world cup
16 countries

i dont have multi, why do i got rejected?

Elementaires wrote: 1q3e37

world cup
16 countries

Hey, it could be worse. The World Cup of Hockey only has 6 countries, and they had to make up 2 artificial teams among the rest of the good players.

At least I think rejected players should get an explanation

MYRKUL wrote: 5x5xk

At least I think rejected players should get an explanation

Hey guys, Mr Color here coming in a little bit before this whole ordeal starts. As you guys know I'll be once more taking part in the play-by-play commentary for the event. I just wanted to introduce myself to the community once again in the middle of all the pre-cup drama. If you guys want to send me any pointers of things you feel I should mention on air about certain players, their strengths and weaknesses, as well as the maps that will be used, I will of course be studying up to offer the most insightful commentary possible, but I won't refuse a little help doing that, so by all means feel free to hit me up with a forum PM and I'll make sure to note down any interesting info you guys will send my way.

You guys have a good one, and I'll see you for the drawings!

TWC needs your sexy voice, Mr Color.

Mr Color wrote: 2r8t

any pointers of things you feel I should mention on air about certain players, their strengths and weaknesses

B-but is this a good idea? Just hope there won't be any spies on the stream

inb4 - He's a HR monster, don't pick HR maps. Pick HD, because they are bad with it

I would definitely like to see more countries represented, and have already discussed with loctav about extending the entry period to make sure those that haven't yet ed can.

peppy wrote: 73101g

I would definitely like to see more countries represented, and have already discussed with loctav about extending the entry period to make sure those that haven't yet ed can.

That'd be very nice. It's a shame that countries like Russia, Japan, Ukraine or other countries with good players are not represented

peppy wrote: 73101g

I would definitely like to see more countries represented, and have already discussed with loctav about extending the entry period to make sure those that haven't yet ed can.

This wouldn't change a thing.
Even with 2 weeks more, the outcome would have been the same.
This is about motivation, not time.

Kurai wrote: 4o3o

That'd be very nice. It's a shame that countries like Russia, Japan, Ukraine or other countries with good players are not represented

Japan didn't understand or didn't want to participate and Ukraine wasn't motivated.

Yup, we had a lot of countries with 2registrations, maybe we can PM them so that they can search for a third player ? We had registrations from 32 countries of so I guess we could easily gather more of them

The motivation is absolutely there (@Arrival) but all of them have either too less players (e.g. Ukraine), misunderstood the rules (e.g. Japan), don't have time (e.g. Netherlands) or their players got retired (e.g Russia). Some didn't even know about the TWC since they missed the information. So it's less about the motivation and more about the other things. I will also give a little transparency to you guys, so you are more certain about what has been done before (to come to Nashmuns suggestion):



I hope this could clear the air a bit. Will talk with Loctav about this.

Countries not having enough players are myths. A LOT of people doesn't want to because they think they'll loose anyway. Along the year I've been told hundred of times that countries like Italy don't have any players and that we should allow multicountries team, and what do we see here ? An Italian team within the 16participant.
Even Hungary could gather a team because they had the motivation to, don't tell me countries like Russia/Ukraine/Brazil do not have enough player, I know by fact they have.

EDIT : Before someone points it out : I do not say every country of the world can gather a team so no need to point out a country saying "You see, no players". But there are way more than 16countries with players <#5000, just by playing multiplayer mode you should be able to see that

I absolutely agree with that. I've just put the information in a compact way. But even so, there is more than that sometimes - proud, certain rules, wrong view about mappools and more. There are more factors which effect the opinion of players in a country. I ecountered alot of them. So I think it is also about how we represent this TWC?

OnosakiHito wrote: y4t4u

The motivation is absolutely there (@Arrival) but all of them have either too less players (e.g. Ukraine), misunderstood the rules (e.g. Japan), don't have time (e.g. Netherlands) or their players got retired (e.g Russia). Some didn't even know about the TWC since they missed the information. So it's less about the motivation and more about the other things.

Well when you have the motivation you're able to find players (Please, Ukraine has 10 players in the Top #4K), or to find "time" (hey the whole NL team doesn't have the time, although all the other countries can , really ?). And come on, there are like 300 Japanese who are able to play in the TWC, don't tell me only ONE of them understood the rules...

No need to debate on the "why", just give countries a second chance to participate so that we have a good TWC. And I don't think anyone would be proud winning the tournament if Japan is not represented :p

I guess Kurai is right. I just wanted to show some transparency anyway, not debating about it. lol

Kurai wrote: 4o3o

No need to debate on the "why", just give countries a second chance to participate so that we have a good TWC. And I don't think anyone would be proud winning the tournament if Japan is not represented :p

OnosakiHito wrote: y4t4u

I guess Kurai is right. I just wanted to show some transparency anyway, not debating about it. lol

I guess you're both right. But I'm still wondering when will we have the justification for why we have been rejected ? It has been 2 days I sent an e-mail, and I still don't know what I did wrong. But as Loctav said, I must be lying...

Kurai wrote: 4o3o

No need to debate on the "why", just give countries a second chance to participate so that we have a good TWC. And I don't think anyone would be proud winning the tournament if Japan is not represented :p

So Japan wasn't proud of winning last year because no Taiwan team ? Taiwan has a better TWC history than Japan (2wins out of 3participations), people tend to forget that and think Japan is some kind of superior entity that cannot be defeated while it's not.

Anyway, I think we all agree that we'd like to see more countries represented, but we cannot force them to participate, even more when some of them do it on purpose just because they hope it will lead to allowing multicountries team

And we demand to ban those multi when discovered

If someone want to the match and found out they have multi and being kicked, it looks like the official is just making up reason for banning some player to .

If they have been banned before they can send the registration letter, no one will think they are selectively excluded.

Does this mean I can invite my friend from the same country to increase my country rosters ?

If Indonesia had XK / Nishi / Aesa / GH / LW / pmriva team combination then we're equally as strong as 8D

MYRKUL wrote: 5x5xk

At least I think rejected players should get an explanation

MYRKUL wrote: 5x5xk

At least I think rejected players should get an explanation

As explained by peppy, we decided to extend the registration phase for another two weeks. Make sure to this competition to your friends and everyone who is a potential candidate for your country's team

How does the registration work exactly now? 2t2246

1. Everyone is g up individually for their country by sending a forum PM to me.
2. We roughly filter the ed s by their play performance and/or if they violated the osu! community rules (see below for details)
3. Whenever we finished filtering the ed s, the players who ed will be put on a candidate list for their country
4. The Tournament Management declares a captain from said list. This captain receives the list with the remaining candidates. Captains can freely pick from this list and found their team as they wish.
5. After sending the Tournament Management the compiled team, your team has been successfully created.

Obviously, people who ed successfully already do not need to re-. They are already recorded.

What do you filter ed s by? m105k

We filter by:

1. Taiko performance ranking. Whoever has a global Taiko performance ranking below #8000 will be filtered out. While we want to let participate as many people as possible, the mappools are designed around a certain difficulty level. It's very likely that people below a performance ranking below #8000 will not be able to play the tournament's maps at all. If they improve, they are free to !
2. Violation of the community rules: https://osu-ppy-sh.tvgratuite.org/wiki/Rules - In order to take part on any official tournament that is sponsored and organized by the osu!staff, you need to obey the community rules. Even though violating some of these specific rules do not lead to a full ban immediately, we still exclude everyone who offended within the last year. This includes creating multi-s, sharing your with others or using third-party software or other illegal software modifications. Not every rule is directly involved into the tournament outcome, but as long as you can not follow the community rules, we are not willing to let you an official competition. We would like to mention that we have been holding that requirement up for several years already and have been performed these checks ever since then. This is nothing new and moreover nothing arbitrary. We just want to inform you again that ing the TWC has these requirements. If you ever want to compete in the TWC, we advise you to stop violating the rules now.

Due to privacy issues, we will not reveal to the public who was rejected. Whoever wants to know or dispute the fact that they have been filtered by either of the above criteria is free to [email protected].

As by today, we extend the registration phase till 22nd February 2015, 23:59:59 UTC+0. Please send your forum PM titled "TWC Registration" to me till then. Please add your time zone to the message, so we can schedule you properly later.

All other parts of the tournaments will be, obviously, postponed according to this. We are sorry for the incovenience, but we want to make this TWC the best it can be.

As more countries and people are ing this competition, we are increasing the maximum number of teams. Whoever didn't appear on the team listing so far (Chile and Hungary) will be added later. We want to await more registrations from said countries.

Could we have an 8 player cap instead of 6?

Loctav I think everyone here understand the rule, so no need to keep repeating the ToS here.

We all know using third-party software or multi or blahblah should get banned.

My rank is close to #8,000, so I should that rank and sign up.

- Korean Kiwi - wrote: 2q71z

My rank is close to #8,000, so I should that rank and sign up.

when i see your pp rank, your taiko rank is #16,890 that still far

MMzz wrote: 2g46e

Could we have an 8 player cap instead of 6?

Only with a 4v4 TWC, which depends on the number of ed s

Loctav wrote: 5b1v22

MMzz wrote: 2g46e

Could we have an 8 player cap instead of 6?

Only with a 4v4 TWC, which depends on the number of ed s

So you want to be sure there are enough back ups, but don't want to increase the limits ?

It could be a good safety net for some matches imo...

I think 3 backups is too much for just 3 players. Maybe with only 1 backup we could gather more teams where the entire team plays. This could even able 4+2 teams

Niko-nyan wrote: 6m1841

- Korean Kiwi - wrote: 2q71z

My rank is close to #8,000, so I should that rank and sign up.

when i see your pp rank, your taiko rank is #16,890 that still far

Yeah, I realized that I dropped to that rank...

MYRKUL wrote: 5x5xk

I think 3 backups is too much for just 3 players. Maybe with only 1 backup we could gather more teams where the entire team plays. This could even able 4+2 teams

But the maximum 6 players in the team will decrease the risk of getting a win by default.

I made this year another banner. Hope you guys like it and can find good use for it!

But it's called 2015, not #5 :C you should at least use the correct name

Arrival wrote: 4l3j3n

Please, Ukraine has 10 players in the Top #4K

Please, go and make a team of 4k ranked players than suck in group stages, it's funny, isn't it?

Still haven't gotten a confirmation PM even though I formatted everything correctly, should I be worried?

Pagliaccio wrote: z5c3d

Arrival wrote: 4l3j3n

Please, Ukraine has 10 players in the Top #4K

Please, go and make a team of 4k ranked players than suck in group stages, it's funny, isn't it?

Is this the reason why we only have 16 countries in? well that's sad
If the limit is 8k I don't see the problem.
You don't sign up to show off your high ranks, you do it for the fun and the chance of playing together as a community...
or I'm too naive, welp

Earine wrote: n5d1u

you do it for the fun and the chance of playing together as a community...

This is the kind of players we need in a dying gamemode community.

MYRKUL wrote: 5x5xk

Earine wrote: n5d1u

you do it for the fun and the chance of playing together as a community...

This is the kind of players we need in a dying gamemode community.

This gamemode is more active than its ever been.
#6yearobservation

Earine wrote: n5d1u

or I'm too naive, welp

Yes you are

Pagliaccio wrote: z5c3d

Arrival wrote: 4l3j3n

Please, Ukraine has 10 players in the Top #4K

Please, go and make a team of 4k ranked players than suck in group stages, it's funny, isn't it?

Are you trolling, or just stupid ? (Unfortunately I think this is the second option...)

In that case let's make only one final with JP and TW to decide who will win this TWC. No ?

It's because of people like you if this tournament is stuck with 16 countries or so. If you play with the top #4K you can go to the RO16 easily, but Mister Pagliacco's ego looks a bit too high and overdeveloped to play with 4K players.. That's sad...

Oh btw the #6 in Ukraine is #1300. But still too noob fo you huh ?

Arrival wrote: 4l3j3n

Are you trolling, or just stupid ? (Unfortunately I think this is the second option...)

In that case let's make only one final with JP and TW to decide who will win this TWC. No ?

It's because of people like you if this tournament is stuck with 16 countries or so. If you play with the top #4K you can go to the RO16 easily, but Mister Pagliacco's ego looks a bit too high and overdeveloped to play with 4K players.. That's sad...

Oh btw the #6 in Ukraine is #1300. But still too noob fo you huh ?

Are you just trolling, or just stupid? (Unfortunately I think this is the second option...)

If your team is not well-balanced by level of players, you're just sucker.

Most of teams have a balanced roasters with a close rank gap between a players.

If you gonna play TWC with 4k ppl, you just gonna rage cuz of you cant with by yourself.

If you gonna play TWC "just for fun" - go and play MP then with noobs.

Shut the fuck up noob and don't say any stupid things more.

^ if a true 4k ranked player (just about his skill) plays the tournament and can barely clear simple Oni, it probably won't be that fun to play for him. Just like me playing some Firce Force difficulties, i honestly won't have fun doing it just because this is too far from my "skill" yet. pagliaccio maybe meant something like that.

Then if there are enough "good" players in his country, they also might not be active or want to play the TWC. Well i have no idea about his real situation but it is not hard to understand him if he does not want to play the TWC for any of these reasons. Also i will never know the feeling but i can imagine that it is not that fun to lose as a team, even when you did reallly good, because you don't have enough "good" players (that's why i am afraid if i have to play a match here lol, i don't want to make my team lose).

Also is there a way to remove someone from a full team to get someone else in ? In case i should leave for someone stronger.

edit: ok nvm posted 2 l8

If you think you need a team <#500 to play TWC then you are completely wrong, and Arrival is right, you are making TWC fails.

Pagliaccio wrote: z5c3d

If you gonna play TWC "just for fun" - go and play MP then with noobs.

So nobody should be able to participate then ? Because even with 3 Pagli in your team you would still not be able to win the tournament, so it wouldn't be worth playing either ?
Keep in mind that if a majority of teams sign up with players 1-2k, all of these teams have more or less equal chances to get through group stage and win 1 or more match in knock-out stages.

No need to insult people and especially when your argumentation is pointless.

;_;

lolcubes wrote: 331p4a

SPOILER

;_;

oh god.. o_o'

such a shame

Didn't mean to start a flame so pls no

But yea, what I meant was pretty much what Nashmun said
More people, even with 1k and +, means more fun for their equals
We already know high rank players will be stronger (you can't deny skills ofc) but I don't see nothing wrong in having a little fun before they take the spot

Earine wrote: n5d1u

Didn't mean to start a flame so pls no

But yea, what I meant was pretty much what Nashmun said
More people, even with 1k and +, means more fun for their equals
We already know high rank players will be stronger (you can't deny skills ofc) but I don't see nothing wrong in having a little fun before they take the spot

I highly ire your mindset. People should think more like you.
Everyone who wants to play shall sign up! Stop being afraid of being too weak. You better earn your tournament experiences now~

Well, people might be ignoring one simple fact which is that some people, despite their rank, don't enjoy this tournament.
Just because they don't, it doesn't mean other people from the same country are prohibited to as well.

lolcubes wrote: 331p4a

SPOILER

;_;

<3 this one so cute

btw please don't blame anyone if you don't like him/her. this event only for fun

As long as players and stuff think that TWC is "just for fun" event, and force players to it with no reason, it sucks compare to OWC.

Anyways as captain of Ukraine team of previous TWC, after discussion with other active players we decided not to take part this year, the reasons is explained above. Now stop the flame about Ukraine team.

cutecubes <3

I don't get that line of logic. OWC is played for fun as well. There are several teams that knowing full well they won't be able to win even if they do make it to the finals let alone semifinals. I'm playing TWC knowing full well it'd be pretty much impossible for team Canada to beat or Japan (assuming they ed now), but I'm still going to play because it lets us see how we stack up against other countries while having fun.

You can still be competitive and have a good time while not expecting to win. Having a mindset that anyone attempting to do this shouldn't be playing would mean tournaments would never exist, because most of us know who the teams are that will win.

Not my goal to flame here but I feel genuinely sorry for your country if you aren't participating just because you won't win. That isn't the spirit of the tournament and you're only making the experience bad for yourself and others from your country who could otherwise enjoy the tournament and have fun.

Tasha wrote: 4q5r3n

I don't get that line of logic. OWC is played for fun as well. There are several teams that knowing full well they won't be able to win even if they do make it to the finals let alone semifinals. I'm playing TWC knowing full well it'd be pretty much impossible for team Canada to beat or Japan (assuming they ed now), but I'm still going to play because it lets us see how we stack up against other countries while having fun.

You can still be competitive and have a good time while not expecting to win. Having a mindset that anyone attempting to do this shouldn't be playing would mean tournaments would never exist, because most of us know who the teams are that will win.

Not my goal to flame here but I feel genuinely sorry for your country if you aren't participating just because you won't win. That isn't the spirit of the tournament and you're only making the experience bad for yourself and others from your country who could otherwise enjoy the tournament and have fun.

I already tried to tell him that. But no, looks like I'm just an asshole Kappa

If they were as many uberpro Taiko players as std we could start to worry about pure competitiveness.

Pagliaccio wrote: z5c3d

Shut the fuck up noob and don't say any stupid things more.

bruuhhhhh

Anyways going off on everything in this thread, I would love to play in the TWC but I can't because my countrymen are better than me! At least you have the opportunity to take part in an awesome event that many people are taking the time out of their day to run.

With that logic you're basically saying that African, North American, and Asian countries shouldn't even participate in the actual soccer world cup because they have little to no chance of winning. They play for the experience just as you should. I'm not trying to make you do anything, rather just offer a different perspective on how to look at playing in the TWC.

I also signed up at TWC , although I am still not great ability , at least I was able to participate in this tournament .
sorry , if my English language is not good , because I use google translate

Pagliaccio wrote: z5c3d

If you gonna play TWC "just for fun" - go and play MP then with noobs.

Are you the one that playing for the rank not for the fun ?

just a friendly reminder :

the reason I signed up at this tournament is I want to get the experience of playing in the tournament . winning or losing is not a problem , but I will try my best .
but the problem is I still have not entered the ed group .

goatlife wrote: 286230

Arrival wrote: 4l3j3n

Shut the fuck up noob and don't say any stupid things more.

bruuhhhhh

You screwed up your quotes bro, I'm not insulting anybody

Man, I when 2 years ago I was like: "Why should I even participate if there are completely no chances for us?". If that's the reason why other countries aren't taking the part in this TWC... that's just sad, as guys explained above.

I know, that for lower ranks getting 'rekt' by Godlike teams wil not be fun at all, but that's not the point. It's not only about playing. Since the matches will be livestreamed (I hope), you can always watch others, even cheer them up and all this stuff. I know you guys also have friends all around osu! and you will be able to watch them struggling in hard matches.

But... not participating because of "having no chances" is really a bad idea. I realized that myself some time ago, even is our country is always knocked out after leaving the group stage. Also, playing in multiplayer with some random people is not even close to being the same as TWC. Of course, you can gather some people and play with them, but still - it's not the same.

From this point, I don't want to insult anybody, but stop crying and get into TWC. Who cares if you lose even on first match.
IMHO, TWC is an event where you can just forget about your rank. Am I just naive too?

Arrival wrote: 4l3j3n

You screwed up your quotes bro, I'm not insulting anybody

lol woops fixed

Your fix is even worse than before xD

Nashmun wrote: 682d3f

Your fix is even worse than before xD

HELP ME LMFAO GOD DAMN

I am in the same boat as goatlife, be grateful you have the chance to compete. I'll be rooting my country on whether I'm on or off the team itself.

Fix your sig ^

Related news apparently janitoreihil can't play for Canada anymore due to a computer issue. This'll be fun.

jdshark wrote: 1v4l2b

I am in the same boat as goatlife, be grateful you have the chance to compete. I'll be rooting my country on whether I'm on or off the team itself.

Sorry, wasn't sure if i could participate but ed right before regs closed. I probably took a position that could have potentially been yours ;_;

Also, i had no idea i even made the team. Didn't realize it till i was told yesterday by someone else on the team... so i should probably start playing again

As much as I too want to play in the TWC as the next guy, I'm glad that the USA got more than 6 registrants. It really shows how serious USA is taking this year's TWC.

Tasha wrote: 4q5r3n

Fix your sig ^

lol

also, good luck~

No thailand team.

How can you be sure, did you sign up ? Maybe other Thai players also did, you have the capacity to build a team

Hmmm, this edition will be very interesting, like Japan vs ~

rrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyy

Yo make sure to hype Bnyuu about this.

Microwavex7 wrote: 4w1ka

Hmmm, this edition will be very interesting, like Japan vs ~

IF IT EVER HAPPENS

It happens every year, so it'll probably happen again :p

Good Luck to all

See How you do Spain.

\:D/ spanish

well goodluck

and have a nice tournament

As it stands now, we have 23 ed rosters. Since this is an odd number, we have several way of how to structure the group stage.

Generally, letting 16 teams seems weird due to the low amount of competitiors. As we plan to only let 8 teams ascend to the double elimination stage, we have these options figured:

1. We form 3 groups á 6 teams and 1 group á 5 teams, whereas the top 2 of every group ascends.
   
   Example

   
2. We form 6 groups á 3 teams and 2 groups á 4 teams, whereas the top 1 ascends.
   
   Example

   
3. We form 5 groups á 4 teams and 1 group á 3 teams, whereas the top 1 ascends + the best 2 2nd places across all groups.
   Example

   

Let me know what you guys like the most.

Wow, why can't we have a regular 16teams brackets ? As for the three options I have no special preference but whatever you chose make sure you seed the teams before drawing.

The quality of the seeding heavily influences which of these options would be the most fair.

The only objective seeding would be determined by the average raw pp or average global rank of the entire team. Personally, I planned to seed the teams by the average raw pp.

Nashmun wrote: 682d3f

Wow, why can't we have a regular 16teams brackets ? As for the three options I have no special preference but whatever you chose make sure you seed the teams before drawing.

Letting 16 of 23 (~70%) teams makes a group stage obsolete, as it serves to "prefilter" before we enter the actual load-heavy double elimination stage.

i think the first option would be the best, that way you can still have a chance of getting through the group stage if you have one of the best teams in your group.

Yeah first or second seems better than the third one because best 2nd will depend too much on the actual group

First option looks like the best choice to me

Loctav wrote: 5b1v22

The only objective seeding would be determined by the average raw pp or average global rank of the entire team. Personally, I planned to seed the teams by the average raw

Why not based on the three main participant instead ? That mean a team with 3 people ~#200 would be higher seeded than a team with 3players ~#100 and backups ~#500, which seems pretty odd to me

There is no such thing as "main participant". The idea or term of "backups" has been abolished 2 years ago. Everyone is an equal member of their team.

Loctav wrote: 5b1v22

As it stands now, we have 23 ed rosters. Since this is an odd number, we have several way of how to structure the group stage.

Generally, letting 16 teams seems weird due to the low amount of competitiors. As we plan to only let 8 teams ascend to the double elimination stage, we have these options figured:

1. We form 3 groups á 6 teams and 1 group á 5 teams, whereas the top 2 of every group ascends.
   
   Example

   
2. We form 6 groups á 3 teams and 2 groups á 4 teams, whereas the top 1 ascends.
   
   Example

   
3. We form 5 groups á 4 teams and 1 group á 3 teams, whereas the top 1 ascends + the best 2 2nd places across all groups.
   Example

   

Let me know what you guys like the most.

I say the third one is the best. So people will have to care about other groups too, not just their one.

considering that only 8 teams are ing, I also agree that the first option is best because it provides you with the most chances of getting through group stages... especially if you play against asian teams every time you for a tournament as i have... ;p

Loctav wrote: 5b1v22

There is no such thing as "main participant". The idea or term of "backups" has been abolished 2 years ago. Everyone is an equal member of their team.

I know That, but you cannot encourage people to have "backups" in their teams and then penalize them in the seeding system for taking more players than the strict minimum.
Some teams could actually be tempted to take fewer players if it can give them better seeds. (Not talking about our case)

XavierJones wrote: 2yx2g

I say the third one is the best. So people will have to care about other groups too, not just their one.

I have to agree with XavierJones.
With this it is more likely to get though the first round, if you had trouble in some matches. It also shows, how the two 2nd places could perform in the following matches, by comparing the matches they've played.
The first one is the middle way, which means it's acceptable, although it means that there are gonna be the risk of setting early winners. But if the matchmaking is based on raw pp it could go well.
With the second option to say is the worst. if it's only with 2 matches this would cause into enourmous pressure on the teams, and that every round literally decides about the end.
If it's with a rematch, it could be better, but still not good enough in comparison with option 1 and 3.

Loctav wrote: 5b1v22

1. We form 3 groups á 6 teams and 1 group á 5 teams, whereas the top 2 of every group ascends.
   
   Example

   
2. We form 6 groups á 3 teams and 2 groups á 4 teams, whereas the top 1 ascends.
   
   Example

   
3. We form 5 groups á 4 teams and 1 group á 3 teams, whereas the top 1 ascends + the best 2 2nd places across all groups.
   Example

   

Let me know what you guys like the most.

First one is the best

For the third one, if you have 2 big power house in the same group, one of them will be kicked easily, which makes the game less interesting

Second one is wrong. 6x3 +2x4 = 18+8 = 26 . Please work on your maths.


My own suggestion is

5 x 3 , 2 x 4 a total of 7 group

which 7 1st will promote, and the 2nd from the 2 groups of 4 will have an extra match which complete the last slot

The pros of this is letting the 2 groups of 4 , which should be harder to get the 1st, have a chance to come back

"Due to the massive new registrations, the rosters will be redecided by many captains. Please wait until the 23rd February 2015 to check out the new finalized rosters" It is now the 24th. Do you guys need help?

i was about to ask the same thing

I assume the tournament being 3v3 vs. 4v4 has not been confirmed yet?

Uh, is there a country with only 2 registrants? Perhaps you can encourage that country to find a third qualified participant to even out the number of represented teams to 24.

First option ftw. More games for every team, makes it more fun. I think most participants would love to play as many countries, too.

Any news ?