players who are good, but aren't known or established and want to join a team. There is a lot of undiscovered talent out there and I would like to bring them in. The goal is to get a team of around 6 or so players who practice together and play and act as a team, which means participating in team leagues and helping each other practice, tournaments, etc. There will be a vent!
All replays are to be sent to tb_nicholas@hotmail.com and this is going to be a 1 day tournament. If you are interested in joining but can not make this tournament date we can try to figure something out, no guarantees though.
The tournament is going to start 8 pm EST on April 18'th, 2012 next wednesday on the North American Server in the chat channel Requiem Tournament.
The map pool will be as follows:
MLG Antiga Shipyard (cross spawn only)
Cloud kingdom
Daybreak
MLG Metropolis
Ohana
Korhal compound
Tal darim Altar
There is no prize other then the chance to join this team, brackets will be up either as soon as 32 players enter, or if in the case of less then 32 players, April 17'th the day before the tournament starts.
Current sign ups (32/32):
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Switch.666
LiLSighKoh.744
hunts.234
shakeR.283
Wrath.749
Killing 190
Vash.553
Thaniri.336
Niche. 240
Exalt.812
haZard.388
SDRB.400
SmOkeShield.348
Bugrancher.689
apathy.159
LovE.801
Grundle.610
ConQueR.725
TerranItUp.505
doss.871
WeaponX.840
babypho.530
recklessfire.344
sGMonkey. 492
UNCjer.172
SoulBroTHEr.552
Rako.968
Andane.674
VPKueKue 218
Zode.277
mandalore 349
Badfatpanda.312
Backup (2)
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Apples.944
jobless.173
Revjerm.364
http://challonge.com/req5
Maps:
Round of 32 - Daybreak (loser picks next map)
Round of 16 - MLG Metropolis(loser picks next map)
Round of 8 - Ohana (loser picks next map)
Semi finals - Daybreak (loser picks next map)
Finals - MLG Metropolis (loser picks next map)
All rounds are bo3, finals could be bo5 if both players want to do that, but is planned for bo3.
About the team:
+ Show Spoiler +This team is based on the concept of what we used in BW as team funtastic, and later became known as Quantum gaming in the beta. We held a tournament just like this in the starcraft 2 beta and ended up forming a team with players such as Rigid, Blade (me), Time, Titan and Murder. This was a team that during the beta could take games and won clan wars with top foreign teams at the time such as EG, VT, Inflow, etc. Murder had many tournament wins during his beta period, and some good success in early sc2 before he stopped playing due to school and then disappeared. Remember this was the time during beta, obviously things have changed a lot in that time frame, EG now has koreans, VT doesn't exist and neither does inflow, etc. We were all great friends, practiced together a lot and then we joined vVv which in the end most of the players have left or quit playing the game.
The goal is to go back to the roots and try to repeat what we did back in beta before joining vVv gaming. The three players on the team, Blade (me), waffles and Dori were all apart of the original funtastic into quantum into what was eventually now known as vVv (although most players have left the orginization). The goals are to become a top competitive team and to work and act as a team and all that.
More information:
+ Show Spoiler +Summary/add on to what Blade wrote...
Team Requiem Introduction:
This is a new team started by Blade in order to tap into the unexplored talent that exists in NA. One issue that has been raised in threads has been the lack of infrastructure for the discovery and the development of NA players. The goal of the tournament is to identify such talent and create a cohesive unit. The team will organize the players and help in the development through practice, strategy talks, as well as anything else that can aid in player improvement.
The goal of the team is twofold, the first being get good at Starcraft. The second being to explore the business side of eSports and find opportunities and needs of audience that is not currently met by the community already. We will look towards creation of products, shows, blogs, etc. that will expand upon the current offering and make eSports more accessible to all fans, from non-Sc2 players to casual players to professional level players. We are in the process of creating a business plan that will look towards this objective.
The end goal is to both create a new NA that can be competitive on the NA scene as well as have a solid business plan from which funding and sponsorship can be accessed to help support said team. If any of y'all have interest in either the business side or the pro-gaming side, I urge you to reach out to Blade (primarily) or myself.
Thanks.
Current players (note this is not the A team line up just people apart of the team):
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Blade(Z)
Dori(T)
Waffles(T)
Everytime(Z)
If you have any comments/questions/concerns please feel free to ask in this thread or PM me. If you want to cast or stream your games go ahead, if you want to cast contact me by PM.
Bracket:
http://challonge.com/req5
This tournament is again open to anyone masters/grandmasters. Thanks for your interest and good luck!Last edit: 2012-04-19 08:28:24 |
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| Ace1123 Philippines. April 10 2012 15:18. Posts 1144 | Profile # |
| Would you have a Team B? Like Dia's and Plat and Another BSG Team? |
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| NrG.NeverExpo Canada. April 10 2012 15:22. Posts 1904 | Profile Blog # |
Never heard of this team, shouldn't you post a little information about the team? People might want to know what they are getting themselves into  |
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| blade55555 United States. April 10 2012 15:31. Posts 14259 | Profile Blog # |
On April 10 2012 15:18 Ace1123 wrote:
Would you have a Team B? Like Dia's and Plat and Another BSG Team?
This is a possibility we could look into later, but as of this moment I don't plan on having a B team sorry.
On April 10 2012 15:22 NrG.NeverExpo wrote:Never heard of this team, shouldn't you post a little information about the team? People might want to know what they are getting themselves into
Updated, forgot to put the history of the good ole days of funtastic, quantum and into what took it all away :D. |
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| Sangyerians Australia. April 10 2012 15:31. Posts 247 | Profile Blog # |
On April 10 2012 15:18 Ace1123 wrote:
Would you have a Team B? Like Dia's and Plat and Another BSG Team?
Why you'd want to join the B team of a team that's already B level in the grand scale of things, I don't understand.
Just work on getting out of diamond league first before you think of joining teams. |
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| Eventine United States. April 10 2012 15:33. Posts 218 | Profile Blog # |
Summary/add on to what Blade wrote...
Team Requiem Introduction:
This is a new team started by Blade in order to tap into the unexplored talent that exists in NA. One issue that has been raised in threads has been the lack of infrastructure for the discovery and the development of NA players. The goal of the tournament is to identify such talent and create a cohesive unit. The team will organize the players and help in the development through practice, strategy talks, as well as anything else that can aid in player improvement.
The goal of the team is twofold, the first being get good at Starcraft. The second being to explore the business side of eSports and find opportunities and needs of audience that is not currently met by the community already. We will look towards creation of products, shows, blogs, etc. that will expand upon the current offering and make eSports more accessible to all fans, from non-Sc2 players to casual players to professional level players. We are in the process of creating a business plan that will look towards this objective.
The end goal is to both create a new NA that can be competitive on the NA scene as well as have a solid business plan from which funding and sponsorship can be accessed to help support said team. If any of y'all have interest in either the business side or the pro-gaming side, I urge you to reach out to Blade (primarily) or myself.
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| firehand101 Australia. April 10 2012 16:16. Posts 3000 | Profile Blog # |
This is so awesome, but unfortunately i am only in diamond 
i will get to masters one day!
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| -Switch- Canada. April 10 2012 16:23. Posts 435 | Profile # |
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| LiLSighKoh United States. April 10 2012 16:34. Posts 427 | Profile Blog # |
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| Joedaddy United States. April 10 2012 17:09. Posts 1609 | Profile Blog # |
On April 10 2012 15:22 NrG.NeverExpo wrote:Never heard of this team, shouldn't you post a little information about the team? People might want to know what they are getting themselves into
I remember several decent players wearing the tag Req. I know that Philbird and Theognis both used to be Req. and there was a pretty decent zerg member too that used to practice with Root back when Root was still Root.
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| HansK April 10 2012 17:27. Posts 249 | Profile Blog # |
I'm confused, are you using the tournament winners to choose your members or watching the play of the individuals to see if you like them? I've seen several tournaments lately where winners are a part of the team, but that seems really odd as players results can differ from day to day and even though some one wins a tournament they can be a really terrible player to have on a team and actually only hurt it.
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| blade55555 United States. April 10 2012 17:46. Posts 14259 | Profile Blog # |
On April 10 2012 17:27 HansK wrote:
I'm confused, are you using the tournament winners to choose your members or watching the play of the individuals to see if you like them? I've seen several tournaments lately where winners are a part of the team, but that seems really odd as players results can differ from day to day and even though some one wins a tournament they can be a really terrible player to have on a team and actually only hurt it.
Both, for example if 2 amazing players for example play each other first round, that wont' disqualify the other player from not getting picked just because he lost. Obviously the further you get the more attention you get and more likely you get in ^^.
On April 10 2012 17:09 Joedaddy wrote:
Show nested quote +On April 10 2012 15:22 NrG.NeverExpo wrote:Never heard of this team, shouldn't you post a little information about the team? People might want to know what they are getting themselves into
I remember several decent players wearing the tag Req. I know that Philbird and Theognis both used to be Req. and there was a pretty decent zerg member too that used to practice with Root back when Root was still Root. Is this the same team, just with new members and minus the old members?
No this is a different team, I know of theognis but no this is not the same team nor were we affiliated in anyway.Last edit: 2012-04-10 17:59:34 |
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| hunts United States. April 10 2012 18:09. Posts 1664 | Profile # |
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| HansK April 10 2012 18:09. Posts 249 | Profile Blog # |
On April 10 2012 17:46 blade55555 wrote:
Show nested quote +On April 10 2012 17:27 HansK wrote:
I'm confused, are you using the tournament winners to choose your members or watching the play of the individuals to see if you like them? I've seen several tournaments lately where winners are a part of the team, but that seems really odd as players results can differ from day to day and even though some one wins a tournament they can be a really terrible player to have on a team and actually only hurt it.
Both, for example if 2 amazing players for example play each other first round, that wont' disqualify the other player from not getting picked just because he lost. Obviously the further you get the more attention you get and more likely you get in ^^.
Show nested quote +On April 10 2012 17:09 Joedaddy wrote:
On April 10 2012 15:22 NrG.NeverExpo wrote:Never heard of this team, shouldn't you post a little information about the team? People might want to know what they are getting themselves into
I remember several decent players wearing the tag Req. I know that Philbird and Theognis both used to be Req. and there was a pretty decent zerg member too that used to practice with Root back when Root was still Root. Is this the same team, just with new members and minus the old members?
No this is a different team, I know of theognis but no this is not the same team nor were we affiliated in anyway.
Considering that most pro players have under 60% win-rates and winning a single small tournament says nothing about ones personal strive to become better, their personality in terms of being able to be of benefit to the team, work ethic, etc it seems really silly to put together any serious long term team off something like that. It seems like a clan with organized practice and choosing players as you see fit based on replays/how they act in the clan/your experiences with them over time would be a better way of doing things.
You could very easily have one of the next best and upcoming players who is intelligent, plays 12 hours a day, would be very beneficial to the team in terms of helping it out from helping practice to business related things.would not backstab you, etc etc that you would know he had those quality's if he was in a clan playing games, sending replays, talking on a regular basis for some period of time. Where as in a single small tournament with even the best of players near 60% win rates he could get owned first round and you would give him a small amount of attention. |
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| Doriboi United States. April 10 2012 18:54. Posts 175 | Profile Blog # |
On April 10 2012 18:09 HansK wrote:
Show nested quote +On April 10 2012 17:46 blade55555 wrote:
On April 10 2012 17:27 HansK wrote:
I'm confused, are you using the tournament winners to choose your members or watching the play of the individuals to see if you like them? I've seen several tournaments lately where winners are a part of the team, but that seems really odd as players results can differ from day to day and even though some one wins a tournament they can be a really terrible player to have on a team and actually only hurt it.
Both, for example if 2 amazing players for example play each other first round, that wont' disqualify the other player from not getting picked just because he lost. Obviously the further you get the more attention you get and more likely you get in ^^.
On April 10 2012 17:09 Joedaddy wrote:
On April 10 2012 15:22 NrG.NeverExpo wrote:Never heard of this team, shouldn't you post a little information about the team? People might want to know what they are getting themselves into
I remember several decent players wearing the tag Req. I know that Philbird and Theognis both used to be Req. and there was a pretty decent zerg member too that used to practice with Root back when Root was still Root. Is this the same team, just with new members and minus the old members?
No this is a different team, I know of theognis but no this is not the same team nor were we affiliated in anyway.
Considering that most pro players have under 60% win-rates and winning a single small tournament says nothing about ones personal strive to become better, their personality in terms of being able to be of benefit to the team, work ethic, etc it seems really silly to put together any serious long term team off something like that. It seems like a clan with organized practice and choosing players as you see fit based on replays/how they act in the clan/your experiences with them over time would be a better way of doing things. You could very easily have one of the next best and upcoming players who is intelligent, plays 12 hours a day, would be very beneficial to the team in terms of helping it out from helping practice to business related things.would not backstab you, etc etc that you would know he had those quality's if he was in a clan playing games, sending replays, talking on a regular basis for some period of time. Where as in a single small tournament with even the best of players near 60% win rates he could get owned first round and you would give him a small amount of attention.
Your thoughts are really scattered here and I fail to see where you are going here. First let me clarify some things. Yes good players lose, sometimes in the first round, sometimes in the 2nd, etc. Sometimes players have problem match-ups, and having a problem match-up in your first round happens. That will not diminish this player's opportunity to join the team.
Second, I know you have a disagreement with how the tournament format works and how we are selecting players for the team. While personal friendships do help develop team chemistry, we are working to develop domestic foreign talent. Recently, I have been discouraged with teams and their current strategy of recruitment. A win at all costs type attitude( or rather the perception that is there). However we are building a team, not a clan, and in order to do that, we need to work on discovering talented players. A tournament setting is the best place to discover these players.
Finally, we are not looking for a 12 hour a day player, because it isn't realistic. We will be operating within the bounds of reality. We will not be recruiting free-agent top tier Korean players, because we have little to offer at this time. We will not be looking for a 12-14 hour a day player who never sleeps and drinks only Red Bull. We are looking for hard working, energetic, engaging players who love Starcraft.
Are we going to compete with the Liquids, Empires, or Evil Geniuses? Not at first. But those organizations started small at one point too. Give us time, and with hard work and effort, we will put on a grand show. |
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| HansK April 10 2012 19:27. Posts 249 | Profile Blog # |
On April 10 2012 18:54 Doriboi wrote:
Show nested quote +On April 10 2012 18:09 HansK wrote:
On April 10 2012 17:46 blade55555 wrote:
On April 10 2012 17:27 HansK wrote:
I'm confused, are you using the tournament winners to choose your members or watching the play of the individuals to see if you like them? I've seen several tournaments lately where winners are a part of the team, but that seems really odd as players results can differ from day to day and even though some one wins a tournament they can be a really terrible player to have on a team and actually only hurt it.
Both, for example if 2 amazing players for example play each other first round, that wont' disqualify the other player from not getting picked just because he lost. Obviously the further you get the more attention you get and more likely you get in ^^.
On April 10 2012 17:09 Joedaddy wrote:
On April 10 2012 15:22 NrG.NeverExpo wrote:Never heard of this team, shouldn't you post a little information about the team? People might want to know what they are getting themselves into
I remember several decent players wearing the tag Req. I know that Philbird and Theognis both used to be Req. and there was a pretty decent zerg member too that used to practice with Root back when Root was still Root. Is this the same team, just with new members and minus the old members?
No this is a different team, I know of theognis but no this is not the same team nor were we affiliated in anyway.
Considering that most pro players have under 60% win-rates and winning a single small tournament says nothing about ones personal strive to become better, their personality in terms of being able to be of benefit to the team, work ethic, etc it seems really silly to put together any serious long term team off something like that. It seems like a clan with organized practice and choosing players as you see fit based on replays/how they act in the clan/your experiences with them over time would be a better way of doing things. You could very easily have one of the next best and upcoming players who is intelligent, plays 12 hours a day, would be very beneficial to the team in terms of helping it out from helping practice to business related things.would not backstab you, etc etc that you would know he had those quality's if he was in a clan playing games, sending replays, talking on a regular basis for some period of time. Where as in a single small tournament with even the best of players near 60% win rates he could get owned first round and you would give him a small amount of attention.
Your thoughts are really scattered here and I fail to see where you are going here. First let me clarify some things. Yes good players lose, sometimes in the first round, sometimes in the 2nd, etc. Sometimes players have problem match-ups, and having a problem match-up in your first round happens. That will not diminish this player's opportunity to join the team. Second, I know you have a disagreement with how the tournament format works and how we are selecting players for the team. While personal friendships do help develop team chemistry, we are working to develop domestic foreign talent. Recently, I have been discouraged with teams and their current strategy of recruitment. A win at all costs type attitude( or rather the perception that is there). However we are building a team, not a clan, and in order to do that, we need to work on discovering talented players. A tournament setting is the best place to discover these players. Finally, we are not looking for a 12 hour a day player, because it isn't realistic. We will be operating within the bounds of reality. We will not be recruiting free-agent top tier Korean players, because we have little to offer at this time. We will not be looking for a 12-14 hour a day player who never sleeps and drinks only Red Bull. We are looking for hard working, energetic, engaging players who love Starcraft. Are we going to compete with the Liquids, Empires, or Evil Geniuses? Not at first. But those organizations started small at one point too. Give us time, and with hard work and effort, we will put on a grand show.
My post was rather confusing and scattered with no real direction, to put it more simply I think the best way to accomplish what your goal is at least according to your post[to get talented players and develop domestic foreign talent] is not what you're currently planning on doing. I have no issues with you wanting to do it this way, but only was pointing out I think that it's a rather poor way of doing things.
Holding a small tournament in which you get to see a very small amount of games from individuals and learn very, very little about them in terms of skill and personality, work ethic, current goals, etc is just a poor way to form a team. You could have an amazing player who fits your goals well has great work ethic and will become great, and he might just lose in the very first round in some terrible looking way and that is that, you lost out on an amazing player. Then the player who wins is actually a very poor member for any team or at least worse in every way to the other guy in terms of skill/personality/goals , and just happened to be playing his best match ups etc, but will be over-all much, much worse for your team..
Keep in mind I was only trying to provide constructive criticism. I think the superior way is having some form of a clan, such as SlayerS did before it formed the official team. A clan allows you to see lots of members for prolonged periods of times and allows you to also get to know a person well and see if he would be a good member of the team in terms of skill and personality and current goals, at least a lot more so than one small tourney.
Once you have a player from the clan you've practiced with, seen his replays, observed his games, chatted with him lots, and so forth you offer a invitation to be a part of the official team. You're not actually making a clan to just have a clan, only as a temporary recruitment method.
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