[May 17, 2014] Republic of Fighters 3 - MLG Qualifier (Noisy-le-Grand, France)

[Slhoka]

And a triple post : €25 from Tekk, €20 from Jekku!
526/600

 

[Tero.]

He should book the plane ticket now.

 

[Slhoka]

The fund being a success, we're booking the flight tomorrow ! aMSa's gonna arrive in France on May 13 and he will leave on May 22.

 

[Sebovich]

Hey, me and some friends are thinking about going here from sweden but since we are not that good, we were wondering how much room there will be for playing friendlies? Will there be MLG Qualifiers only or will there be plenty of casual games?
We are entering the tournament, but we mostly want to play as many people as possible to learn.

 

[Slhoka]

Hey, me and some friends are thinking about going here from sweden but since we are not that good, we were wondering how much room there will be for playing friendlies? Will there be MLG Qualifiers only or will there be plenty of casual games?
We are entering the tournament, but we mostly want to play as many people as possible to learn.

The idea is that whenever a TV isn't used for the tournament, you can use it for freeplay.
And since the tournament style is a bit harder than round robin, it will be faster. Meaning there will be more TVs to play friendlies. It won't be B.E.A.S.T.4, but comparing to one if not the best tournament in the world regarding freeplay time doesn't mean much

We should announce something soon to allow everyone to play more friendlies. Also, we'll announce something about the tournament format too.

 

[strawhats]

There was a post in the RoF aMSa player fund thread on Gamefaqs, where someone asked if Europe had any other good/decent level yoshi players other than Leffen. This I assume is in preperation for aMSa and is a discussion of how difficult it will be for aMSa to win in Europe. (I think sweetxserenity, and/or mooninite started the discussion) since I dont have a gamefaqs and dont desire to make one, I'll just post this here. The answer is yes there are/were other really good Yoshi players in Europe. Mind Trick and Svampen are two pretty old school Yoshi players that were pretty damn good when they were most active. I believe Mind Trick(old school player from the Netherlands if I'm not mistaken still plays)
Remen vs Mind Trick from a month ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXH7FalNils

As for how Europe's general experience vs the character, Yoshi, will bode for aMSa...I guess we'll find out in 3 weeks.

 

[Shaaack]

#hypeisreal

 

[Slhoka]

As we are approaching 100 registered players (considering the smashers' ability to register at the last moment, that's pretty good !), here are two new things regarding the tournament :

Tournament Format

I know many of you are concerned by the tournament format at Republic of Fighters 3. While it is often used in e-sports, bracket pools aren’t the norm for Smash tournaments, especially in Europe, where we’ve been doing round robin for so long. It is a harsh way to play, since in only two sets, you can be out of the tournament.
This format is now the norm at big US events, and it’s simply another view of competition, much closer to what is usually done in e-sports.

Now, we are smashers, and we thought that we should find a way to adapt this to better fit the wishes of the Smash community. So we tweaked a bit the bracket pool system and submitted our proposal to the heads of the RoF3 staff, who gave us their approval, thanks to the trust they have in our organization since RoF2.

So what is different ?
RoF3 was going to use an Evo-style bracket pool system, meaning that out of the several players in each bracket pool, only two would make it out : the one winning winners’ finals, and the one winning losers’ finals. The latter would enter the next round in the losers’ bracket, while the former would stay in winners bracket.
We will change three things about this : first, we will keep our bracket pools pretty small. Eight players if possible. And among these players, we will have not two but four players qualify for the next round. Finally, the ranking of these bracket pools will only be used as a seeding value, meaning that every qualified player will start the next round in winners bracket, earning another chance to make the difference.

With this system, many players will have the possibility to play more tournament sets. One can say that it doesn’t change much for the low level who will lose their two first sets. That is true, but this is the hard rule of competition, and one of the best tests for a player : with fewer mistakes allowed, it is necessary to be the best at any moment. This system is also quite helpful to host the tournament : instead of playing 28 sets per pool, it will allow us to advance to the next round after 11 sets. It also means that more time will be available for friendlies, allowing everyone to play against many different opponents.

And while we're on the "freeplay" topic...


The RoF3 “Lend a GC, get a TV !” program

Unlike most European tournaments, Republic of Fighters 3 does not offer housing at the venue. While this is not a problem since nearby hotels will allow to accommodate players, one might think: “we won’t get to play as much ”. We tried to figure out a way to solve this, and we had an idea, inspired by the amazing Genesis tournament series. I was lucky enough to participate to both Genesis events, and being at the hotel was part of the fun at this tournament: in every room, people were playing and you just had to walk from one room to another to play friendlies. There’s a problem, though: the F1 and Ibis hotels located near the RoF venue have flatscreen TVs… which happens to be quite the problem for us smashers.

So we came up with something: on Friday evening, we will go to the hotel with a fair amount of CRT TVs, and we will lend them to players attending the tournament. This way, everyone will be able to play as much as they want, and we’ll have a situation similar to Genesis.

Now, to be able to get one TV, a few conditions will be required, because we obviously don’t want to make that extra effort to lend TVs if it make our tasks as tournament organizers harder. Therefore, for us to lend you a TV, we will make you sign a paper asking you to be ready to give the TV back in the morning. The idea is that around 7h30 in the morning, we will come to the hotel, go to each room where we lent a TV and take it to the venue to set it up for the tournament. This will allow us to gather all TVs in no time, while letting you play at the hotel.

The other condition necessary to have a TV for the evening is that we will ask you to lend a Gamecube and a copy of Melee. While we should have enough TVs for everyone, we simply won’t have enough Gamecubes. And that’s why we’re counting on you. We want to encourage people to bring gamecubes, and that’s also why we’ll allow those who do to borrow a TV. Obviously, we would collect the GCs with the TVs in the morning. Failure to give the TV back will result in a sanction we haven’t decided yet. The idea behind this is that you will be responsible for the TV until Saturday morning. We will knock at the door, possibly call you, just to make sure you wake up, even if it’s only to open the door, give us the TV and the GC and go back to sleep.

We hope quite a few of you will be willing to try that: we have the feeling it can help us hosting the event, but also that it will allow you to get a better experience from the event, as it was one of the best thing at Genesis events.


Oh, and just so you know, aMSa now has his plane ticket. He'll be in Paris between May 13 and May 22.

 

[SchlimmShady]

I'm totally in favor of this tournament bracket system. And the TV Idea is great.

 

[Professor Pro]

You should really have the link for where we have to sign-up in the first post.
I found it though, but it's just not convenient for most people

http://republicofighters.basgrospoing.fr/en/billeterie/

 

[Surrealista]

we could see a more updated list of players, please? :D

 

[Slhoka]

You should really have the link for where we have to sign-up in the first post.
I found it though, but it's just not convenient for most people

http://republicofighters.basgrospoing.fr/en/billeterie/

Oops, I thought it was up there already. I'll add it, thanks


Regarding the registration list, it is updated almost daily on the RoF3 website.
Quite a few big names (Ice/Amsah/Zgetto/Faab/Adam/Over/aMSa) have confirmed they will be there and should register soon. It seems we could go easily beyond 150 players!

Here it is :

1. *Zen
2. Armada
3. Aska
4. Askelink
5. Astor
6. Azu
7. Badnight
8. bbQ
9. Bico
10. Blayd
11. Blaze
12. Chaos6
13. Charlon
14. Clade
15. Coy
16. Cpt Love
17. Cyr
18. Dark Tomatoez
19. DarkS
20. Däumling
21. Deathgazer
22. Dero
23. Doraki
24. Dr Dead
25. dRage
26. DragonHS
27. Droopy
28. Dry
29. FoG
30. Frozenlight
31. GreatOmnipotentDictator
32. hand
33. Hel
34. Hommesdoutant
35. Imperfect
36. Jaeger
37. Jah Ridin’
38. Jeapie
39. JeffzOr
40. Jekijet
41. Jekku
42. JiM
43. Joanna Dark
44. Jon_ass
45. Jynx
46. KaiZ
47. Kellner
48. Kid Candi
49. Kisame
50. Kiw1
51. Krafft-Ebing
52. Kwiddo
53. LuK
54. M.m Molgera
55. Mallwan
56. Mawacate
57. Maxattack
58. MaynStorm
59. MikeHaggarKJ
60. Miko
61. MISRRLOVE
62. mr Tom
63. Nicolas
64. niK
65. NikeXTC
66. Norm
67. Novi
68. Nyx
69. Pasi
70. Peki
71. pheX
72. Pikathechu
73. Pingviinituutti
74. Plinci
75. Plufball
76. Poilon
77. Poney
78. Porn
79. Prinz
80. RememberMyName
81. Rens
82. Rich_Roman
83. RomCC
84. Salepate
85. Salevits
86. Saw
87. Scuzz
88. Sei Shin Casios
89. Seiko
90. Sevenes
91. Seykiya
92. Shloub
93. SRK – King Funk
94. Steakhouse
95. StorMyu
96. Styx
97. Surrealista
98. Tac
99. Tekk
100. Tero
101. Trife
102. Tyc
103. Vlad
104. Wegard
105. Widl
106. Willy
107. Yax
108. Yomi
109. ZetTroxX
110. Zlazher

As for teams, I know there are some issues with the list, they'll be fixed.

1. Team XD – Rens/Jynx
2. Team Les Super Wagons – Salepate/porc
3. Team Sadboys – dRage/Rich-Roman
4. Team DoomZ – Remembermyname/FoG
5. Team Markov – Maxattack/Shloub
6. Team ZetroxX & Jon_ass _ ZeTroxX/Jon_ass
7. Team Love Gzu$ – Capt Love/Dero
8. Team Royal Flush – Tero/pheX
9. Team A+B – LuK/Meljin
10. Team High SD Rate with Flowers – Dark Tomatoez/Yax
11. Team Dr.Dead+Däumling – Dr. Dead/Däumling
12. Team The DraQ & mr Weed – Joanna Dark/DraQ
13. Team Koipireisi – Jekku/Zlazher
14. Team VVV – Willy/Tekk
15. Team Brutaus – Salevits/Pepi
16. Team Gerudo Dinosaur – Frozenlight/Karu_no_Saru
17. Team The ****in Luweeges – Mawacate/Blayd
18. Team Freks & Geeks – Vegard/Imperfect
19. Team The Rock & Rouky – IceBearBear/Firefox
20. Team The Damned – Blayd/Weegees
21. Team 37 – Trife/Sevenes
22. Team German Suplex – niK/Hand
23. Team Bender the Offender – Mr Tom/Plinci
24. Team The Ancients – Droopy/Poilon
25. Team Dutch-Deutsch Destruction – JeffzOr/UCK
26. Team BadCC like – Badnight/RomCC
27. Team The Beauty and the Beast – *Zen/Styx
28. Team normalkiw1 – Kiw1/Norm
29. Team Tandoori bros. – HyUnKeL/Harlock
30. Team Shyni Ni – Jeapie/Baxon
31. Team VVV – Willy/Tekk
32. Team Mountain Goats – MISTRRLOVE/Stivo
33. Team JiM+Chaos – JiM/Chaos6
34. Team Widl+Askelink – Widl/Askelink
35. Team Under 13S – Pikathechu/M.m molgera
36. Team Aeroporcs – Jaeger/Aether
37. Team Tranchettes de Zlatan – Charlon/Mahie
38. Team Royal Flush – Yomi/???

 

[Vegard]

I registered with "Vegard" and was signed up with "Wegard"... Ummm manually moving registered entrants much?

 

[Askeflink]

Looking really forward to this!!

About the great TV hotel lending deal. If it's a small TV - can you keep it till the venue opens to get some morning practice, if you bring it by foot?

 

[Beat!]

Registering today. Also winning this.

 

[Tero.]

Maybe you should announce that there is a deadline for registration which ends on the 9th of May.

Source: http://republicofighters.basgrospoing.fr/en/2014/05/03/rof3-registration-deadline-set-to-9th-may/

Also: can't let you do that Starfox Beat!

 

[Askeflink]

Update: SolidJake has confirmed that Republic of Fighters has been changed to a 5000 pt qualifier. The predictions have been changed to reflect the news.

meleeiton.me/2014/05/06/miomtafos-mlg-predictions/

 

[Tero.]

I registered with "Vegard" and was signed up with "Wegard"... Ummm manually moving registered entrants much?

Yeah someone is really bad at this stuff.

Usleons and pheX team is supposed to be called "Shotka Vods" with not "Shotka Vots" and in Beats and my team name they forgot to capitalize the P :o

 

[Slhoka]

Yeah someone is really bad at this stuff.

Usleons and pheX team is supposed to be called "Shotka Vods" with not "Shotka Vots" and in Beats and my team name they forgot to capitalize the P :o

Honestly, I think I'll just rename the teams my self when preparing the seeding. There are way too many things too change (most coming from players mistyping their information, event that's not the case for you).

Also, something that should be a disappointing information for many: you should have the pools in advance, but only on friday. The reason for that is that I don't have an extended amount of time before the tournament because of work. However, I'll stay 9 hours in a plane before landing in France on Friday morning, so I think it's gonna be a good moment for me to focus on seeding and stuff.

Aske : Right no, I'd say no. But we'll see what we can do.

Vegard : it should be fixed

 

[AvengerAngel]

I was checking the ruleset on the RoF website and I was wondering... is wobbling allowed?

Also, what is the "modified DSR"?
I think there are two different interpretations of the DSR, correct me if I'm wrong:

Player A wins the first match. Player B counterpicks to Final and Player A wins. Player B wins the third match. Is Player A now allowed to counterpick him back to Final?
I've seen some tourney sets in which this was allowed, and some sets in which it wasn't. I still didn't get what's the DSR version that is being adopted at nationals, lol
Not that it matters that much, as I won't be playing Bo5 sets in bracket x)

And... is the first stage of the set "included" in the DSR? If someone wins on the stage he striked to, can he counterpick his opponent back there?

Thank you <3

 

[smashmachine]

135 people registered already? oh shoot

 

[Slhoka]

I was checking the ruleset on the RoF website and I was wondering... is wobbling allowed?

Also, what is the "modified DSR"?
I think there are two different interpretations of the DSR, correct me if I'm wrong:

Player A wins the first match. Player B counterpicks to Final and Player A wins. Player B wins the third match. Is Player A now allowed to counterpick him back to Final?
I've seen some tourney sets in which this was allowed, and some sets in which it wasn't. I still didn't get what's the DSR version that is being adopted at nationals, lol
Not that it matters that much, as I won't be playing Bo5 sets in bracket x)

And... is the first stage of the set "included" in the DSR? If someone wins on the stage he striked to, can he counterpick his opponent back there?

Thank you <3

Whoops, you reminded me I gotta check the rules. I'll take care of that this weekend.
Also, yeah, wobbling will be allowed.

 

[Yomi-no-Kuni]

See you all there! And I hope everyone who didn't manage to book until the 9th gets his **** together and comes!


Seya, are you going to continue your project?
And yay, looking forward to meeting Dax again. iT's been a while :D

 

[Trife]

168 players so far. :-)
Seems to be the second largest european melee tournament in history. (Only ESA2 had more with 231 entrants)

Spoiler: 168

Rens
Armada
NikeXTC
Salepate
Blaze
dRage
Pasi
Scuzz
Shloub
RememberMyName
FoG
Miko
Jynx
Steakhouse
Kid Candi
Cpt Love
Rich_Roman
pheX
Clade
ZetTroxX
Jon_ass
Tero
Krafft-Ebing
Kwiddo
LuK
Yax
SRK – King Funk
Dark Tomatoez
Joanna Dark
Bico
Poney
Jah Ridin’
StorMyu
Hommesdoutant
DarkS
Jekku
GreatOmnipotentDictator
Tyc
Willy
Poilon
Dr Dead
Däumling
Maxattack
Salevits
Zlazher
Wegard
Imperfect
Mawacate
Frozenlight
Blayd
Novi
niK
Trife
Sevenes
Porn
Kisame
mr Tom
JeffzOr
Badnight
Dero
Styx
*Zen
Aska
Kiw1
Norm
Droopy
Plinci
RomCC
JiM
Cyr
Deathgazer
Jeapie
Azu
Mallwan
Saw
hand
Peki
Tekk
MISRRLOVE
Plufball
Chaos6
DragonHS
Coy
Tac
Widl
Seykiya
M.m Molgera
Pikathechu
Astor
Vlad
Askelink
Nyx
Jaeger
Surrealista
Charlon
KaiZ
Pingviinituutti
Yomi
Sei Shin Casios
Doraki
bbQ
Jekijet
Hel
Dry
MikeHaggarKJ
Nicolas
Seiko
Kellner
Prinz
MaynStorm
Aephage
8dreadLock8
Android
Hark
Datto
Clockmire
Zoler
BrTarolg
Lolex
Kipkosky
Frank Miller
Chikusho
Beat
Paiki
Tysk
Stivo
Yultan
Meljin
Usleon
Pablo
DraQ
AvengerAngel
Aether
Zeal
Seya
Fraykway
Dacacia
Dege
Fuzzyness
Zùzû
LGuy
Rondelle
Locky
Mojo
VA
[TCT] Rony
Mahie
[TCT] Kar
[TCT] Zephyr
Feca-Link
BlackZettix
KG
ZCK
Crogo
Aspro
Jolteon
Dax
beLia
Sosuk
Alpha Dash
Professor Pro
aMSa
Faab
Adam
Ice
Pamaro
Zgetto
Amsah

 

[Aayla]

Seya, are you going to continue your project?
And yay, looking forward to meeting Dax again. iT's been a while :D

I really want to :D But the blackboard got broken at Beast 3. I'm trying to fix it with my poor DIY skills

 

[Yomi-no-Kuni]

Haha, i hope you can get it fixed, i need a better picture

 

[Nicco]

**** **** **** ****

 

[Captain Jenny]

I'm SO hyped for this! See you all on friday!

 

[Tero.]

Guys, check out the Event Profile on SaltyPlayground.de http://www.saltyplayground.de/republic-of-fighters-3-event-profile/

 

[♡ⓛⓞⓥⓔ♡]

When the CRT TVs are delivered to FI-hotel?
We (the Finnish group + King Funk) have 3 setups you can use.

 

[♡ⓛⓞⓥⓔ♡]

http://www.transilien.com/?siteLanguage=en

Decent resource for finding your way around Paris

 

[smashmachine]

199 entrants?
just one more to 200!

 

[Leon94]

the team Willy/tekk is twice on the list, number 14 and 31

 

[Ben Zed]

Where is this being streamed???

 

[Doser]

Where is this being streamed???

Anyone?

 

[eshu125]

Anyone?

http://www.saltyplayground.de/stream/

 

[thundrio]

Does the stream get archived automatically? I probably can't watch the finals live, so I was planning on watching the archive after it goes offline to avoid spoilers (like you could do on twitch, but idk if this streaming platform does this)

 

[eshu125]

Does the stream get archived automatically? I probably can't watch the finals live, so I was planning on watching the archive after it goes offline to avoid spoilers (like you could do on twitch, but idk if this streaming platform does this)

I can conclude that after 10 minutes of searching this website doesn't auto-archive. I'm a little confused as to why this isn't on mlg.tv, and then as to why dailymotion was picked as a second choice. There ain't nothin wrong with twitch..

 

[Paju]

I can conclude that after 10 minutes of searching this website doesn't auto-archive. I'm a little confused as to why this isn't on mlg.tv, and then as to why dailymotion was picked as a second choice. There ain't nothin wrong with twitch..

It's because RoF has a contract with dailymotion.

 

[♡ⓛⓞⓥⓔ♡]

This tournament was AMAZING! Major shoutouts to Slhoka and other organizers who worked their asses off to bring everyone the best experience. Also, massive thanks to Salty Playground for doing an fantastic job streaming the majority of the event (UCK ). There were minor issues but they were beyond your control and you handled the situations extremely well. You are the engine driving the Smash scene forward in Europe and I am grateful for your service.

Granted, there were issues with this tournament. I think it's important to discuss them rather than point fingers. As for myself, I choose to apologize for showing up late on the first day. I realize that me (and others) showing up late was one reason the tournament was delayed (among several other factors). In any case, I am extremely satisfied with the whole experience and had a BLAST. I am positive I am not the only one either

Shout-outs to these amazing & insightful people: Zlasher, Pingviinituutti, Jeapie, King Funk, Lolex, Zoler, MikeHaggar, Beat!, Armada, and Mr. Love.

Also, Germany never fails to bring the hype