Raven vs. Jake

round 1, Employee of the Month (Jake's choice)
10-0 to Jake (forfeit)

round 2, BBlair (Raven's choice)
7-5 to Jake

comments: EotM is a horrible level for anyone who has always based their game on all-round gameplay strategies and who can't adapt to gameplay where all the emphasis is on 'tricks' and none on the all-round gameplay... plus there was a crapload of lag in Jake's favor... he never got hit at the right time and I got hit even when I shouldn't have.

As for BBlair, Veg hosted (as opposed to ZD 1 for EotM). Veg's server hardly lagged, although Jake still had his lag-armors on for the most part. He also played a smart game and took pretty much no risks whatsoever and gave me a few airs.

I'd say this tournament's mappool will go down in history as the one where the worst-ever substitution of a classic level took place.

EDIT: Afterwards, I figured out why I lagged so bad in the match against Jake. Someone was using the same (very limited) bandwidth from another computer to stream video and sound. It's my responsibility to eliminate lag sources on my end, but GRRRRR.

PS. The 'reputation'-feature is a cruel joke.

Last day to play the following duels (just a reminder):

Oh dear, still nothing from novastar. Please read the pm i sent you too r3p. It seems novastar isn't going to show up. Does this still mean I go through ?

@Dermo, It seems crazy won't be able to duel you, he hasn't been online for a bit.

Yep, don't worry ;)

Mostly referring to Anub/Robee & Sucer/Toni, whom I've heard NOTHING from.

Wanna hear something? OK. I saw sucer online, but I hadn't time to ask him for a duel. Today I can play. But now he is not online. I think I will play if I catch him today.

Aight, if Sucer doesn't show up you'll get qualified.

:( not fair. I saw him online, but I hadn't time to play. (I didn't ask him anything. He didn't ask me anything, too)

(that means YOU will get to the next stage..)

Then he's still got a chance to get online today and duel you. Fair enough.

look, I know I will go to next stage, but it is not fair for my teammate. Still offline :(

Uh what, Teammate ? I don't understand that. It is fair however, sucer could of at least said something in this thread. We at least know you tried to get in contact.

We're both in \NF/ (Nameless Frontline), so because of that we're teammates.

Well. In the last minute I tried to catch a train. I didn't catch. :(

What about, if neither of Anu/Robee doesn't show up, both Toni and Sucer will qualify? :)

Can coin-flip decide, please?

Bblair 1-2 (robee) EOTM 7-6 (anubis) Marshland 0-1 (robee)
robee wins

I haven't heard anything. It's kind of my fault too because his response Email clearly said:

"Tell me when its ok for u :) i can play from anytime from 12 am to 4 pm uk time :)
if thats ok with you , i guess ill be fighting you then :) "

I never really got back to him...

The best player from each group will get to the semi-finals. You must duel all players from yr group. The deadline will be September 25th (that means you gotta finish yr duels until Friday ends), so in Saturday there'll be the finals. Good luck!

Group A
Riper
Hordy
Superjazz
Bluespaz

Group B
Jake
Speeza
Mati

• Jake vs. Speeza - 2:0 (10-5 BleachedD, 1-0 forfeit)

Group C
spaceboy
Raul
Skele
Toni

• spaceboy vs. Skele - 2:0 (5-4 DW, 6-4 BBLAIR)
• spaceboy vs. Toni - 2:0 (10-7 EotM, 9-4 BBLAIR)

Group D
Kenny
Dermo
Robee
reflix

What's up with 3 players in group B? ;P

I would've qualified had I noticed/eliminated the lag-source...

I don't have Mati's contact info :(

I would also need it.

I need raul's and r3p's MSN/e-mail.

Never got the invite... o_O

Clearly not, hence why I posted here.

Must still have you blocked from ages ago, that's why, then I forgot to check here about the tourney. My bad.
Have to remember that next time...

Last two days to finish yr duels! :)

Thats incredibly fast O_O

Six elimination duels were scheduled to be played in the preliminary stage, although there were only five extra players. The reason for this inconsistency is beyond my understanding.

1st map: Bleached Diamonds
Jake: 10 scores
Speeza: 5 scores
Way too campy/blue biased.
2st map: Employee of the month
Jake: 10 scores
Speeza: 0 scores (Forfeit)

Was fun. Good luck to all finalists.

LAST DAY! Hurry up and duel.

I haven't seen Mati. Does that mean that I qualify?

Probably..

I haven't seen Skele. I haven't seen Raul. I saw spaceboy. Does that mean that I qualify?

Its getting pretty annoying. When someone next time makes a tournament put in bold.

Please don't join if:
your going on holiday
you never hardly play JJ2
For the lols
If you are near death

Never have I seen so many people just not turn up.

The deadlines do seem rather harsh though, I doubt you can expect people to camp their computer 24/7 to find their opponents, especially when you factor in jobs and school.

Yes but that's why there emails were put up. Signing in once a day just to check doesn't hurt. Or simply send an email and just plan a "date" as such, so you can both play at the best times for each other. Just need a little communication is all.

I do agree it being a bit fast, it can make it harder for some people, rep should probably put how fast he wanted it to go. Some people however could of at least sighed on to the JCF saying they can't make it. Otherwise it looks like they haven't even bothered.

See? :rolleyes:

Ah my bad, Skimmed over that. My second paragraph no longer applies then.

I'm very disappointed with the outcome of this tourney, but Jake and I will still play the final game for the sake of it.

We just played the finals, Spaceboy has won his own tourney.