Private Boards Tourney - how would it work?

tbh

Hola -

was just thinking (following on from the other "on tonight?" thread) it'd be good to have a boards league of CoD.
Anyone any suggestions of how we could run it?
People can get on at different times, so it'd probably be best to have a series of matches, rather than one "winner takes all" type thing.

So, just throwing it out there, my suggestion would be that we try to register teams of three (or four) and play squad vs squad. We open a thread for people to enter, and then draw up a fixture list. Matches could be played whenever suits the two teams, you'd have say 5 days to complete a fixture.

anyone up for it?

shawpower

Yeah, it's a nice idea. Here's a couple of questions/suggestions..

• Teams drawn at random from people who post here, or make up your own team to enter??
• Range of game modes, or just TDM? If you are having a League style, it might be tricky to get loads of teams to play each other in loads of different gamemodes etc.
• What about some 1v1 game modes also? Using Rust.

tbh

Teams drawn at random from people who post here, or make up your own team to enter??

both, I'd say - if you have enough to form a team, cool, if not, then your name goes into a hat and you'd be assigned a team.

Range of game modes, or just TDM? If you are having a League style, it might be tricky to get loads of teams to play each other in loads of different gamemodes etc.

agreed - I'd say TDM would be the best. Also, I think we should have each game as [3/5/7] rounds, with the same maps being used (maybe the "home" team could pick one map)

What about some 1v1 game modes also? Using Rust.

yep - that'd be pretty cool too.

Shammy

Depending on how many teams/people sign up , you could either hold a double -elim or a swiss tourney ,better than the usual knockouts.

Nalz

Count me in anyways!

Enigma IE

Yes, I would be interested.

Jev/N

Count me in

uggy

Yup, i'd be game.

VinylJunkie

Me too

Soby

me too

SRFC90

Yes please.

sarahn11

Yeah ide be up for it for a laugh! Probably get 2 other off boards mates if you needed to make up the numbers

EKRIUQ

Count me in to but only on a team of noobs like me.

tbh

we'll leave things open for a week or so and see how many we get.

The one thing is tho, that you should probably only stick your name down if you can be sure that you'll be able to get at least an hour on at the same time each week, and that time should be probably between 7 and 11 to make the thing viable. Otherwise it'd be a nightmare trying to get six to eight strangers together in time to keep the standings current.

Shammy

tbh wrote: »

we'll leave things open for a week or so and see how many we get.

The one thing is tho, that you should probably only stick your name down if you can be sure that you'll be able to get at least an hour on at the same time each week, and that time should be probably between 7 and 11 to make the thing viable. Otherwise it'd be a nightmare trying to get six to eight strangers together in time to keep the standings current.

My connection in that time range forces me out ,unless they decide to upgrade the exchange in the next week :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Nalz

I prestiged...not a great move its tough! So I'm gonna get creamed in this

shawpower

Trilla wrote: »

I prestiged...not a great move its tough! So I'm gonna get creamed in this

First tip, is to unlock the Emergency Airdrop asap, and gift all packs to your team mates. (Apart from maybe a Chopper Gunner or AC130.) You get far more points for sharing that you would from kills using the contents. It works out at 50XP for every kill needed for that reward. So gifting a Pred Missile or Sentry Gun gets you 250XP (50*5), which is basically an extra 150-200XP over what you can normally get from using them. The Harrier Strike/Attack Heli gets you 350 (50*7), Pavelow/StealthB 450 XP etc etc. If you know the other team are running stinger/coldblooded, it might even be worth letting your teammate take a AC/CG streak for the 550 XP. Getting 11 kills with them is quite hard nowadays.

You can end up getting nearly 1000 XP from one Emergency Airdrop. At level 10 for example this is 50% of the way towards level 11. At level 20, it's 8.5%. After level 30 (3%, it's benefit drops off and the danger of losing the care packages makes it not worth the hassle)

This (50XP * Kills) multiplier also counts for CarePackages. Might be worth considering for that too, although much less beneficial overall, plus gives away your locations.

Secondly, focus on getting 150 kills on every gun, rather than going for the 300/500/1000 kills. That is the quickest XP:Kill ratio possible.

Those two ways are good ways of speeding up your run to level 40 ish. After that it gets a little slower but you should be able to compete in boards matches at that level.

Nalz

I've dedicated 4 days of my life to this game and don't know any of this stuff. Cheers Shawpower!

Shammy

shawpower wrote: »

First tip, is to unlock the Emergency Airdrop asap, and gift all packs to your team mates. (Apart from maybe a Chopper Gunner or AC130.) You get far more points for sharing that you would from kills using the contents. It works out at 50XP for every kill needed for that reward. So gifting a Pred Missile or Sentry Gun gets you 250XP (50*5), which is basically an extra 150-200XP over what you can normally get from using them. The Harrier Strike/Attack Heli gets you 350 (50*7), Pavelow/StealthB 450 XP etc etc. If you know the other team are running stinger/coldblooded, it might even be worth letting your teammate take a AC/CG streak for the 550 XP. Getting 11 kills with them is quite hard nowadays.

You can end up getting nearly 1000 XP from one Emergency Airdrop. At level 10 for example this is 50% of the way towards level 11. At level 20, it's 8.5%. After level 30 (3%, it's benefit drops off and the danger of losing the care packages makes it not worth the hassle)

This (50XP * Kills) multiplier also counts for CarePackages. Might be worth considering for that too, although much less beneficial overall, plus gives away your locations.

Secondly, focus on getting 150 kills on every gun, rather than going for the 300/500/1000 kills. That is the quickest XP:Kill ratio possible.

Those two ways are good ways of speeding up your run to level 40 ish. After that it gets a little slower but you should be able to compete in boards matches at that level.

You got anymore tips ??????

shawpower

Shammy wrote: »

You got anymore tips ??????

Loads, but I gotta hold some of them back so I've got any chance against you!!

I seen last night that your k:d ratio is up to something like 1.7 now? Sweet.

shawpower

shawpower wrote: »

Secondly, focus on getting 150 kills on every gun, rather than going for the 300/500/1000 kills. That is the quickest XP:Kill ratio possible.

Just read this back and thought I should clarify it a bit.

If you start off on the M4 at level 1 and get to 150 kills, you'll have gotten 8750XP. You now have a choice. Go to 300 kills with the M4 and get the 10,000XP on offer, or else get 150 kills using the Famas and then another 150 using the SCAR for the same total number of kills. Doing the double gun method, you'll have 17,500XP for your 300 kills instead of just the 10,000XP. That is the minimum, because if you manage to get 30 headshots as part of the 150 with each of FAMAS and SCAR, you'll actually end up with 22,500XP. (Just the 15 headshots with each gun still gets you 19,500XP)

Naturally, you can go back to these challenges later to get the 300/500/750/1000 kills etc, but it means you can jump levels quicker to get to around level 45. By this level you have unlocked loads of key item such as Cold Blooded (lvl 25), Ninja(29), Stinger (30), Claymore(31), Striker(34), Raffica(38) and M16(40). It can even help to get the ACR(48) or even the M1014(54) which is my favourite gun in the game. (Get 400 kills and run with bling Perk for Grip & Extended Mags (6 rounds) combined. Beast!) .

Shammy

shawpower wrote: »

Loads, but I gotta hold some of them back so I've got any chance against you!!

I seen last night that your k:d ratio is up to something like 1.7 now? Sweet.

A little higher me thinks

shawpower wrote: »

Just read this back and thought I should clarify it a bit.

If you start off on the M4 at level 1 and get to 150 kills, you'll have gotten 8750XP. You now have a choice. Go to 300 kills with the M4 and get the 10,000XP on offer, or else get 150 kills using the Famas and then another 150 using the SCAR for the same total number of kills. Doing the double gun method, you'll have 17,500XP for your 300 kills instead of just the 10,000XP. That is the minimum, because if you manage to get 30 headshots as part of the 150 with each of FAMAS and SCAR, you'll actually end up with 22,500XP. (Just the 15 headshots with each gun still gets you 19,500XP)

Naturally, you can go back to these challenges later to get the 300/500/750/1000 kills etc, but it means you can jump levels quicker to get to around level 45. By this level you have unlocked loads of key item such as Cold Blooded (lvl 25), Ninja(29), Stinger (30), Claymore(31), Striker(34), Raffica(38) and M16(40). It can even help to get the ACR(48) or even the M1014(54) which is my favourite gun in the game. (Get 400 kills and run with bling Perk for Grip & Extended Mags (6 rounds) combined. Beast!) .

Jesus you got too much time on your hands but it all makes sense and good to know.

shawpower

Shammy wrote: »

Jesus you got too much time on your hands but it all makes sense and good to know.

Jeez, I don't sit down to work out these things myself!! I'm like a magpie picking up shiny tips from other people along the way, mostly YouTube guys. I tend to spend lunch watching a few videos and get tips from there. For example, I heard about the 150 kills from one of them, and a quick google search confirmed the numbers pretty quickly. (I do have a reasonable bookmark section for loads of MW2 sites though)

I also heard another YouTube commentator mention about the EAD XP tip.

They have thousands of people subscribed to them, all offering little bits. They then compile the good bits into video, so you can get the benefit of it.

cableguy.ie

I would be up for this
GT Cableguy IE

Atavan-Halen

I'm in for the tournament aswell I think it would be more fun to pick names out of a hat and make teams that way.

Alkers

I'd be up for it too, two weeks off the next two weeks so should have time for practice/participation. Gamertag: Alkers

Thomas20

Count me in. Gt thomasol.

Nalz

We ready to pick a date and format?

Stevokenevo

Count me in too if it's not too late!

GT: InfamousCargo

tbh

I'm not sure if it'd be on one date, trilla, I was thinking of something over a number of weeks. Lets say that we'll try to get 30 people ready to go by March 17th and take it from there - sound doable?

Nalz

Yep sounds fine, just don't expect anyone to be gaming it up on Paddys day!

VinylJunkie

As I said earlier in the thread im game ball, we have two GT in the house and we are both interested in playing but obviously we can't play together or against each other so, we can just enter one GT and the both of us play if that makes sense.

Also date dependent.

shawpower

tbh wrote: »

I'm not sure if it'd be on one date, trilla, I was thinking of something over a number of weeks. Lets say that we'll try to get 30 people ready to go by March 17th and take it from there - sound doable?

Sounds good.

I played for about 45 mins last night, and the last thing I did was to confirm a Prestige. I'm P2 now, so will be starting from Level 1 tonight. The 17th (ish) gives me a bit of time to get some unlocking done.

Nalz

shawpower wrote: »

Sounds good.

I played for about 45 mins last night,

off topic slightly, anyone find the network crap last night? I had a KD of 17/2 in scrapyard TDM and with 2 mins to go "CANNOT CONNECT TO XBOX LIVE" :mad:

shawpower

Nope. But I was only online between about 8-8:48 pm

Shammy

My broadband is rubbish from the hours of 6pm to 12midnight, bloody contention but new wireless provider coming next week ,fingers crossed.

K.O.L

yea interested team of 3

micks

OURKID001 wrote: »

yea interested team of 3

1/3 of this team!!

jayflynn

count me in for the tournament.can get another 3/4 players if needed!

tbh

I've gotten some ideas on this, but no time to post them now - I'll come back tomorrow. Basically:

1. Set deadline for registration
2. Draw up schedule
3. set deadlines for matches
4. Enjoy


So, if you're interested in taking part, check back tomorrow for details.

I'll have a slice of this when it goes ahead. GT: IzI SHiFTY IzI

Battleflag

Sounds good - will check back on the thread tomorrow. Gamertag: Ferghal

tbh

oh yeah, forgot about this. Right, so things are starting to pick up in work and I'm not going to have much time to organise this - so we'll give it a go, and if it doesn't go smoothly - SMOOTHLY boards.ie!!! - we'll knock it on the head. I'm more than happy btw if someone wants to take over the reigns or create a website or whatever. But I'm not going to have the time to chase people up for results or make sure matches are played or whatever.

Btw - can someone please start a public social group (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/group.php?do=create) so that we can keep details in there? You can only create one apparently

ok - I suggest we go for a start date of April 1st. Here's what I reckon we should do:

Format will be 3v3, TDM, 3 maps per match.
Each team will play home and away. Home team picks two maps, away team picks one.

To register your team post in the teams thread in the social group (I'll edit this post later with the link)
To register just yourself, post in the players thread. On the 31st of March, we'll form teams out of the players thread, and draw up a schedule.

Each team will play every other team home and away, and you'll get a week to play each game. teams can organise the time amongst themselves, but

You should be able to commit to at least 1 hour anytime between 7 and 11, at least two nights a week.

If you can only play weekends after 11 or all midnight to six am mon to fri - don't join.
if your ma or your missus watches the only telly in the house all evening - don't join.

It'll be a nightmare trying to organize six people like that.

that means, if one team offer to play the game any day between 7 and 11, and the other team only want to play outside those hours, the other team forfeits the game. Miss two games (for whatever reason) and your team is out.

Sound cool?

Ok, if someone could create that group and post the link here, we'll get the ball rolling. Make sure the group is public (or if not, that you don't mind giving people access manually)

micks

Created a group (I think!)

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/group.php?groupid=217

Shammy

tbh wrote: »

You should be able to commit to at least 1 hour anytime between 7 and 11, at least two nights a week.

If you can only play weekends after 11 or all midnight to six am mon to fri - don't join.
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lol guess that applies to me , i fully understand of course, getting a new provider on friday, wireless this time so hopefully i'll get my name down.

tbh

Shammy wrote: »

lol guess that applies to me , i fully understand of course, getting a new provider on friday, wireless this time so hopefully i'll get my name down.

sorry dude it's nothing personal

lunaticjimmy

yeah count me in aslong as it is like friday to sunday at that time??

tbh

most likely a lot of games will be played at the weekend in fairness.

remember, don't post on this thread, post in the social group!

micks

how do i change the pic/avatar for the group?

tbh

micks wrote: »

how do i change the pic/avatar for the group?

at the bottom of the "dicussions" page there should be an "edit group" link

try: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/group.php?do=edit&groupid=217

Battleflag

Haven't got my old account back yet so have to post 25 posts before I can join the group, hopefully there will be a decent amount of players