We’ve gotten an amazing response from the community for this tournament and we want to make it as enjoyable and accessible as possible. Some are concerned that they will be unable to participate if the event runs too late. Therefore, we are open to the idea of extending the tournament to span two nights, Wednesday @ 9pm EDT as planned and Thursday @ 9pm EDT if needed.
Please post feedback here:
http://thebrink.tv/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=214
We’ll announce a decision later tonight.
Will definitely be a VOD up, as always! We post all our VOD’s at http://thebrink.tv/videos.php
This’ll be the first real Brink competition, that I know of at least. Very excited to see how this runs…
Just to update everyone we decided to spread the event across of both days. As greased said this will allow the finals and later round matches to be played (and viewed) at a more reasonable time (for the US viewers at least). Equality important the team count has surpassed 32 teams and as such we have decided to cap the tournament to that number. Overflow registrations will be placed on the waiting list.
It is spanning two nights!
Tune in tonight at 9pm EDT for some awesome, competitive Brink action. All live, all shoutcasted. This is the first tournament for Brink, and we’re super excited.
Then, tomorrow, we pick up again at 9pm EDT. Expect to see the semi-finals as well as the finals tomorrow (Thursday).
Can’t make it? Then just goto our Videos page to watch all the highlights as well as VOD content. Boom.
gg’s enjoyed almost every minute of it (even if it we mostly hung out in aquarium) =p can’t wait for tomorrow night.
Will VOD be up today (don’t tell me you need to sleep, I can’t believe that)? I need VOD, need Ze Scotman shouts, naow!! 
VODs of Day 1 of the 5v5 tournament already up. http://thebrink.tv/videos.php
It’s great that this tournament is being hosted and with such a great quality cast etc, but these games are painful to watch with such horribly defensive sided maps being enforced by terrible spawn times. I really hope some changes will come about. Anytime 2 good teams have played each other, it’s just full hold after full hold. The casters even seem to be very unenthusiastic about yet another defensive map being played every time a different map is selected.
Here’s my take tho…
No game upon release (with the exception of StarCraft 2… tho to be fair that also had the benefit of a long open beta) is competition ready. I expect once Brink gets its first major patch in the next week or so, we’ll see some comp tweaks. That’s more than fine by me.
Yes, the maps are heavily d-oriented right now, but from what we’ve gathered from the tournament is that a few very small changes can probably fix all maps to favor the offense. In short, we’ll get there.
When pubbing, the heavy defensiveness doesn’t shine through much at all… I’m almost afraid to say it, but as long as I have a friend who knows what they’re doing, pubbing is actually enjoyable.
I think that’s what SD was aiming for and I think they did an okay job hitting that mark.
Competition play will always be far more difficult to nail down w/o an open beta, but that’s also the crowd that will be willing to provide the constructive feedback until the game is suitable for tournament play.
