During the festive break I managed to catch up with a great friend of the site, Craig Guild, who raised the question as to why we’ve never really run gaming tournaments before and would we be interested in running one?
Well the reason we haven’t run these things before is because we are incredibly lazy and running tournaments is hard work. Also we wouldn’t dream to think we are better than the current people who run tournaments, apart from the MSSA of course. Untrained monkeys are better than them at pretty much everything.
So Craig has volunteered to do the legwork and we are going to give this a bash to see how well it works out for us and, more importantly, for you.
The first tournament we are going to run will be a Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare tournament on the PlayStation 4 with the tournament officially starting on the 30th of January 2015.
The Bracket System
We’ve spared no expense, okay maybe some, and have signed up to use Bracket Ninja’s system (as seen below) to keep track and ensure you can always check how the tournament is progressing.
I know it’s got a horrible scroll bar for some at the moment; never fear it will be placed on its own page and will look uber sexy when we officially kick off. As you can see, it tracks the games and results and if you click on a result you get some extra detail about the match… genius.
[bracketsninja bracketid=”352264b01e584069b62b00b91677de19″ height=”500″]The Prizes
A tournament isn’t a tournament without prizes so we are hard at work securing some decent prizes for you beautiful people to get motivated.
As of this very second we have secured two prizes but since we haven’t approached anyone else I really do suspect this list will grow.
- Cash money! The winning team will receive R2000 from Lazygamer.net (or the $ equivalent in PayPal money)
- The MVP of the final will receive an Atlas Edition of Advanced Warfare on PS4 from Megarom
We are going to be approaching some other people to try organise some more prizes and we will announce those details in the coming week.
How Do I Enter
The plan was to have this awesome website that you go to and sign up and manage from there but I’m far too lazy to sort that out this early in the year so we’re going to do this the old fashioned way.
To enter you need a team of four people (I’d recommend five but four is all that is required). Everyone needs stable Internet and a copy of the game on PS4… oh and a PS4. Any other stupidities that I’ve forgotten? No? Good.
So when you have your four you need to email us the following:
- Team Name (Keep it cleanish guys)
- Players’ Names
- Captain’s Phone Number
- Preferred days and times of matches
Email the above to tournament@lazygamer.net and we will start building the brackets and keep you informed as we go. There is no entry fee or any of that nonsense and if for some reason if you are ineligible for the prize you can still enter, we just can’t give you the prize. Laws and such things are being researched.
The preferred days and times are exactly that, preferred. We will do our best to make this awesome for everyone but we need you to help out from your side as well.
The rounds will be best of 5 and the stages and gameplay modes will be locked down closer to launch.
Last Updated: January 6, 2015
Mossel
January 6, 2015 at 12:34
Will you be doing some PC comps in the future?
Kromas, Guardian of Cenarius
January 6, 2015 at 13:15
Hopefully not CoD. 😛
Mossel
January 6, 2015 at 13:22
lol I cant even log into CoD these last few weeks, don’t know if it is my internet or if CoD is just useless, because BF3 works fine! We should have a BF3 tournament!!
Blood Emperor Trevor
January 6, 2015 at 12:35
How did D get 1 kill? Did Guild have to go make supper for the kids?
Blood Emperor Trevor
January 6, 2015 at 12:37
Oh. Now I see. He struck from the shadows like the true Dark Knight.
RinceThis
January 6, 2015 at 12:41
Good luck people! I still think you should have a small entrance fee, stop the noobs from wasting your time. Like that famous noob, Guild I think his name is. Couldn’t hit a wall with a brick I hear! Though his speciality ‘Destroyer of prizes’ is a bonus for any team *RUNS!
Guild
January 8, 2015 at 10:33
Lol keeping running budd. 😛
Brady miaau
January 6, 2015 at 12:47
When will we have true cross platform play? On a technical level it must surely be possible
When Sony and MS allow it? I want that. That will be cool.
Until the articles start about unfair advantage with console X against console y, on a PER game basis
HairyEwok
January 6, 2015 at 12:49
Awww poopie its a ps4 comp….. Why you no care for Master Race!
Admiral Chief
January 6, 2015 at 13:09
Would have loved a PC vs PS4 match
Aries
January 6, 2015 at 12:52
This is cool, hopefully a BF4 one will come up as well on PC
Mossel
January 6, 2015 at 13:31
or BF3 for the less privileged out there! xD
Aries
January 6, 2015 at 13:51
LOL, no too old, need to move on
Hammersteyn
January 6, 2015 at 13:03
Would love to enter, but my childish hate for COD prevails. Thanks anyways Guild.
Reid
January 6, 2015 at 13:04
“Guild mopped the floor with Darryn and then while celebrating the victory with his wife the D stabbed him in the back for a single point”
Living up to the D name, but a kills a kill.
Gremoire
January 6, 2015 at 13:35
What about a XBONE one as well?
Are there any local XBONE clans that might be interested in a 0.000001 K/D ratio player ? 😀
Gavin, DM me on Twitter @gremoire, I might be able to sponsor a small prize as well
ReaperOfSquirrels
January 7, 2015 at 08:51
Good luck all and enjoy it.
Glenn Alexander
January 7, 2015 at 09:57
Great to see. The more events and tournaments hosted by various role players is always welcome.
Good luck Craig and to the LG staff.
Hope it all goes well and we can see you expanding to the Xbox One where it really matters 😉
Guild
January 8, 2015 at 10:34
Thanks Glenn. Hopefully all does go well and relatively smoothly. Then we can start looking into more tournaments and different platforms
John Recruit
January 19, 2015 at 13:46
Mal doesn’t work…. undelivered….