Announcing Treaty Titans Invitational - March 25th and 26th

[Cometk]

Treaty Titans Invitational
Organized by Cometk and _PI
Hosted on twitch.tv/esoctv
Begins at 17:30 GMT on Friday, March 25th

Hey everyone! In anticipation for an upcoming Treaty Cup, I'm proud to announce the Treaty Titans Invitational! What we will have is some of the strongest AoE3 Treaty players squaring off in a round-robin style tournament. Friday night will feature a series of four head-to-head matches between our competitors. Depending on the results from the previous day, deciding matches will be played before a grueling Best of 3 Finals showdown at 18:00 GMT on Saturday, March 26th.

However, there are some surprises. The tournament, as well as the forthcoming Treaty Cup, will be played on the Treaty Fan Patch! Players will have to divine an unsolved metagame if they want to have a chance at success. It will certainly be an educational watch to see the best-of-the-best in the Treaty community display their skills. See ya then!


[spoiler=TREATY FANPATCH INFORMATION]Treaty Fanpatch Changes (edited March 22, 2016)[/spoiler]
[spoiler=PLAYERS AND SEEDING]1 dicktator_
4 sabusa
2 Lukas_L99
3 Gichtenlord[/spoiler]
[spoiler=PRIZEPOOL]----- $150
50% - $75 - 1st
30% - $45 - 2nd
10% - $15 - 3rd & 4th[/spoiler]
[spoiler=RULES]- Played on the Treaty Fan Patch
- Treaty - No Blockade
- No ships or docks
- Half map
- All games are recorded
- Map pool of New Andes, New Deccan, and New Orinoco
- BO1 matches, BO3 Finals
- BO1 map is decided on veto system; top seed has ban initiative, bottom seed picks from the remaining two maps
- BO3 Finals maps played in this order: New Orinoco, New Andes, New Deccan[/spoiler]
[spoiler=EVENTS AND FORMAT]*All times are in GMT +0

Day 1 - Fri, March 25th

17:30 / 2 vs 3 / Lukas_L99 vs Gichtenlord
19:00 / 3 vs 4 / Gichtenlord vs sabusa
20:30 / 1 vs 2 / dicktator_ vs Lukas_L99
22:00 / 1 vs 4 / dicktator_ vs sabusa

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Day 2 - Sat, March 26th

Schedule for this day will be announced at the end of stream on Fri, March 25th

**If scores are 2-0 2-0, 2-0 players advance to the finals; Schedule is as follows
18:00 / BO3 Finals

**If scores are 2-0 1-1, 2-0 player advances, 0-2 player is eliminated, and 1-1 players rematch for finals slot; Schedule is as follows
16:30 / 1-1 player vs 1-1 player
18:00 / BO3 Finals

**If scores are 1-1 1-1, seeding continues as normal; Schedule is as follows
15:00 / 1 vs 3 / dicktator_ vs Gichtenlord
16:30 / 2 vs 4 / Lukas_L99 vs sabusa
18:00 / BO3 Finals[/spoiler]

[iNcog]

wow, neat!

[_NiceKING_]

Good to hear!
However, when is the TR patch gonna be released? The players who are testing the patch now, have an advantage of learning a new metagame already. Other players should get the patch asap to have a chance at success.

[Mimsy for President]

Very good initiative (again) !

[zoom]

LUV IT!

[thebritish]

Who can participate in this?

[forgrin]

Who can participate in this?

It's an invitational, so only the players who've been invited.

[Gichtenlord]

Oh wow!!! Im invited

[MCJim]

Awesome! Still nice to have something different than supremacy.

[pecelot]

I like it. Thumbs up!

[_PI]

Good to hear!
However, when is the TR patch gonna be released? The players who are testing the patch now, have an advantage of learning a new metagame already. Other players should get the patch asap to have a chance at success.

Very good question. Right now, part of the fun of the invitational will be that we can use it as a basis to make further tweaks before the Treaty Cup occurs later on. We will obviously want to release the Treaty Fan Patch with plenty of time in advance for players to start using it before we go forward with the Treaty Cup.

Right now, we don't really have a set-in-stone date for either, so hang tight and enjoy the invitational as a bit of a preview.

[mnogud]

imo this is how the next esoc tourey should be too will be short and fun to watch and not much long time commitment from players

[fightinfrenchman]

Will somebody be casting these games?

[InsectPoison]

Will somebody be casting these games?

Most likely either cometk, sergyou7 ( zepec) or H20 is he wants to. also tanner

[KINGofOsmane]

isnt a tourney without me boring?

[deleted_user0]

You can just smurf gichtenlords acc and bash lukas again

[Gichtenlord]

+1
Just pm me if u want my pw

[sergyou]

was there any specific cretirium choosing these players ?

[EAGLEMUT]

was there any specific cretirium choosing these players ?

It's okay serg, they didn't choose us to give the other guys a chance and I approve of that.

[sergyou]

nah i don't care if i am not invited amuses me that sabusa is , what did he do special to get invited ? i mean lukas and dick is a no brainer why they got invited makes sense , the others u can do the question why them and not the others ? are they much better than the rest of the players ?

[_PI]

Will somebody be casting these games?

The primary caster will be myself (_PI, Brett). We will likely try to have either Matt (Milky) or Tanner (charlemagen) commentating with me, but we may also contact others who are interested if the schedule conflicts for them.

[Gichtenlord]

Will somebody be casting these games?

The primary caster will be myself (_PI, Brett). We will likely try to have either Matt (Milky) or Tanner (charlemagen) commentating with me, but we may also contact others who are interested if the schedule conflicts for them.

Rip ping

[_PI]

nah i don't care if i am not invited amuses me that sabusa is , what did he do special to get invited ? i mean lukas and dick is a no brainer why they got invited makes sense , the others u can do the question why them and not the others ? are they much better than the rest of the players ?

The first three were decided fairly quickly (we felt Dick/Lukas/Gich are the top 3 players overall), and we were torn between yourself and Sabusa for the 4th slot. We could've coin-flipped in terms of deciding between you two.

The unfortunate reality of a limited participant invitational is that it's impossible to please everyone, you will inevitably leave someone out of an invitational who deserves to be there. That's why open tournaments are preferable, but they don't work well under time constraints.

[Mr_Bramboy]

I'm not sure how active the treaty community is but you can also consider having an 8-player tournament and extend the tournament to Sunday.

[_PI]

I'm not sure how active the treaty community is but you can also consider having an 8-player tournament and extend the tournament to Sunday.

That would be a possibility, but the difficulty there is that some of the organizers would probably wind up being participants then (like Matt as an example). Plus for Matt/Tanner, their time zone (they're in New Zealand) don't sync up well for Sunday as it winds up being Monday for them.