Challenge Room

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Team Captains all meet at the same location, a chat-room, and challenge one another in the next round. Provisionally, I can set up my computer to host a game and we can use the chat facilities there: look for 2020's T-room. This will only be available at the right times since I hope to be playing: 9pm, 9.45, 10.30, 11.15.

Team Captains have to decide on two things within 5 mins: who to play next and where.

where
Team Captains should make sure they choose an apropriate server to the PING their players get, perhaps compiling a favourite list from their players before the matches. Check out the available servers at LADLE fortress-servers.
who
It is the Team Captains collective responsibility to find a suitable opponent. Since we are running with a very short time schedule, captains must be very strict with themselves and sort games out quickly. It would be nice to have some software to help with this process, something to do with a captain's team loses by default if they do not accept a challenge at the end of 5 mins... but we are running short on time and we may just have to trust team captains to sort it out.
when
Please make sure all your players know about the timing. First round is at 9pm GMT to sort out if there are more than 8 teams (with multiple entries from large teams), and then the competition starts in earnest at 9.45pm GMT with the quarters, 10.30pm GMT with the semis, and the final at 11.15pm GMT.



Team shortcuts and their full names
Shortcut Team Name/Link
AW Anarchic wanderers
SP ~*SpeederS*~
HG Hg MeRKuRiuM
FE Fortress Elite
WS Wraith Squadron
CT Crazy Tronners
LL ¡LØL!

The following team list is from LADLE team-lists, and all captains must put there names here so that we can discuss and prepare for the night.

  • anarchic wanderers - garissimo
  • speeders - PsYkO (gogodsmackgo@hotmail.com)
  • Lords Of Destruction - AÐ¥-Lµ¢îfer
  • Shadow League [fe] - sKy
  • wraith squadron - Manta
  • CrazyTronners - Xevi
  • ¡LØL! - Durka (I might not be there on time so I'll just ask now....Can we play LOD on Z-Man's Ladle Fortress?....Planning a day early would help a lot.
    • WiLdCaT or Chuck are the sub-captains for Durka...they will show up at 2020's T-Room for the first round

Team captains can use the discussion page here to discuss matters, and they may be asked to collect at 2020's T-room before the competition begins, perhaps an hour before (but the worldcup France v Brazil is on... so we may have to start just before 9pm). They will then have an hour before the first matches to organise their teams, make sure they have a sure-fire communications set up for them, so that they can enter a server exactly on time and play a match.

Assemble your players somewhere where you can communicate with them easily!

THE LADLE is only going to work with the skillful and patient contributions of all Team Captains. Teams -- choose well!

provisional play-offs

1.

Durka seems to have a good idea. We could try to set up the first round here so that it gives time for players to assemble etc. Team-captains should turn up at 2020's T-room at 9pm GMT just to say they are present and conducting their game. They return to their server, play their match, and at 9.45 the winning captains assemble at 2020's T-room to meet the other winning captains to determine the second round. Since there are only seven teams, there will only be three rounds, with one bye in the first round.

2.

Since some teams only have 5 players and other have more than ten, we may get multiple teams entering for a team, eg speeders. This might only be determined at the time. This complicates matters. To give us all more time, I would like to propose that we stick to the original time-frame: 9pm first round, 9.45 quarters, 10.30 semi's, and 11.15 finals. Which means, the first round might or might not be happening, with the quarters starting with the full 8 teams at 9.45.

LOL challenge LOD at z-man's Ladle fortress
WS Challenges AW at Bugfarm fortress. (Unless another open server comes online)

first round

The first round play-offs will be announced here immediately after team-captains have met at 2020's T-room at 9pm GMT and confirmed their participation. There will only be games if there are more than 8 teams (because some team lists may wish to field more than one team -- remember each team needs a representative captain!); if that's the case, use this time to practice!

quarters

The quarter-final play-offs will be announced here immediately after team-captains have met at 2020's T-room at 9.45pm GMT and confirmed their participation. This is when the competition really gets under way.


semis

The semi-final play-offs will be announced here immediately after team-captains have met at 2020's T-room at 10.30pm GMT.


final

The final play-off will be announced here after team-captains have met at 2020's T-room at 11.15pm GMT.