This thread is to discuss OCF, how the tournament ran, and what to consider in the future.
First off, I'd like to say that I enjoyed the event a ton, and definitely felt I got my donations worth. The casting was great; I watched people I've never watched before, and the coordination + teams were really great. Things seemed to run smooth.
A few things to criticize:
1. I think 4 invites were too many. That was 1/3 of the players in the OCF tournament, and although I am generally OK with those 4 players, I don't think they were so good that we should take it for granted that they would've been fine in open quals. I mean the first seed Jesulin got knocked out almost immediately. At the same time, other great players like GIAP and Paula had to struggle through playing in horrible timezones, when they could have easily qualified for invites. I think limiting invites to 1 or 2 people if we have large future tournaments would be a good call, because it gives such a huge advantage.
2. I think banning elite troops, rifle company, and partisans throughout the tournament was unnecessary. Elite troops isn't the insanely OP doctrine it used to be, partisans got fixed, and that rifle company insane flamethrowers were fixed with the most recent patch.
3. I honestly think the Brits should've been banned from the start. I think that banning the croc and those 2 commanders were a good call, but that this faction is still pretty broken. I mean, the centaur tank was pretty ridiculous (not sure if it's op but it's strong). At the point where the brits had the least amount of time to get balanced compared to the other factions, it might have been worthwhile to leave it out.
4. I wish the discussion of bans and map selection was more open to the public. I understand why it's not (most player's don't know the game that well), but it would be nice to see more transparency.
5. Just a personal taste thing, I wish semoisky summer had been in the map pool.
Anyways, I'd like to support future large community tournaments, and would like to start discussing how we can improve from here.
1) +1
3) +1
I personally vote that we have no more invites like that in. Org official tournaments. A lot of good players got knocked out in the early stages and nothing is to say these players would have been at this stage for sure.
I felt like we basically offered these players a bigger chance of winning money, which I thought was wrong.
Also as we saw from Aimstrong vs Omgpop... It didnt exactly guarantee good games lol
+ 1000
Asking people to play six brackets in one day. Is absolute lunacy. The only reason we saw top players DROP out of the brackets is because they were playing for 10-14 hours. That. is. bullshit. You do NOT do that. That was the number one problem with the tourney.
+ 1000
To me it was a super Tournament but with very bad Brackets (the complete Brackets, just a mess).
so, i cant wait for the cast 
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