British Unter and Elite Wireplay Challenge 2004

(Kendle) #1

Hope it’s OK to post this here, just want to make sure we reach all UK Clans accepting that some don’t visit www.rtcw.co.uk

Announcing the British Unter and Elite Wireplay Challenge 2004

Last year a crack squad (OK, a few blokes) organised a tournament for RTCW called UnterElite. The Tournament was specifically aimed at those Clans outside the top tier of RTCW at the time, i.e. those “under” or “unter” (in german) the top teams.

This year the same (fool)hardy souls have decided to organise a Tournament for ET, the game we’re all playing now. We’ve secured sponsorship from our good friends at Wireplay who will be helping us with servers and prizes.

The competition will be run as follows …

16 clans will be seeded into 4 groups of 4 with each clan playing each other in each group.

The top two clans go into a knockout phase called “Elite” to find the eventual winner. The bottom two clans then proceed to a knockout phase called “Unter”. We thereby hope to give ALL Clans maximum participation and something that they can all aim for.

Winners of both the Elite and Unter titles will win a free clan server from Wireplay for two months.

We have set no date as of yet for the competition to start but around about four weeks would be a good estimate. We will also be running two custom maps to keep with tradition of Unterelite. One custom map is SupplyDepot, the other one we have not decided upon yet and wish for clans to air their opinions on our forums.

Our website is now live so please sign up and the forums are open for clans to express their interest in taking part.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask myself or any of the admins.

Website:- www.unterelite.co.uk

IRC:- #unterelite

(ETplayer) #2

The bottom two clans then proceed to a knockout phase called “Unter”.

i think this sounds a bit bizzare 2 me…

U mean the Clans who performed worst of all the other clans right ??

If so… This could cause cheating…

I mean with this, a specific clan could lose matches on purpose to achieve the lowest spot ( note that this clan is good ), then accordingly beat the other clan to get a free gameserver ?

correct me if im wrong :huh:

(blushing_bride) #3

i had the same thought but then assumed what it actually meant was that the two teams that come top of each group would progress into the elite bit and the two teams that come bottom of each group would (re)progress to the unter bit. so that the top eight fight it out for one server and the bottom eight would then fight it out for the other server. even so an uber team could come in third in their group on purpose to qualify for the unter bit then thrash all the duff clans to take the prize.

(Kendle) #4

You’re right in that a good team could deliberately do badly in the group stages to get into the lower knockout phase, but each group will be seeded so we would expect the top teams to go thorugh to the Elite phase, and the lesser teams to the Unter phase. There have in the past, in RTCW competitions which were often played double elimination, been accusations that good teams have deliberately lost so as to give themselves an easier ride in the lower bracket.

It may be we need to adjust the prizes so that the Elite group get a better prize. I’ll mention it to the people concerned. Our intention however was to give the lower Clans something to fight for, rather than assume Royal or someone is going to win and so make it a foregone conclusion.

(ETplayer) #5

Oki, that clears things up for me :slight_smile:

(Kendle) #6

Having spoken to the other organisers our feeling is that it’s extremely unlikely that a good team would deliberately lose so as to get into the easier knockout phase in order to win a server, when the chances are they already have a server anyway. Our feeling is that the prestige of winning the “Elite” group would be the real “prize”.

We will obviously monitor the situation and may rethink this issue if it becomes apparent that a good team is unexpectedly losing to weaker teams every game.

(EB) #7

yeah…but they would still get their butts kicked !!!