Profile of sluzbenik

You can go up and down the ladder fast in this game. I dunno, maybe a better idea to just automatically eliminate anyone who made quarter-finals in all COH2 couple tourneys held so far. Probably the winners would be obvious if they have high rank but haven't done tourneys, but whatever, at least it would be a change of faces...

Necroed for topicality in the tournament thread.

I think this would look nice with a Ginnungagap illustration hanging on a certain game company's wall.

1) Would rather do a 2v2 tournament.
2) RNG too great a factor in COH2. The game pace (most matches end in under 30 minutes) mean less of a chance for it to even out, and many of the causes of really bad RNG won't be repeated anyway (Soviet mines, flamethrower crits, mortar squad wipes, ram success).
3) Time commitment to complete games. Reddit tourney is doing it the right way. If you make it to the semi-finals you should expect to do them in a short, professional time period, but below that, no 3 hour time commitments for a casual RTS, thanks.
4) Seeds. I understand we don't want heavyweights knocked out in the first rounds, but it's too discouraging.

If there are enough 1v1 players, I agree that it would be really beneficial to have divisions based on ELO. Then there would be no need for seeds. Relic should know better than anyone want the actual skill levels are like, and two divisions might be enough (roughly the top 50 1v1 players and everyone else). To be honest though, the skill cap is really low, and the game is less strategic than vCOH, so it's very hard to differentiate the skill levels of the the top 1%, 5%, 20% etc. In my personal experience around rank 200 I see a dramatic drop-off in skill, and above rank 40 I see a dramatic increase in skill (mostly micro and reaction time).

Here is a pair of Shock Rifle players totally deserving of a Tiger Ace. #9 Sov 2v2 dude with some random, vs me and #16 Ost 2v2 dude. Admittedly we had the higher ranked team, but as shocks only require micro that even a 3 year old is capable of, I think this is post-worthy.

I think that, upon watching the replay, you will find yourself in agreement that they got their just desserts.

Anyone...ran into some guy twice and all the freaking MGs just drive me nuts. I can't figure out a good build. Snipers help sort of but you have to flank the MGs with the snipers anyway or they just eviscerate them.