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Winners: Team 3 / Team Tree - Nick, Sovman, lkgddr, Cereal & Wurdy
You will each be invited to OB Champ and awarded the OB ESL Spring 2017 Trophy on the forums. 
Runners Up: Team 5 / The Vengays - Extinct, Veng3nce, Joji, Designated Retard, Quake
  The Finals Bracket. Results in the final consisted of 16-5 on Nuke and 16-8 on Mirage.
 
 
Group Stage results should anyone have missed them.
 
Thanks to all who took part and a special thanks to @Lewis for giving up the time to help me run it. Hope to run a larger scale production summer tournament which will include stream and more hype.

Winners: Team 3 / Team Tree - Nick, Sovman, lkgddr, Cereal & Wurdy
You will each be invited to OB Champ and awarded the OB ESL Spring 2017 Trophy on the forums. 
Runners Up: Team 5 / The Vengays - Extinct, Veng3nce, Joji, Designated Retard, Quake
  The Finals Bracket. Results in the final consisted of 16-5 on Nuke and 16-8 on Mirage.
 
 
Group Stage results should anyone have missed them.
 
Thanks to all who took part and a special thanks to @Lewis for giving up the time to help me run it. Hope to run a larger scale production summer tournament which will include stream and more hype.

Most bomb defuses, CLEARLY A KEY FIGURE IN MY TEAM.
also, unseen. least frags, most deaths but was 3rd highest ranked player. 

Winners: Team 3 / Team Tree - Nick, Sovman, lkgddr, Cereal & Wurdy
You will each be invited to OB Champ and awarded the OB ESL Spring 2017 Trophy on the forums. 
Runners Up: Team 5 / The Vengays - Extinct, Veng3nce, Joji, Designated Retard, Quake
  The Finals Bracket. Results in the final consisted of 16-5 on Nuke and 16-8 on Mirage.
 
 
Group Stage results should anyone have missed them.
 
Thanks to all who took part and a special thanks to @Lewis for giving up the time to help me run it. Hope to run a larger scale production summer tournament which will include stream and more hype.

Winners: Team 3 / Team Tree - Nick, Sovman, lkgddr, Cereal & Wurdy
You will each be invited to OB Champ and awarded the OB ESL Spring 2017 Trophy on the forums. 
Runners Up: Team 5 / The Vengays - Extinct, Veng3nce, Joji, Designated Retard, Quake
  The Finals Bracket. Results in the final consisted of 16-5 on Nuke and 16-8 on Mirage.
 
 
Group Stage results should anyone have missed them.
 
Thanks to all who took part and a special thanks to @Lewis for giving up the time to help me run it. Hope to run a larger scale production summer tournament which will include stream and more hype.

Winners: Team 3 / Team Tree - Nick, Sovman, lkgddr, Cereal & Wurdy
You will each be invited to OB Champ and awarded the OB ESL Spring 2017 Trophy on the forums. 
Runners Up: Team 5 / The Vengays - Extinct, Veng3nce, Joji, Designated Retard, Quake
  The Finals Bracket. Results in the final consisted of 16-5 on Nuke and 16-8 on Mirage.
 
 
Group Stage results should anyone have missed them.
 
Thanks to all who took part and a special thanks to @Lewis for giving up the time to help me run it. Hope to run a larger scale production summer tournament which will include stream and more hype.

Winners: Team 3 / Team Tree - Nick, Sovman, lkgddr, Cereal & Wurdy
You will each be invited to OB Champ and awarded the OB ESL Spring 2017 Trophy on the forums. 
Runners Up: Team 5 / The Vengays - Extinct, Veng3nce, Joji, Designated Retard, Quake
  The Finals Bracket. Results in the final consisted of 16-5 on Nuke and 16-8 on Mirage.
 
 
Group Stage results should anyone have missed them.
 
Thanks to all who took part and a special thanks to @Lewis for giving up the time to help me run it. Hope to run a larger scale production summer tournament which will include stream and more hype.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10E5YoFz9NeRzSIiW955eMd3ZMF6KAp2glsJ30rbixNA/edit?usp=sharing

Here are the stats, dont a bit more than last time, particularly around the team-based statistics. Left out F.E.D as it takes ages to calculate for not much to show. Also left out HLTV and instead put in K.D as it's probably more understandable for most of you. HLTV is largely a reflection of K.D anyway.

As always, let me know if you notice anything wrong. Thanks all for participating, looking forward to the big boy summer one which will be streamed. Enjoy le numbers.
 

Also - all 14 maps laid out for you:
Groups
T4 (16) V T2 (11) - https://popflash.site/match/113618
T8 (16) V T7 (14) - https://popflash.site/match/113624
T2 (16) V T7 (11) - https://popflash.site/match/113667
T8 (16) V T4 (6) - https://popflash.site/match/113668
T3 (16) V T1 (8) - https://popflash.site/match/113764
T5 (16) V T6 (6) - https://popflash.site/match/113768
T5 (16) V T1 (11) - https://popflash.site/match/113838
T3 (16)  V T6 (9) - https://popflash.site/match/113849
T3 (16) V T5 (9) - https://popflash.site/match/114182
T1 (16) V T6 (8) - https://popflash.site/match/114189
T2 (16) V T8 (12) - https://popflash.site/match/114192
T4 (16) V T7 (14) - https://popflash.site/match/114188
Semi Finals
T5 (19) V T8 (17) - https://popflash.site/match/114235
T3 (16) V T2 (12) - https://popflash.site/match/114236
Final
T3 (16) V T5 (5) - https://popflash.site/match/114836
T3 (16) V T5 (8) - https://popflash.site/match/114871
 

Winners: Team 3 / Team Tree - Nick, Sovman, lkgddr, Cereal & Wurdy
You will each be invited to OB Champ and awarded the OB ESL Spring 2017 Trophy on the forums. 
Runners Up: Team 5 / The Vengays - Extinct, Veng3nce, Joji, Designated Retard, Quake
  The Finals Bracket. Results in the final consisted of 16-5 on Nuke and 16-8 on Mirage.
 
 
Group Stage results should anyone have missed them.
 
Thanks to all who took part and a special thanks to @Lewis for giving up the time to help me run it. Hope to run a larger scale production summer tournament which will include stream and more hype.

Considering how sore and petty OB's losers can be (as we've already seen), I'm not sure that's the best idea 

You're all fucking shitters who I have to purposely play bad against to stroke your egos.
Godseen and Godrune, all I have to say.
 
Seriously though, perhaps Sovman and Nick are a tad strong a combo. Perhaps our 'tiers' (which bear in mind were just thrown to provide a basis for the team randomiser, not to be 100% exact) weren't the most accurate and people could have been moved up and down. However, did it seriously impact the ability to create a competitive tournament? Not really. Can you say that any number of opinions would be able to predict how consistently people perform in a tournament? Not really.
Perhaps we could have reached out to more people, but truthfully even then there would still be arguments and accusations of it being unfair. It's not like we are 100% clueless as some of you made out, maybe not as active as ideal but not completely out of the loop. The people we were unsure on we took a moment to think about and see how they did in different games, otherwise it was just our opinions.
We didn't 'pick captains' or '8 strongest players', we just did it so the numbers would pull out certain people to chuck onto teams and have it roughly fair, which it was since each team had 2 stronger players and 3 others. Even the team that had the combo of Stiqqy and Absolute (arguably the weakest duo to be put together out of all the strong end duos) were able to only lose 14-16, 14-16 and 11-16. They were never really stomped and they lost more because lower end players (ie. myself, pasickle) under-performed.
We were able to provide roughly fair teams, try put some different people together and put it into a competitive format. That's all we ever wanted to provide and anyone expecting much better is deluded. My only real disappointment is the way people handled themselves before, during and after exiting the tournament. I wish more people could maintain a competitive edge while still having the same attitude as Wurdy & Scrune have mentioned - unfortunately it seems I'll never see OB be a place for that.
All the same, I hope for a good BO3 tonight.

Considering how sore and petty OB's losers can be (as we've already seen), I'm not sure that's the best idea 

You're all fucking shitters who I have to purposely play bad against to stroke your egos.
Godseen and Godrune, all I have to say.
 
Seriously though, perhaps Sovman and Nick are a tad strong a combo. Perhaps our 'tiers' (which bear in mind were just thrown to provide a basis for the team randomiser, not to be 100% exact) weren't the most accurate and people could have been moved up and down. However, did it seriously impact the ability to create a competitive tournament? Not really. Can you say that any number of opinions would be able to predict how consistently people perform in a tournament? Not really.
Perhaps we could have reached out to more people, but truthfully even then there would still be arguments and accusations of it being unfair. It's not like we are 100% clueless as some of you made out, maybe not as active as ideal but not completely out of the loop. The people we were unsure on we took a moment to think about and see how they did in different games, otherwise it was just our opinions.
We didn't 'pick captains' or '8 strongest players', we just did it so the numbers would pull out certain people to chuck onto teams and have it roughly fair, which it was since each team had 2 stronger players and 3 others. Even the team that had the combo of Stiqqy and Absolute (arguably the weakest duo to be put together out of all the strong end duos) were able to only lose 14-16, 14-16 and 11-16. They were never really stomped and they lost more because lower end players (ie. myself, pasickle) under-performed.
We were able to provide roughly fair teams, try put some different people together and put it into a competitive format. That's all we ever wanted to provide and anyone expecting much better is deluded. My only real disappointment is the way people handled themselves before, during and after exiting the tournament. I wish more people could maintain a competitive edge while still having the same attitude as Wurdy & Scrune have mentioned - unfortunately it seems I'll never see OB be a place for that.
All the same, I hope for a good BO3 tonight.

You're all fucking shitters who I have to purposely play bad against to stroke your egos.
Godseen and Godrune, all I have to say.
 
Seriously though, perhaps Sovman and Nick are a tad strong a combo. Perhaps our 'tiers' (which bear in mind were just thrown to provide a basis for the team randomiser, not to be 100% exact) weren't the most accurate and people could have been moved up and down. However, did it seriously impact the ability to create a competitive tournament? Not really. Can you say that any number of opinions would be able to predict how consistently people perform in a tournament? Not really.
Perhaps we could have reached out to more people, but truthfully even then there would still be arguments and accusations of it being unfair. It's not like we are 100% clueless as some of you made out, maybe not as active as ideal but not completely out of the loop. The people we were unsure on we took a moment to think about and see how they did in different games, otherwise it was just our opinions.
We didn't 'pick captains' or '8 strongest players', we just did it so the numbers would pull out certain people to chuck onto teams and have it roughly fair, which it was since each team had 2 stronger players and 3 others. Even the team that had the combo of Stiqqy and Absolute (arguably the weakest duo to be put together out of all the strong end duos) were able to only lose 14-16, 14-16 and 11-16. They were never really stomped and they lost more because lower end players (ie. myself, pasickle) under-performed.
We were able to provide roughly fair teams, try put some different people together and put it into a competitive format. That's all we ever wanted to provide and anyone expecting much better is deluded. My only real disappointment is the way people handled themselves before, during and after exiting the tournament. I wish more people could maintain a competitive edge while still having the same attitude as Wurdy & Scrune have mentioned - unfortunately it seems I'll never see OB be a place for that.
All the same, I hope for a good BO3 tonight.

Considering how sore and petty OB's losers can be (as we've already seen), I'm not sure that's the best idea 

Considering how sore and petty OB's losers can be (as we've already seen), I'm not sure that's the best idea 

Lewis is right, you'll all be complaining our team is stacked when we win today 

FYI every single player in tiers above sovman has statistically performed better than him with the exception of chus (kappa) - So what, you want him moved up into low tier 5 instead of high tier 6? Don't really see the complaint here. I think a fair few of you have been blinded because there's a stacked top tier and you're moaning because being a tier 6 player 'sounds low'. Sovman got 63 frags in the group stage, there were multiple 'tier 1, 2 3 and 4 players' who got high 80s and low 90s. I know you'll probably moan that stats don't mean anything, but I see no reasonable justification for Sovman to fly up the tiers right now.
But yeah, so many of you have moaned about the tiers - I'd really like some discussion/explanation beyond the general digs if any of you are up for it. So you want chus moved down and sovman moved up a tier. I don't know how you think the system works, but that's ONE SINGULAR point difference, team 3 literally wouldn't change at all regardless of sovman being tier 5 or tier 6.
Yeah, but I don't really think Mike in the place of Jamie resulted in a 0-3 stomp instead of a 3-0 coast lol, there isn't much between them.
 
 
 
I think so far it's played out very fair. Look at the round difference for group A. Even team 7 lost two 16-14's, a few rounds anywhere and any team in group A could have finished top.
As for group B, team 6 looks a bit weak on paper, but they did seemingly give up in the tournament, especially in the final match.
Everyone will also moan about the winning team being the strongest, no shit, one team has to win.

Considering how sore and petty OB's losers can be (as we've already seen), I'm not sure that's the best idea 

Considering how sore and petty OB's losers can be (as we've already seen), I'm not sure that's the best idea 

Considering how sore and petty OB's losers can be (as we've already seen), I'm not sure that's the best idea 

I think next tournament I might just stick to being a host without the player part 
Well the group stages ended like this:

Which pitted T5 vs T8 and T2 vs T3 in the semi finals. These two matches gave us the following close results and consequently the final matchup for tonight:

So congratz to both teams now in the final. Reminder that the final will be at 6PM BST tonight and it will be a BO3, people should turn up at least 10 minutes before their match. Good luck to both teams.

I think next tournament I might just stick to being a host without the player part 
Well the group stages ended like this:

Which pitted T5 vs T8 and T2 vs T3 in the semi finals. These two matches gave us the following close results and consequently the final matchup for tonight:

So congratz to both teams now in the final. Reminder that the final will be at 6PM BST tonight and it will be a BO3, people should turn up at least 10 minutes before their match. Good luck to both teams.

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