(does it matter if I do this through my pc or should I do it with my PS3?

download speed: 1.67 Mb/s
Upload speed: .29 Mb/s

Schedule Ready in Post #4 of this thread :)

Remember: Fly with honor and shoot to kill!! but most importantly, have fun :)

I must sleep now, I will be online when I wake up, If I have not replied to a friend request I will as soon as I turn on my PS3. (In case you play any matches send the screenshots to my PSN: edal86, this is very important. Ok bye, good luck to you all fellow virtual pilots!!!

Let the fun begin
 

Thanks edal and Mac.
Brilliant work so far.

PS:
edal
What do you mean you playin it from a PC or ps3 ?
I thought BoP was able for xbox and ps3, and that WoP was the pc version ?

I agree! Pats on backs all of you!

I think he means the speed check ;)
@edal86: It doesn't matter which system you do it on I think!

I was content to play and just have fun untill I saw that kickass trophy and now I want it prepare to die!!!:evil::evil:

Once again I am amazed at the incredible job that went into planing and organizing this tournament, I'm honoured to just be a part of this.

* thanks P-51 for clarifying, yes I meant the internet speed check.

:) I cant believe that I am co-organizer and I cant follow our own tournament's rules he he :-P

PSN: edal86

- 1C ID: edal86
- Country: Im in USA border with Mexico
- Timezone: Pacific Time, UTC -8
- Languages Spoken: English and Spanish
- preferred playing times: Monday and Wednesday any time, other days I most likely will be able to play, just message me :)
- homemap: Sicily the Coast
- Internet Download/Upload Speeds: download speed: 1.67 Mb/s - Upload speed: .29 Mb/s

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DOGFIGHT & TOURNAMENT ANECDOTES


1/24- I just found out about these Blogs hehe, I read some and they are very interesting. I am about to record a video of the "trophies", hope that comes out well.

Man, those trophies are just awesome!

Hi guys,

- PSN: wakespeak
- Country: USA
- Timezone: Central Time - US, UTC -6
- Languages Spoken: English
- preferred playing times: Evenings only weekdays; weekends more flexible
- homemap: Bulge/Ardennes
- Internet Download/Upload Speeds: download speed: 5 Mb/s - Upload speed: 26-80 kb/s

I haven't had much luck hosting games due to upload speed/router.

Thanks McQ!

And great thanks and applause to Gaijin for sponsoring this event and the trophies! Including a few pictures to show some more details. Pictures were taken before final assembly!

MAC

...and a few more.

MAC

Well done MAC and edal.. Looks nice!

I would kill for those models! And I will! :cool:

Right.. Before I go off to do some homework I need Olife and Dkwookie to contact me! If you see me on and have time enough for a game just give me a bell! Though it would be handy to have some pre-arranged times! :D

I will be on about 9-9.30 UK time if anyone wants to play some tourney matches.

hello p51!!

will be online this evening to 9:00 pm until 10:00 pm (french time)

Ok, I'll possibly be on around 7ish (Uk time) so when/if you get on send me a message and drag me down from the heavens! :P

super models!!!fantastic!!THANKSSSSSS!!!

GREAT AND MILLIONS THANKS TO GAIJIN AND 1C
http://dai.ly/eT5y1P

HOURRA! HOURRA! HOURRA!

Match Results - Attention Please!
 

Hello everybody!

Please send ALL your match results to Edal86 ONLY. Please DO NOT forward or doublesend to me, as I will not review or forward any of your results.

Edal86 needs to receive the results, he is keeping track of matches and scores.

Thanks!

MAC

P.S: It is recommended that both winner and loser take a screenshot of the results in case there is a problem on the winner's side.

Connectivity issues
 

Dear all,

In case of repeated connectivity issues between two players (interrupted and repeated games without success), feel free to ask for a referee match. This does not necessarily mean that the players don't trust each other, it might become necessary purely for technical reasons.

Thanks.

MAC

So far so good,

There is a good amount of activity out there and I wanted to thank you all for this. As of now I have only received 5 screenshots (5 matches), all from tournament A. I will check my PSN again at around 1am Wednesday the 18th. If I dont have everything that I have promised to post by this thursday I will fire myself lol.

I will include: Group standings and Match Results. I will also include some fun little player stats like: Top Ace, The Untouchable, The Conquerer, The Skillful. Also some Tournament stats including: Favorite Mustang, Deadliest Mustang, Bulletproof, Most Efficient, and Victory Rolls. It does not end there, but that is a little surprise addition for the second part of this tournament :)

*** In order to make the stats possible it is very important for you to send me the following with your attached screenshot message:

1. Tournament A or B

2. Host name (who selects the settings not who has better internet connection and sets the game lobby) vs challenger

3. planes used

4. screenshot

Will I need to send the screens from last night on to edal then? Or have you already done so? :)

Again: I will neither review nor forward any match results being sent to me. The players are responsible for sending the results to Edal86. Any results he doesn't receive = match result doesn't count!

Sorry if I can't be more helpful here, but we need to keep this clear as to not end up in a big confusion!

MAC

P.S.: Please do feel free to ask either of us in case of questions or to report a problem.

Ok, thanks for that; just clarifying so I didn't confuse Edal with the same screen twice!! :D

Respawning
 

Dear all,

Please know and adhere to the rules about respawning, as this is very important:

* When an aircraft respawns, neither of the opponents shall engage before they have established a distance from each other where the opponent's red dot becomes/is invisible.
* After respawning, for as long as the red dot is visible on the map, opponents must fly away from each other until the red dot disappears.
* Once the red dot disappears, both are free to maneuver as they wish.
* Respawn Time shall be set to 5 Seconds.

If a player violates this rule and so gains an unfair advantage, the other player should communicate the violation to his opponent as soon as possible (e.g. via chat) to agree on how to best resolve the matter. For example, the game could be replayed, or while in game, the other player may give up one of his lives by bailing out to undo the advantage he has gained, etc. If no agreement can be found, the match should be discontinued and the organizers contacted for dispute resolution, e.g. referee match.

MAC

Blogs
 

Dear all,

Some of you have already started writing blogs, notes or war diaries on their 'homepages'. Thanks for sharing, some are really interesting and amusing to read. I'd encourage everybody to share as well, these personal observations and insights give a lot of life to our tournament.

MAC

Sequel
 

Sorry if this is off topic, but I cannot stop myself from quoting Anton Yudintsev's (CEO Gaijin, our main sponsor) yesterday statement on Yuplay:

:)

MAC

P.S.: Highlighted text by me.

*dancing around* what a great news! Thanks for sharing Mac the Great! A.k.a Big Mac ;)

I must say that trophy is awesome looking I can't wait to see who receives it.

I just shed a man tear and went goosy! Most anticipated game for ever?! Maybe? Thanks for sharing!!

Second that, X-mas came early this year :-P:-P:-P:-P:-P:-P:-P:-P

LOL! You did it again, remember the STALLions!

MAC

Great news MAC :)

I was looking for that sort of news for a long time !! :) I want to belive (C) it is gonna be something :)

Guys i am unsure about when we should be playing our matches. Can we just play them when ad hoc or is there a set time and date?

dkwookie,

Please refer to post #4 of this thread. There you have your Group, the matches you should play and who to play against, and also the time you have to complete these matches. The way it works is that the players contact each other to arrange a time that suits them. This could be done via a Private Message here on the forum, or a message via the PSN network.

You then play your matches within the given timeframe, and send the results to Edal86 (refer to the Rules for details).

Good luck with your matches!

MAC

Keep those results coming guys, thanks for sending all the information required.

Mage_016,

the weekend is fine or whenever we are both online.

Hey guys,
Had a few group matches last night and had great fun!

Though to the tournament. I have loads of time over the weekend!

@Olife: Do you still want a match with a different hoast?

My Apologies
 

Sorry again guys,

I know I have been promising the a complete work of the statistics and I have not yet delivered. I made a quick rough draft of the current, up to date, leaderboards so that you can at least know what is going on with the Tournament.

Slowly but surely I am catching up though and once I have it all ready then I can easily just make adjustments to keep scores updated perhaps daily.

* If you think something does not make sense for example your points are wrong please post this immediately.

* Also, the mage_016 vs themeistor match is pending and has not been included.

*** also, Macademic you must die as soon as possible because excel wont let me divide your kills by 0 deaths lol. Just kidding my friend keep it up :)

i have played 4 matches so far 3 wins and 1 loss, dosen't tally to score board ,will mage and i have to play again?

LOL, with the help of our friend KAV, I already have multiply obliged.

;-)

MAC

if it is possible Mac, if there is a neutral in these matches .......... host or referee ............ to snap some screen shots, only if its possible, it would be fantastic if anyone could :)

I'm afraid that's not gonna be possible, it would be too likely to disturb the players if you're anywhere near enough to take a screenshot of the action.

MAC

yeah thats fine ............. i though it would be tricky!!! an inadvertant collision wouldn't go down well i suppose lol :)




thanks anyway Mac :)

wright have to work today will be on at 8pm if anybody wants a tournament match anytime after 8pm:-P

Leaderboards Updated
 

LEADERBOARDS UPDATED (1/22/11 5:02 am Pacific Time)

I have updated the leaderboards (only). Again, this is only to give you an idea of what is going on with the tournament.

The_Stapler,
* Sorry, your points have not been updated because I have not received the information on what planes were used for your matches.

** PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU USE YOUR CORRECT HOME MAPS!!**
** PLEASE INCLUDE THE PLANES USED ALONG WITH YOUR SCREENSHOT**

*** I have not obtained any match results from Tommykocher, wakespeak, nor dkwookie ***

*** Also, no results from Tournament B matches ***

Interesting note: this thread has had over 7,000 views in less than a month yet so little participant activity with posts, I wonder who else is peeking :)

Also, someone really wants that blue nose P-51 (119 views) hehe

I've tried contacting dkwookie on PSN and this forum, but I've had no response yet.

Hey,

I also need to know what planes were used on your matches against JOED


* Group Standings have been added (click link below)
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...83&postcount=3

Hi guys sorry not been online. I will be on tonight and tomorrow so will do matches with anyone who is online.

I can't get to grips with the 51 in sim so have resigned myself to a thrashing from all in my group and an early bath. Wish we could use Spitfires :-)

Edal86- P51 D5s were used by both players in both rounds.

dkwookie- I'll probably be available after 9pm tonight, if you want to play our matches then.

Cool I will be on 9-12 at very least tonight so let's hook up

I'll be on in some form for the rest of the day. I cant be assed with homework! Lol. I just need to email a mate about some review stuff and I'll be on!

Great leaderboards Edal!

MAC

i concur with the honorable macademic, great stuff :)




the leaderboard as provided by edal

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...83&postcount=3

Brilliant work on the leaderboard Edal :-)

At the next week i'm off from friday to sunday and I obviously cant be online or read psn messages then. So for the matches of the next week I have time only from monday to thursday. Be free to psn me if you see me online. I'll try to arrange as much time as I can.

concur about the leaderboards edal, great job. The whole tourny is a credit to our comunity.

can you get back to me on what you think of them txts i sent you please Edal86 500 instead of 1200 is unfair

Sorry, I dont see how 500 tickets instead of 1200 would be unfair, it does not even make a difference unless you are able to kill your enemy 500 times in less than 20 minutes. Since it is prohibited to drop bombs or attack targets there is no way to reduce tickets to 0 from 500 in less than 20 minutes. Remember I am only counting deaths and nothing else so even if you accidently crash into your enemy's ground target and reduce his tickets, say by 50, I would still only take into account his deaths only not the tickets themselves.

I hope I made sense, I saw the screenshots already and I see no problem with them both were set to 20 minutes

ok my mistake thanks for clearing that up just thought everybody set 1200 for there game dude no problem

No worries, thanks for checking though :)

I had some technical difficulties with photobucket but it is all solved now. Tournament is back and running :)

I will have the updated group standings and leaderboards in about 20 minutes after this post has been posted.

great job you guys are doing and good luck to everyone in tournament

Hey,

what planes were used in both your matches against tommykocher?

i was flying p-51D-5 the other guy was flying p-51B

If anyone wants a match tonight or tomorrow then mail me as soon as possible please! I'm bogged down with some college work at the moment so I'm virtually grounded! but with a bit of notice I might be able to get some matches done for the deadline.

P51 will you be free tomorrow eve after 5.30pm? I will be online all eve
Tomorrow and tonight after 9.30pm. I need to play you, Mac and Kav

Yeah, that time fits well with what I'm doing tomorrow actually! I'll see you there!

Now I need to here back form Olife.. (my bad for not getting games out of the way sooner really!).

I need to hook up with Olife too. Hopefully catch everyone later

Ok I am confused. From the match schedule do we have to play home and away matches against all in our group by 25th jan?
I played both my matches with Stapler so I need to play 2x mac, 2x kav and 2x oli? Or am I reading it wrong?

No mate, Dont worry. You only have to play myself before the deadline. The next deadline will be two more opponents and so on. So only four matches a week from my understanding, which leaves me with one match with Olife and 2 with you to complete :D

Thanks for clearing this out p-51. Yes, dkwookie, you only play 2 opponents per week, 2 times against each one (this will add up to 4 matches per week only).

To all,

you have exactly 34 hours and 57 minutes left after this message has been posted to finish and report your Period 1 matches

Sorry guys, I had a brain freeze and got mixed up. I now understand the schedule! No probs, will play P51/razor tomorrow and that's my matches complete until next schedule

Haha, don't worry about it Edal! :D Just that big writing in red is starting to scare me a little - I hate deadlines!!

@Dk: I'll set my alarm, write it on my calender, hand and put a post-it note on my TV so I will be there! I just hope Olife bumps into me tomorrow or sees this message so neither of us (Especially not Olife) get penalised. I'd rather fight and win/loose on the battlefield battlesky!

PS: Can you pretend that the underline on "Battlefield" is actually a strikethrough! Thanks! :D

Questions/Problems/Complaints Management
 

Tournament Period 1 Finish Line
 

Hello everybody,

This is to remind you, that at the time of posting this you have just 16 hours and 9 minutes left to complete your matches for period 1 (deadline 25/01/2011, 2359 Pacific time). If you're unsure who you should be playing, check the schedule HERE. Those of you also taking part in the B tournament, don't forget to check your schedule there as well.

MAC

P51 are you coming online tonight to play our matches? Post reply on here to let me know. I can play any time tonight if you give me a time.
Cheers

Yeah, just got home due to broken down car and miss you by 15 munutes! I'm on now!

Time is running out
 

Attention All,

You guys have exactly 1 hour and 54 minutes after this message has been posted to turn any last minute match reports.

The Leaderboards and stats are up to date. The new schedule will be up at 12:00am Pacific Time, you may start your matches as soon as the new schedule has been posted.

Period #2 schedule is ready
(I am not home right now that why the schedule is just regular text format I will make it pretty when I get home, I just wanted to have it ready for those desperate players eager to play their matches :) )

Good Luck guys

* Also, the Tournament Bracket and Tournament B stats are ready :)

Great first week - surprised at actually getting all four. Especially after the close match myself and Olife had i think I won by one or two points the first time, this time was no different! Watch out for the Ace!

Good luck to all who play this week! :D

MACADEMIC
kavorland
Are my next two - get in touch (Kavorland - I'm not sure I have you on PSN yet! >.<) I shall at least see Mac tonight as your pretty reliable at being on most nights! :P Good luck for your matches too!

Olife & Joe I am going on holiday on Friday so I need to play my matches with you today or tomorrow. I will get online to see if you are about. Cheers

Penalties
 

Tournament Week/Period 2
 

Hi all you Aces out there!

Thank you for all the enthusiam and commitment you have shown during tournament week/period 1. It's great to see so much life back in the game, in and out of the tournament. Hardly an evening where I don't see a great number of you and other pilots out there.

I now wish you all good luck for week 2. Remember, it's still early days, so those on the top of the leaderboards, it's too early to relax just yet, and all others, you can still build on your experience from week 1, rethink your tactics and succeed in the tournament.

May all give their best. Keep it fair and have fun!

:)

MAC

Week 2 matches
 

Hi,

Reaper and Stapler, we're on in the A tournament in week 2. Tommy and Master Mirgervin, we have the pleasure in the B.

I'll be on most every night, so I look forward. If you want to make a special appointment, PM me or send me a message via PSN.

See you soon!

:)

MAC

Period #1 (Schedule and Results)
 

Best of luck to all in this second period of the tournaments. Dont forget to include all required information with your screenshots in order to avoid being penalized.

All data is up to date, wakespeak your matches have been added. Macademic, our match result is now correct.

Also, the new schedule is up and it looks pretty now in case some of you did not want to begin their matches until the schedule looked pretty :)

Have fun guys, good luck.

* Winny and themeistor, I am ready whenever you are, looking forward for some great duels

(give the images a time to refresh, they still appear with the outdated information I guess because I just uploaded them to photobucket)

Final call to Joed and Olife. I will be online tonight after 9pm GMT but after that I will be on holiday until after this leg of the tournament finishes. I longed Joe last night but think he was in grip of GT5. If I can't get the games on tonight I will have to withdraw

Dkwookie / Mac

To avoid dkwooikies withdrawel, I offer to rescheduel to keep wookie in the tourney.
I may be on late tonight, and can offer replacement of any matches scheduled if any of the other opponents dont show.

No panic wookie,

Since you let us know about your holiday, we can make an exception and let you finish your matches after period 2 in case you can't get them in tonight. Of course I hope JOE and Olife hear your call and you can play them tonight, but really no need to even consider withdrawing from the tournament.

Thanks also to KAV for your offer!

MAC

P.S.: By the way, this is according to the Rules. Key is to inform us beforehand.

Thanks Mac and Kav, much appreciated. I will try later but not sure if will have time for 4 x 20 min matches so that takes a weight off.

Wokie I will be home @ 1600 my time Jan 27 we can do your matches then if okay with you

Time is going by fast, 2nd day of the 2nd period is almost over and there is almost no activity on tournament matches yet.

I heading off to work now, I will be back around 12am pacific time. Hope I find some results to update, dont forget your planes used info :)

Penalty
 

Penalty for Olife, deduction of 1 point from overall score.
Reason: no airplane info provided, required prompting.

MAC

* Hope you guys like the Stats new look

Impressive Edal!
(I just have to try to improve my own stats I guess... :-) )

lol, dont worry I am sure you will do fine, you are a very tough opponent you just have to look out for those silly mistakes (accidental crashes) :)

* sorry I could not answer to your invitation a few hours ago, I was in the middle of starting my match against themeistor

Great job my friend. Thank you very much!

:)

MAC

Quarterfinals pairings
 

Hello all,

I'd like to introduce the way we are going to establish the quarterfinal pairings. As you know we had to create three groups instead of the planned four due to a last minute change in the number of participants. This makes quarterfinal pairing a little more involved, but we have a solution to this problem.

To recapture, the first two from all groups and the third from group C will directly qualify for the quarterfinals. The last quarterfinalist will be determined by elimination match between the third of group A versus group B.

Since the group compositions are already known, and to exclude any doubts, the best way to determine the pairings is to randomize the list of quarterfinalists and formulate a pairing procedure. The pairing procedure will take two exclusion criteria into account:

1. Same level shall not play against same level.
2. Players from same group shall not face same group players in QF.

Having a randomized list of 8 quarterfinalists, the pairings will be established in sequence of their order, taking exclusion criteria into account. Where a pairing cannot be done because of exclusion criteria, we'll 'jump' over the non suitable opponent until we find one without exclusion criteria. The next pair will be determined by going back to the first quarterfinalist who was 'jumped' over and continue in sequence.

For example, we have this list of quarterfinalists after randomizing (note, in this example the third from group A has won the elimination match):

1. 3A
2. 2B
3. 3C
4. 1B
5. 2A
6. 1A
7. 2C
8. 1C

The quarterfinals would be:

QF1: 3A:2B
QF2: 3C:1B
QF3: 2A:1C -> note 2 'jumps' due to exlusion criteria
QF4: 1A:2C -> back to first one jumped over to find next suitable

I will randomize the list today January 28th at 1200UTC and publish thereafter. The pairing procedure however will only applied after completion of the group stage, using the randomized list. This is due to the the last quarterfinalist being unknown until then.

I hope everybody will agree that this is fair and transparent.

MAC

Thanks Edal. I'm working on it... and I really hope to be on your six a bit later on! Tallyho!

The job and effort - and not at least the creativity - you two Generals above me lay down in this tournament are truly great!

Quarterfinals Randomized List
 

Hi,

This is the official randomized list for the quarterfinals. Pairing will be done upon conclusion of the group stage.

MAC

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/attachm...9&d=1296216291

Quarterfinal pairings
 

Hello all,

I just went over the randomized list and realized that due to the composition of the list there is no uncertainty to the pairings. They can already be established now following the pairing procedure. No need to wait!

The QF pairings are:

QF1 3C:1A
QF2 1B: 2A
QF3 2C: 3A/B
QF4 1C:2B

MAC

Trophies
 

Hi guys,

Look what Edal's got in his home...

:grin:

MAC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LRNE4Fbckk

wow mac that is one fine trophy. i should of climbed out of my camel for that. i will be back in BOP skies soon.