Conquer Club

Invitational Cup 3

Tournament Organizer: IcePack
Assistant Organizer: Keefie

[spoiler=Final Results for All Rounds]Round One
GON (0) vs VNM (0) - VNM dropped out, GON pushed through
LOW (34) vs DBD (7)
KNT (28) vs BOB (13)
REP (30) vs RET (11)

Round Two - Semi-Finals
GON (23) vs KNT (20)
LOW (22) vs REP (21)

Round Three - Finals
LOW (32) vs GON (17)[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Schedule]Approximate Schedule
Round 1: April 3rd, 2021
Round 2: June 1st, 2021
Final's: August 1st, 2021

Round 1 has a set start date of April 3rd. Subsequent rounds start the Sunday after the 2 clans meeting in the next round have been decided.

Once two clans advance and the next round is available and decided, you would have 6 weeks to negotiate, plan and exchange both sets and get all games started. If a clan fails to meet the 6 week deadline one game will be forfeited for every day they fail to get all games started. If after 1 week if there are still games that have not started, the clan will be disqualified.

Clans are free to start round 1 early.[/spoiler]
[spoiler= Games and Players]Games per round:
Round 1: 41 Games (6 doubles, 7 Triples, 7 Quads)
Round 2: 43 Games (7 doubles, 7 Triples, 7 Quads)
Finals: 49 Games (8 doubles, 8 Triples, 8 Quads)

Player Game Count Max:
Round 1: 16 Games
Round 2: 17 Games
Finals: 20 Games

Tiebreaker not included in maximum game count.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Rules and Settings]Negotiable rules/settings marked below
All the standard Clan War rules will be in effect, unless stated otherwise.

Default settings:
Only game types allowed are "Teams" (Polymorphic is not considered a team game)
All games must have automatic initial troop deploy (no manual)
All games must be sequential (no freestyle)
All games must have 24 hour round length (no speed)
All spoils are allowed except zombie spoils (negotiable)
All forts are allowed except "no forts" (negotiable)
There will be no round limits except for “no forts” and Trench games. In those games, they are optional to the home clan's choice.
Each map can only be used twice per clan per clan war but can only be used once per game type (dubs/trips/quads)
Beta maps are not allowed
Each clan will pick the map and settings for exactly half of the games
Games will be exchanged in 2 sets
12 Hour Fog Rule will not be in effect (negotiable, TO will not enforce any penalties for violations)
New settings that are implemented after the start of the competition will be excluded from wars
Tie-Breaker game for all the rounds will be Triples on Classic ESC Chained Fog (does not count toward player game maximum)[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Rewards]Clan achievement medals will be given for each war to those who play in 3 games minimum, as well as to the players of the winning clan who play all 3 rounds and at least 9 games total for the winning team

An MVP medal will also be given to one player on the winning clan. The MVP must of played all 3 wars and have at least 24 games played throughout the 3 wars. The winning clan picks the MVP.

MVP will receive a medal and 800 CC credits.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Clans and Contacts]BOB: mcshanester29
DBD: Razorvich
GON: Odug
VNM: Keefie
KNT: DaveH
LOW: chard and JJ41375
RET: cpusurfer
REP: Swimmerdude99 and TheSpaceCowboy[/spoiler]

Bracket:
https://challonge.com/ICup3

Round 1 Wars:

VNM vs GON: VNM DNF

KNT vs BOB: https://www.conquerclub.com/public.php? ... WarId=3933

LOW vs DBD: https://www.conquerclub.com/public.php? ... WarId=3931

RET vs REP: https://www.conquerclub.com/public.php? ... WarId=3934

Semi-Finals Wars:

GON vs KNT: viewtopic.php?f=441&t=236046

LOW vs REP: viewtopic.php?f=441&t=236107

Final War:

GON vs LOW : https://www.conquerclub.com/public.php? ... WarId=3991

Winner: LOW

Good luck to everyone and thank you for participating in the third event!

Special thanks to the CD team for awarding prizes

All matches for Round 1 can start whenever you're ready. Round has a required start date of April 3rd at the latest.

Subsequent rounds start the Sunday after the 2 clans meeting in the next round have been decided.

Congrats to REP for winning IC3

lol, 100

Caymanmew wrote:Congrats to REP for winning IC3

Have some respect for the opponents REP just went 24-17 vs RGV, and there are 2-3 clans I think here ranked higher then those. And we’re still new, I organized our first war but our regular war planners will be handling this and planning their first wars here too.

It should be a competitive group for the most part, VNM alone has a reputation of disrupting things in the leagues let alone the others.

I guess clans cant get a warning for farming....lol...


....nah IP, most everyone whos been around knows the quality of the group of players in your clan. I know for a fact that REP is a top clan. Sorry if I pulled the wool off the eyes of someone who didnt know.

Awesome!
Thanks for putting this together IP

in this thread: jghost calls his own clan bad

iAmCaffeine wrote:in this thread: jghost calls his own clan bad

in this thread: caffeine unsurprisingly trolling.

jghost7 wrote:I guess clans cant get a warning for farming....lol...


....nah IP, most everyone whos been around knows the quality of the group of players in your clan. I know for a fact that REP is a top clan. Sorry if I pulled the wool off the eyes of someone who didnt know.

jghost7 wrote:I guess clans cant get a warning for farming....lol...


....nah IP, most everyone whos been around knows the quality of the group of players in your clan. I know for a fact that REP is a top clan. Sorry if I pulled the wool off the eyes of someone who didnt know.

I guess having a good clan line up automatically means we win everything and everybody gels and has perfect map coverage immediately out of the gate right?

Of course not, takes time to gain experience, gel as teams, find the right teammates and home maps etc. doesn’t come instantly and nothing can be assumed. Some thought we’d blow RGV out of the water and i said would be a good war, and it was. 24-17 isn’t a blow out and there’s a reason why the games are played.

We might EVENTUALLY be a “top clan” but this will be our second war and our war planners first. We aren’t a top clan yet. (But well be happy to take your forfeit if you’d like to offer one, 41-0 would sure be good for our rankings and help take us to “top clan” status lol

Quit selling the bullshit, no one is buying it.

Caymanmew wrote:Quit selling the bullshit, no one is buying it.

Everyone's sound approval of REP as a top clan is gonna make it hurt worse when someone knocks our block off cause I lead the war We've got some big shoes to fill based on some people's thoughts, hoping we don't make too big a fool of ourselves! RGV gave us a real run for our money, so plenty of kinks to be worked out if we really are a top clan already.

Caymanmew wrote:Quit selling the bullshit, no one is buying it.

lol I’m not selling bullshit if you think top clans instantly materialize then you clearly don’t understand the skill level, amount of work and preparation it takes to become one.

IcePack wrote:

jghost7 wrote:I guess clans cant get a warning for farming....lol...


....nah IP, most everyone whos been around knows the quality of the group of players in your clan. I know for a fact that REP is a top clan. Sorry if I pulled the wool off the eyes of someone who didnt know.

I guess having a good clan line up automatically means we win everything and everybody gels and has perfect map coverage immediately out of the gate right?

Of course not, takes time to gain experience, gel as teams, find the right teammates and home maps etc. doesn’t come instantly and nothing can be assumed. Some thought we’d blow RGV out of the water and i said would be a good war, and it was. 24-17 isn’t a blow out and there’s a reason why the games are played.

We might EVENTUALLY be a “top clan” but this will be our second war and our war planners first. We aren’t a top clan yet. (But well be happy to take your forfeit if you’d like to offer one, 41-0 would sure be good for our rankings and help take us to “top clan” status lol

LOL IP, not buying it.

Have fun though, should be fun for you all.

just for laughs....lol

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jghost is really sitting here saying his own clan is getting farmed in a cup they chose to join lol. wild.

as for all the farming comments in general.. who cares, really? if you all think REP are a "top clan" (debatable) then what else should they do? if they join other events, they'll "farm" the weaker clans and lose to the best anyway. one way or another their ranking will go up. this is just like Newcomer's Cup which was "farmed" by any new, good clan who started up.

i don't even understand why cayman is bothered. not like ATL wouldn't join given the chance lol.

I don’t really understand the farming comments tbh, nobody would bat an eye if we warred vs RET or LOW or VNM. The bracket actually ended up quite nicely, it’s not like we’ve got the easiest path possible here.

And ATL participated in this event previously (and won) same as RA.

The original invite also included RGV (who based on our war is def within reach of a possible victory) and AFOS, both who couldn’t make it here. It was the 8 most evenly matched clans I could pull up, and because two declined we included the next two who were awesome enough to participate (thanks to BOB & KNT!)

Bottom line top clans don’t just materialize, most of the clan until recently hasn’t played together (some didn’t even really know each other) and came from a variety of clans to do something new and have some fun. Maybe by the end of this we will be more organized and experienced as a group, and ready to participate in something g bigger (like cup, which we didn’t qualify for because we didn’t have one war completed at the time) but next year we will qualify and I’m sure we’ll participate and see where we are at compared to the rest.

But put us against any of the “top clans” (TOFU, S&M, LHDD, FALL) and there’s no way we’re getting more then 10-15 out of 41 rn imo.

iAmCaffeine wrote:jghost is really sitting here saying his own clan is getting farmed in a cup they chose to join lol. wild.

as for all the farming comments in general.. who cares, really? if you all think REP are a "top clan" (debatable) then what else should they do? if they join other events, they'll "farm" the weaker clans and lose to the best anyway. one way or another their ranking will go up. this is just like Newcomer's Cup which was "farmed" by any new, good clan who started up.

i don't even understand why cayman is bothered. not like ATL wouldn't join given the chance lol.

We would absolutely not join. I ran IC2 and Lindax tried to force me to add ATL in and I refused multiple times as the goal of the tournament was for the majority of clans to have a legit shot of winning.

Caymanmew wrote:

iAmCaffeine wrote:jghost is really sitting here saying his own clan is getting farmed in a cup they chose to join lol. wild.

as for all the farming comments in general.. who cares, really? if you all think REP are a "top clan" (debatable) then what else should they do? if they join other events, they'll "farm" the weaker clans and lose to the best anyway. one way or another their ranking will go up. this is just like Newcomer's Cup which was "farmed" by any new, good clan who started up.

i don't even understand why cayman is bothered. not like ATL wouldn't join given the chance lol.

We would absolutely not join. I ran IC2 and Lindax tried to force me to add ATL in and I refused multiple times as the goal of the tournament was for the majority of clans to have a legit shot of winning.

You'd join this time then? Since REP are as good as a top clan it wouldn't be a free win for ATL?

iAmCaffeine wrote:

Caymanmew wrote:

iAmCaffeine wrote:jghost is really sitting here saying his own clan is getting farmed in a cup they chose to join lol. wild.

as for all the farming comments in general.. who cares, really? if you all think REP are a "top clan" (debatable) then what else should they do? if they join other events, they'll "farm" the weaker clans and lose to the best anyway. one way or another their ranking will go up. this is just like Newcomer's Cup which was "farmed" by any new, good clan who started up.

i don't even understand why cayman is bothered. not like ATL wouldn't join given the chance lol.

We would absolutely not join. I ran IC2 and Lindax tried to force me to add ATL in and I refused multiple times as the goal of the tournament was for the majority of clans to have a legit shot of winning.

You'd join this time then? Since REP are as good as a top clan it wouldn't be a free win for ATL?

No surprised but we were not asked. We are focused on CC right now so I don't think we would have joined.

Caymanmew wrote:

iAmCaffeine wrote:

Caymanmew wrote:

iAmCaffeine wrote:jghost is really sitting here saying his own clan is getting farmed in a cup they chose to join lol. wild.

as for all the farming comments in general.. who cares, really? if you all think REP are a "top clan" (debatable) then what else should they do? if they join other events, they'll "farm" the weaker clans and lose to the best anyway. one way or another their ranking will go up. this is just like Newcomer's Cup which was "farmed" by any new, good clan who started up.

i don't even understand why cayman is bothered. not like ATL wouldn't join given the chance lol.

We would absolutely not join. I ran IC2 and Lindax tried to force me to add ATL in and I refused multiple times as the goal of the tournament was for the majority of clans to have a legit shot of winning.

You'd join this time then? Since REP are as good as a top clan it wouldn't be a free win for ATL?

No surprised but we were not asked. We are focused on CC right now so I don't think we would have joined.

Didn't ask either of the previous winners for obvious reasons (ATL or RA)

IcePack wrote:

Caymanmew wrote:

iAmCaffeine wrote:

Caymanmew wrote:

iAmCaffeine wrote:jghost is really sitting here saying his own clan is getting farmed in a cup they chose to join lol. wild.

as for all the farming comments in general.. who cares, really? if you all think REP are a "top clan" (debatable) then what else should they do? if they join other events, they'll "farm" the weaker clans and lose to the best anyway. one way or another their ranking will go up. this is just like Newcomer's Cup which was "farmed" by any new, good clan who started up.

i don't even understand why cayman is bothered. not like ATL wouldn't join given the chance lol.

We would absolutely not join. I ran IC2 and Lindax tried to force me to add ATL in and I refused multiple times as the goal of the tournament was for the majority of clans to have a legit shot of winning.

You'd join this time then? Since REP are as good as a top clan it wouldn't be a free win for ATL?

No surprised but we were not asked. We are focused on CC right now so I don't think we would have joined.

Didn't ask either of the previous winners for obvious reasons (ATL or RA)

Worried you might have a chance to lose?

Caymanmew wrote:

iAmCaffeine wrote:

Caymanmew wrote:

iAmCaffeine wrote:jghost is really sitting here saying his own clan is getting farmed in a cup they chose to join lol. wild.

as for all the farming comments in general.. who cares, really? if you all think REP are a "top clan" (debatable) then what else should they do? if they join other events, they'll "farm" the weaker clans and lose to the best anyway. one way or another their ranking will go up. this is just like Newcomer's Cup which was "farmed" by any new, good clan who started up.

i don't even understand why cayman is bothered. not like ATL wouldn't join given the chance lol.

We would absolutely not join. I ran IC2 and Lindax tried to force me to add ATL in and I refused multiple times as the goal of the tournament was for the majority of clans to have a legit shot of winning.

You'd join this time then? Since REP are as good as a top clan it wouldn't be a free win for ATL?

No surprised but we were not asked. We are focused on CC right now so I don't think we would have joined.

This was the bracket when ATL won the Invitational Cup. I'd say REP has a harder run than ATL did, don't you think?