Hey everybody, a while ago I had an idea to run a couple tournaments for online play for both consoles. I'm now able to follow through and make it happen.
Current PSN Signups and Results - February 2014
Current XBL Signups and Results - February 2014
Upcoming PSN Signups - March 2014
Upcoming XBL Signups - March 2014
What is the FSD Open?
The FSD Open is a monthly Round Robin DOA5U tournament held Online and over the course of a month starting from the 1st of the month and ending on the last day of the month.
Who can participate?
Anybody who signs up before the month of a designated tournament begins. This will not be limited to a single console, prizes will be distributed to the top placing player(s) on both the PS3 and Xbox360.
What is Round Robin?
In a brief summary, everybody in the tournament fights everybody or as many as they are able. There is no elimination like standard tournaments, rankings in the tournament are determined by a win/loss ratio and the player with the highest number of Wins at the end of the month is the winner of the tournament.
How do you earn wins?
Win Games. A Game in this case is fighting an opponent for a best 3 out of 5 Matches.
What does a Match consist of?
Normal Health (300), 60 seconds per round, random stages select with no stages filtered out (excluding Dojo) or an agreed upon stage, with three Rounds per match.
What about a count for Losses?
See below.
How do we keep score?
Of the two players one will report a win and loss count to the appropriate thread for their game.
Ex. XZero264 vs. Zerox Acrid:
3-2 XZero264 / 2-3 Zerox Acrid
You have the two who play followed by the Game count of wins-losses for each player. In the case above XZero264 won 3 matches and lost 2. Zerox Acrid won 2 and lost 3. A Win goes toXZero264.
What if I don't fight everybody?
I don't expect you to. Everybody has something they have to dedicate time to. I am an electrician, I can't leave a service call without finishing my job and turning power back on for my client. I will be taking night classes 3 nights a week from 6 to 9 and won't get home until 10pm. I occasionally travel out of town for a weekend and don't play any games at all. I personally don't expect to get to all my fights, but this is why it is a month long tournament - you have the chance to set up times with players to compete.
How do I know when to compete with others?
That is entirely up to you, the competitors. In this monthly program I can only do so much when it comes to organizing games. I can put up a list of who needs to fight who each week but, again, that only can go so far. I have no way to enforce matches to be held, I cannot say when they need to be, I can only say when they need to be completed by (which has already been stated). I can't tell Brute to get his lazy ass off the couch and go get wrecked by Mr. Wah but I can tell him he has three days left to do so. You guys will have to communicate with each other, preferably by Private Message to prevent threads from clogging, to set up times and days you will play each other.
Replays?
If you save them go ahead and post them. Just indicate who is who if you can help it.
When are signups?
Signups will be posted at least two weeks before the beginning of a new month. Sign ups are individual for each console, if you sign up for the PS3 version but mean to play on XBox you very well may be S.O.L. until you fix it.
Prizes?
Top player(s) of each month will receive a credit code for redemption on their respective network. This means something like a $10 code for PSN or the equivalent for the XBox Live Marketplace.
Only issue is that the prizes distributed will be redeemable via North American regions. I am not saying if you live in the UK and want to play that you can't, just be aware the prizes will be by the US Dollar.
At the end of each year a total will be tallied and the top 8 or so contestants will be pitted against each other. What happens then has yet to be decided. Aim for yearly top positions!
Years (aside from this year) start each January and end at the end of December.
If you have any questions feel free to ask them in this thread. Don't sign up for tournaments in this thread, there will be threads open for that when the times come.
Current PSN Signups and Results - February 2014
Current XBL Signups and Results - February 2014
Upcoming PSN Signups - March 2014
Upcoming XBL Signups - March 2014
What is the FSD Open?
The FSD Open is a monthly Round Robin DOA5U tournament held Online and over the course of a month starting from the 1st of the month and ending on the last day of the month.
Who can participate?
Anybody who signs up before the month of a designated tournament begins. This will not be limited to a single console, prizes will be distributed to the top placing player(s) on both the PS3 and Xbox360.
What is Round Robin?
In a brief summary, everybody in the tournament fights everybody or as many as they are able. There is no elimination like standard tournaments, rankings in the tournament are determined by a win/loss ratio and the player with the highest number of Wins at the end of the month is the winner of the tournament.
How do you earn wins?
Win Games. A Game in this case is fighting an opponent for a best 3 out of 5 Matches.
What does a Match consist of?
Normal Health (300), 60 seconds per round, random stages select with no stages filtered out (excluding Dojo) or an agreed upon stage, with three Rounds per match.
What about a count for Losses?
See below.
How do we keep score?
Of the two players one will report a win and loss count to the appropriate thread for their game.
Ex. XZero264 vs. Zerox Acrid:
3-2 XZero264 / 2-3 Zerox Acrid
You have the two who play followed by the Game count of wins-losses for each player. In the case above XZero264 won 3 matches and lost 2. Zerox Acrid won 2 and lost 3. A Win goes toXZero264.
What if I don't fight everybody?
I don't expect you to. Everybody has something they have to dedicate time to. I am an electrician, I can't leave a service call without finishing my job and turning power back on for my client. I will be taking night classes 3 nights a week from 6 to 9 and won't get home until 10pm. I occasionally travel out of town for a weekend and don't play any games at all. I personally don't expect to get to all my fights, but this is why it is a month long tournament - you have the chance to set up times with players to compete.
How do I know when to compete with others?
That is entirely up to you, the competitors. In this monthly program I can only do so much when it comes to organizing games. I can put up a list of who needs to fight who each week but, again, that only can go so far. I have no way to enforce matches to be held, I cannot say when they need to be, I can only say when they need to be completed by (which has already been stated). I can't tell Brute to get his lazy ass off the couch and go get wrecked by Mr. Wah but I can tell him he has three days left to do so. You guys will have to communicate with each other, preferably by Private Message to prevent threads from clogging, to set up times and days you will play each other.
Replays?
If you save them go ahead and post them. Just indicate who is who if you can help it.
When are signups?
Signups will be posted at least two weeks before the beginning of a new month. Sign ups are individual for each console, if you sign up for the PS3 version but mean to play on XBox you very well may be S.O.L. until you fix it.
Prizes?
Top player(s) of each month will receive a credit code for redemption on their respective network. This means something like a $10 code for PSN or the equivalent for the XBox Live Marketplace.
Only issue is that the prizes distributed will be redeemable via North American regions. I am not saying if you live in the UK and want to play that you can't, just be aware the prizes will be by the US Dollar.
At the end of each year a total will be tallied and the top 8 or so contestants will be pitted against each other. What happens then has yet to be decided. Aim for yearly top positions!
Years (aside from this year) start each January and end at the end of December.
If you have any questions feel free to ask them in this thread. Don't sign up for tournaments in this thread, there will be threads open for that when the times come.
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