/another template next week? Hopefully...

i actually like ancient greece template. a lot more then middle earth or ancient china atleast :p
but if you're looking for new templates how about volcano island or noord brabant? http://warlight.net/Map.aspx?ID=5069
they are fairly strategical and don't usually take long to play. plus it's different to play on maps with more numerous borders. and diversity is always good. :)

also, i don't understand why you don't have larger brackets and only do the live coverage of the more interesting games. if you're afraid the better players wont want to play through 3 hours of live tournament i guess you could keep it limited to 16 brackets but hold qualifiers of some sort during the week. it's important to let underdogs have a swing at it, and from this weeks lobby it seems lot of folks were cut off. you could do some sort of scheme where the 2 finalists from previous week would get automatically accepted and the other 14 slots would be available to the top players from the qualifiers. maybe throw in a couple of guest wildcards taken from top 20 of the ladder now and again to keep the number of active pros high.

If you want diversity how about Australia(it's roughly same size as greece map).

ps, you never know if people are going to be on-line, and we would have larger brackets just there aren't 32 players who say they want to play, so there are only 16 players...

hedja: there were more than 32 folks online at the lobby yesterday who wanted to participate. so i don't get where you're coming from stating there weren't enough players. o_O

ofcourse whoever joins the qualifiers should know what they're joining to and be ready to be online during the live tournament. if they get qualified and don't show up you can just invite a second wave of other folks who participated in the qualifiers but didnt make the first tier and ultimately open the flood gates to any other invite.

no ps. there was 24 people in the lobby when the tournament invites were sent out. 1 oft them wasx lolowut so 23.

Streamed tournament have to give also some instruncting-entartaining materials, admitting noobs will ruin this amazing thing that Lolowut made for us.

By the way noobs can easily join any other tournement they want, then it is not an enormous restriction to them.

To me I would like to see 5 top players round robins:P

whoopdy doo

Ill probably need someone to play with me in my team in the 2v2.
Only thing is i need a good player, so im not wieghed down. (most people here make me way them down but whatever)

How about me for a teammate, Reza?
We could do a practice real-time game before the tourney.

well im waiting to see if fridge is here. HE was going to play with me if hedja wouldnt be able too.

Ah, ok.

Tell me if he's not.

bam forum rejectttioonnn :)

I would have said the same to you hell bender. Fridge is here, sorry foxface maybe some other time :)

That's ok, I'll just find another teammate.

Reza: thats odd, i didnt count so i'll have to take your word for it. but i distinctively recall folks mentioning we had passed the 32 mark so i find it strange.

ill be your teamate foxface if you want to?

No i did count 20 seconds after the invites were sent. But the lobby is deleted so i cant bring up the quote.

About your concerns: Yesterday I was worried we WOULD hit 32 people, because I make the tournaments a few days in advance and didn't make one for 32. However, only 24 people joined the lobby in time as Reza said, and I'll only host a 32-man tournament if we have 32+ players in lobby.

When it comes to the quality of the players, I don't discriminate. These are community, public tournaments. Anyone can join. I always give priority to returning reliable players, however outside that if you're fast enough to join the tourney, you can come in. Right now, Warlight isn't big enough for me to pick through the players. Most of the top players are busy as is, and so even if I wanted an "elite" live tournament, I doubt it would ever happen. (Getting a shortlist to happen is already incredibly difficult.)

However, whenever I feel fit to do so, I will be hosting qualifiers during the week, and then the live tourneys on the weekend. I don't feel it's necessary yet. If you want to wait for more "elite" tournaments, I'm sure that the turnout will become increasingly better as soon as I work out a free membership live tournament. That also requiring a qualifier tournament.


Anyways, the 2v2 live tournament starts in an hour. I will be participating. Mythonian and Szew will be commentating.

I'll start the lobby in 30 minutes. Good luck! :)