16-man invitational spar tournament

[Jared]

There will be a 16-man invitational spar tournament held on March 6th (Monday) at 9:00 PM eastern on the N-Pulse server, although it's not sponsored in any way by that server. It'll be held in a private spar room by myself and any of the other admins of that spar room who choose to attend. If for any reason things don't work out on that server, the tournament will be moved to another server of my choice (probably Unholy Nation) to be held. In any event, excluding the possibility of Graal being completely down, we'll hold the tournament and get the spars done that night. My estimation is that, from start to finish, the tournament should take about two hours to be completed.

The tournament will consist of sixteen of the best sparrers currently active, or at least somewhat active, on Graal. The participants and rankings of the participants were ultimately chosen by myself; however, all of the sparrers who'll be participating have the support of other top sparrers who gave me their opinions. The rankings are based primarily on skill, but also on tournament wins (current and recent mainly but also past), activity on Graal, and popularity among fellow sparrers.

Each match will be the best two out of three spars, excluding the match to determine the champion and the match to determine who takes third place, which will both be the best three out of five spars. In each round of the tournament, the highest ranked sparrers will spar the lowest ranked sparrers, just like in most professional sporting tournaments. For example, if all of the top sixteen sparrers show up, 01. Neo Jenova would be sparring 16. Stella in the first round, 02. Halo would be sparring 15. Pluto, and so on.

The results for every spar of every match will be posted on these forums once the tournament is completed, and there'll probably be a statue put up somewhere on Graal for the winner and possibly the second and third place finishers as well.

Below is a list of the sparrers invited and their rankings:

01. Neo Jenova
02. Halo
03. Brett
04. Highlander
05. Ares
06. Quick Strike
07. Deophite
08. Thallen
09. Squirt
10. Josh
11. Torrent
12. Zeldaguardian
13. Chance
14. Exodus
15. Pluto
16. Stella

edit - I bumped Chance up from 15 to 13 since he finished in third place in the 16-man WGFC tournament I held awhile back, which I think he should be rewarded for, and for being more active than both Exodus and Pluto.

Four alternates will also be chosen between now and the start of the tournament, in case any of the sparrers invited don't make it. They'll be listed here as soon as they've been chosen.

***Alternates to be decided***

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Hmm, since it appears that I can only post once in the same thread every hour or eight hours or something, I'll reply to everyone in this post.

Victoreheheh

Sounds cool, I wanna watch it.
cough lolstella cough

My reason for choosing Stella is quite simple: She's the best female sparrer currently on Graal. Even another of the top female sparrers on Graal, Aarian, admits that. A lot of the top sparrers that I consulted when making this list agreed. Also, you won't be able to watch the tournament. The only people allowed in the room will be the two sparrers and the spar room admins, although I hope that even they will choose not to watch the tournament in order to cut down on the lag in the room.

syltburk

Why have you invited so bad players :X? Some of them havn't got a single win vs me in graals sparring history

Some of them may be bad players, but they're hardly bad sparrers. I'm not going to argue that they're the sixteen best sparrers on Graal, but they're at least sixteen of the best. Everyone does better against certain people than others. The problem is: There are probably fifty or more people out there who think that they're among the sixteen best, but there's really only sixteen who are. These sparrers stand out in skill, style/technique, and reputation as sparrers more so than many others. I can easily defend all of the choices if you care to make a claim against anyone in particular.

Infernix

16 best lol XD I suck more than I ever have now and I can still beat over half of those people. No such thing as the best sparrer on graal, maybe your best competition may be those people but surely you can never call any of them the best.

I've seen you on N-Pulse. You seem like a mediocre defensive delayer at best, but I don't recall ever sparring you personally. No one I talked to, with the exception of one person, even mentioned you as being worthy of a top 25 invitation, which was originally how many people I was going to invite. You yourself admit that you suck more than ever, and being able to beat half the people on the list one out of a million spars means nothing. You're not top 16 and you're not even not 25 among active sparrers. Accept the truth and get better.

Mhxtortoise

that's pretty funny


Neojenova wins, Chance second, the rest of that list is a bunch of tools and inactive sparrers.

What's really funny is a washed up, known hacker, saying anything negative about any sparrer.