Teeworlds Tournaments for Americas

For that reason I'm thinking about doing 1vs1 duels first. It's easier to organize because only two people need to be online at the given time.

Ultimately I would love to see this evolve into something like Urban Zone league in Urban Terror but that is some ways away.

I actually thought quite a bit about this issue. My first idea was to have a several servers that are spread out across americas and the players will pick the best one to play their matches on. But since it is impossible to find a server where players would get equal pings someone will always have the advantage. So here's my solution, the matches would be played in a double round-robin system where two players/teams play two games against each other (one game of course would include some odd number of rounds), each team/player would pick one of the servers as their "home" server where they would have good pings. So in every round each player/team plays one "home" and one "away" game.

I know that this solution is not flawless, some teams may get more advantage on their "home" games than others and some teams may not be able to find any servers with decent pings for them but I think that you can still enjoy teeworlds with pings as high as 150 (I used to play with european clans while living in Canada), so for now lets just focus on enjoying the game.

I will be getting a few servers around North America and hopefully something in the south. I can't currently pay for too many servers myself but I had a few people tell me that they would host something for me if I would organize a tournament. And no, I do not want to allow everyone to host their own servers for tournament games because that could give some people too much of an advantage.

I started a web page for the league http://polishedperspective.com/

It's still work in progress but it has forums so we can start sign-ups and talk all the details over.

I don't really see separate forum as a negative thing and I don't understand why you would. This is not just one-off tournament if this proceeds into the direction I plan it to there will be more events.

I'm familiar with challonge and considered using it but it's only good for single elimination type tournaments.

I'm always open for conversation though, I'm on quakenet and freenode pretty much all the time, nick same as here.

Can't you do double eliminations on there? I thought that's what/where Broken did his.

My thoughts about ways around having 4 people on that need to play get too complicated or just weird I suppose but It would be NICE if there were a way to organize something for 2vs2. It would be really really cool. But I'm not sure how.

Some thoughts:
- where there are a list of people: If someone is online you can team with them against another two from that list that happen to be online. and winners go into a new list... and so on.

- Or set up teams to function in the same way clans do. You have a group (of however many) and only 2 from your group need to play to advance your group further in the competition.

1vs1 is nice too tho

I would be very interested in this too and would love to help! I was talking to Broken not too long ago about making some sort of CTF league. I think you have the right idea in starting with something simple like a 1v1 tournament first. The most challenging thing will be the creation of the forum/league and initial organization. Once you get that down though, the gameplay/tournament specifics can always be adjusted.

Right now, the best thing for all us players is just to get something started. We can worry about perfecting it later on.

Looking forward to see where this thread goes!

I would have signed up if it wasn't for the fact that I'm not American.
Good luck with the tournaments!