ReflexMonthlyCup 143 Report post Posted November 1, 2017 Welcome to Reflex Monthly Cups Reflex has been in need of a more established competitive scene for some time. The goal of the Reflex Monthly Cups is to give those who have the drive to compete in duel the guarantee that their commitment will be rewarded. Our goal is not to provide two tournaments or ten tournaments, but to provide a sustainable framework for competitive and dependable Reflex duel tournaments that will continue as long as there is demand and people willing to organize them. RMC is a purely volunteer effort, but we will do our best to consistently meet our goal of hosting a duel tournament every 4 weeks for each region. Upcoming Editions Reflex Monthly Cup NA#7 To be announced... Reflex Monthly Cups EU#6 To be announced... All future tournaments will be played on Custom Ruleset 2- https://reflex.fun/cr2 Registration Participants must sign up on challonge before the official tournament starting time : http://reflexmonthlycups.challonge.com/. Players must also join https://discord.gg/zUXuDcg on discord and ask for the Participant role in the "role requests" channel (https://discord.gg/cmNasKK) order to access the tournament-general channel where servers will be assigned on tournament day. On the day of the tournament, participants must check-in on the challonge page. Players will have a 1 hour window to check-in before the tournament begins. Each cup is limited to 32 participants, when full you should still register, you will be added to the waiting list and will likely make it in before the tournament begins Map Pool The Catalyst (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=608558613) Furnace (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=608417285) Pocket Infinity (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=609506884) Abandoned Shelter (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=608404670) Simplicity (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=609501573) Tournament matches must be played on the official versions if the game is streamed, both players can agree to play on a clean version otherwise. Prizepool Current cap : $100 (for each single tournament) The prizepool cap will be increased if community donations allow it. Distribution : : 45% + Reflex Monthly Cup Shovel (In-game unique melee item) : Album - Video : 25% : 15% 4th Place : 7.5% 5-6th Place : 3.75% ($2.5 will be used at each edition to cover server costs). You can contribute to the prizepool by donating on Matcherino in the prizepool links above (supports paypal). Remember that the goal is sustainability. Donating small amounts regularly is more helpful than a single large donation. Thank you for keeping competitive Reflex alive! Rules Reading the rules is mandatory when participating in a tournament : https://reflex.fun/rmc_rules Previous editions -RMC NA#1 : Final Bracket - VOD - Replays - Prizepool -RMC EU#1 : Final Bracket - VOD - Replays - Prizepool -RMC 1st Editions Highlights : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D09-7wBvV2 -RMC NA#2 : Final Bracket - VOD - Replays - Prizepool -RMC EU#2 : Final Bracket - VOD - Replays - Prizepool -RMC 2nd Editions Highlights : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE7IpHDVznw&feature=youtu.be -RMC NA#3 : Final Bracket - VOD - Replays - Prizepool -RMC EU#3 : Final Bracket - VOD - Replays - Prizepool -RMC 3rd Editions Highlights : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeTiPOIQyvQ -RMC NA#4 : Final Bracket - VOD - Replays - Prizepool -CR2 AU : Final Bracket - VOD - Replays - Prizepool -CR2 JP : Final Bracket - VOD - Replays - Prizepool -CR2 2v2 : Final Bracket - VOD - Replays - Prizepool -RMC EU#4 : Final Bracket - VOD - Replays - Prizepool -RMC NA#5 : Final Bracket - VOD - Replays - Prizepool -RMC EU#5 : Final Bracket - VOD - Replays - Prizepool -RMC NA#6 : Final Bracket - VOD - Replays - Prizepool Official RMC youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt3JBOnzAk4WD1dgnHGOvJQOfficial RMC challonge organization : http://reflexmonthlycups.challonge.com/ Reflex Monthly Cups --- Staff Head Admins :DazedSpartan – joined 01.11.2017Ramagan – joined 01.11.2017 Tournament Admins :DazedSpartan – joined 01.11.2017Ramagan – joined 01.11.2017bitstream – joined 20.02.2018 Trial Admin(s) : Server Admin :Ramagan – joined 01.11.2017 Public Relations :DazedSpartan – joined 01.11.2017Goulox – joined 05.12.2017Nacho – joined 21.05.2018 Video content :Zuluu (VODs) - joined 20.02.2018 RMC banners created by lolograde Original logo created by s.i. Honorary Staff :erad (Tournament Admin) - joined 25.11.2017cat_smoker (Highlights Movies) – joined 09.01.2018cupcake (Highlights Movies) – joined 01.11.2017lolograde (Highlights Movies) - joined 01.11.2017 Volunteer Reflex Monthly Cups is looking for volunteers eager to help us improve the quality of these tournaments: Another Public Relations member who can advertise the cups on discord and other sites and platforms 2 to 4 additional tournament admins Additional Video Editor Someone with videomaking skills to join the highlights video team A newswriter who can write pre and post cup summaries A tournament admin issues periodic announcements, reminders, and information throughout the tournament. Tournament admins are responsible for assigning servers for matches and managing the challonge page. They must be available throughout the tournament to assign servers as games are finished, as well as in cases where rules need to be enforced. The more tournament admins available for a tournament, the less the workload will be for each one. If you are interested in any of these roles, please contact @DazedSpartan#3488 on discord. Thank you! 33 ZuLuuuuuu, Sharqosity, erad and 30 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lolograde 558 Report post Posted November 1, 2017 Awesome! Good luck to all competitors! 1 cuppers reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ToRRent 16 Report post Posted November 1, 2017 Can I be approved to spectate/cast aswell? I had a healthy Polish playerbase on my streams, pretty sure they would like to watch best players compete again in reflex. 6 xLuftwaffel, cozy, LKO-,- and 3 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maker 4 Report post Posted November 1, 2017 great stuff! dibs on last place every cup! 1 Sharqosity reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ReflexMonthlyCup 143 Report post Posted November 5, 2017 Reflex Monthly Cups staff is happy to announce that prize pool donations and payouts will be handled through https://matcherino.com/ This site allows us to create seperate donation pools for each tournament and makes the donation and payout process easier and more transparent. Due to the generosity of donators, we are also excited to announce that we are raising the prize pool cap for each tournament from $50 to $75. To donate to the tournaments, sign in and add funds to your matcherino wallet with paypal and contribute to the tournaments. To receive payouts, the top 3 players of each tournament will sign into matcherino and provide their username to admins. The prize money will be added to their matcherino wallet and it can then be easily transfered to a paypal account. The first rotation of NA and EU cups are already completely funded- RMC NA#1 : https://matcherino.com/tournaments/8730 RMC EU#1 : https://matcherino.com/tournaments/8744 If you would like to contribute, donations are open on Matcherino for the second rotation- RMC NA#2 : https://matcherino.com/tournaments/8746 RMC EU#2 : https://matcherino.com/tournaments/8747 Thank you to all donators! 1 Grybzt reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Soh 36 Report post Posted November 8, 2017 If the tourneys are monthly u should look into rotating two maps out per month so we can get fresh maps in to reflex instead of the same old 5 we've been playing for over a year at this point. 6 erad, chortas, Goulox and 3 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ReflexMonthlyCup 143 Report post Posted November 10, 2017 See post below. 1 Grybzt reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shooter 1,422 Report post Posted November 21, 2017 I'm pushing a 1.1.2 expplus build to the expplus steam branch for this. This will allow you to use the custom ruleset on the 1.1.2 build. note: If you go this way, only the server will need the expplus branch, connecting clients just need to callvote ruleset experimental_plus Been sitting on it for a while with anticipation that 1.2 would beat it - but it doesn't look like that's the case. Please let me know if there are any issues setting up the expplus servers. 15 5 Delementary, bej, promEUs and 17 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyAl 171 Report post Posted November 21, 2017 6 hours ago, shooter said: 1.2 wen. 1 lolograde reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ReflexMonthlyCup 143 Report post Posted November 21, 2017 How to play on the custom ruleset : http://reflex.fun/ruleset.html#Playing Using the latest version of Reflex available on steam, connect to one of the servers from the server browser or manually in the console: Full List of servers available here : http://reflex.fun/ruleset.html#Playing 1 Grybzt reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Yasashii 329 Report post Posted November 23, 2017 Done up some custom melees for the winners each month 15 2 klyph0rd, LKO-,-, Greed and 14 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HaraldQuake 144 Report post Posted November 24, 2017 Why always only duel? Do TDM. Please. 1 wrjthe reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ReflexMonthlyCup 143 Report post Posted November 30, 2017 RMC promo video created by lolograde The first rotation of Reflex Monthly Cups are right around the corner! The first NA tournament will begin this Sunday, December 3, at 02:00 PM EDT (UTC-4), and the first EU tournament will begin Sunday, December 17 at 5:00 PM CET (UTC+1). Signups are will remain open until the start of the tournaments. Don’t hesitate to sign up for a full tournament, challonge will put you on a waiting list and you will likely make it in on tournament day. Donations are open for the second rotation of tournaments- RMC NA#2 - https://matcherino.com/tournaments/8746 RMC EU#2 - https://matcherino.com/tournaments/8747 Thank you for donating and keeping competitive Reflex alive! We are looking for more tournament admins before the first rotation. Please contact @Ramagan#3970 on discord if you are interested. 4 LKO-,-, MAD_JIHAD, Kyto and 1 other reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ReflexMonthlyCup 143 Report post Posted December 4, 2017 Reflex Monthly Cup NA#1 Results The first NA Reflex Monthly Cup was concluded today, and showcased some of the best competitive Reflex has to offer. A big thank you to all the RMC staff, Delementary for casting, and to all the participants who made this tournament possible. Congratulations to Hoyt, the champion of the first NA Monthly Cup and the winner of the exclusive shovel made by Yasashii! : Hoyt : DazedSpartan : Ezormer See you all next time. Final Bracket : http://reflexmonthlycups.challonge.com/RMCNA1 Complete Broadcast : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP-OVTznEQs&feature=youtu.be Replays : https://www.dropbox.com/s/cym0p6sbgd53887/RMCNA1_replays.zip?dl=0I Donations are open for the second rotation of monthly cups : RMC NA#2 : https://matcherino.com/tournaments/8746 RMC EU#2 : https://matcherino.com/tournaments/8747 Thank you for donating! In order for Reflex Monthly Cups to be sustainable we need many more tournament admins. It will not be feasible to continue to run the cups without more help. If you are interested, please contact @DazedSpartan#3488 on discord. 6 ZuLuuuuuu, Goulox, wrjthe and 3 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ReflexMonthlyCup 143 Report post Posted December 7, 2017 Announcing Reflex Monthly Cup NA#2 The date for the second rotation of the North American cups is finalized! Start Time : Sunday, January 7, 2018 at 02:00 PM EST (UTC-5) Stream : https://www.twitch.tv/delementary Bracket : http://reflexmonthlycups.challonge.com/RMCNA2 Sign-up : http://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/dGJ84UMCC7 Communication : https://discord.gg/VzCft2K Prizepool : https://matcherino.com/tournaments/8746 Thank you to donators and we hope to see you all on tournament day! 1 Yasashii reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ReflexMonthlyCup 143 Report post Posted December 11, 2017 Reflex Monthly Cups Experimental Map Pool Discussion The main goal of RMC is to provide a solid and pure foundation for competitive Reflex. A refined map pool is an important component of this goal. Some preliminary changes have been made to: The Catalyst :http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1227484158Pocket Infinity :http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1227493206Furnace :http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1227513321Simplicity :http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1227501276Abandoned Shelter :http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1227508873 The main goals are : -Giving more options for out of control play on some maps -Making use of the ruleset ammo changes by moving and changing the amount of ammo boxes on some maps These changes are not final, and are a starting point to promote constructive discussion that will lead to maps that utilize the full potential of the new ruleset. Please provide feedback and suggestions in the respective RMC-EXPERIMENTAL-MAP-POOL discord channels here : https://discord.gg/VkayrzM After months of feedback and tweaking, this experimental map pool may be showcased and tested in a future Reflex Monthly Cup edition. Thank you for your help and see you in the 1st EU cup this weekend! The EU cup on December 17th will use the standard map pool as outlined in the rules. We continue to need more tournament admins who will be available to help run the NA cups. Please contact @DazedSpartan#3488 if you believe you can be of service. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Warlord Wossman 102 Report post Posted December 11, 2017 The item layout is largely effected by the world spawn so forcing the same sort of "standard" item layout to every map is a really bad idea. There was a reason why maps were designed the way they are and that (at least) partly took the item layout into account. Just changing that with a general argument in mind that disregards every map specific situation that will be caused by the changes goes against all mapping theory that Reflex mappers used up to date. 5 Duck, /fragile, DK and 2 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ReflexMonthlyCup 143 Report post Posted December 12, 2017 We appreciate your feedback but want to remind you that the goal of these changes is not to force standardized item layouts and is instead to give more options for out of control players on some maps. We are not trying to create a homogenized map pool. The initial changes you are responding to were one idea of how to accomplish this goal, but the main purpose is to use Reflex Monthly Cups as an opportunity to generate new discussions and feedback to improve the map pool. In only a couple of days some of these maps have gone through multiple iterations with the initial changes simply serving as a starting point. The experimental maps will hopefully continue to be tested and tweaked in a similarly positive way in the coming months before they see any competitive play whatsoever. Expect at least 2-3 months of testing before any changes are considered to the main map pool. Any changes will not be large, for example the most common change on these experimental maps was moving and sometimes deleting certain ammo boxes. Especially with the new ruleset coming in 1.2 where ammo is more scarce, these small tweaks should make maintaining control require more careful decision making by forcing the in control player to expose himself, take a less efficient route, or simply not have ammo for certain weapons, giving more options for out of control and a more interesting game dynamic. Again, we appreciate your feedback but if you would like to be directly involved in the conversation we encourage you to join the respective discord channels here : https://discord.gg/VkayrzM Thanks, RMC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ReflexMonthlyCup 143 Report post Posted December 14, 2017 A new rule has been added regarding the occurrence of bugs or exploits during a tournament game: Accidental or incidental triggering of a bug or potential exploit during a match will be judged on a case by case basis by the admins. Abuse of an exploit will result in an immediate loss of the map for the abuser. A second abuse will result in disqualification from the tournament. An exploit is a clear advantage gained through the use of unorthodox or game breaking methods that take advantage of a flaw in the game that produces a result that is clearly not intended and unfair. This rule is effective immediately. The following exploit, which has been reported to shooter, falls under this category: This rule is designed to ensure fair competition for Monthly Cup participants. RMC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ReflexMonthlyCup 143 Report post Posted December 17, 2017 Reflex Monthly Cup EU#1 Results The first EU Reflex Monthly Cup is over. Once again, a big thank you to all the RMC staff, GMT for casting, and to all the participants who made this tournament possible. Congratulations to Ramagan, the champion of the first EU Monthly Cup and the winner of the exclusive shovel made by Yasashii! : Ramagan : Vigur : Czm See you all next time. Final Bracket : http://reflexmonthlycups.challonge.com/RMCEU1 Complete Broadcast : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd8YLTaNKwE Replays : https://www.dropbox.com/s/igmkpfnqjn5mlje/RMCEU1_replays.zip?dl=0 Donations are open for the second rotation of monthly cups : RMC NA#2 : https://matcherino.com/tournaments/8746 RMC EU#2 : https://matcherino.com/tournaments/8747 Thank you for donating! In order for Reflex Monthly Cups to be sustainable we need many more tournament admins. It will not be feasible to continue to run the cups without more help. If you are interested, please contact @Ramagan#3970 on discord. 2 Yasashii and ZuLuuuuuu reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
capodecima 86 Report post Posted December 17, 2017 god rama Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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truck 84 Report post Posted December 26, 2017 so will you be accepting feedback about your map changes from people who participated in newbie nights? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ReflexMonthlyCup 143 Report post Posted December 26, 2017 Reflex Monthly Cups is looking for broadcasters to stream the tournaments The tournament broadcast is a vital component of Reflex Monthly Cups. It is clear from watching Delementary, ToRRent, and GMT’s streams that having great casters helps tremendously. Unfortunately, GMT is going to be taking a break from streaming and will be stepping down as a broadcaster. We wish GMT all the best in his future efforts, but RMC is now need of streamers. We are looking for someone who has: -A high production quality (good settings, mic, and internet) -Some knowledge of afps (not necessarily Reflex) Casting is not mandatory! We are looking foremost for a dedicated streamer, casters will be arranged later if necessary. We would prefer someone with more experience streaming, but we are open to the idea of new streamers as well. We pride ourselves on organizing the RMC tournaments in a way that makes it as easy as possible for the streamer. Each tournament will be held on a Sunday and will last 4-5 hours with the date announced far in advance. Thanks and Merry Christmas! Additionally, in order for Reflex Monthly Cups to be sustainable we need more tournament admins who will be available for the NA editions. If you are interested in streaming or admining please contact @DazedSpartan#3488 on Discord or send a private message to Reflex Monthly Cups on the Reflex forums. 1 trip reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
