Several updates to the site went live today:
Results page showing the players standings on GCS2 points etc. This will give you an overview of what happened in each tournament, and may link to statistics in the future.
A brackets archive page in anticipation of Citadel starting this weekend.
Two new links to our partners in the footer bar, 80Hertz our venue host in September <3. And Discord who are supporting us with merchandise and a place for the referees and players to communicate. https://discordapp.com/invite/gcs
I'm sure Janne did some other wizardy background too, but these are the bits I had involvement in. Cheers Janne! - A_E.
What a fantastic weekend of fighting we had and a roaring start to GCS2's Qualification Tournaments.
For full YouTube playlist of the biggest games please had here:
Here's the completed brackets, you can hover to expand any of the matches for more detail!
An interview with the winner and fist qualifier.
We hope you can join us at 2pm BST on June 30th for GCS2: Citadel!
As GCS2 sallies forth we are entering a crucial period where players start to prepare for the qualification tournaments.
What is also being refined is the overall format for the competitive side of the tournament, these changes are small but significant and should be noted by all players.
1) Balance patch. The balance patch coming is going to hit soon™ with a refined outlook. It has been assured there will be ample time to learn and #ADAPT to new changes. If the changes are seen to be very large in the scope of 1v1 meta, there may be a warm up tournament to help settle people.
2) Map Changes. light of player and mapper feedback Langreskaya is susceptible to large changes and has been removed in favour of Kholodny Ferma which is seen as being a much more polished map in its current state.
The map pool is now the same as GCS1 with: Crossroads, Crossing in the Woods, Faymonville Approach and Kholodny Ferma.
3) Smurfing. Although usually there are no tournament issues with players smurfing in automatch to preserve strategic secrecy etc. as long as they are signed up and ranked for the tournament based on their main account...
As GCS2 is using automatch to help inform the seeding process it is only fair that as of today onward no players seeking entry to GCS2 play automatch on a smurf account in the build up to seeding.
This is because it could be seen by some as trying to game the system, even if that is not the intention. Therefore a rule has been added to the Qualification Criteria.
4) Game format To alleviate playing times during qualification events all matches will be best-of-three until the final which will be best-of-five. Previously semi-finals were best-of-five also.
Amazing first day of action with $4,328 being raised as of the time or writing, words can't express what a success GCS2 is already turning out to be, and the thanks we have to everyone that's contributing to it.
On Saturday Ed and his brother gave Dan and I (stormless and A_E), a tour of the venue, it is an extraordinary place to host the tournament, perfect almost.
Here's a few posts from our first day:
Announcement live on Twitch and discussion that followed:
