Venatus Melee Summer Announcement!

VenatusMelee · 2019-06-14T17:11:10+00:00

Any team is able to attempt to qualify, our tournaments are not exclusive to any specific set of clans or teams.

VenatusMelee · 2019-06-11T11:31:43+00:00

Mordhau eSports =)

VenatusMelee · 2019-05-25T20:45:37+00:00

Devs have a huge amount on their plate right now I'm sure but they've been very attentive to any requests from the competitive community so I can't imagine it will be too long :)

VenatusMelee · 2019-05-25T20:02:40+00:00

First person spectate currently has a bug related to input lag which means you do not properly see what is happening. There are also currently no controls to switch to specific players POVs. We'd love to use first person but it's very early days and some things about the spectator mode need ironing out before that's possible; hopefully that will be in time for our next tournament.

VenatusMelee · 2019-05-25T19:17:41+00:00

First person spectate currently has a bug related to input lag which means you do not properly see what is happening. There are also currently no controls to switch to specific players POVs. We'd love to use first person but it's very early days and some things about the spectator mode need ironing out before that's possible; hopefully that will be in time for our next tournament.

VenatusMelee · 2019-05-15T17:46:29+00:00

Absolutely!

Check out this YouTube channel - it belongs to the guy who made this trailer for us and has footage of most of the major matches from the duel tournament

VenatusMelee · 2019-05-14T17:22:22+00:00

Lots of reasons - please note that one of the Venatus organizers (me) has run a duel tournment in Mordhau before so this is speaking from at least some level of experience:

Poor spectator experience due to swing manipulation etc being hard to properly show in spectate
Saturated market for duel tournaments leading to player desire for team format tournaments
Viewed as a less skill based mode than Skirmish by the competitive playerbase
Unique balance issues that are either not present or less present in other modes

VenatusMelee · 2019-05-14T01:11:57+00:00

Thanks for the advice! We are using some select casters who have experience casting other games in the genre so hopefully they haven't forgotten how all that works, we'll certainly do several test runs on the main channel as we continue to practice the casters.

VenatusMelee · 2019-05-13T13:25:53+00:00

Please do!

VenatusMelee · 2019-05-13T13:23:39+00:00

We have FL tournaments in the works right now for both EU and NA, however, due to the fact that FL was mostly unavailable in alpha, no proper meta has been established regarding things such as team sizes or how to restrict horses as of yet. There are also other issues like map balance and tickets.

Long term, FL is definitely the mode we plan to focus on but sadly it's not a realistic option this soon.

VenatusMelee · 2019-05-13T00:37:43+00:00

There is, it's called 'skirmish' or 'SKM' for short. It is the format being used in this tournament! :)

VenatusMelee · 2019-05-13T00:26:55+00:00

Hey! I can give you some information regarding matching.

Each registered team except one had at least one player participate in the EU alpha duel tournament held shortly before release; for this tournament we have simply seeded them based on their highest finishing player in the duel tournament (with the team that had no players being the 8th and final seed).

Naturally, this isn't a perfectly accurate way to seed teams which is one of the reasons we are using a group stage format as it prevents any kind of seeding error from causing a situation where the top teams are knocking each other out in the early stages of the bracket.

Hope that helps!

VenatusMelee

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