Kreedz.com - CS 1.6 KZ World Records & Maps

Dear Kreedz Community,

The wait is finally over! Kreedz.com is excited to announce our first tournament since the site's revival, and it's just the beginning of many more to come. As you can see, the first thing to note here is that we have just set the bar for the highest prize pool ever recorded on the website's history. And in order to celebrate that, we have come up with new plugins, an unique map pool for each stage, and a modified format that is slightly different from the ones of previous years.

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Thanks to CyniuThunder for the teaser!

• Schedule:

13 of July (SAT): 17:00 (5 PM) CET to ~21:00 (9 PM CET) - Stage 1: Qualifiers + Stage 2: Swiss Groups (if possible)
14 of July (SUN): 17:00 (5 PM) CET to ~21:00 (9 PM CET) - Stage 1: Qualifiers (if necessary) + Stage 2: Swiss Groups
20 of July (SAT): 17:00 (5 PM) CET to ~21:00 (9 PM CET) - Stage 2: Swiss Groups + Stage 3: Playoffs (if possible)
21 of July (SUN): 17:00 (5 PM) CET to ~21:00 (9 PM CET) - Stage 3: Playoffs

*Time duration during tournament days is approximate

• How can I sign up/participate ?

Just leave a comment under this newspost writing the following (you can also text me in private via discord):

Example:

I'm in
Name: p0ker

• Tournament Bracket Examples for Each Stage

1. CLICK HERE Qualifiers
2. CLICK HERE Swiss System Groups
3. CLICK HERE Double Elimination Playoffs

• [$2550 total] Prize money distribution:

1st place: $1000 (39,2%)
2nd place: $500 (~19,6%)
3rd place: $390 (~15.2%)
4th place: $200 (~7.84%)
5-6th place: $100 (~3.92%)
7-8th place: $38 (~1.96%)
9-16th place: $19 (~0,78%)

• LIVE Broadcast:

More information about this will be added later. For now, you can be sure that there will be an english, russian and chinese broadcast/live stream with live commentary.

• Tournament Format:

The tournament will be split into three main stages/phases, each with its own unique format and map pool:

1. Qualifiers

• UNLIMITED amount of players in a Melee style format (everyone vs everyone) based on 6 maps. EVERY player will play EVERY map.

• The best 16 players advance

• Everyone else is eliminated.

• Average cup time will depend on the map, but it will be generally between 2 to 7 minutes.

• Advancement and seeding for the next stage will be dependant on the following:

- Overall best time on average from all 6 maps.

*Click here to see an example of how a tournament QUALIFIER could look like (Disclaimer: this example has only 4 players advancing, the real tournament will have 16)

2. Swiss System Group

• Classic 1v1 matches
• 16 players Swiss System Group
• 5 rounds total. If you win 3 matches, you qualify for the playoffs. If you lose 3 matches, you are eliminated
• The first two rounds will use the seeding based on the Qualifier results (1 vs 16, 2 vs 15 etc.)
• The last three rounds will use the Buchholz system, which will automatically seed all the remaining matches (2:0 vs 2:0 ; 0:2 vs 0:2 ; 1:1 vs 1:1 and etc.)
• All matches are going to be Bo3.
• 8 players advance, and 8 players are eliminated
• If you have troubles remembering how the Swiss system works, click HERE to see a swiss tournament test tree, which we will be updating LIVE during the tournament.

3. Double Elimination Playoffs

• Classic 1v1 matches
• Standard 8 players double elimination playoffs bracket rules, every player has two lives, except for the upper bracket winner in the Grand Finals.
• All matches until the Grand Final and the Consolidation Final are Bo3 (best of three)
• The Grand Final and the Consolidation Final are Bo5 (best of five)
• The winner of the Upper Bracket final will have an advantage in the Grand Final. He will be able to ban two maps, instead of just one per player.
• Opening matches' seeding will be based on the results from the Swiss Group Stage (Standard 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6 and etc.)
• Click HERE to see how double elimination playoffs format looks like from previous XJ tournaments.

• Map Pool and Map Veto Rules:

This tournament would try to provide a variety of map choices which could fit every player's style. Therefore we tried to be as diverse as possible, while also going for map picks which are uncommon for previous tournaments. As for the map difficulty, in normal XJ tournaments, it would raise with each stage, however we have decided to keep the majority of the maps at easy to average difficulty. For hard and above, we have other plans for the not-too-distant future. :)

1. Map Pool:

• Qualifiers

1. cray_jariktun [climb + bhop] - 07:00 (WR: 02:20.80)
2. kzlt_blockmania [speedclimb] - 08:00 (WR: 02:23.28)
3. ckz_sepulcher [speedclimb+bhop] - 06:00 (WR: 02:33.37)
4. kzba_hophop ~~[bhop]~~ [mix] - 6:00 (WR: 02:26.22)
5. deathrun_arxdukz_easy [bhop/speedclimb] - 05:00 (WR: 01:08.84)
6. p3_speed [longjumps] - 09:00 (WR: 03:09.14)

• Swiss System Group

- First half of Swiss:

1. kzro_brickstgrass [climb]
2. ksz_mountainvalley [climb]
3. kzcn_climaxtrip [bhop]

4. bkz_goldbhop_v2 [bhop]
5. prochallenge2_mix_ez [mix]

6. chk_cotard [mix]
7. slide_pyk_forge_ez [slide]

- Second half of Swiss:

1. kzcn_chinaxz [climb]
2. 5oXen_0033 [climb]

3. kzru_orange(b)hop [bhop]
4. kz_nobkz_factoryrun [bhop]
5. k_sci-fi [mix]
6. sl_to_SuicideMouse [mix]
7. kzex_jumprun2 [longjump]

• Double Elimination Playoffs

- First half of Playoffs:

1. kzzNk_gelions [climb]
2. kzzNk_govs [climb]
3. fu_plainhop [bhop]

4. fu_devhops [bhop]
5. kzex_egyptianjourney [mix]
6. mls_various [mix]
7. slide_kzbr_hasty [slide]

- Second half of Playoffs:

1. wps_block_ez [climb]
2. kz_cellblock [climb]
3. speed_ytt_abstract_v2 [bhop]
4. six_cbblebhop_h [bhop]
5. mls_hb_all1aNce_ez [mix]
6. abu_to_d3stra [mix]
7. prochallenge2_longjump [longjump]

DOWNLOAD ALL MAPS HERE - NEW PACK 01.07.2024

2. Map Veto:

We are going to use the standard 7 map pool for the Bo3/Bo5 matches in which:

Player 1 bans a map
Player 2 bans a map
Player 1 picks a map
Player 2 picks a map
Player 1 bans a map
Player 2 bans a map
Last map is left as the decider

*For Bo5 Consolidation Final, both players ban only 1 map.
*For Bo5 Grand Finals, the upper bracket player will have 2 map bans.
*The order of who bans first is completely random, except for the Grand Finals.

3. Types of maps:

As you can see from the map pool, for 1v1s we have the following philosophy:

2 bhop maps
2 climb maps
2 mix maps [climb + bhop + slide + lj or other]
1 specialist map [the more niche type of maps such as longjump, slide, and etc.]

As previously mentioned, the idea is to cater to the majority of playstyles, even though as you can see, the focus is still mostly on classic bhop and climb maps, but with the opportunity of choosing something different from time to time.

• Tournament Rules:

All current Kreedz.com general and tournament/cup rules also apply to this tournament. Certain rules, of course, are subject to change in case of some unforseen and unique circumstances. In that case, always refer to the availablec server cup admin

Click HERE to read the current CUP rules.

• Participants:

GROUP A - 5 PM [17:00 CET]

1. Toffifee
2. Nubby-_-

3. HaMMa
4. CamelCloud
5. rawe

6. klinch

7. hefakz

8. charok

9. dropzone

10. YcFN [FN007, might not be able to come*]
11. f3nixlud
12. geluzah

13. hurtyoubad

GROUP B - 5:50 PM [17:50 CET]

14. ArvInD
15. Dolphin

16. ShoCk
17. topoviygus
18. sbzvln
19. KaMi
20. PoGdAb