Doom Unity Speedrunning tournament thread (March 27th 2021)

[Alexo]

The Moderation staff for the speedrun.com leaderboard for the Unity Port of Doom is happy to announce the world's first 
 

DOOM UNITY OPEN SPEEDRUNNING TOURNAMENT!

              
We're inviting 8 eligible players to compete for a $170 prize pool on Saturday, March 27th!

The tournament will feature players racing across all 3 episodes of the original game from 1993. 11 matches will take place to find the best consistent player the unity port has to offer. New players, Veteran players, a new sport unlike any other.

We're expecting the event to take place over a 4 hour window, with players already signing up.

Eligibility requires players to have a submission on speedrun.com for the first 3 episodes of the original doom in the any% category.
Players who have not met the eligibility requirement, can submit their runs, and request to join the event up to March 25th.
 
Eligibility requirements and tournament sign up information can be found in the console doom community discord. Please see our announcements section for the most up to date information about the tournament.

We will also be hosting the event for spectators live on twitch, have a way to synchronize races, and have commentary provided from some of the best players in the game through out the tournament. There will be a voluntary John Madden Doom Guy now, which is pretty neat to think about.

The Tournament will be hosted Live at http://www.twitch.tv/consoledoom
Saturday, March 27th @ 1PM EST.

You can follow this thread to have a reminder set up a few days before, and the day of the tournament to spectate the event. Other SRC mods and myself will be returning to this thread to highlight things as they take place, and after they have ended.

We'll have runs synchronized as closely as possible. The event will be viewing them side by side, as players compete for a $170 prize pool in a next generation sport in gaming history.

I would like to thank THiEF, Pastelunity, and Jrmhd for making the prize pool possible, and the moderation team for their discussions planning the best possible format for the tournament to be played in. We're looking forward to seeing Doom speedrunning as a sporting event style approach for the first time in the Unity ports history!

 

Tournament Structure
ROUND 1
Players Compete in a single episode race in 4 players per match. 1st and 2nd Place move to the Higher bracket matches for round 2. The 3rd and 4th place contestants for each race, will play Match 3 with the same rules, and episode. 3rd and 4th place from this match, will be eliminated from the tournament.

 

Match 1

           ---- Starting Higher Bracket matches. 4 Players, 1 single episode. 1st & 2nd place move to higher bracket round 2. 
Match 2        3rd & 4th move to lower bracket in match 3.


Match 3

           ---- Lower Bracket match, 3rd & 4th Place are eliminated. 1st and 2nd move to Lower bracket Round 2.

 

 

ROUND 2

Players now compete in 1v1 races across 2 episodes of the original Doom. The 2 episodes are to be selected at random prior to the match (RNG decision) and both players must complete the two segments, in any order they please. Second Place in the Higher bracket (Match 4 & Match 6) will move down to face a player seeded in the lower bracket (Match 5 & Match 7). A player taking second place in a lower bracket match, see's them eliminated from the tournament.

 

Match 4  -- Higher Bracket 3

                 2 Players, 2 episodes. Loser moves to Match 5              

 

Match 5 -- Lower Bracket 2

                2 Players, 2 episodes. Loser is eliminated.

 

Match 6 -- Higher Bracket 4

                2 Players, 2 episodes. Loser moves to Match 7  

 

Match 7 -- Lower Bracket 3

                2 Players, 2 episodes. Loser is eliminated.


ROUND 3

Players are now playing all 3 episodes in a single segment speedrun race against their opponent. Lower Bracket 4 and Higher Bracket 5 Will be played at the same time.
 

Match 8 -- Lower Bracket 4
                2 players play all 3 episodes. Loser is eliminated.

                Winner plays Match 10.

Match 9 -- Higher Bracket 5

                2 players play all 3 episodes.
                Loser Plays Match 10.

 

Match 10 Lower Bracket 5
               2 players play all 3 episodes.
               Loser is eliminated and takes 3rd place prize of a 20$ steam gift card.


ROUND 4

The First player to achieve first place twice in three matches, across all 3 episodes (in any order the player chooses), is the winner of the tournament.

*In the event the lower seeded player has won against a higher seeded player.
If the Higher seeded player has not taken a loss the entire tournament, double elimination rules will be in play, and a second set of best of 3 races will be played. This is to keep in fairness with the double elimination rule established for all players through the entire tournament.

Match 11 Higher Bracket 6 - FINAL ROUND.

2nd Place takes the prize of a 50$ steam gift card!

 

1st Place takes the prize of two 50$ gift cards for 100$!
       

 

Who's ready to see some sweet runs? :)
 

 

 

Edited March 9, 2021 by Alexo
Spacing.

[omx32x]

weird nobody commented yet here

its always nice to see tornaments and stuff

good luck to everyone joining

[Alexo]

The World's 1st Doom Unity Speedrunning Tournament is TOMORROW! 

Starting times for Different Countries and Time zones.
UTC -    SATURDAY   17:00      MARCH 27TH
 EST-SATURDAY      1:00PM          3/27

PST-SATURDAY     10:00AM          3/27

 UK -SATURDAY       5:00PM          3/27

 RU- SATURDAY       8:00PM          3/27

 NZ- SUNDAY           6:00AM    MARCH 28TH

Good luck to all of the runners, 6 players in total. Some of the best players for the Unity Version of Doom have signed up. Its going to be a great display of some of the best matches the Unity Doom community has to offer! We may even have a chance at seeing new world records for any of the 3 episodes or full game!