A few things that occurred during the event deserve to be discussed, so here we go.
1. Once the bracket was drawn (players already having been provided with their accounts) players were told which 8 players were in the top half/bottom half of the bracket so that they knew who they could practise with.
This was implemented after discussions with the invited players before the event as within teams it was common for this information to be already shared which would disadvantage players who don't have many teammates or are just less involved with practising with the established players. This gave everyone a level playing field and the same information.
2. TheViper vs Liereyy Semi-Final (which was played ahead of time and cast as recorded games) had a 45-minute Island game replayed as they were on HC4 Islands instead of the correct version. I am unsure exactly why this happened, whether it's a player error or a DE error I do not know, but a similar issue occurred during the Showmatches prior to the event.
Once the players realised that it was the wrong map it basically came down to there were very specific changes made to Islands to avoid certain game situations (long stalemate games mostly), and if the game is relatively even at minute 45 its reasonably likely that we end up with a very long game that shouldn't be as possible with the current map. If it was only noticed once the match was finished, recs and been sent in and players had already logged off then it may have been a different situation.
3. The big one, due to a miscommunication with the players (but mostly a screwup on my part) when downloading the recorded games from Hera vs Barles I renamed them in the wrong order, and while watching through the recs saw a 4-1 result and didn't think to check any further in the recs. This was a huge mistake as games 5 and 6 were labelled incorrectly and Barles won G5 on Bay before losing G6 on Cup. I cannot apologise enough to both players for this mistake, and we spent the next few hours frantically double and triple checking all of the other recorded games to make sure there were no other issues.
This was brought to our attention shortly after the Cup game was being broadcast by both players and it was decided for the continuity of the stream to continue without it, the result will be obvious as we just saw Barles (aka Pachacuti) say gg gl next, so we already know the overall winner. I always intended to make this post to rectify the situation and acknowledge Barles true result.
I must also commend Hera on making sure future opponents were provided this information to ensure a fair playing field, so this recorded game was included when recs were sent to ACCM & Liereyy prior to the semis/final.
The missing recorded game will be posted in the discord when all the rec packs are prepared soonTM.
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Here are all of the recorded games for the event, including the missing Ro16 game & the HC4 Islands game that was restarted.
1. Once the bracket was drawn (players already having been provided with their accounts) players were told which 8 players were in the top half/bottom half of the bracket so that they knew who they could practise with.
This was implemented after discussions with the invited players before the event as within teams it was common for this information to be already shared which would disadvantage players who don't have many teammates or are just less involved with practising with the established players. This gave everyone a level playing field and the same information.
2. TheViper vs Liereyy Semi-Final (which was played ahead of time and cast as recorded games) had a 45-minute Island game replayed as they were on HC4 Islands instead of the correct version. I am unsure exactly why this happened, whether it's a player error or a DE error I do not know, but a similar issue occurred during the Showmatches prior to the event.
Once the players realised that it was the wrong map it basically came down to there were very specific changes made to Islands to avoid certain game situations (long stalemate games mostly), and if the game is relatively even at minute 45 its reasonably likely that we end up with a very long game that shouldn't be as possible with the current map. If it was only noticed once the match was finished, recs and been sent in and players had already logged off then it may have been a different situation.
3. The big one, due to a miscommunication with the players (but mostly a screwup on my part) when downloading the recorded games from Hera vs Barles I renamed them in the wrong order, and while watching through the recs saw a 4-1 result and didn't think to check any further in the recs. This was a huge mistake as games 5 and 6 were labelled incorrectly and Barles won G5 on Bay before losing G6 on Cup. I cannot apologise enough to both players for this mistake, and we spent the next few hours frantically double and triple checking all of the other recorded games to make sure there were no other issues.
This was brought to our attention shortly after the Cup game was being broadcast by both players and it was decided for the continuity of the stream to continue without it, the result will be obvious as we just saw Barles (aka Pachacuti) say gg gl next, so we already know the overall winner. I always intended to make this post to rectify the situation and acknowledge Barles true result.
I must also commend Hera on making sure future opponents were provided this information to ensure a fair playing field, so this recorded game was included when recs were sent to ACCM & Liereyy prior to the semis/final.
The missing recorded game will be posted in the discord when all the rec packs are prepared soonTM.
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Here are all of the recorded games for the event, including the missing Ro16 game & the HC4 Islands game that was restarted.
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