Definitely gonna be the rating in profile still, otherwise this update would have 0 meaning

Good job at implementing this change 2 days prior to gst on a holiday week. That is poor implementation and ridiculous.

Yes.

Any guild that didn't lose points is actually sparring on a regular basis or has been this week. For some guilds this kicked them from a top seed to not having a seed at all or being in the lower 32.

Can we get the registration extended for iDev? Any teams that are changing tags don't have much time to register.

I think this is a fair request considering the situation

K, iDevice closes at the same time as Mixed now.

Must spread rep :(

Stories of guilds boosting to make up for lost points are entering my pms. rofl

Best news

Also, pretty sure most are overreacting about the points and just looking at the numbers instead of actually GSing and seeing how it works
shark gang went from 4100 to nearly 6600

Idk how getting pts works yet but If It is based on activity only now then that's bad, people will just spar noob guilds to raise pts.

it's not only based on activity.

Seems fairly similar to the old system outside of just having to spar a little more actively.

Whitebeard had like 3k-4k points until they got their rating deviation to 75 and then it skyrocketed to 7k, all you have to do is spar actively for a bit

Why not 64 teams, the un-professional teams need a chance too(iDevice)

Now lets shrink the mix to a 16 team tournament and we can have one every month like in the beginning.

When GOAT doesn't troll and comes up with legit ideas

:love::love:

Since the Round of 64 was removed from the iDevice tournament, that brings the total numner of matches (in both GST's combined) down by a whole 1/3, from 96 (64 iDevice and 32 Mixed) to 64 (32 iDevice and Mixed). There's always been 6 arenas to view the matches from, but will there only be 4 this time? It wouldn't make the tournament take any longer than usual because taking out 1/3 of the rings just evens out wih taking out 1/3 of the matches. Kinda hoping this is the case because it'll be easier to watch and there's less of a chance that spectators will miss matches that they wanna see, and the Winner's room always only shows 4 arenas anyways.

Sorry if that's a mess of a paragraph!

I ask 1 thing of the admins this season, please open the viewing rooms on time or a little early this GST. Last GST they were opened late and was annoying to get everything organized for my stream

Switching it to where it allowed for 3 months of time and then instantly, without notice, allowing for 40 hours to catch up is not a well thought out decision. Not to mention in USA it's Thanksgiving week, and therefore some folks are with family or even possibly going out on the biggest shopping day of the entire year.

To be honest, this is just as silly as players expecting GST to now all of a sudden be hosted every 48 hours.

And to be fair, players have been begging for more frequent tourneys rather then having to wait 3 months for a tourney.

I think Classic staff has a good handle on how to host and imo do a great job with it to where they can successfully host at least once a month.

Having said all that, great job keeping up with the updates, they are all great ideas/updates. This was just a timing mistake imo.

I made a new guild and we went from ~ 2k pts to 6200+ in 2-3h, it really isn't hard to get pts (sparred not so high pts guilds + lost twice). It is just hard at the beginning then it goes fast.

GST Day final predictions:

It's GST Day so time to post these final day predictions...I'll do iDevice for now and Mixed later:

1) RD - Any team with Dark can be seen as a major threat so I see them going far...especially with sparrers like Noss and Kicko supporting him I honestly don't see how it's possible for them to lose. Also like last week they said they beat BTW 8-2 so this just reinforces what I predict.

2) Amity- They have 3 ex-winners (Fro, Inco and Crime) on their team. I'm sure these 3 can use their experience of winning GST in the past to mentor the rest of their team and make sure they reach top 3.

3) Silver- They pro+been together a long time they always gonna be a top 3 prediction.

Honorable mentions:

4) RS=pro

5) WaV=WaV is a team that definitly will only reach 5th place...just look at their roster. Toich will have to carry them! They have guys like Denny who lost 10-2 to dark in a series. They have Callum+Alex who have a dustbin as their WiFi...I honestly don't see them coming top 3. They should have put Sour on their team since she beat Deicide last GST and did good in her spars...she should replace someone like Callum.

Mixed:
1. Holy
2. Whitebeard
3. Immortal or TEAM BEER (Really depends if they're drunk or not lol.)

IDev:
1. Silver
2. WaV
3. Amity

Just my guess.

IMO if the GST would be every month, the GST wouldn't be as rare/cool/special/fun as it is now.

Doesn't have to be same concept every month. Rotate out a guild spar event each month or quarter. For many who qualify and attend GST go inactive for approximately 2 months for next GST. Which in my experience means there is a lack of content for the players who are actually participating.

lezzzz go team silver

Not tryna fire shots or anything, but WTF?

Update me on who wins, gonna be busy and won't be able to watch it

Will make predictions when brackets show.

RD if shiden logs.
Holy

Mixed
1.Holy
2.neidomu
3.whitebeard or WaV

WaV!!!!!

I'm salty lol, I got disconnected on my first round and we won so I didn't get a prize... (iDevice: Agents vs Checkmate)

Tried as hard as I could, first time coring for a team in ages.
gg trollin and neidomu was close.

Den .5 in under 30 seconds each spar, chokes leaving jose alone. Wav surprised me, den cost them the gst tho. I keep saying he's the worst non noob delayer...

Did horrible, got carried /afk 3 months

What's with this tie bs were we have 1.5 and .5 and they had 1 and we tied

We did well , especially against silver. The first round tie was my fault. I got like 4 hits. Second round we had more health and somehow tied lol, waiting on the recording to see for sure tho. Is there a new rule that all matches that last through till timer are automatically ties? If it wasn't for this we would have won 2-1. Third round we lost. Fourth round we choked a 4v3 with nearly double their health collectively RIP. But still , we won 2 rounds

So who won

Felt like I did really well personally. Really happy that TEAM BEER had fun and pulled through. Unlucky bracket, ggs and gratz to Holy. Huge shoutout to Dante for basically running the whole points process for us and stepping in for practice and the round vs. Holy. Thank you to all who helped us gs and pulled for us.

TEAM BEER

They won in the end.

Thought we'd win it all after that 1 round we won, had really good teamwork and I enjoyed this tournament. I think I did pretty well vs Holy, looking forward to see the replay

It was a really fun tournament doin' it with a new team. I think we did pretty good! GG Holy and GG everyone else

That Thallen, Johns vs. Dae was amazing.

Can't wait for the replay, missed everything but the finals

Really interesting GST this time around, a lot of good teams participated. Congratulations to Holy on deservedly winning the finals, we had a few opportunities to time out and win by HP. Unfortunately we couldn’t capitalise on them as Thallen was doing really well and managed to bail his team out of trouble. Also think there was some poor sportsmanship by one of the players on their team in the final to throw up the belt even after being carried by his team mates for the majority of the rounds but it's whatever.

RD won IOS gst.

Was right as expected. First time sparring as a core was round 1.

Congrats to the winners, hope everyone had a good time.

Better luck next GST in the winter season. But till then gifting season. Tis the season!

I did good vs silver, slacked in finals, thank you to my team and my wife cally. Shiden just learnt about the tie rule too!

Congrats to RD for winning iDev!