Reloaded Pt.2
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Rikoll takes it home |
[dopeskillz - 2011-11-18 12:22:46]
My apologies for the late news entry, but unfortunately the grand final coincided with me being abroad for a couple of days. I hope all of you (players and spectators) enjoyed the grand final and the tournament in general.
Me not being in my "home base" prevented me from actually seeing the grand final, but I'll make sure to grab the demos and enjoy them later this evening. Anyhow, the DuelMania team would like to congratulate Rikoll for playing what can only be described as a sovereign tournament!
On a sidenote: It's not a simple task to come back after a 5 year hiatus, as well as having way more RL commitments these days. So, we had to kinda ease back into the task of running a tournament again. In any case, the future plans go something like this:
- More regular seasons (every March and September seems like a good start)
- Better coverage (especially commentary and video streams)
- Site improvements (the brackets really need an update)
One last thing: I sincerely hope that there will be more signups for the next season. Here are some old figures: The last DuelMania in 2006 had a whopping 268 signups and the last Ownage in 2010 had 176 signups. We hopefully can revive the scene to get back to these figures again!
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Upcoming grand final |
[dopeskillz - 2011-11-14 01:05:13]
Ok fellow quakers, I know you are waiting with excitement for the grand final of this instance of DuelMania. And finally here it is! As you probably already know, we have:
Rikoll vs bps!
They will encounter each other on
Wednesday, the 16th of November 2011 at 20:00 CET
in a hopefully dramatic best-of-five match. Since bps! is coming from the LB, he has to win twice against Rikoll, in order to take home the imaginary trophy. ;) It's a hard task that he faces, but I am sure that he's hungry with revenge after the WB final.
I wish best of luck to both contestants and hope they'll give each other a good and fair fight!
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Schedules |
[dopeskillz - 2011-10-20 11:50:39]
I will update this posting when there are new schedules incoming. So check back frequently!
No schedules at this point!
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Slowly, but surely... |
[dopeskillz - 2011-10-19 10:49:48]
...the tournament approaches its hot phase now.
We're just waiting one more day to get the remaining matches of last round played. No worries, all the players are available, but just weren't able to find a schedule that fits.
Well, except kingpin who hasn't been online in quite a while. If anybody knows something about his whereabouts, please let us know. For now, we had to give WO to nit, which is a pity considering that the match was one of the quarter finals, but what can you do...
One last thing: we urge players to tell us their match schedules from now on, so that we can at least announce it on IRC for the people's speccing pleasure. Thanks!
P.S. andeh vs LocKtar WTF??! :P
P.P.S. I promised andeh to mention it :)
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Speeding up... |
[dopeskillz - 2011-10-04 21:11:15]
Ok, the matches of week 2 are finally played which brings us to week 3.
The tournament will gain some speed, since the losers' bracket has now two rounds per week. I hope that the players in the LB can handle it, so that we can keep momentum.
Up to now there weren't any big surprises, except maybe that VVD has sent maga to the LB. In general the 16 players left in the WB are more or less the ones we expected.
Starting with next round we will try to get a better coverage. Meaning: we will try to squeeze some schedules out of the players, so that we can enjoy the matches live.
Go go go!
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