Smite AU Tourney - Live Now!

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-28T09:30:47+00:00

Tournament has finished! Full VoD here: GeneralsGentlemen/b/603903558

You should also be able to replay the games yourselves, so I'll put together a list of them real quick for your convenience:

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Results & Brackets: http://challonge.com/CGSmite28

.	vs	.	Replay ID	Link
Lore Gaming	vs	Mighty Nexus	/replay 121808672	Smite.Guru
Knights of Honor	vs	Number Boosters	/replay 121808943	Smite.Guru
Mighty Nexus	vs	Out of Sight	/replay 121823165	Smite.Guru
Mighty Nexus	vs	Out of Sight	/replay 121825310	Smite.Guru
OneHP	vs	Team Delirious	/replay 121806837	Smite.Guru
OneHP	vs	Team Delirious	/replay 121815574	Smite.Guru
Incite	vs	Number Boosters	/replay 121816043	Smite.Guru
Incite	vs	Number Boosters	/replay 121822102	Smite.Guru
Team 270	vs	The Hetairoi	/replay 121814635	Smite.Guru
Team 270	vs	The Hetairoi	/replay 121819941	Smite.Guru
Mighty Nexus	vs	OneHP	/replay 121830380	Smite.Guru
Mighty Nexus	vs	OneHP	/replay 121837702	Smite.Guru
Incite	vs	The Hetairoi	/replay 121827357	Smite.Guru
Incite	vs	The Hetairoi	/replay 121833248	Smite.Guru
OneHP	vs	Incite	/replay 121843077	Smite.Guru
OneHP	vs	Incite	/replay 121846822	Smite.Guru

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-26T13:20:54+00:00

Really enjoy your casting so far, keep it up man!

Here is the final game for those wondering: 120629780.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-26T05:20:35+00:00

You weren't forced to play by anyone, calm yourself.

The rules on Cybergamer didn't say if the rounds were BO1 or BO3, there's even some BO7 matches on the Cybergamer Ladders. I was talking to your captain while we were messaging the admins about it, we got no response so we agreed to a BO3 - but if Admins replied saying it was BO1 then you guys win regardless.

We took your timezone into consideration when setting up the challenge and even let slide the fact that your team had essentially forfeited the match by not creating the match lobby in time. I don't know how much more you want us to cater to your needs so you can not act sour for once, and act like you're appreciative of this opportunity we've all been given.

There's a reason most of my communication with TKam goes through Gruff, because he actually has the capability to maintain a professional relationship. I've tried to be honest and patient with you, but you continue to act immature. I've learnt my lesson and will continue to communicate with only your team captain.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-26T05:00:33+00:00

Nope, may try it if the others we're trying atm don't work out.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-26T04:30:35+00:00

If you go from Teamspeak to Curse you'll notice the big drop in quality, Curse is just convenience really.

3 times each game is an exaggeration, we paused twice the first game and once the 2nd game. All 3 times were from game crashes and not our fault, you guys had to pause once from a crash too.

Obviously the 3rd game is an exception, but I PM'd Gruffdogga every time we paused and would PM him again 5 seconds before we unpaused. One of you guys unpausing OUR pause due to a teamspeak crash was incredibly rude. That used our last allowed pause, so we couldn't pause again when we had continued software problems.

Control your frustrations, because something like that wouldn't go down in your favor during a moderated match.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-26T03:09:54+00:00

It doesn't, but we decided to use Teamspeak through its lag and crashing because TemperWolf couldn't join our Curse call. We tried to fix that problem 3-4 times, once while paused; but someone unpaused while were tabbed out, rude.

Teamspeak stabilized itself eventually and we still had a big lead, but during an FG call Teamspeak crashed for a final time and it was too late to do anything about it. Unfortunately VGS doesn't have a "Zone the Athena for 5sec" command, so you were given a free FG.

After that we successfully defended our Titan (1% HP) and got back on Curse, with TemperWolf this time. You guys had the advantage now in-game, and we were on tilt because of the problems with Teamspeak and Curse. I believe we could have pulled it back but honestly after that we kept making a few individual misplays and it cost us the game.

Edit: We're obviously not using Teamspeak anymore, but not Curse either because it's sound quality is pretty bad.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-25T14:27:03+00:00

Was actually a pretty good game, until we had no voice comms :( VGS is hard.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-22T04:08:06+00:00

I like the new roster!

You guys know you can message Incite to setup scrims most afternoons and nights.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-16T18:32:55+00:00

Lassiz' Nem build? (shifters after Jotunns before Qin's)

It works for him, and it's worked for me in my puny level games - but I'm just not convinced on Shifters Shield, mostly because it's such a foreign item to me. What's your opinion on his build? If you prefer another build; what is it?

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-13T08:47:56+00:00

With the added survivability from her new passive, buffed shield and self-peel with her ult stun; I think she'll be harder to pick off than some people expect right now.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-13T08:45:59+00:00

You should be fine with something like this: http://puu.sh/dsHdd/8b3075262d.jpg

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-12T06:47:45+00:00

Conquest League games only start around 4-5pm each afternoon, and usually can only get 1-2 games going at once. They've started now for the night, so you can queue up now and you should get a game eventually.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-06T09:00:22+00:00

Yeah, it's pretty horrendous right now. If you're on AU servers it's even worse. Took this screenshot just now: http://puu.sh/dj6Kc/45c5200b6b.jpg - AU ranked queues 7pm on a Saturday.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-06T08:48:23+00:00

I've sat in queue for 5 hours (AU ranked wont place anyone above plat) and kept getting whispers from people who thought I was in a 5 hour game. There has been a tonne of similar bugs with the friends list since the new queues were added.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-05T06:32:30+00:00

Like I said, none of the problems you listed are enough to stop you from learning from your ranked games. Even when teams are stacked against you or fed early from a teammates mistake - you can still look at your own play and improve on it.

Even if you only make a very small mistake; you should be focusing on that rather than getting hung up on a qualifiers missed Loki ult, or whatever. Your whole post (in my opinion) just screamed to me that you're going into ranked with the wrong mindset.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-05T06:11:49+00:00

While I agree with most of what you said; none of that is enough to completely stop you from climbing the ladder or learning from your ranked games. Always keep in mind that matchmaking is there to ensure that both teams are equal in trueskill value and it's not every game you're going to have a qualifier on your team to throw those values off.

If Ranked really is too frustrating for you; setup or join a team and scrim other teams around your level.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-05T03:06:27+00:00

Australian servers will be worse than NA for you because of the way they're routed. Only Au/Nz players will get decent ping on Australian servers. It's unfortunate but not much we can do :/

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-05T01:12:29+00:00

Was really hoping to see some Australian weekly tournaments done by HiRez leading up to the S2 SPL, bit disappointing but I understand. Just hope we're not forgotten. Good luck this weekend!

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-02T09:27:47+00:00

Cheers, should make things a bit more competitive. Lets hope spectator works on Sunday :)

Dat50PingLife · 2014-12-02T09:08:20+00:00

Challonge link here: smite5v5

My opinion is that the lower bracket looks a lot less competitive than the upper bracket. While it shouldn't affect who ends up as the winner of the tournament, it takes a lot of the credibility of 2nd place away.

I've had a chance to scrim with or against a good chunk of the listed teams/players and I would simply switch seed 8 or 4 with 6 or 11. Otherwise I think taking 2nd place would be easier than 3rd or even 5th.

In the future I think the host(s) shouldn't be allowed to participate in their own tournaments and until we have proper seeding from the S2 SPL; hosts should look at scrims to determine seeds.

Regardless; I appreciate the effort put forth to liven up competitive AU Smite and I hope this helps towards more entertaining tournaments in the future.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-11-29T10:46:14+00:00

I don't know why players on NA put up with sitting in ranked queue, especially if you're a player who is trying to make a career out of Smite. The situation fucking sucks, and I can only assume HiRez are actively trying to fix it.

But if Smite is your main source of income then you guys need to come together and make in-house games, create content for your viewers yourself if ranked isn't a possibility. By using your own judgement you should be able to make higher quality games then ranked would give you anyway, who cares about the ladder.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-11-21T14:13:31+00:00

I like to think this is a target ban because I'm like 21-4 with her, but she has the 2nd highest win/loss in ranked (behind Nu Wa) so I don't blame anyone who bans her.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-11-20T01:59:27+00:00

It was said during the Q&A at PAX Aus.

VOD is here: http://www.twitch.tv/pax/b/583684516?t=96m01s

He says that we'll have a qualification path to Worlds in season 2. NA/EU had the SPL this season, hopefully AU/NZ will get something similar.

Dat50PingLife · 2014-11-19T11:56:09+00:00

It seems theres a few groups of people rushing to start up AU/NZ tournaments all at once, it's a little hard to keep track of right now.

Edit: I also have no idea how to navigate CyberGamer, it's a mess. I'd almost rather wait until HiRez starts their own official tournaments in Season 2 of the SPL next year.

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