I agree, was a good tournament. Was great to do it with some friends even if we did horribly. To be honest it felt really stress-free. Glad Deity won, shoutouts to all those great guys.

Wasn't planning to participate this GST but I'm glad that I did. Probably the best staff hosts they've had, and it was a great gst due to no lag.

Shout out to Jarace for letting me hump him without kicking me out

Congrats to VIS and Deity and gs's to everyone too! <3 Very fun season!

I recorded what I could of mixed.

First time doing it (first GST in fact). I didn't know the layout of the viewing area and missed quite a few matches but I'll probably edit what I do have when I get back from out of town Monday night/Tuesday and throw it on youtube.

If I'm not sparring next time I'll likely run two computers and record both rings so I don't miss ****.

Not salty about getting 2nd place, the finals were legit. And VIS was the only guild that could have put down ultraviolence.

But I do honestly want to know what happened in round 1 VIS vs Impossible. Impossible was declared the winner, but VIS got a rematch. I didnt catch the reason why.

The whole server shut down spoof was... unique. But at least the horrid lag stopped after the reboot.

that was an accident, they were declared winner after one match rather than best 2/3.

I really felt like BDB could've taken itself to Finals but we were a bit unlucky you can say.Cheers to Blue Dragon and his noobs.

-Didn't except VIS to be so strong. Very few people predicted them, props to VIS for winning. NF was exceptionally productive for someone who is inactive and was added to the lineup at the last minute (mvp!!) Not to mention the tough draw they had.
-The idevice team that dalton was in beat SLX, impressive.
-Alumni, WAR & OO7 didn't live up to their potential.
-Xenthic's and bu7maid's guild did good for a new team coming 4th.

-Deity, who doubted them? They beat a top tier team like Blackout with one member afk for 30 seconds, enough said.
-Blackout arguably could of done better with ares online.

-FP4 did well on fixing the server problem, the staff didn't do the best job in my opinion. To many ban evaders, we asked to sub an afk member and we got completely ignored. We vsed an opponent that was constantly warping and freezing (excessive lag?)
I also don't understand why there was so many idevice final matches/or rematches, was it just a bunch of draws?

First of all, one of our members was glitched and couldn't see anything (Nightfear). So we were sparring down a man. After we lost that match it was 0-1 and we were declared losers after only one spar.. and then they put that Impossible won on the brackets. A minute later we were warped back to finish the match and then we won 2-1.

yeah im impressed by vis as well. when i saw the semi final brackets, i thought they'd lose to Ultraviolence.
is fro #1 in idev gst wins now?

who evaded bans? cause I don't see any in mixed side & couldnt pay attention to idev side.

no i recorded vis vs rebellious. there was no draw.

Rebellious vs. ViS
Round 1 - Vis won
Round 2 - Rebellious won
Round 3 - Vis Won
Round 4 - Rebellious only got 4 members warped in so it didn't count
Round 5 - Rebellious won
Round 6 - Kouji and Den traded hits and it had said Rebellious won but Lertcon said it was a tie.
Round 7 - Vis won

Hopefully that explains why their were so many matches lol

video is still under process. it will take about an hour to get the video running with HD quality. I think I missed a match where rebellious got their 2nd win.
watch me suck rly bad lololol

why didnt lertcon stop the match at round 5? vis won 3?

Because one of their members got warped out. They wanted to make it fair.

Sorry typo Reb won round 5 lol just fixed

Rebellious should have won, you can clearly see I hit first in the video min 36:46, but they had to redo it

But oh well, admins aren't always in your favor lol, another amazing clutch goes down the drain

Here's game 6 when the score was 2-2. Both players are at 0.5 and this was the tie breaker. Rebellious received the message they won but Lertcon judged this as a tie. Fast forward to 36:40 to see this in Zet's vid.

If i was Lertcon, i would probably called it a tie also since both of them are killed by the match ended. VIS could also argue like Rebellious right now saying it should of been a tie if they counted that match as Rebellious. Plus the 7th match was a fair match.

Yeah but Kouji swung first and we received the message we had won. You can't say it was a tie because another player delayed to land their hit to make it a double kill. 7th match was a clean win for ViS, but the 7th match should have never happened.

I was warped to Angel Clan before the match had started lol... So of course it was fair for the staff to redo that match(just like your round against Impossible). Don't get why you're bringing that up when it took less time to redo the match than it did with your whole team arguing with the host. And yes, I do believe that our team had won or else, the notification wouldn't have notified us ;). But good job during the gst yo!

rebellious should of won it, the systems decision should be final regardless of who hits first

We didn't redo anything against Impossible. They beat us 1-0 and we were declared losers by mistake. Admins warped us back then we beat them 2-0 to make the series 2-1. Nothing was restarted.

That tie in VIS vs Rebellious
 

Just wanted to clear up it was me (Domi), who traded hits with Kouji. Thanks!

Matches vs BDB, GTEAM and Blackout were fun. Mixed might have had more serious teams than usual.

I believe thats domi, he has a weird delay (or hitbox.) Likewise can be said about den.

Overall thoughts
 

Slowed down version of Zetectic's GST video. Is anyone an expert at spar, and can clarify this whole tie thing(Thallen pls)? I feel like the GST video didn't do any justice. At 0:01, you can see the opponent swinging his blue sword towards Kouji. But at 0:06, you see Kouji swinging at the guy(no blue sword visible). If he was turning as he was being hit, when would there be time for him to hit Kouji inbetween those few seconds before and after? Just seems weird as bodies do slightly move forward while swinging but his character didn't show any sign of it around the time that they had died.

I couldn't see domi swing his sword there.

Who are the winners? Didn't see GST since I was busy with Physics HW.

Tbh i'm not sure how that whole swinging timing thing works, i just thought we tied, i just know kouji is a great sparrer and it was a pleasure to face Rebellious in the finals after such a hard bracket. Even if VIS did not win GST, and admins did not redo that spar, I would still say it was a lot of fun and was well worth coming back to graal this summer.

GST results and overall thoughts
 

The viewer script is hella weird and unreliable, for example if you spam your sword the viewer will only show you swing one time and then you'll stand in place for the rest of the time while you're spamming
I don't even see Domi swing there but I see Kouji die, IDK, ask GraalBusters

Anyway, if the popup said your guild won then it wasn't lying, it means his hit registered first
It also shows Kouji dying after him

That problem wouldn't occur if someone just adds the same script from the BA guild spars that announces who won at the bottom

When does OpTic play

BEN

Okay, I didnt realize that was only the first match.

OO7 choked because all their members were trying to protect Pkun, who was in the corner doing nothing, so that he kept 3.0 the whole time. Not a good strategy.

i really wanna see ultraviolence vs vis. does anybody has a footage of it?

rebeloso won in the same way that the all-girl team and i beat aluminum and went on to win the tournament a few gsts back.

It alrit we stil beat them but lertcon f*** blind

Anyone got Deity vs. Blackout or Alumni vs. VIS recorded?

Reb the real winner tbh, it's obvious to anyone who paid attention to gst and doesnt fanboy over VIS.

vis won with hmong flame and not me wtf!!!!!

I have VIS vs Alumni from 9 months ago lol. Zet or Jeffy would be the only people that might have it, idk anyone else. Wasn't able to record this one, hope you get the videos though!

Nothing special to see tbh, since ultra won first round with 5 people but then had to play with 4 people for the next two rounds....

Although I haven't got anything agains Reb , Vis won more than they should have, Reb even got given a second chance at one point which was unfair as other guild with the same problem didn't get.

Vis and Thallen ' s "under dog" guild

Holly crap!! Can we get a confirmation about this thread being the fastest to 4k views.

Best of 7 series for the finals woot woot

Best of 5 series for the semis woot woot

Make it happen fp4







Don't care what happened(errors) in the finals(idev), but I enjoyed the series.


Props to fossil Clops for owning that BTB noob that ran the whole time while at 1 health.

It was written in the rules already that excessive lagging would be removed from matches, which is the reason why certain teams had to vs with 4. I didn't lag so... Weren't you the guy who let Abood used your account, but then you ended up being banned also?

again, the system's decision should be final, as it is in regular sparring and how it has always been.

if VIS won:
might as well take away thousands of sarah's wins (both players dying, her getting the win).
might as well rewind a couple of gsts and redo nessa vs alumni (jack sparrow and i both died, gave us the win).

rebellious basically won in my mind, congrats guys.

Rebellious won back to back Gsts and got robbed. Proof is in the video and this post is certified by Graal Busters.

Edit: keep in mind Zet did miss one recorded as he mentioned. He missed round 5 which Rebellious won cleanly. And for that saber dude who said Rebellious got a redo that's because we had 4 members at the start of that match. Lia didn't lag, she got warped to Angel clan for no apparent reason. Getting warped out at the start is extremely common, I see it at every dam Gst, I can't believe ViS thought that match would count, not sure if they don't understand how Gsts work or are extremely desperate for a win. In conclusion, Reb was the first to 3 wins.

Again, lertcon blind as fhk

also to the people who believed Kouji was evading ban, he went on his main account minutes before gst started and made a status clarifying he's not banned. Lol @ the idiots who probably tried to spam report him.

If we wanna talk about banned players, Slend/knaws is banned isnt he

would explain why nobody is addressing him as his real name and he made a status telling people Knaws is his main accounts name spelled backwards..