Profile of A_E

A.E,
Where i can find some statistics of the tournament? Like faction win rates and etc.

Here you go friend https://www.coh2.org/topic/60897/gcs-main-round-stats-w-updates

Heyo A_E,

for the few older community members who want to book flight and hotel in advance, could you tell us, where the event will happen so we can make travel arrangements?

Best Regards

awa59b

Hey Dr. Wachs, the event will be in Leicester at an esports venue that we haven't signed anything with quite yet so legally want to not name . (Although it's 95% likely to be in leicester at at studio owned by that venue holder).

Heathrow or Manchester will be your best bets to fly to, and full details will be made available over the coming weeks!

Matt

Hello everyone as the title suggests it's time to hit your video editing package of choice download some of the casts and clips for GCS and go to town!

Format:

• 2 - 4 minutes long
  
• No copyrighted music, that we would get claimed on Twitch/ YouTube for using.
  
• Using footage from GCS or related to GCS.

Sources

• Playlist of casts
  
• Schedule links to casts of individual matches
  
• Highlights on the Discord under #GCShighlights https://discord.gg/qtKdx
  
• Stormless Twitch clips https://www.twitch.tv/stormless/clips
  
• AE Twitch clips https://www.twitch.tv/aecoh/clips (not as many)
  
• Replays
  

Branding Assets

https://www.coh2.org/file/14377/square.png

https://www.coh2.org/file/14375/gcs-logo-2.png

https://www.coh2.org/file/14374/gcs-logo-2-drop-shadow.png

Prizes

Winner gets AAA title bought for them on Steam of their choosing.

All entrants get GCS emblem/ faceplate. (Put in your 16 digit SteamID64 in your entry)

(All entrants youtube videos are linked and credited fully.)


Entries

Upload your video to YouTube in as high a quality as you can and then post it in this thread to enter.

Also include your preferred username if not your COH2.ORG name, and also your Steam ID64.

The winner will be selected based on the following criteria based on a panel of three judges scoring out of 5 for each of the following.

1) Effort - how much time and skill went into making the hype video?

2) Style - how pleasing was the video artistically and stylistically?

3) Hype - what degree of excitement was instilled upon the viewer?


Deadline: Saturday 9th June (just before Semi Finals)

As event organiser it falls upon me to make decisions that directly influence the tournament and the players.

I will admit I am friends with Aimstrong and to some extent his clanmate DevM. We all have friends in CoH2, but as the organiser of the biggest event at the moment, I need to be open about any bias so it can be kept in check.

I would like to make a public announcement of what I've done to stop this friendship affecting my decision making as much as much possible. But also mention a possible failing that could be perceived as bias even though that was not my intention.

This is so hopefully I can ensure trust in my decision making and intentions can be ensured going forward. I also hope it will ensure that any bias I have is kept in check by you the public.

Aimstrong

With regards to Aimstrong, as one of the biggest name players from previous big tournaments, and knowing that due to Noggano and Jove's participation was in doubt I did my best to convince him to play after the project was announced, and motivated him as much as I could.

It is worth noting I have also attempted to motivate other key players including: Jesulin, HelpingHans and Noggano, all with mixed success.

However I was also aware his automatch rankings were heavily inflated due to lack of decay, and so insisted he play placement matches despite being a finalist in his last tournament 'OCF'.

As his friend I also helped him work out the meta based on his own play, and made a point to myself and him of not discussing thoughts on other players for fear of bias.

Due to a few players not being able to play Noggano (exams), Jove (army), Paula (visa) and Price (DQ), Aimstrong's seed mathematically ended up being one of the top 8 players along with other players Barton and Talisman. This was higher than I would have liked.

I now openly admit that there was wasn't enough logic to the seeding of these three players, I went with my 'gut' instinct on where Talisman and Aimstrong would be based on their practice levels and gave them seeds 7 and 8. Upon doing that I realised Aimstrong and his clanmate DevM would fight early on, and so switched Talisman and Aimstrong around again.

I did this was for one main reason: I was worried about top level players that are clanmates meeting early on. I'm keenly aware of what can happen in those situations (uncompetitive games). So Barton vs. Price, Noggano vs. Jove, and in this case Aimstrong vs. DevM should have been split. This was my motivation at the time.

Aimstrong ended up with a harder bracket, Jesulin then Luvnest, and based on his recent practice levels and improvements would now have been given a much higher seed (possibly seed 5). However I'd like apologise to anyone that this switch betwen him and Talisman has offended, and hopefully you understand the thought processes involved. The switch happened whilst the seeds were in an unfinalised stage, but were being populated onto the public spreadsheet.

Now that I declared this bias I will take the following steps to mitigate it:

• Ensure I cast any Aimstrong related games with a positive outlook for both players as much as possible. And will actively not cast as his friend but attempt to cast in an unbiased way.
  
• Ensure the referees Hooligan and Currahee are consulted first on any decisions to ensure scrutiny is maintained.
  
• Go public with the small amount of bias that crept into the seeding process. Like I have done here, so it is in the open.
  

DevM

With regards to DevM he announced as soon as he could to me and the referees the day after his round 1 match had finished, (three weeks warning), that he and his League of Legends team are in the finals of a big money tourney.

The refs and I felt it proper to instruct VonAsten and him to find a better time to play that would suit the tournament but also not restrict DevM's chance to win money playing another game. We also did the same for Talisman by moving his game so he could play in a competitive Overwatch tournament. If any player has a valid reason that is deemed to be a significant event that can't be moved, in early rounds, we will accommodate as much as possible.

It should be noted that when DevM was 20 minutes late for his first game, he was issued a warning and penalised 100 victory points. I know this didn't affect his match, but I hope this shows that when it comes to refereeing decisions there is no room for any prisoners.

But that's what we gonna see now.

Since Volks cannot handle M3, we gonna see Kubel spam into Fusiliers spam.

Plus, again, how early pzfasut cheeseroll over Penals/Cons/Maxims? It doesn't affect them at all, but without it, M3 suddnely becomes top strat leaving all others far behind.

And we had no M3 play becasue people don't want to micro it but they used to dive deep and push back everything to the base.

You will not see kubel spam with an M3 on the field.

M3 is a valued strat that has always been part of CoH2 play, it was a shame to see it fall by the wayside in 2015. Kubel spam is not, OKW being able to get a luchs in 7 minutes is not.

The faust is exactly where it needs to be now. OKW players just have to realise their army of elite ubermensch is not going to be able to roflstomp within 10 minutes, it has to build into the mid game and then start to dominate.

I sinscerely hope OKW gets actual good buffs when the next iteration comes out, buffs like ISG vs garrison buffs, pak40 given to battlegruppe, mechanised made cheaper etc.

Giving them faust when the truck rolls on the field which means they are invincible to early light vehicles just let's them cheese too much. They have five man squads, stg worker units, and T0 AT. They shouldn't really need fausts within two minutes.