Voobly Arena Seasonal Annoucement (Spring 2019)

Hello, welcome to the first Arena Seasonal hosted by MrGPN with VooblyOfficial.

Introducing a new concept for an Arena tournament in which four 1v1 tournaments will be held per year
Once in each of the four seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall), Winter
This tournament will involve eight players in a 1v1 single elimination format.

The top six seeded players alongside our two invited players, Melkor and Feanor, will face off to earn the title of this season's Arena Master

Prizepool:
$200 Cash (80% 1st, 20% 2nd)
1st: 1 Year Voobly Platinum Premium
2nd: 1 Year Voobly Gold Premium
3rd: 1 Year Voobly Silver Premium

Signups Open 1st April, and end 6th April 23:59 GMT.
The Tournament will begin on the 7th of April, players have until April 11th 23:59 GMT to schedule and play the first round
The first round will be cast on VooblyOfficial on Friday, 12th of April
The Semi Finals will be played live on VooblyOfficial on Saturday, 13th April 17 GMT
The Finals will be played live on VooblyOfficial on Sunday, 14th April 17 GMT
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To Sign up, go to the sign up thread: Sign Ups

All the rules and settings can be found here: Rules & Settings
The handbook can be found attached.

The tournament question and answers thread with general discussion can be found here: Q&A + Discussion

For more details about the prizepool and if you would like to donate to it, go here: Prizepool

Best regards,
MrGPN & VooblyOfficial.

 

[TriRem]

Don't you think this event will draw too much attention and kill the hype for Hidden Cup ? I was looking forward to HC2 but no one will watch it now FeelsBadMan.

 

[ZeroEmpires]

Don't you think this event will draw too much attention and kill the hype for Hidden Cup ? I was looking forward to HC2 but no one will watch it now FeelsBadMan.

Timing couldn't be better 11

 

[Nili_AoE]

calm down, it's clearly an april fools joke

 

[MrGPN]

calm down, it's clearly an april fools joke

Nice to see you supporting new tournaments Nilli, thank you very much for that confidence.

Don't you think this event will draw too much attention and kill the hype for Hidden Cup ? I was looking forward to HC2 but no one will watch it now FeelsBadMan.

That is needless drama from another thread which has no business being here. If T90 chose to schedule his event on top of this one (which has been planned since December) then that is entirely up to him. Events run over eachother all the time. If people want to watch HC2, they can. If people would prefer to see this, they're free to watch it too. Viewers are only viewers, and Im happy to have those most interested watching rather than many as opposed to a certain few.

 

[TriRem]

That is needless drama from another thread which has no business being here. If T90 chose to schedule his event on top of this one (which has been planned since December) then that is entirely up to him. Events run over eachother all the time. If people want to watch HC2, they can. If people would prefer to see this, they're free to watch it too. Viewers are only viewers, and Im happy to have those most interested watching rather than many as opposed to a certain few.

I was being sarcastic, but it is not drama, I am just questioning the opportunity of hosting a tournament on the same weekend as Hidden Cup. I always wish the best for any tournament, and picking a date where you know the top 16 players in the world can't play is intriguing to say the least. Let alone speaking of viewer numbers, when every single AoE2 twitch channel will be casting HC2. I am sure you would draw more interest literally any other weekend.

But it's not my money nor my tourney, so I guess you do you.

 

[MrGPN]

I was being sarcastic, but it is not drama, I am just questioning the opportunity of hosting a tournament on the same weekend as Hidden Cup. I always wish the best for any tournament, and picking a date where you know the top 16 players in the world can't play is intriguing to say the least. Let alone speaking of viewer numbers, when every single AoE2 twitch channel will be casting HC2. I am sure you would draw more interest literally any other weekend.

But it's not my money nor my tourney, so I guess you do you.

At no point did we pick dates that coincided with any other events. These dates have been set in stone for a long time, and unless T90 planned these exact dates pre-december last year, then he's the one that planned his event over this one. Postponing this event would make no sense, as the week after we have two showmatches (without donos one of them alone has a higher cash prize though not total value than this tournament), the week after AE will be taking over, the week after who knows but if I planned it for then, then someone like Nilli, T90 or Memb would have another event that weekend. Things will always overlap, just gotta accept it. People who care about arena/want to watch it will probably be watching this, everyone else HC2 or other streams because a lot of people just arent interested in tournament content and prefer things more casually. I am happy with low viewers as long as they are quality ones - the only people who wouldn't be happy with that are those that don't care about the game at all and only their own finances.

 

[ZeroEmpires]

At no point did we pick dates that coincided with any other events. These dates have been set in stone for a long time, and unless T90 planned these exact dates pre-december last year, then he's the one that planned his event over this one. Postponing this event would make no sense, as the week after we have two showmatches (without donos one of them alone has a higher cash prize though not total value than this tournament), the week after AE will be taking over, the week after who knows but if I planned it for then, then someone like Nilli, T90 or Memb would have another event that weekend. Things will always overlap, just gotta accept it. People who care about arena/want to watch it will probably be watching this, everyone else HC2 or other streams because a lot of people just arent interested in tournament content and prefer things more casually. I am happy with low viewers as long as they are quality ones - the only people who wouldn't be happy with that are those that don't care about the game at all and only their own finances.

Very reasonable and nice response. Would be good if everyone from the other thread would be the same.

 

[bullmeister]

Metal better sign up for this!

 

[nimanoe]

You can write a long paragraph, but I'm sure this is scheduled during Hidden Cup 2 on purpose to give the clowns a chance with 16 top players not able to participate

 

[HyunAOP]

Metal better sign up for this!

Unsure if he will after his last victory speech

"We just won the tournament"

"What happened?"

"Daut"

 

[edie]

Kinda « boring » and « sad » that all arena event be 1v1 or 2v2. Nothing refreshing, I’m talking for me, but nothing exciting, nothing new, deja vu. I wish next event will be 3v3, maybe Metal Stefun and I would play it ! (Or at least watch it !)

Having a lot of arena events when there isnt many arena player active or at least good players active is also unfortunate, like when I see that bact won that derac tournament xd

I haven’t watch single game of derc tournament but I opened his stream and saw like 400 viewers which is amazing for a little stream like his, wihh u same the same succes with your tournament

 

[HyunAOP]

Kinda « boring » and « sad » that all arena event be 1v1 or 2v2. Nothing refreshing, I’m talking for me, but nothing exciting, nothing new, deja vu. I wish next event will be 3v3, maybe Metal Stefun and I would play it ! (Or at least watch it !)

Having a lot of arena events when there isnt many arena player active or at least good players active is also unfortunate, like when I see that bact won that derac tournament xd

I haven’t watch single game of derc tournament but I opened his stream and saw like 400 viewers which is amazing for a little stream like his, wihh u same the same succes with your tournament

Edie coming back if 3v3? PogChamp

 

[MrGPN]

Kinda « boring » and « sad » that all arena event be 1v1 or 2v2. Nothing refreshing, I’m talking for me, but nothing exciting, nothing new, deja vu. I wish next event will be 3v3, maybe Metal Stefun and I would play it ! (Or at least watch it !)

Having a lot of arena events when there isnt many arena player active or at least good players active is also unfortunate, like when I see that bact won that derac tournament xd

I haven’t watch single game of derc tournament but I opened his stream and saw like 400 viewers which is amazing for a little stream like his, wihh u same the same success with your tournament

Complains about events being 1v1/2v2 not with more people like 3v3/4v4, then complains about there being too much demand for arena players when there aren't really any arena players. Edie you are a living gem that keeps on giving, please never change.

I can't remember how many proper 2v2 arena events there's been since the start of 2018, I can only think of ToA.

All events have been different in at least some way, all bases for being different have really been covered for arena except for having more players which simply is asking too much. Granted this one is pretty standard, and with less trush than recent events like DERAC, it might even be more standard arena content like it used to be. But there's not been much of that lately, and it could be used.

 

[edie]

Bla-bla-bla bro

 

[edie]

Blobloblo

 

[kc_Ereon]

(...) Having a lot of arena events when there isnt many arena player active or at least good players active is also unfortunate (...)

Is there a better way to get more active arena players than hosting tournaments?

(...) like when I see that bact won that derac tournament xd (...)

I remember times when you wanted to play against non-clown expert players on Arena, now there was that tournament (DERAC) with those players and you complain that they win? (in this case BacT). Time for the King to make a comeback!

 

[edie]

Maybe talk with them to see if they are active to see what their interrest atm, so you know when to run your event, and what it be (1v1/2v2/3v3 etc), exactly like you did with your tournament, you weren’t stuborn and was listering opinions of all arena experts in a group discussion.

Because i want non arena top players to take part arena tournaments does it necerly mean i want they win it too? No it don’t 11

 

[King_Marv]

Maybe talk with them to see if they are active to see what their interrest atm, so you know when to run your event, and what it be (1v1/2v2/3v3 etc), exactly like you did with your tournament, you weren’t stuborn and was listering opinions of all arena experts in a group discussion.

Because i want non arena top players to take part arena tournaments does it necerly mean i want they win it too? No it don’t 11

Why should he talk with inactive players. That makes no sense :D

 

[edie]

Not only inactive players lol all of the arena players it’s not like we r 10000000, when kc éreon was preparing titan there was discussion with many ppl including inactif one like ovenka and still gave his opinion

It’s pretty simple to get feedback before start or announce an event, to see if the date and the format is good

 

[klavskisLV]

Arena in 2019 LUL

 

[NigelSlack]

U see GPN, those clowns don't deserve you.

 

[IamDiscern]

Arena in 2019 LUL

Klavs, anytime, OMEGALUL

 

[kinghamsta]

thats really confusing to me in this community. everybody is telling about the great community and that most of them are friendly together. but when it comes to the topic arena i only read "clowns" and so on... i dont get it. dont get me wrong. i dont play arena i would prefer "normal" open maps to play and to watch. but last weekend i saw some good games on DERAC. so what... can some one explain me the issue "clown" in this case... and y every topic here is near to a flame topic in this case?

i think every commitment to provide torunaments for the coummunity is great.

 

[King_Marv]

thats really confusing to me in this community. everybody is telling about the great community and that most of them are friendly together. but when it comes to the topic arena i only read "clowns" and so on... i dont get it. dont get me wrong. i dont play arena i would prefer "normal" open maps to play and to watch. but last weekend i saw some good games on DERAC. so what... can some one explain me the issue "clown" in this case... and y every topic here is near to a flame topic in this case?

i think every commitment to provide torunaments for the coummunity is great.

Because the high rated Arena only Players were crying a lot about:
seeding
trush
low hp walls

then the memes ty gman ( for the "rigged" seeding in MoA5 (which was alright immo)) and arena clowns ( for too much crying about everything) were born.

there were some tournaments which refered to this one was circus invitational and the other was friends of the arena were it turned out that stark is not a friend of the map :D
lots of Drama which lead even to a map which is called Arina ( Arena with aoc 1800 hp walls) to avoid trush.

people still remember and use to troll which is funny though i expect also a reaction from a specific player about my sentence with the seeding.