Tatoh's nC Improvement Cup 3v3

we aim for:
-16 teams
-nC Zone mainly
-everyone who wants to sign up, signs up as an individual
-we(TaToH+Empathy) make fair and competitive Teams out of the 48 Players who sign up
-minimum nC rating 1000
-we do GSL format-->we will do two Groups with 8 Teams, you play minimum two games before you are out of the tournament
-250 ping to EU max
-if u are from the outside: u have to be known by either Tatoh, Empathy, a well known Person from the nC community or be well known in the AoC community so that we can give u an exact and fair nC Rating.

-for people from the outside of the nC Zone you should be minimum 1800 on voobly and have at least 200 games played on MS. Otherwise we wont be able to give you a proper nC rating, which is required for us to make fair teams.

Basically: the higher your rating on voobly is the better it is, since we are aiming for a decent skill level in the Tournament.
-furthermore you have to have a headset, use teamspeak and understand+speak English

Sign up here: https://www.aoezone.net/threads/sign-up.157780/

Maps:
-Land Maps: Arabia, El Dorado, Sunburn, Separation
-Nomad: Coast to Mountain + Takeshima
-Closed Map: Big Freeze
-Water: Islands+Coral

The maps will be played on Fixed Positions(we will do a map folder with the fixed maps)

Bo5 it will be: ban, ban, Arabia, Hm1, fixed map, Hm2, fixed map
Bo7 it will be: ban, ban, Arabia, Hm1, Hm2, fixed map, Hm1, Hm2, Fixed Map

Civ Draft: We will do civ groups. You have to use 1 civ group per map.

It is open Streaming.

Sign-ups are open until the 28th of July. The tournament will start after the sign-ups are closed and we published the Teams.

General Rules:
-make sure you have time to participate in a tournament which will last presumably 6 weeks
-treat your opponents with respect
-we will use the following bugged map Rules to call an admin Restart:
--> If less than 6 tiles of a Players main gold are accessible on one side or less than 4 tiles of a Players specific extra golds
(Extra golds that don’t belong to a particular player are excluded)
-->If less than 4 tiles of a players Stone are accessible on one side
(Extra stones that don’t belong to a particular player are excluded)
-->If less than 4 tiles of player-specific forage bushes are accessible on one side
(Extra forage bushes that don’t belong to a particular player are excluded) -->Any of the starting animals are trapped or in any way inaccessible
-on non tc starts no laming until Minute 5(dont kill vills before min 5)
-only players who hit imp are allowed to start slinging
-during the Group stage one Restart per Team
-during the knockout stages two Restarts per Team

Prize pool: Coaching lessons from Tatoh+ 600$ gift coupon from the Avocadostore: https://www.avocadostore.de/ (that is like Amazon but with environmentally sustainable- + fair trade products only)

 

[Chainsaw]

I keep trying to find out what nC is... Is it a clan, map, settings...?

 

[Empathy_]

nC Zone - Index page

We are a german based community which is open to anyone. We have our own Rating System.

TaToH is for example playing there, Nili, Sitaux, Kamigawa, Andorin as well.

 

[AceW]

Nice, where to register?

 

[Empathy_]

I have to wait for an admin to make a thread for this Topic in current tournaments. Then i can make a sign up thread for it.

 

[robo]

Nice, where to register?

Sign-up - nC Zone

 

[Empathy_]

yep that is true @robo

But someone who is not registered on nC Zone will have to sign up on aoe Zone because we will need his voobly ratings, since we dont have an nC rating for him.

 

[Chainsaw]

Why do you have your own rating system? I read the info post and nC rules but it doesn't say anywhere why it exists... Just asking out of curiosity; seems more intricate than your average clan/niche community.

 

[teutonic_tanks]

Well simply because voobly rating is very inaccurate, like 17xx or 18xx TG rate can mean anything. You cant make fair teams based on that.

 

[nC_Andorin]

I keep trying to find out what nC is... Is it a clan, map, settings...?

www.new-chapter.eu is the clan page of the German nC clan, with a big, active and German/English speaking community, where not only the Clan members of nC play but also other players are invited to play.
(non-German speaking players are welcome to join us too, as long as they can behave themselves and don't have a too high ping!)

Aoc games are frequently organized in the nC zone with different types of maps and the algorithm creates fair teams, draws maps and civs based on when the players played them last, the percentage given and rating differences of the players to create fair games.

Mainly people play on nC Zone to play different maps than only Arabia/BF (allthough Arabia still has a high percentage since a lot of people like it ) - as opposed to Voobly. Also communication is done via Teamspeak which makes the games much easier.

The games are carried out on Voobly.

 

[zuviss]

good luck on the tourney!

 

[Holleridudodel]

what rating on voobly you can compare the nC rating of 1000 to?

 

[Empathy_]

Hey

Thanks for your Question @Holleridudodel

1000 nC rating is super low, tbh. We actually made this low rating Cap in the nC Zone only for two players who are constantly improving and we want to give them the chance to improve even more with a tournament.

For people from the outside of the nC Zone you should be minimum 1650 on voobly and have at least 200 games played on MS. Otherwise we wont be able to give you a proper nC rating, which is required for us to make fair teams.

Basically: the higher your rating on voobly is the better it is, since we are aiming for a decent skill level in the tournament.

You can sign-up either way, but if you have a lower Rating make sure that you are known bei either nC players or in the aoe community because 1650-1700 on voobly can be anything in terms of skill-level.

 

[Bowserlord]

NICE!

 

[r0b0v]

maybe silly question...
you have different nC rating, algorithm,... you wrote you play on Voobly. What does it mean to play 'on' nC Zone - a nC server in some Voobly setting or...?

...play on nC Zone...

 

[Tarsiz]

nC zone is an outside website where players will notify there intention to play and then some algorithm picks a map, makes teams (using their own inhouse nC zone rating to make them balanced) and picks the civs for all players. Once all this has been picked the players play on Voobly using the teams, maps and civs drafted by the algorithm. To my knowledge they play unrated but communicate the result of the game to the website after it's done so players receive rating adjustment and stats. They can also manually adjust the ratings of some players if someone is underrated or overrated.

I don't play there myself so I can be wrong but that's what I got from seeing people playing.

 

[OMurchu]

exactely as tarsiz explained it

 

[RodriiO]

Nice one

 

[Odette]

yep that is true @robo

But someone who is not registered on nC Zone will have to sign up on aoe Zone because we will need his voobly ratings, since we dont have an nC rating for him.

So can any voobly player sign up or is it exclusively for people already playing on nc zone? I'm still confused :D

edit: nevermind, found my answer in the sign up thread ^^

 

[Gerald_Asamoah]

@Odette
In theory anyone. The thing is for making teams and ranking players nc rate will be used.
So either you need to know an active nc-zone member that can give u an accurate rating or register on nc-zone and play at least like 5 games, so you can get a fair and accurate rating.

Edit: Empathy fast like a proper admin SeemsGood

 

[Empathy_]

Yes anyone can sign up.

But if you sign up from outside of the nC Zone, make sure that your ping is 250 or below to EU players and be 1800+ on voobly.

You could also try to sign up, if you are lower than 1800, but then pray that not enough people sign up or be a well known person to either people from the nC Zone, TaToH or the AoE community, so that we can give you a fair and proper rating for the Tournament.(which we will Need because we are making the teams and want that every team has a chance to win)

 

[Odette]

Thanks for the replies, I think it doesn't hurt to have it explained here as well even though I found the answer in the other thread already. I'm sadly not 18+ but I'm sure it will be a nice tourney! GL HF