Announcing the 1v1 Supremacy Hidden Tournament

[Riotcoke]

Announcing the 1v1 'Hidden' Supremacy Tournament A 1v1 event starting Saturday 1st August at 12am GMT with a unique twist Click here to sign up! Over the summer historically there's been a gap in the schedule for events in the AOE3 world, last year we had this filled nicely with Escape's lan whilst this year we're seeing the success of streamers' personal tournements with Jailed's 2v2 tournemant and GUA's 1v1 tournemants both utilising a random aspect for both civilisations and maps. Although it's always fun to see Kaiserklein repeatedly get rolled the Aztec civilisation, I do understand that some players have been wanting a tournement that's slightly more standard for a while now. In light of that I'd like to run a Hidden or Smurf style tournement utlising rules much alike to the 2v2 Treaty Hidden Cup.
Rules Smurf Specific rules
- 16 players total which are chosen by the top 16 signups by max EP and current JP Elo importantly the list of participants will be private
- Each player will be given a smurf which they are free to use for the duration of the event. However they cannot tell anyone their identity
- Chat will be discouraged by players, players can still chat in game but any chat pertaining to who they are could result in a disqualification
- As each game is going to be casted, casters will not know the identity of players.
- Seeding in the bracket will be done semi randomly, in this regard the seeding will be random but i might change the bracket slightly to keep games interesting.
- All players will have to use VPNs. This is unfortunate but is required to increase integrity. If you require help setting up a VPN please contact me.

General Tournament rules
- Bracket structure will be Best of 5s for the RO16, Best of 5s for the RO8, Best of 7s for semi-finals and a best of 7 for the final.
- New world championship rules will be used for civ picks, with the winner of the previous game picking first.
- Map set will be released at a later date
- In general the event will work in a similar fashion to previous weekend tournaments hosted by ESOC

Prospective Timeline

Day 1 (Saturday) -
ESOCTV
14:00 GMT - Ro16 Series 1 (Bo5)
16:15 GMT - Ro16 Series 3 (Bo5)
18:30 GMT - Ro16 Series 5 (Bo5)
20:45 GMT - Ro16 Series 7 (Bo5)

ESOCTV2
14:00 GMT - Ro16 Series 2 (Bo5)
16:15 GMT - Ro16 Series 4 (Bo5)
18:30 GMT - Ro16 Series 6 (Bo5)
20:45 GMT - Ro16 Series 8 (Bo5)

Day 2 (Sunday) -
ESOCTV
14:00 GMT - Ro8 Series 1 (Bo5)
16:15 GMT - Ro8 Series 3 (Bo5)
19:00 GMT - Semis Series 1 (Bo7)

ESOCTV2
14:00 GMT - Ro8 Series 2 (Bo5)
16:15 GMT - Ro8 Series 4 (Bo5)
19:00 GMT - Semis Series 2 (Bo7)

Day 3 (Next Saturday/Sunday) -
ESOCTV
18:00 GMT - Finals (Bo7)

Prizepool This is an independent event not funded nor run by ESOC with no funding from any Nordics. I have provided $100 of my own to function as the minimum prize pool. If this event appeals to you as a viewer or player, please consider adding to that prize pool. Higher stakes equals better players equals more mystery.

Admins :
@Riotcoke

Special thanks to:
@dicktator_ & @JulianK for allowing me to admin the TR hidden tourney which has set as a basis for this.
@deleted_user4 For being the genius behind the smurf tourney before it took off in AOE2
@Cometk For formating this post

[deleted_user]

Yes! After three years it is finally happening. Thank you Riot for taking initiative.

[somp]

am I allowed to play?

[Riotcoke]

am I allowed to play?

It's completely fine with me

[Jaeger]

Very nice Riot, thanks for hosting this!

One small thing; if for example kaiser is casting a game, we will know that he is definitely one of the players. Not sure how to fix this though.

P.S. Did somppu get banned from ESOC?

[princeofcarthage]

How do you sign up?

[Riotcoke]

How do you sign up?

In the works, will be updated soon

[robo]

Copying aoe2 again, 200iq

[Riotcoke]

Very nice Riot, thanks for hosting this!

One small thing; if for example kaiser is casting a game, we will know that he is definitely one of the players. Not sure how to fix this though.

P.S. Did somppu get banned from ESOC?

This has been talked about, unforunately i don't think it's possible for players to cast which is honestly fine, i know Callen said he'd cast, it's likely Harrison will be able to and i can also cast however long is needed.

[Aykin Haraka]

am i?

[deleted_user]

Copying aoe2 again, 200iq

Click the hyperlink in my first post in this thread; note the date. Now pay me for intellectual theft.

[Hazza54321]

Am i?

[Hazza54321]

am I allowed to play?

Do my eyes deceive me or is fat toni back in my life

[Riotcoke]

am i?

Maybe

[Aykin Haraka]

k I guess no then

[Riotcoke]

k I guess no then

No i think it thru for both you and kyensie, i'll keep you updated.

[Mr_Bramboy]

Copying aoe2 again, 200iq

We'll be suing for damages soon. Intellectual property is nothing to joke about.

[princeofcarthage]

Also a suggestion, you don't need 16 smurf accounts. You only need 2.

Assign account to player
Give password before game
Change after game
Repeat

It also helps keep smurfs smurfs from viewers because viewers may start figuring out who is who.

[Challenger_Marco]

Also a suggestion, you don't need 16 smurf accounts. You only need 2.

Assign account to player
Give password before game
Change after game
Repeat

It also helps keep smurfs smurfs from viewers because viewers may start figuring out who is who.

No

[princeofcarthage]

Also a suggestion, you don't need 16 smurf accounts. You only need 2.

Assign account to player
Give password before game
Change after game
Repeat

It also helps keep smurfs smurfs from viewers because viewers may start figuring out who is who.

No

What no? Huh

[Challenger_Marco]

Also a suggestion, you don't need 16 smurf accounts. You only need 2.

Assign account to player
Give password before game
Change after game
Repeat

It also helps keep smurfs smurfs from viewers because viewers may start figuring out who is who.

No

What no? Huh

Dude what makes hidden cup interesting is that 16 unknown accounts and predicting who throughout the finals ,only 2 accounts will be boring such an terrible idea.

[Hazza54321]

Also a suggestion, you don't need 16 smurf accounts. You only need 2.

Assign account to player
Give password before game
Change after game
Repeat

It also helps keep smurfs smurfs from viewers because viewers may start figuring out who is who.

Part of the fun is to try and work out who is who, this idea would negate that.

[Riotcoke]

Also a suggestion, you don't need 16 smurf accounts. You only need 2.

Assign account to player
Give password before game
Change after game
Repeat

It also helps keep smurfs smurfs from viewers because viewers may start figuring out who is who.

Yes you do. Use your brain before posting

[sebnan12]

now thats a wasted 7000th post u fuking moron

[wardyb1]

You'd also have 1000 games of "oops no deck, remake pls"