Rise of the Blood God! (Winner: YouOnKazoo)

[Kotaro]

Hey all,

Welcome to Battle for Azeroth: Rise of the Blood God! Whoever walks away as the Champion of Blood will receive 3 months of premium as a reward.


Quick backstory:

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Based on the popular MMO, World of Warcraft, BFA storyline is the continued faction war between the Horde and the Alliance. However, when the resurrection of the Old God G'Huun threatens to destroy all life, the factions must turn their attention to stopping the rise of the blood God.

However, old hatreds are hard to put aside, and given the recent massacre at the World Tree, the Horde and Alliance continue to clash across the world. With the world divided and the Blood Trolls pushing for world domination, who will be victorious?

Longer backstory:

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At the end of Legion, all seemed well in the world of Azeroth. The two largest factions, Horde and Alliance, had banded together and purified the demon planet Antorus, locking away the titan Sargeras before he could destroy their world. With a pantheon of titans watching over him, the threat from the demon race was lifted and Azeroth could begin to heal.

This alliance, like all in the history of these two factions, was not to last. Sylvannas Windrunner, Banshee Queen and Warchief of the Horde, feels threatened by the stronghold held by the Night Elves on the continent of Kalimdor. Since she believes that war is inevitable yet again, she launches an all out assault to capture the World Tree, home of the Night Elves. After winning the battle, it appears that the Queen is not done yet, as she orders her catapults to fire into the tree, burning it and all 25,000 citizens inside.

While the Queen believes this has crippled her enemies, the effect is not demoralizing as she had hoped, but rather a spark that brings the combined might of the Alliance to Undercity, capital of the Undead faction of the Horde. With King Anduin leading the charge, Undercity soon falls to the Alliance, and one of the Hordes greatest generals, Saurfang, is captured. https://bit.ly/2Zb5PA2

As the war continues, both factions look to reach out and gain new allies. The Horde rescue a Princess and Prophet of the Zandalari, a race of trolls that has long had one of the mightiest fleets on the planet, while the Alliance look to make amends with the Kul Tirans, a human faction that left the Alliance years ago after the death of their Admiral Proudmoore at the hands of an Alliance leader.

While the imminent threat of the rise of the Old God G'Huun slows the war, it can never be stopped while Warchief Sylvannas reigns.

This will be a 3-Way FFA tournament, with a group stage determining who advances to the semi-finals. Each faction (Horde, Alliance and Blood Trolls) shall have 6 participants, playing a total of 6 games (3 at a time) between the opposing factions. Each game's opponents will be determined randomly, therefore you may have to face the same 2 opponents during group stage. After each participant has completed 6 games, the 2 players from each group with the most wins shall advance to the bracket. If necessary, tiebreakers will be determined by quick head to head games.

Bracket play will be 2 rounds of 3-way FFA's, single elimination. Since there is no way to guarantee that the winner from each will be of a different faction, bracket play will not be following that line of story line.

All games will be given a 20 round limit, to ensure this tournament does not take 2 decades to wrap up.

Group Stage: Battles are spread across the lands. Who will dominate this strange new continent?
Map: New World
Settings: Automatic, Sequential, Escalating, Unlimited, Foggy, No Trench

Tiebreaker games (if needed) will be played on the same map in a sudden death game. For example, if there's a 4 way tie for 2nd in a group, it'll be a 4 way FFA to determine dominance.

Semi-Finals: As the hour of G'Huuns rebirth nears, travel to the lands of Nazmir. Can you stop the rise?
Map: Oasis
Settings: Automatic, Sequential, Escalating, Chained, Foggy, No Trench

Finals: G'Huuns rise is at hand. Journey to the Uldir temple and put an end to it, if you can.
Map: Temple of Jinn
Settings: Automatic, Sequential, Flat Rate, Chained, Foggy, No Trench

Despite faction pride being important for everyone, suicide so a member of your faction can move on will result in players being removed from the tournament. Always play to win!

General game joining/deadbeat policy:

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All players have 24 hours to join games after they've been created.

Any player who does not join within the 24 hour window will removed from the tournament. However, if you are having trouble joining the games or need to delay your joining, give me a message and I can easily give you an extension for any reasonable reason.

Any player that deadbeats any games will be removed, even if they were to move on. Play your turns.

CC definition of a deadbeat: You are automatically kicked out from the game as a deadbeat if you miss 3 consecutive turns.

Group Stage games:

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Game 1
YouOnKazoo vs Dragon Dor vs cdbridges
Kotaro vs jytreberg vs Rmn7272
donkeylove vs DBandit70 vs TheJonah
filopo vs general cod vs musicalmaven
BrassD vs General Bax vs jjgollum
General Brewsie vs william tennant vs Darin44

Game 2
BrassD vs william tennant vs Rmn7272
Kotaro vs jytreberg vs cdbridges
donkeylove vs Dragon Dor vs jjgollum
General Brewsie vs General Bax vs Drain44
filopo vs DBandit70 vs TheJonah
YouOnKazoo vs general cod vs musicalmaven

Game 3
YouOnKazoo vs DBandit70 vs jjgollum
General Brewsie vs General Bax vs Rmn7272
Kotaro vs general cod vs Darin44
donkeylove vs Dragon Dor vs musicalmaven
filopo vs william tennant vs TheJonah
BrassD vs jytreberg vs cdbridges

Game 4
donkeylove vs general cod vs musicalmaven
filopo vs Dragon Dor vs cdbridges
BrassD vs william tennant vs TheJonah
Kotaro vs General Bax vs Darin44
General Brewsie vs DBandit70 vs Rmn7272
YouOnKazoo vs jytreberg vs jjgollum

Game 5
donkeylove vs General Bax vs Darin44
BrassD vs william tennant vs cdbridges
filopo vs general cod vs jjgollum
YouOnKazoo vs Dbandit70 vs Rmn7272
Kotaro vs Dragon Dor vs musicalmaven
General Brewsie vs jytreberg vs TheJonah

Game 6
BrassD vs DBandit70 vs cdbridges
General Brewsie vs Dragon Dor vs Rmn7272
donkeylove vs jytreberg vs jjgollum
YouOnKazoo vs general cod vs Darin44
Kotaro vs william tennant vs TheJonah
filopo vs General Bax vs musicalmaven

Group Stage results:

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Horde
Kotaro 1-5
donkeylove 1-5
YouOnKazoo 0-6
General Brewsie 0-6
BrassD Forfeit
filopo Forfeit

Alliance

general cod 4-2
william tennant 3-3
Dragon Dor 3-3
DBandit70 2-3
jytreberg 1-5
General Bax Forfeit

Blood Trolls
TheJonah 4-2
Darin44 4-2
jjgollum 4-2
cdbridges 3-3
musicalmaven 0-6
Rnm7272 Forfeit

Semi-finals

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Kotaro vs general cod vs TheJonah
donkeylove vs william tennant vs Darin44
YouOnKazoo vs Dragon Dor vs jjgollum

[Kotaro]

Horde
1. Kotaro
2. YouOnKazoo
3. BrassD
4. donkeylove
5. filopo
6. General Brewsie



Alliance
1. william tennant
2. General Bax
3. jytreberg
4. general cod
5. Dragon Dor
6. DBandit70



Blood Trolls
1. TheJonah
2. Rnm7272
3. cdbridges
4. jjgollum
5. Darin44
6. musicalmaven

[YouOnKazoo]

In on horde pls

[TheJonah]

General game joining/deadbeat policy:
All players have 24 hours to join games after they've been created.

Any player who does not join within the 24 hour window will removed from the tournament. However, if you are having trouble joining the games or need to delay your joining, give me a message and I can easily give you an extension for any reasonable reason.

You`re a fucking ruthless, little cunt! Love it. Definitely in, even though I have no clue what the format is. Think I read something about,
teams and groups/leagues, or something like. I`m not really that arsed. Just supporting my mucker.

[william tennant]

Looks like fun, in on Alliance please.

[Kotaro]

Seeing as we're halfway to the deleting mark and only 3 have posted interest, I will add 3-months of premium to the winner of this 3-way FFA tournament.

[General Bax]

in pls alliance

[BrassD]

In pls hoard

[jytreberg]

in please alliance

[general cod]

In please

[general cod]

Oops alliance

[Rmn7272]

in please blood trolls prefered but put me where balance is needed

[donkeylove]

In please, for the Horde!

[dragon dor]

Dragon in alliance ^^

[filopo]

In please horde

[DBandit70]

in please Alliance

[cdbridges]

In Alliance, please.

[jjgollum]

in on Trolls please

[General Brewsie]

In for Horde please.

[Darin44]

PM sent to organizer.

[Kotaro]

2 more to play or Darin will bring the hammer down on us.

Reminder that 1 month of premium is up for grabs.

[Darin44]

put me in

[musicalmaven]

i'm wiling to battle on

[Kotaro]

Welcome all. The tournament is set, group stage matchups are in the first post, all 6 games will go out whenever permissions are granted.

[Darin44]

Tournament verified to be active still, game in progress.