Rugby Challange 2; XBOX Tournament

[Jackass]

Hi all,

So there seems to be a good appetite for a tournament in the new rugby challenge 2 game which is released Thursday 13th June (tomorrow).

I'll volunteer to run the tournament and the purpose of this thread is firstly to open registration. Registration is open to everyone (you don't need to be rugby board regular or anything) and is from now until Thursday 20th June, in order to give everyone an opportunity to get the game and for those who do get it to have an opportunity to learn it / get used to it / brush off cob webs.

If people miss registration then hopefully if this is a success we can organise another one, maybe even have a regular tournament. The point of registration though is that we can't decide a type of tournament unless we have exact numbers, if we're short a few of course others can come in late, but if there's too many then it's first come first served, as a Heineken Cup for example can only be 24 teams.

If there's loads more than that, maybe we can organise a second tournament at the same time, but we'll cross that bridge once we come to it and have an idea of numbers.

When registering, please also state when you would be available to play (i.e times and days) and also what type of tournament you'd like, these will all be taken as your votes and based on this I'll do up the tournament. Just to give you an idea, other tournament types could be world cup, 6 nations, an all out made up league of boardsies, pro12, top14, super 15, rugby championship, a made up round robin / straight knockout boardsie tournament etc.

Once all players are confirmed and we decide on a tournament type, then I'll open a thread for team registration for that tournament, so if it's Heineken Cup, post in the thread the team you want (one team per tournament, so first person to call Munster or Clermont or whatever gets it and its gone - DONT WORRY - in online play, the teams are balanced so even if you're playing as Zebre, it has balanced skill level with Clermont). I'll draw up tables, again if it's Heineken Cup, we'll base it on 2013/14 pools and I'll update groups as we go along.

Please also use this thread to make suggestions on anything you think might be better as I'm just making it up, and I'll throw up a poll on anything else that needs to be decided.

Also, please let me know how you would prefer fixtures to run. i.e would you like one game a night or based over an entire weekend (like group on Saturday knockouts on Sunday) or the whole tournament in one day / night or whatever other system you can think of....maybe 1 game a weekend based over 9 weeks for a Heineken Cup or something. Up to you.

So, timeline:

Registration: Now until Thursday 20th June

Team Allocation: Thursday 20th June - Sunday 23rd: Once all players are registered, and we have decided on a tournament type and what days / times to play, I will open a thread with the pools / teams - first come first served.

Monday 24th June: Full teams / pools / players list and fixture list based on your preferences.

I'll do my best to make this run smoothly lads, but feel free to suggest a better way, or get involved.

Please register in following format;

[Jackass]
Preferred Tournament Type: Heineken Cup
Available Playing Times: All weekday Evenings and for this tournament I will happily clear anytime that weekend also!
Preferred Format of fixtures: I would like to do a Saturday afternoon group matches and Sunday afternoon knock outs. (but 1 game a weekend over 9 or so weeks sounds fun also)

errlloyd

My Xbox is a banned one I bought off adverts to play career mode single player, but I'm now actively tempted to buy a working one just so I can use live to play in this. Fair play.

Tomtom364

Very tempted to be in for this. Having decoded to get it on PC or Xbox yet...

awec

I'm in it if I buy this. I need to see how much it's going to cost to fix my car first.

Tomtom364

OK not out on PC till late September... Xbox it is.

I'm in, but for Saturdays as of the 22nd I can only do Saturday evenings (after 6), not afternoons.


Tomtom364
Preferred Tournament Type: Heineken Cup
Available Playing Times:All weekday Evenings. Saturday evenings and Sundays all day.
Preferred Format of fixtures: wouldn't mind doing it over a weekend or a week. or a few weekends in a row or whatever.

accidentprone1

accidentprone1
Preferred Tournament Type: Heineken Cup
Available Playing Times: Most weekend evenings and should be free on the weekends too, apart from Sundays 5-9ish.
Preferred Format of fixtures: One tournament game a weekend sounds good to me. Could always have individual challenge matches as an option during the week with people saying what times they'll be online for a friendly.

Looking forward to getting to know some of you while I recall my skills from playing Rugby '06 over a weekend at age "what the feck is this give me FIFA."

thomond2006

Anyone willing to send down a couple of hundred euro so I can join in?

accidentprone1

thomond2006 wrote: »

Anyone willing to send down a couple of hundred euro so I can join in?

No Xbox? Do you've any buddies with one?

Chabals Beard

Chabals Beard
Preferred tournament type - HCup
Available to play - Most weekdays evenings and Sundays
Preferred fixture format - Knockout system with a back door format for teams who have lost in initial rounds

Schorpio

I'm well up for this too, if I actually get the game that is. After being really disappointed with the first one I was going to hold off a wee while and see what the general reaction was on here first, but now I'm seriously tempted.

Pudsy33

I'm in, I'll put up the rest tomorrow

pappyodaniel

Pappyodaniel
Preferred Tournament Type: Heineken Cup
Available Playing Times: Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and nights I'm free to play
Preferred Format of fixtures: I'm for a marathon of games on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Gelio

Gelio
Preferred Tournament Type: Whatever
Available Playing Times: Any time
Preferred Format of fixtures: whatever

Pudsy33

Preferred Tournament Type: Heineken Cup

Available Playing Times: various days throughout the week.

Preferred Format of fixtures: 3 every two weeks works well in the boards madden league

awec

Heineken Cup

Weekday evenings mostly

Whenever

[Jackass]

I'm just going to throw in a registration for a buddy

NutCity
TBC
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TBC

Chabals Beard

[Jackass] wrote: »

I'm just going to throw in a registration for a buddy

NutCity
TBC
TBC
TBC

Nice gamertag..

I might not be able to do this tournament, I have to make a decision whether to invest in some gold standard or buy the game. And judging from reviews I am leaning towards the latter.

Pudsy33

Buy the game chabals beard, its by far and away the best rugby game there's been. It's not perfect, but when you have a few mates around it hugely fun.

awec

I wouldn't mind having a few practice games against someone from on here. I want to see if the lag issue is just because I happened to be playing against people in NZ / Aus due to the time of day.

Chabals Beard

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Buy the game chabals beard, its by far and away the best rugby game there's been. It's not perfect, but when you have a few mates around it hugely fun.

Sorry, but Rugby Challenge 2006 is the best rugby game to play with a couple of friends. Lamping the ref was hilarious in that game, really fast paced also.

[Jackass]

If anyone wants to add me for some practice games my user name is "Leinster Blue"

awec

[Jackass] wrote: »

If anyone wants to add me for some practice games my user name is "Leinster Blue"

You be on later?

[Jackass]

Probably wont be tonight, but tomorrow I'll be on it for a while I'd say!

But then if I don't fall asleep I might go for "just one game" and end up playing until an unspeakable hour!

padser

Can not remember my name although I am almost sure it contains Padser..will check

Preferred tournament type - HCup
Available to play - Most weekdays evenings
Preferred fixture format - Marathon sessions where we set aside about 3 hours in one go and get it all played off.

[Jackass]

Sorry lads, haven't forgotten about this, it just happens to be a major week this week with my brother moving house and my g/f moving back to states for summer, so hectic around here, but around wednesday / thursday hope to have the tournament posted up.

It looks like most people want Heineken Cup style tournament and the days that seem to suit best are Tuesdays and Wednesdays (one persons preference and most other people said any weekday evening), so I'll put up all the details later.

One last point though, we have 9 at the moment, if we could get that up to 12, we could have three groups of 4 teams, and run it similar to the U20 world cup.

All group winners and best runner up goes into "Championship" semi finals, two other runners up and two best 3rd place goes into the "Challange Cup" semi finals, other 3rd place team and 4th placed teams go into the "shield" semi finals.

We could play the groups on Tuesday evening next week and the knock outs on Wednesday evening.

Sound good?

So I may have one more I can rope in, but if anyone is on the fence and wishes to join in or if you know of anyone, get them to post here maybe?

Cheers!

pappyodaniel

I have a mate who'd be up for it, he has a boards acc. but not a prolific poster if that's a problem.

awec

I'm going to be battered in this, [Jackass] is some player! :pac:

[Jackass]

pappyodaniel wrote: »

I have a mate who'd be up for it, he has a boards acc. but not a prolific poster if that's a problem.

No, no problem at all, that would be cool! Sure throw up the details just so I can have a name on the list.

awec wrote:

I'm going to be battered in this, [Jackass] is some player! :pac:

Ah I wouldn't say that, but I do have the advantage that I only really play online, not career mode or whatever, so it takes a bit more getting used to if you're only used to computer players.

Garseys

Still up for this (only picked it up today)

accidentprone1

Will be picking it up soon as I can, maybe tomorrow if I get the chance.

pappyodaniel

[Jackass] wrote: »

No, no problem at all, that would be cool! Sure throw up the details just so I can have a name on the list.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=370172

I think his gamertag is nandrewpandrew

pappyodaniel

So if it's ok with everyone can we start picking our teams?

If it's a club tournament I'd like to pick Munster.

If it's International I'll pick Ireland.

Pappyodaniel (Username: willy0dea Playing as: Munster)
Gelio
Pudsy33
Awec (Username: thecrouch8 Playing as: Ulster)

padser

pappyodaniel wrote: »

So if it's ok with everyone can we start picking our teams?

If it's a club tournament I'd like to pick Munster.

If it's International I'll pick Ireland.

Leinster / New Zealand

[Jackass]

Lads really sorry at how lame I've been on putting the final touches on this, I've just haven't been able to get near boards much lately, but here are groups and fixtures

Group A

[Jackass] (User name: Leinster Blue - Playing as: Wasps)
Tomtom364
accidentprone1
Chabals Beard

Fixtures:

Round 1 (7pm)
Jackass v Chabals Beard
TomTom364 v Accidentprone1

Round 2 (7.30pm)
Chabals Beard v TomTom364
Accident prone1 v Jackass

Round 3 (8pm)
Jackass v TomTom364
Accidentprone1 v Chabals Beard

Round 4 (9pm)
TomTom364 v Jackass
Chabals Beard v Accidentprone1

Round 5 (9.30pm)
Jackass v Accidentprone1
TomTom364 v Chabals Beard

Round 6 (10pm)
Accidentprone1 v TomTom364
Chabals Beard v Jackass


Group B

Pappyodaniel (Username: Playing as: Munster)
Gelio
Pudsy33
Awec (Username: thecrouch8 Playing as: Ulster)

Fixtures

Round 1 (7pm)
Pappyodaniel v Awec
Gelio v Pudsy33

Round 2 (7.30pm)
Awec v Gelio
Pudsy33 v Pappyodaniel

Round 3 (8pm)
Pappyodaniel v Gelio
Pudsy33 v Awec

Round 4 (9pm)
Gelio v Pappyodaniel
Awec v Pudsy33

Round 5 (9.30pm)
Pappyodaniel v Pudsy33
Gelio v Awec

Round 6 (10pm)
Pudsy33 v Gelio
Awec v Pappyodaniel

Group C

padser (Username: Playing as: Leinster)
Garseys
nandrewpandrew
Nutcity

Fixtures

Round 1 (7pm)
padser v Nutcity / Serbian
Garseys v nandrewpandrew

Round 2 (7.30pm)
Nutcity / Serbian v Garseys
nandrewpandrew v padser

Round 3 (8pm)
padser v Garseys
nandrewpandrew v Nutcity / Serbian

Round 4 (9pm)
Garseys v padser
Nutcity / Serbian v nandrewpandrew

Round 5 (9.30pm)
padser v nandrewpandrew
Garseys v Nutcity / Serbian

Round 6 (10pm)
nandrewpandrew v Garseys
Nutcity / Serbian v padser

So we'll say from 7pm on Tuesday night groups begin. It's home and away, auto balance teams, 10 minute games. So 6 group matches each. Each game will be played in 30 minute intervals with a half hour break after the 3rd group game.

The winners of all 3 groups and the best runner up go into the championship semis.

The other two runners up and best 3rd go into the challanged cup semis

the worst 3rd and all 4th places go into the shield semis.

It will be based on ranking of best team to worst in each placing the same way as Heineken Cup

The knockouts will be played Wednesday.

We'll use club teams, already called are Leinster (Padser) and Munster (Pappy) and Wasps ([Jackass])

Maybe when picking a team also quote the above list of players updating your name with your XBOX Live name

Tuesday at 7 people!!

Pudsy33

If its not possible to play on Tuesday, can we organise our games for before? Instead of having set times would it not be better to set a deadline of a certain day to get all the group games done? Just that this system is a bit rigid. I would suggest Tuesday-Friday for groups and sat- to Monday for the knockout
Oh and Glasgow btw

[Jackass]

Pudsy33 wrote: »

If its not possible to play on Tuesday, can we organise our games for before? Instead of having set times would it not be better to set a deadline of a certain day to get all the group games done? Just that this system is a bit rigid. I would suggest Tuesday-Friday for groups and sat- to Monday for the knockout
Oh and Glasgow btw

Yeah that's fair enough man, whatever way you want to sort it out, maybe pm your group memebers for a time that suits and yeah, ok, maybe from this Tuesday onwards we'll do the group games whenever you can organise it amongst yourselves and then next tuesday we'll do knock outs.

Sorry, not trying to be anal, just never organised an online competition before, so not sure how best to do it

Pudsy33

Is say just 3 days would work for each phase, get the whole things done in a week. But yeah, its best to just organise it amongst the people in the groups

[Jackass]

Yeah sounds good, group members can sort out whats best amongst them for their groups etc.

As I say, my username is Leinster Blue, so if anyone in my group wants to send me a message on xbox we'll arrange time.

Also, I accidently including chabals beard who already said he didn't get the game, so I'll need to replace him if anybody knows someone on short notice who'd like to step in?

Garseys

I'm calling Leicester Tigers XBL: Garseys

padser... I expecting the Sexton 10 Madigan 12 axis :pac:

accidentprone1

Sorry lads, I can't play this Tuesday - got a last minute gig. I'll sent out pms to my snubbed opponents later today to try and sort out refixtures.

Gelio

I still haven't been able to get my hands on the game yet! I'll head into town and pick it up today. I may be a very easy win on Tuesday.


My Xbox live name is alanredabc.

padser

Garseys wrote: »

I'm calling Leicester Tigers XBL: Garseys

padser... I expecting the Sexton 10 Madigan 12 axis :pac:

Well you can be pretty sure I've done away with the Madigan - Reid 10 12 axis anyway :eek:

I've never played a private match before so if you are free we could do a warm up tonight?

Also we should thank our lucky stars that LeinsterDub is not in our group. Played him about 3 times last week and got absolutely schooled (hopefully whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger) and was really worried I was going to be out of my depth playing with the boardsies. Then I noticed he is 5th on the overall leaderboard with 159 wins and just 9 losses (which if I'm honest looks like a much better record than people who are 1 to 4) so now hopefully there are not any other boardsies in the top 5....

Tomtom364

completly forgot to post here. i have to pull out of this. changes in finances means i just cant afford to get the game for now. my aplogies.

Garseys

padser wrote: »

Well you can be pretty sure I've done away with the Madigan - Reid 10 12 axis anyway :eek:

I've never played a private match before so if you are free we could do a warm up tonight?
.

I'll be on around 11-ish

padser

Garseys wrote: »

I'll be on around 11-ish

Missed that - what time suits tonight? I can do from around 9:30pm

Garseys

padser wrote: »

Missed that - what time suits tonight? I can do from around 9:30pm

about the same, send me a request on XBL anyways.

padser

Garseys wrote: »

about the same, send me a request on XBL anyways.

Will do

pappyodaniel

How are we for numbers tonight lads?

Pudsy33

I'll be able to play a few games I'd say

pappyodaniel

Pudsy33 wrote: »

I'll be able to play a few games I'd say

We're on for a 7.30 kick off if you're up for it.

Pudsy33

Anyone who's meant to play me I'll be on tonight. That's pappy, awec and geilo. Just add me and message me. Same name on Xbox as on here