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Fell-gusts fuel, the frigid cold,
Winter whispers, wilted lays,
Haunting heroes, hard and bold,
With swiftly shrinking shriveled days.
Stalwart stands, the steady few,
No Winter-wounds, waylay their path,
Hard they hold, to honor true,
The cold is cowed beneath their wrath.
The Hallowed Horn, heaves a call,
Yule-tidings echo, throughout the land,
Heroes hearken, from every hall,
Blood beckons, in bright demand.
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Once more I, the Mad Jarl of the Isengrim, return to announce and host another year of blood-sport in the name of the Winter-Gods beneath the cold northern sky.
Twice now we have earned great favor with the Hanged-God, who has seen fit to reward our faction with hallowed victories. So it is only right and just that we give him another offering of gore and toil in the new-born snow of this dying year.
The eyes of the Aesir are upon us. Their weapon-luck is with us and they hunger for new deeds of valor; we will not leave them un-sated.
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This is the FRR's third annual Yule Tournament. Here are links to the previous two:
Yule 2013
Yule 2014
Hopefully we can make this year's blood-letting as successful and enjoyable as the last two years.
DATE:
Yule will be hold on the Saturday's of November 28th, December 5th and December 12th
NA TIMEZONES: 9PM EST, 8PM CST, 7PM MST, 6PM PST
All the preceding times are actually on Sunday the 29th, 6th and 13th.. at
EURO: 2AM GMT(London), 3AM CET(Berlin), 4AM EET(Helsinki), 5AM MSK(Moscow)
Oceanic Times: 1PM AEDT(Sydney, Australia), 12:30pm ACDT (Adelaide, Australia)
Where: The FRR Hub!
Duration: My goal is to have the Tournament run for around 2 hours each night. If you are less then an hour late, then its okay, I realize these times are tough to impossible for European units.
Format:
The Yule Tournament will be a double elimination tournament with an undefeated bracket and a one loss bracket. The undefeated bracket will be known as the Asgard bracket and the one loss bracket will be called the Midgard Bracket. Same way we've always done it.
RULES AND STUFF:
In an effort to streamline this event (least amount of down-time as possible), matches will be played on a first-come first-serve basis. That means if you two teams show up on time, we will have them play each other right then and there. This means that in the early portions of the tournament teams will not know who they are going to play, until right before the match starts.
After the first match ends we will put teams with one loss and one win into waiting rooms until we have another one win or one loss team available to play them. Then the 2 win team will go to a new waiting room and wait until another 2 win team is available to play. The one-loss one-win team will also wait for another one-loss one-win team to become available.
Sorry if this sounds confusing, I will answer any questions on it, but I believe that this will allow the matches to go at a much faster rate.
Matches:
Best out of three. The first team to win two games, wins the match.
Drops:
I am going to go ahead and trust the FRR here. The matches will just be 4v4. There will not be any observers in any of the early games unless specially requested and accepted by both teams, although I would love to get a few shoutcasters in the mix. It will be up to the teams to play fairly and to be honest about who won.
In a 4v4 drop the game goes live the moment their 'mechs start up, like in a normal match. No moving to grids prior to the start of the game. All game-types will be set to skirmish and an entire match will be fought on a single map.
I need every fourman team to try and have one person with Premium time on. If its absolutely impossible we can probably find an observer to drop with you, but that will take time - so please try to have a guy with Premium.
Maps:
Yggdrasil Bracket
The first match will be fought on Frozen City day.
The 2nd match will be fought on Forest Colony.
The 3rd match will be fought on HPG Manifold.
The 4th match will be fought on Alpine
The 5th Match will be fought on Mining Collective.
The 6th match will be fought on Frozen City Night.
Midgard Bracket:
The 1st Match will be Tourmaline;
The 2nd Match will be Caustic.
The 3rd Match will be River City.
The 4th Match will be on Canyon Network
The 5th Match will be on Viridian Bog.
The 6th Match will be on Forest Colony.
Please remember, each of these matches consist of multiple games. So every game in a match will be on the same map.
Mechs:
Inner Sphere Mechs only! Welcome to FRR, a faction in the Inner Sphere. If this upsets you, perhaps you should investigate moving to a Clan faction.
Teams of four, NO WEIGHT LIMIT. Instead one mech for each weight class. So ALL teams should have one light, one medium, one heavy and one assault. That is all, I don't care if you have the fattest of each class or the lightests, just make sure you have one of each.
Hero Mechs are OKAY.
Other Rules:
All consumables are OKAY. All builds (As long as they are IS) are OKAY! Bring pop-tarts and lrm boats and splash cats and whatever else you can think of. Odin doesn't much care how you win, so long as you do.
What does the Winner get?
Renown.
And a 20 dollar unseen mech pack sponsored by Rabtar's Raiders
HOW DO I APPLY FOR THIS AWESOME EVENT, MtD?
If you have four people willing to participate, and are aligned with the FRR, then make a reply here saying you want to play and what your team name is, and who will be on it. If a unit has 10 four-man lances who want to play, that is fine. If you are a lance that isn't part of any unit, but is clearly FRR aligned that too is fine.
There just needs to be four of you, one of you needs to have premium time, and you all need to be able to make the event times.
Subs are totally allowed, up to 50% of your team.
I want to help you MtD.
GOOD. I will need it.. send me a PM or talk to me in the FRR Hub.
At the moment that is all I got. Probably add more later as people remind me of things I forgot.
Edited by Mech The Dane, 06 November 2015 - 08:52 PM.
