Battle of Rusty Barrels

[semyonkirov 29,038]

The Battle of Rusty Barrels is over! Players have showed great skills and team work, especially the English ones! Still, the developers tandem was stronger and won all 3 battles.

 

Award crystals have been sent to everyone who purchased the "For Developers" paint. Congratulations!

And of course, if you've missed all the action, make sure you watch the recording of the superfinals at our Cybersport Channel.
 

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Dear players!

The time has come for developers to face players in battle.
After many months of hard working, programmers, artists, designers and other members of AlternativaPlatform team are gearing up for the fight.
One of the most interesting events of the season is coming. Its name is the Battle of Rusty Barrels.

This 2 vs 2 mini tournament will consist of 2 stages. The first one will take place inside the company. We’ll determine the strongest pair of players among the developers.
We have a total of 10 tandems that are willing to take part. (See their names below the spoiler)
 

- Victoria Bukina (V.Bukina)
- Valery Schumann (DisconnecT83)

- Maksim Khusainov (Kasim)
- Semyon Kirov (semyonkirov)

- Irakly Shatirishvili (mizzzantrop)
- Semyon Strizhak (Hazel-Rah)

- Ksenia Ignatieva (Sun)
- Maria Trusevich (Mariya_86)

- Dmitry Koryagin (dmitryi)
- Vitaly Levykin (vitaly)

- Anton Bragin (antonio)
- Ivan Repin (Kellyn)

- Evgeny Malov (Impale)
- Stanislav Manturov (Thecr)

- Roman Epishin (ShaD-ER)
- Eugene Gilmanov (engineere4)

- Roman Kungurtsev (censored_qq)
- Vladimir Kovtun (VKSpaz)

- Nikolai Kolotov (tro_greenpills)
- Dmitry Drozda (drozd)

Battles between developers will be held from January 20 to 24.
— First, there will be a group stage that will take place from January 20 to 22.
— 4 best couples will then take part in semifinals on January 23.
— The final battle for the name of the most skilled tandem of Alternativa will happen on Friday, January 24.

Then, using a special site, we’ll collect nicknames of those of you who want to fight with the devs.
The site will start accepting applications at 8 am (UTC+0) on January 25 and will be closed 24 hours after.
Please note that to take part you need to be at least a 3rd Lieutenant and have an email linked to your account, as you will need to confirm your application.

On January 28 we'll randomly choose 2 players from each community (English, German and Russian). Right after announcing their names, 2 paints will appear in the garage, "for developers" and "for players". Each paint will cost 500 crystals. Crystals spent on these paints by players will form the prize pool.


The superfinals will take place at 4 pm (UTC+0) on January 31. The best developers tandem will fight with 3 pairs of players, 1 from each community. The winner will be determined according to results of these battles. If players win 2 battles out of 3, the prize pool, consisting of crystals of those who bought special paints, gets doubled. If tankers win all 3 battles, it gets tripled.
The prize pool will be divided between true fans of the winning side. By a true fan we mean a player that bought only one of the paints.

Each of 2 members of a tandem gets 50 000 crystals for beating the developers.

Battles will take place according to the following rules: (see the spoiler)

1. All participants will use М3 weapons and hulls. If a players don't have them, M3 items will be provided to them for the battle.
2. Each tandem must use the following weapons:





 

Hulls: one medium hull (Hunter and Viking) and one light hull (Wasp and Hornet).
Turrets: one long-range gun (Railgun and Thunder) and one medium-range gun (Twins and Ricochet).
Paints: "for developers" / "for players".

3. All battles will take place on Cross map in CTF mode. The followings settings will be used: PRO battle, with crystal and bonus drops, without supplies and micro-upgrades.

All participants will get a PRO battle pass or crystals to buy it for the battle.
4. Each round is 10 minutes.
5. The strongest pair of developers will play with 3 tandems, 1 from each community: English, Russian and German.
6. Developers play 1 round with each of 3 tandems, which means a total of 3 rounds, one after another.
7. The winner is the team that captured more flags during the round.
8. In case the developers tandem and a players tandem capture equal numbers of flags, the players are considered to be winners.
9. The winner (Players or Developers) is declared after summing up results of 3 rounds.

After having a draw, 10 tandems of developers have been divided into 2 groups. Here they are:

Group A

- Ksenia Ignatieva (Sun)
- Maria Trusevich (Mariya_86)

- Dmitry Koryagin (dmitryi)
- Vitaly Levykin (vitaly)

- Anton Bragin (antonio)
- Ivan Repin (Kellyn)

- Roman Kungurtsev (censored_qq)
- Vladimir Kovtun (VKSpaz)

- Dmitry Konovalov (Heyga4Huk)
- Dmitry Drozda (drozd)

Group B

- Roman Epishin (ShaD-ER)
- Eugene Gilmanov (engineere4)

- Victoria Bukina (V.Bukina)
- Valery Schumann (DisconnecT83)

- Irakly Shatirishvili (mizzzantrop)
- Semyon Strizhak (Hazel-Rah)

- Evgeny Malov (Impale)
- Stanislav Manturov (Thecr)

- Maksim Khusainov (Kasim)
- Semyon Kirov (semyonkirov)

Stay tuned, we'll keep you informed about all the news during the event.

P.S. Unfortunately Nikolai Kolotov will not be able to take part in the tournament. He has been replaced with Dmitry Konovalov (Heyga4Huk).

[GoldRock2 290]

First :P

 

(EDIT) Awesome idea! I suspect the players might win again.

Edited January 17, 2014 by GoldRock2

[Meliora 1,652]

Looks good, good luck to the players!

[williew 1,999]

Cool!

Edited January 17, 2014 by williew

[mdit108 121]

I hope that i will be selected....

and ya i am fourth

[coolio679 84]

Nice

[r_Stadium0 43]

We want something more like the 300 astronauts.

 

Tandems are not fun, 10 vs. 10 are.

[r_BlackBandit0 76]

Nice, it is like a bet!

Can a player buy both paints?

[r_woof-woof0 8]

awesome!!!

[RampagingVenom 554]

;) hmmmm

how very interesting

might just enter this little battle.

 

Just another day at the office :rolleyes: 

Edited January 17, 2014 by RampagingVenom

[semyonkirov 29,038]

Nice, it is like a bet!

Can a player buy both paints?

You can, but you won't get anything in the end. You need to choose one of them.

[r_Stadium0 43]

I will apply to the German one, they have more skilled players there plus, less enteries = higher chance of getting choosed, and also we might play vs Sun and mariya loooooool

[gundevil 0]

i will enter

[P_R_O_G_O_L_F_E_R 181]

I'm in!

[Mr.SV.ENS 738]

Sounds nice, I'll try my luck on getting picked to play :)

[semyonkirov 29,038]

I will apply to the German one, they have more skilled players there plus, less enteries = higher chance of getting choosed, and also we might play vs Sun and mariya loooooool

You might play with them in any community. All 3 tandems of players will play with the same devs tandem, the one that will come first at Alternativa's stage.

[Meliora 1,652]

Well, the time is bad for me and probably those living in America (could be at school), or far east...

[TankiOnline10.0 0]

Nice! In hopes to join this!

Edited January 17, 2014 by TankiOnline10.0

[Alidarklord 542]

Great,but what about our teammate? u choose or us ? :-/

[iAbdulaziz 74]

i can't :(

[FaarMeer 13]

Semyon, the players would keep the m3 weapon, and hull? and what about the paints, are they permanent too?

[111 25]

So interesting :tank:

 

Good Luck  Semyon Kirov  ;) 

 

[DHARMIN_KING 55]

i want to play.................

[Sist_Beam2 2]

I want to participate.:mellow:

[swan05344 5]

i want to play :D

i_m waiting :wub:  :wub:  :wub:

:blink:  ;)