GeekSportsTV HoN Weekly #1 (April 29 - 30, 2011)

[nemrix]

Hello HoN community,

today we’ve opened the registration for our first weekly based HoN tournament. This will be a 5 vs. 5 tournament with a price pool of 300€. Starting on the 29th of April 18:00 CET we will play all rounds, except for the final, which will be played on the 30th of April 16:00 CET. Since it is a weekly tournament, all rounds will be played as BO1, except for the final which will be a BO3.

For more information about the tournament, the rules and how you can register, please visit www.geeksports.tv (http://www.geeksports.tv)

Please also take a look at this post: Geeksports.tv is looking for staff! (http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=249429). Geeksports.tv is still looking for help.

Thanks for your attention and gl hf in our tournament.


update: we changed the post to match the new schedule

[ItsBehindYou]

The rules are written in extremely poor English and don't include banning Ancient pulling.

Also Higher seeded team has to go Legion?

I guess 10/10 for the effort if this is a troll.

[nemrix]

Hi ItsBehindYou!

Thanks for the advice about the rule. We will seriously consider adding it.
What's wrong with the Legion side? We'd be glad to hear your opinion!
It's not a troll :) but our first tournament. Therefore not everything's perfect. We'll try our best, but our english will probably stay poor ;)

[TheardnuT]

Does Manchester United play all their games away from home because they're good at football? Regardless of how good a team is, sides and first/second pick should be determined by a roll. I'm all for people making new tournaments because the more the better, but if you want anybody decent to sign up you should make a decent set of rules. You're offering prizes which will attract decent teams, the high level games will then attract casters which will give your tournaments popularity and following, which attracts sponsors so you can keep prize pools available. You won't get any of that with a dumbed down ruleset.

Also, most submit buttons on your website seem to be completely broken. It might just be my IE, though, I'll try again later on Mozilla and Chrome.

[ItsBehindYou]

I'm sorry but your rules just make me rofl so hard I don't think anyone is going to take you seriously.

[nemrix]

Does Manchester United play all their games away from home because they're good at football? Regardless of how good a team is, sides and first/second pick should be determined by a roll.
You got a point there.


I'm all for people making new tournaments because the more the better, but if you want anybody decent to sign up you should make a decent set of rules. You're offering prizes which will attract decent teams, the high level games will then attract casters which will give your tournaments popularity and following, which attracts sponsors so you can keep prize pools available. You won't get any of that with a dumbed down ruleset.
We're working on it. Thanks for the hint.


Also, most submit buttons on your website seem to be completely broken. It might just be my IE, though, I'll try again later on Mozilla and Chrome.
If you could give us a more precise description, we'll try to fix it.


I'm sorry but your rules just make me rofl so hard I don't think anyone is going to take you seriously.
I'm glad we made your day ;)
But seriously: as said before we're working on it and we're open for suggestions.

[JAH`]

Heya I see that the main portion of the tournament is on the 29th and then the finals continue on the 30th, is their anyway to schedule around the gamereplays tournament which is also on the 30th(starts at 19:00GMT).

[Clowd]

When pressing "Register for Tournament" it seems to direct you to the rules and prize pool page.

[nemrix]

Heya I see that the main portion of the tournament is on the 29th and then the finals continue on the 30th, is their anyway to schedule around the gamereplays tournament which is also on the 30th(starts at 19:00GMT).

Thank you very much. You are probably right, three hours might not be enough. We rescheduled our tournament: only the final will be played on saturday the 30th of April at 16:00 CET, to assure that there's no interference with the GameReplays tournament.

We hope this is in your best interest.

[nemrix]

When pressing "Register for Tournament" it seems to direct you to the rules and prize pool page.

Thank you for the information. We've changed it. The "register for tournament" button will now direct you to the page where you can sign up your team.

[Cookiz]

My friends and I gonna join this :) Looking forward to it! I hope pros aint coming :o xD

[nemrix]

Hey everyone!

After some input from the community we decided to review and edit the rules for our upcoming HoN tournament. We still tried to keep the rules as simple as possible, but some changes were necessary, thanks to all the advisers.

For more information please visit: http://www.geeksports.tv/tournament/5

[dsqc]

The rules are written in extremely poor English and don't include banning Ancient pulling.

Also Higher seeded team has to go Legion?

I guess 10/10 for the effort if this is a troll.
What your problem with ancient pulling ? :(
It's a legit strat and very useful if you know how to do it.

[PiIIOWS]

its not legit or cool and also playing this earlier on a sunday is dumb too because ppl wil be too tired by gr so make it a diff day and u'l get 'better' teams

[BurkzorkN]

When are you posting brackets, and where?

[Clowd]

When I try to invite people to my team on the website, it just says sending invite... and my friend does not get an invite anywhere please help!

[dsqc]

Clan FNY signed up and ready to go!

[nemrix]

its not legit or cool and also playing this earlier on a sunday is dumb too because ppl wil be too tired by gr so make it a diff day and u'l get 'better' teams

I'm not shure why you mention sunday. The main part of the tournament will take place on friday, the final will be held on saturday.


When are you posting brackets, and where?

We're working on getting the brackets online as soon as the registration closes (at 16:00 CET tomorrow). But since our system is not that flexible yet, it might not happen until the actual start of the tournament. The brackets will be visible on the tournament page (www.geeksports.tv/tournament/4 (http://www.geeksports.tv/tournament/4)).


When I try to invite people to my team on the website, it just says sending invite... and my friend does not get an invite anywhere please help!

Normally, there's an error or a success message after the "sending invitation" text.
The person you want to invite needs to have an account on our website first, you can't invite anybody before that. As soon as you sent the invite they will then get a "pending invitation" on top of the website, which they need to accept. Please try again and contact us if it's still not working.

[nemrix]

Since there's only 24 hours left before the start of our first HoN tournament, we thought we'd announce the so-far registered teams. Please beware that the registration for entering the tournament is open until tomorrow (friday, the 29th) 16:00 CET. Entering the tournament after that time will not be possible.

To all participants: please make shure that one player of your team checks-in 15 minutes before the start. This will be possible at 17:45 CET via the "check-in" link on your team overview (www.geeksports.tv/team (http://www.geeksports.tv/team)).

Registered so far are:

Divine Circles
FlowerPower
Gameburg Team
HELLAS
Jokes On You So Deal With It
Loek utan drickz
Nois que Voaa
Stora klubban kostar fem
Syrian imbas
Team Shady

[_leonhart]

Exotic team currently signed up. A question by the way, the check in button is not visible yet, is that supposed to?

[nemrix]

Exotic team currently signed up. A question by the way, the check in button is not visible yet, is that supposed to?

Yes. The check in button will be visible at 17:45 CET (15 minutes before the tournament starts)

[_leonhart]

Is there a channel or something to play?

[nemrix]

Is there a channel or something to play?

/j geeksports

We’re sorry, but it looks like technology is not on our side :( Our tournament system doesn’t work the way we planned it to do, so we decided (our plan B) to build the brackets via challonge.com. Please check out http://challonge.com/geeksports to see who you’re playing against. Also please remember to message the game ID to one of the admins, after the game.

gl hf

[nemrix]

Thnx to everyone who joined us! We hope our organisational skills were bearable ;) hope to see you all again next week for #2.

Finals will be held tomorrow at 16:00 CET --> Gameburg Team vs. iN7eSports. Congratulations again for getting into the final!

[ItsBehindYou]

What your problem with ancient pulling ? :(
It's a legit strat and very useful if you know how to do it.

I give you a 0/10 for the troll but as Pillows bit on it I guess you can have a 6/10.

[klejf]

when signups for #2 will be open?

[nemrix]

when signups for #2 will be open?

The registration is already open, please take a look at http://www.geeksports.tv/tournament/6