Welcome, this thread is to introduce a new tournament to hopefully with enough signups, take place over this holiday season. The goal is to generate actions for clans large and small alike and get some match ups to see which clans are the best at this moment. Over the period from mid-end December to late-January/early-February, clans will be matched up with each other in a world cup style tournament to fight it out to the end. Hopefully some excitement will be generated, and clans will have both competition, and fun at the same time. As of lately except for the Jagex Clan Cup there are no real tournaments for clans to compete in. Hopefully this can change with the future, as tournaments are a place to encourage fighting, and also offer a competitiveness that may not be seen in every other event. If you think of RuneScape warring a sport, it could be possible to hold a few tournaments throughout the year to encourage this type of activity. (If this goes successfully)
Several brackets will exist between both versions of the game. In the original revision of the post we currently have brackets in OSRS F2P, and Legacy P2P. However if there is demand for a bracket for Pures, or OSRS P2P, we are open to add it. We just need to make sure there are enough clans to participate in the tournament.
OLDSCHOOL:
The competition will function in a style related much to the way the Football (Soccer) World Cup is held. Clans will be put into several groups in which they will have a round robin competition to rack up the most wins. Each clan in a single group will fight every other clan in their group. The top 2 clans with the most wins will emerge from their groups into a normal bracket where they will fight until two clans reach the finals. There will be no consolation bracket due to the round robin start of the tournament, however the two clans that lose their matches in the semi-finals may hold a match to determine who will take third and fourth places respectively.
Clans will be able to set their own rules for their fights against other clans with as long as the fight happens within the week time frame given for clans to fight each other. Time frames are covered in the next section. There will be a set of default rules for clans who cannot come to an agreement on a set of rules. These default rules are based on a standard to allow both small and large clans to compete fairly. If clans agree on fighting in the wilderness and both claim a victory, they will have to complete a re-match in the Clan Wars Arena in order to decide a clear winner in a 1 full out round.
Default Rules- Oldschool:
- Clan Wars Arena
- Best 2 of 3 fights wins
- First 2 rounds matched (Pleateau Arena)
- If tie in first 2 matches, round 3 run-in (Turrets Arena)
In all matched fights in the Oldschool division, clans can have at least 20 people. This means that if one clan pulls only 15 members, the other clan can still bring 20. Any amount of people over 20 on both sides, may continue to participate in normal matched rules.
In all run in fights in the Oldschool division, clans may bring up to 10 more members than the opposing clan to make quantity matter, but not the extreme point of pulling too many more.
LEGACY:
Due to the fact that legacy does not have as many clans currently active, the competition rules may have to vary from the Old School rules. If at least 8 clans sign up, the rules will be the same as Oldschool, however if less clans sign up, the tournament will proceed in a flat out bracket. Without enough clans the other set of rules simple wont work. (Non-Oldschool Rules Proceed) Clans will fight to the end of the tournament in a bracketed tournament, and a full consolation bracket will be set in place for the losing clans.
Default Rules- Legacy:
- Clan Wars Arena
- Best 2 of 3 fights wins
- First 2 rounds matched (Clan Wars Classic Arena, bounds on, all gear on)
- If tie in first 2 matches, round 3 run-in (Turrets Arena, all gear on)
In all matched fights in the Legacy division, clans can have at least 15 people. This means that if one clan pulls only 10 members, the other clan can still bring 15. Any amount of people over 15 on both sides, may continue to participate in normal matched rules.
In all run in fights in the Legacy division, clans may bring up to 5 more members than the opposing clan to make quantity matter, but not the extreme point of pulling too many more.
OLDSCHOOL - PURES:
Pure competition will function in the same way as the Oldschool Main competition. If under 8 clans sign up, a regular bracket will be formed.
Currently there is not a completely set time frame for the tournament, however there will be no fights held on the days December 24-26 in order to respect the availability of certain individuals. Clans will be given a certain period of time in which they will need to schedule their fight against the other clan so that the tournament can proceed. There will be several default times that will be set in the coming days to determine what time clans will have to fight at if they have discrepancies in their rule setting between each other. These times will be set up soon, they are still being determined, and will have cases between GMT vs. GMT, GMT vs. EST, and EST vs. EST.
Registrations will end on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 8PM EST.
The first round of matches will begin on the week of Monday, December 15.
Default Time Rules
GMT vs. GMT - 2pm EST/7pm GMT
EST vs. GMT - 4pm EST/9pm GMT
EST vs. EST - 6pm EST/11pm GMT
Default day is Saturday
Several rules have been created in order to keep things sportsmanlike and fair. The following is a list of these rules.
- Competitors may only fight for ONE Clan/Team. (Legacy Mode Only)
- DDoSing will result in instant removal of your clan/team.
- Keep flames to a minimum. Light banter is good, excessive flaming is over the top.
All clans and teams are welcome to register and join the tournament. Please do not flame other clans for joining, or us allowing them to join. The Holiday Clan Tournament is not affiliated with any specific clan, and all beef should be set aside just for this one time. Whatever you do outside of this is your own, but please try to keep it as clean as possible.
If you want to register your clan/team, please fill out the following small form and reply with it so we know a bit of basic information.
Clan Name: Clan Time Zone: Clan Officials: (We will contact these people) Which Bracket: (Legacy/OSRS Mains/OSRS Pures)Registration will close on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 8PM EST.
These clans/teams are currently registered to fight in the competition. We asked a few clans if they were interested before opening this topic, these clans have been already placed in their respective places on the list. Clan officials of these clans are still encouraged to post the form as a reply so we can still get some basic information.
Oldschool F2P:
- Ronin (EST)
- Divine Forces
- Violent Resolution
- Iraq Dynasty
- Vitality
- Power Hunters
- Critical Damage (EST)
- Merlin (GMT +2) [Awaiting Confirmation due to troll like nature]
- Damage Incorporated (GMT/EST)
- Sovereign (GMT/EST)
- Regiment of Fedora Lords (GMT)
- Jaja (EST)
F2P Legacy:
- Downfall (EST)
- Exotic (-2 GMT/+3 EST)
- Critical Damage (EST)
- Hell Army (-2 GMT/+3 EST)
- Clan Europe (GMT)
Oldschool Pures:
Thank you for reading and I hope you make sure to take part in this tourny. It will be a lot of fun! Please do not fill the replies with hateful remarks about other clans or the tournament. If you are not interested in it, then just move along rather than flaming. If you have any suggestions for changes we should make or add, please let me know!