Rocket League Tournament

Patberts19 · 6 Dec 2017 at 15:48

Would anyone here be interested in playing in an OCUK Rocket League tournament? It would be awesome to have members form teams and participate against each other, at end we could have it streamed and the winner could receive some sort of a prize. Is this something you guys would be interested in?

Patberts19 · 7 Dec 2017 at 08:23

TriedandTested said:
Yes, definitely. Are you on the OcUK discord too?

I'm not yet, I have actually not got my PC set up, will do towards the end of December. I was running weekly tournaments and quarterly leagues with playoffs for about a year before this and got my old team itching to run some more tournaments, I can send you a VOD of our last leagues grand final if you're interested.

Patberts19 · 7 Dec 2017 at 08:53

Lobovski said:
I'd be interested even though my form seems to have dropped dramatically lately

What rank are you now and what rank were you last season?

Patberts19 · 7 Dec 2017 at 09:51

PinkFloyd said:
I'm pretty rubbish but I'd be game

Admitting that you're **** at something is the first step to becoming a little less **** at that thing

Speaking from personal experience.

Patberts19 · 7 Dec 2017 at 10:44

For anyone interested, here is the VOD of playoffs of one of the leagues that I ran a while ago.

Patberts19 · 7 Dec 2017 at 11:25

Lobovski said:
That looks really well done. I'd be interested to see if i could raise my level playing as part of a team as i appreciate my ranking probably isn't high enough to attract many team mates lol

I was low diamond about two months ago (last I played). Towards end of December I'm getting my PC back, would be great to play with you.

Patberts19 · 7 Dec 2017 at 11:50

Lobovski said:
Defo mate (steam username - lobovski ) is this going to be a 3's tournament or 2's (maybe both) and what process would it be for making up teams?

It all depends on the interest and how much time people have. If you want to have a small tournament of 8 teams then all you need is 16 players whereas the number goes up to 24 for 3s. Then those 24 players have to find time to play, the more people involved the harder it is to organise stuff, one of the leagues we ran we had 2 groups with 8 teams in each group and with nearly 50 players there were quite a few dropout teams mid-season.

At this point it's just an idea, if it looks like there is interest, which it looks like there is then we can start discussing details and throwing out ideas, maybe taking a few polls to see what the availability of people is and what gamemodes they would be interested in.

Patberts19 · 7 Dec 2017 at 12:04

To anyone interested, here is me getting my ass handed to me in a tournament last year. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/70779401

Patberts19 · 11 Dec 2017 at 21:37

TriedandTested said:
So. What happens next?

Well right now I was just seeing if there was any interest in this. I will have my PC back up in two weeks and then I'm happy to organise a simple tournament and see what the feedback is. If people like it and are interested then we can scale it up and put down some plans for something bigger, maybe even get the OCUK staff involved, all speculation at this point.

Patberts19 · 15 Jan 2018 at 14:37

Mynight said:
Is this still a possibility?

I've moved into the new place, got my PC up and got net installed a couple of days ago. Will start to do a bit of organising tonight, once I get home from work. Is there a centralised place of discussion where we could discuss the tournament or do you think we should keep it in this thread?

Patberts19 · 15 Jan 2018 at 15:28

Mynight said:
Can either keep it to this thread or start a channel on the Discord server your call.

I would suggest the thread. Can post details in the Discord server later on.

I know of three that would be up for it .

I'l see tonight who is interested in an organisational level to help out. Shouldn't really need more than two or three people for a small tournament with under 20 people.

Patberts19 · 15 Jan 2018 at 17:51

I'm on the OCUK Discord, left a message for anyone interested in the other_games chat.

Patberts19 · 7 Feb 2018 at 13:02

Mynight said:
Did we get anywhere with this?

I have gotten together with some of the guys that I used to run tournaments with, we are in the process of securing partial funding for a tournament, sorry for not being able to move faster with this.

Patberts19 · 7 Feb 2018 at 13:36

Mynight said:
You'll have to excuse my ignorance but why would you need funding for something like this?

I know you mentioned a prize in the OP how large a prize are you thinking off?

There can't be that many people who have replied via ocuk?

How dare you?! /s

We will be making this available to the wider public, it won't be anything massive but should be £100+ for the winning team.
I've got roughly 8 or so people that have replied to me from ocuk.