CEA Team War Playoffs 2013

FEBRUARY 1, 2013 is the start date.

Welcome to the post-season tournament that pits the top teams against each other to determine who is the dominant force on the CEA forums!

As stated previously, this is a single elimination bracket tourney that pits the top 6 teams in a cut-throat competition. A few things set this apart from wars during the league:

*The top 2 teams will have BYES in the first round.
*Each war will be SINGLE ELIMINATION with SIX hearts (explained later).
*Every war and individual duel will use a K factor of 25 for their ELO ranking calculation (usually 15). That means that these duels will raise or drop your ranking in bigger jumps than in the regular season. This sets the playoffs apart and makes the duels and wars much more “significant”.

When the brackets are initially setup, it will look like this:

ROUND 1

#1 Team – BYE
#2 Team – BYE
#3 Team vs. #5 team
#4 Team vs. #6 Team

SEMI-FINALS

#1 vs. #4 or #6
#2 vs. #3 or #5

FINALS

Last two teams left.


AS you can see, placement during the season significantly affects your matchups and determines how much work your path to victory will require.


FORMAT

-Every war will have 6 hearts and single elimination. This means as soon as you lose, you’re out. First team with 6 wins, wins that round.
-Each team will allow their whole teams to participate. It doesn’t matter if the number of members are uneven. Full rosters will be used on both sides.
-Each war will have 10 days to be completed. This will be STRICTLY enforced as these playoffs need to finish before the next banlist.

!No war roster modifications can be made after the playoffs start!
If you add a new member during the playoffs, they will not be allowed to participate in the current playoffs for obvious reasons.

As soon as February 1st rolls around, the playoff matchups will be created and wars can commence immediately. If there are any questions, please feel free to post here or PM me.

Good luck to everyone!

too bad we get our strength late XP

any way i was curious what if the deadline is up and war not finished ??

challa wrote:

any way i was curious what if the deadline is up and war not finished ??

It will be handled on a case-by-case basis.

can you explain more plz ??

are there any restrictions in the decks the teams are allowed to use? it would be nice to ban exodia and burn, I think it's not fair to use these decks in an open competition, let's have a duelist pride and NOT use them xd

Mister wrote:

are there any restrictions in the decks the teams are allowed to use? it would be nice to ban exodia and burn, I think it's not fair to use these decks in an open competition, let's have a duelist pride and now use them xd

Nah... we'll let them use whatever. I don't think anyone's used exo or burn out of the players in teams headed to the playoffs... well, except for Lord .

ChaosSatella wrote:

Mister wrote:

are there any restrictions in the decks the teams are allowed to use? it would be nice to ban exodia and burn, I think it's not fair to use these decks in an open competition, let's have a duelist pride and now use them xd

Nah... we'll let them use whatever. I don't think anyone's used exo or burn out of the players in teams headed to the playoffs... well, except for Lord .

Lol I am now tempted to burn out melchett

SilentSolitude wrote:

ChaosSatella wrote:

Mister wrote:

are there any restrictions in the decks the teams are allowed to use? it would be nice to ban exodia and burn, I think it's not fair to use these decks in an open competition, let's have a duelist pride and now use them xd

Nah... we'll let them use whatever. I don't think anyone's used exo or burn out of the players in teams headed to the playoffs... well, except for Lord .

Lol I am now tempted to burn out melchett

If you're willing to risk getting Shock Locked go for it.

SilentSolitude wrote:

ChaosSatella wrote:

Mister wrote:

are there any restrictions in the decks the teams are allowed to use? it would be nice to ban exodia and burn, I think it's not fair to use these decks in an open competition, let's have a duelist pride and now use them xd

Nah... we'll let them use whatever. I don't think anyone's used exo or burn out of the players in teams headed to the playoffs... well, except for Lord .

Lol I am now tempted to burn out melchett

Please try it.

he said melchett not nick

Do you really think I can't read?

I'll consider it Nick If i get the chance to face him we'll see

NO BUUUUUUUUUUURN AND EXO PLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

by the way, the chain of shockmaster still let activates all the traps so there is no big risk here, unless it's a trap kinda magic cylinder xd well, just saying...

Awesome! Looking forward to the play offs! Should be fun and competitive.

Mister wrote:

NO BUUUUUUUUUUURN AND EXO PLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Just pointing out Mister: there will be dirty decks. These are to be expected, as is serious super meta. Can't take the heat get out of the kitchen lol

Yes, sorry bro, I forgot that xd

OMG, I cant' wait for this, 1 more week, why this punishment, WHY lol

don't get so happy your ass will be the first to kik in that turnmt

Why the hate

Biggie don't say stuff like that I'm sure everybody will enjoy the play-offs

it's just personnal probleme between me and mister and i don't know hhow it started XD

any way gl mister in that war

Lol we all know who's winning the Play Offs... xD

-Trojans

Seriously if you are so scared of burn and Exodia you need to prepare sides and techs for them. I have never used burn or Exodia in a war in my life, but I get tired of people complaining about them. Its your fault for not expecting them, and if you lost to it oh well. Theres many reasons why they dont continuously win events exception to chain burn last format in YCS, and its not because its "Cheap". In other words prepare and be ready. Btw feel free to use burn or exodia on me, if you expect me to get pissed I won't. have a nice day lol.

Playoffs coming up in a couple of days. Every team should be attempting the following:

1) Close up any current wars so you can focus on playoffs.
2) Confirm roster activity...

I am going to be extremely strict on activity for the play offs. so get your line ups solid now, or you'll be giving away free wins to your opposing team.

That said...good luck to everyone!

Good Luck to all the teams in playoffs