Posted by Thallen

Don't really have a prediction because bracketing is just really flawed and that makes it pretty random in terms of placements
You probably can guess my opinion of what I think the strongest teams are

Won't be doing another GST after this one unless there is some huge incentive coming with the new system, or if they plan on only hosting a single GST then I'd probably do that

how can they make it unflawed?  

It's not really worth talking about fixing now because a lot of stuff is going to change soon that will likely affect it anyway
Just for reference though, last season Alumni half-assed our points and we were given the only easy bracket we've ever had


Replace us with another lower-quality team and the finals would be a joke, so that's what I'm talking about in terms of it being awkward to predict placements  

Posted by Aguzo

Last gst, lost against alumni, finals 3-1?
2 gsts ago, alumni, before semis 2-1
3? gsts ago, alumni, semis idk
4 gsts ago? alumni, finals 3-1 or 3-2?

Don't remember blackout ever losing against anyone else.

When I was in war, never faced blackout. During blackout, faced apostles and won 2-1, in semis. Won the other 2-1 that was for 3rd place.

GTEAM never played you in GST :p  

Posted by Ruppy

GTEAM never played you in GST :p

Once for 3rd place, when I was in war gst. We won 2-0.
Finals were alumni vs blackout. 3-1

Not that gteam has faced blackout, but during a tourney apostles/war beat gteam, and advanced to semis. Blackout beat apostles 2-1.

Not sure "if A team can beat B team, and B team can beat C team, then A team can beat C team."  

Posted by Aguzo

Once for 3rd place, when I was in war gst. We won 2-0.
Finals were alumni vs blackout. 3-1

Not that gteam has faced blackout, but during a tourney apostles/war beat gteam, and advanced to semis. Blackout beat apostles 2-1.

Not sure "if A team can beat B team, and B team can beat C team, then A team can beat C team."

ahh yes that was the first time we didn't have maxy much sad day and yes war did beat us i wouldn't say thats accurate description though because we got on 1 day before gst but they won fair and in square so no excuses  

Posted by Thallen

Don't really have a prediction because bracketing is just really flawed and that makes it pretty random in terms of placements
You probably can guess my opinion of what I think the strongest teams are

Won't be doing another GST after this one unless there is some huge incentive coming with the new system, or if they plan on only hosting a single GST then I'd probably do that

It's not really flawed it's just not that GST really isn't THAT popular. There are only a couple of guilds that are even in the conversation of competing on graal. I wish there was more sparrers and it wasn't just a small group of people dedicated to it.

It would be more ideal if they limited the amount of teams allowed to compete since the player pool isn't that big in GST. Would speed things up as well.  

I think the flaw in it is that people enjoy organized sparring at Belle, not sparring in the arena rooms. The whole process is bad due to behavior like:

• Sparring complete noob guilds or 5 vs. 3s to grind points, which isn't good practice or fun
• Strategically sneak attacking guilds who dare to spar on their tag which actually has points
• Dealing with 5 people from 3 different guilds colluding onto 1 tag to try and bring your guild's score down

Dunno, just seems like an unenjoyable experience because of how much unnatural guild activity comes from it. It's gaming the system more than it is guild sparring.



Blahblahblah, anyway, I'm sure it fixes itself as soon as GSing rewards guilds more in the coming update.  

As far as people from different guilds combing and what not, the tweaks that have been put in place for guild limits and such might help somewhat. Hopefully there will be more tweaks in order to make being apart of a guild more meaningful than it is generally treated currently.  

I change my answer I believe Rectum, Body Odor, In titty, and A lump eye along with Zee Pees Lemons guild have an equal chance to win GST. ;) *get it?*  

Angles have an equal chance to qualify for the tourney

Posted by Ruppy

*get it?*

 

Posted by Aguzo

Angles have an equal chance to qualify for the tourney

No the names XD  

Posted by Ruppy

No the names XD

Other ones are easy to figure out ahaa the last one stumbled me.  

bump as registration has now opened and apparently some changes to idev teams were made  

the real winner is the iclassic community for being able to witness such intese & high level sparring action  

Posted by Crono

the real winner is the iclassic community for being able to witness such intese & high level sparring action

i come for the nonstop action of the competition and good sportsmanship of its competitors.