Sure, go ahead and do it.

Lynx sucks <3

Edited 12/5/2018 02:01:26

Tour closed?

Tour closed for Christmas?

Yes, we have 50 events per year, the last two weeks of the year is a Tour Holiday :)
The next event (Greece Grand Slam) will start the first Monday of 2019 (07.01.2019)

how can rakleader have played more tournaments then the maximum? :)

He's just so good

@ps: he just so old Tour member that he simple can do it ;)
Mistake, will be corrected in this Monthly Tour Update.

Ah, and at least one person who read the Records :D

Edited 1/7/2019 05:04:16

One finished event in December, congrats time!

115. AWP World Tour - 250 Series - Numenor
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=25992
Congratulations to GuestNWHSzY for his second Tour event win!

Here are the TOP16:

Attention!
I changed the invitation system, so from now I won't give any Wild Cards without a request.

You can request Wild Card simple by writing a PM (WZ mail) to me.
I prefer if you request Wild Card for the entire season, but you can request only for individual events too.

With a Wild Card (or TOP100/50 positions) you will be invited on Mondays, without Wild Cards (or TOP100/50 positions) you will be invited on Wednesdays.
This is the only difference, so the Wild Card important for you only if you always missed join to the events.

Now, there isn't any Wild Card (I removed all the earlier), so only the TOP100/50 players will be invited on Mondays from now, until you start to request Wild Cards.

Why are the weeks so far off on the schedule? There are 3 tournaments that are finished that the "week of" are in the future.

Sorry for my weak English but I don't understand what you wrote :(
I guess, I did a mistake but could you please describe it with more details, where is it?

Monthly Tour Update - 12/2018
The tables below are based on the status of the 1st of January 2019.

• The TOP10 on the Tour after December:
  
  
  
  Congratulations to kicorse for his 4th consecutive month in the first position!
  
  You can find the full list here:
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRWyFvYMrYQBz5wg0HX0iuGxLXG23e4CobHrsqCNmZ5MQN9o73vC5S-vjy40pTR8J2Vj0cBMb4I4Vx6/pubhtml
  
  
  
• The Tour Records:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  You can find the Tour records of every players here:
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRWyFvYMrYQBz5wg0HX0iuGxLXG23e4CobHrsqCNmZ5MQN9o73vC5S-vjy40pTR8J2Vj0cBMb4I4Vx6/pub?gid=470794679

Monthly Tour Race Update - 12/2018
The tables below are based on the status of the 1st of January 2019.

The TOP20 on the 2018 Tour Race after December:



You can find the full list here (with all 2018 results and records sheets):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSw0g1bSXj6z6Zq5B1FupSD0OXlaTUGXRKr8d8DGTFOio2pu8u-uThmd1FbwGF-2YiWLk5sButMSfSq/pubhtml


This section is back!
I didn't post this in the last two months, but I made the race google docs, so I now copy here them too (just for the records):

• 11/2018
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSgZ0kTLJ0W9mMEkQK1m-5dWY3kLT5thjnCER0vqHomsRPY_-lX4pzUDyZOqNBu6l_O6An3FQ_Lhy3p/pubhtml
  
• 10/2018
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRHbbDFaaF6A1HNedQw4vvKnn0TPZlOvh9ZTCo8BH2B-IZ0LfXX7dLXThPdrx9CdlSKZcHr-_s0W5wV/pubhtml

Ok, let's see the standing of the race for the TOP8 Tour Finals!
35 events finished, but still remained 15 ones, including one Grand Slam and three Masters which can change many things with those high possible points.

Kicorse is still in the first position with 5525 points, and although I don't calculate it but I am sure his qualification is 100%.
But the rest 7 places are still totally open!
I mean 10 players with about 2000-3000 points, and still some chance for the lower points players too!

Rento is still in the second position, and good chance to the qualification.
FiveStarGeneral rocketed up to the third position, as well as TheRiverStyxie to the 4th.
Malakkan got 1000+ points too and now 5th.
In the 6th-7th places we have two inactive (at least on the Tour) players, Quick and Buns. In that case if they will qualified for the TOP8 Tour Final but won't join then the next two (9th and 10th) players on the Rankings will be invited instead of them.
The last qualified place at the moment is belong to Timinator, but again, still many players have the chance to reach the TOP8 in the end (during the remained 15 events) so stay tuned ;)


Ah, and slowly it's time to fix the rules of this TOP8 Tour Final event.
My ideas so far:

• It will be a 8 players event, for the TOP8 players of the finished yearly Tour Race (based on the 50 events of the given year).
  In case if somebody won't join to the event, then the next player on the Race Ranking will be invited.
  
• It will be a single elimination tournament with best of X format and seeding.
  Since these features are currently not exists (neither officially nor CLOT), I will create the games manually.
  The seeding will be 1. vs. 8., 2. vs 7., 3. vs 6., 4. vs 5.
  I am still thinking about the X, maybe the the quarterfinals will be best of 5, the semifinals best of 7 and the Finals best of 9, but not sure yet.
  
• The templates will be choosen by the two players of the given fight
  There will be a template election process before the fights, so won't be general templates (except the one deciding template), they always will be choosen by the two players who play in the given pairing as a first step. The template election process is not fixed yet, but something like this: the players choose (X+1)/2 templates (where X is come from best of X), and then they can veto one template of the opponent's choices, so we have X-1 templates and only need one common templates if will be a tie to decide. Maybe the common deciding template will be choosed by the two players too, or the winner of the Race before the event, I don't know yet. Oh, and perhaps will be mandatory choose from the different surfaces (Hard, Clay, Grass). So there still are many question mark regarding this topic.
  
• After we have the X-1 plus the deciding templates, I will create two games (on first template of player A and first template of player B), then if they finished I open the next two games, etc., and if will be a tie in the end, last step I open the deciding game. So there will be maximum two games at a time for the players from this event.
  
• I am not sure about it will be a scoring event or not (likely will be a scoring event).

Ok, this is my ideas so far, please feel free to write your opinions and advices, every help is appreciated.

Sounds great.

Re the template-selection process, I'd say keep it as simple as possible.

But whatever you go with, I'm in.

^Are you the gary to my ash?

Seven finished events in January, congrats time!

112. AWP World Tour - 500 Series - Volcano Island
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=25895
Congratulations to MoneyMakingMitch for his first Tour event win!

Here are the TOP16:




114. AWP World Tour - Masters 1000 - Strategic Phobia
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=25956
Congratulations to JV for his 5th (!) Tour event win!

Here are the TOP16:




117. AWP World Tour - 250 Series - Season XVIII:Snow.M.
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=26081
Congratulations to Muli for his first Tour event win!

Here are the TOP16:




119. AWP World Tour - 250 Series - Concordia
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=26151
Congratulations to AI for his second Tour event win!

Here are the TOP16:




120. AWP World Tour - 500 Series - Strat. Yin'angzhou
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=26194
Congratulations to MoD for his 10th (!!!) Tour event win!

Here are the TOP16:




124. AWP World Tour - 250 Series - Small Earth 1v1
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=26800
Congratulations to AI for his third Tour event win!

Here are the TOP16:




126. AWP World Tour - 250 Series - Discovery
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=27067
Congratulations to GuestNWHSzY for his third Tour event win!

Here are the TOP16:

Monthly Tour Update - 01/2019
The tables below are based on the status of the 1st of February 2019.

• The TOP10 on the Tour after January:
  
  
  
  Congratulations to kicorse for his 5th consecutive month in the first position!
  
  You can find the full list here:
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSE-WKz1goCWsZQA1YakDKtpukXwPtwm6n3XKX4PHB_UenIGQvUVHMM6ngfGNHMmwBzZYMUGIlqp3xC/pubhtml
  
  
  
• The Tour Records:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  You can find the Tour records of every players here:
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSE-WKz1goCWsZQA1YakDKtpukXwPtwm6n3XKX4PHB_UenIGQvUVHMM6ngfGNHMmwBzZYMUGIlqp3xC/pub?gid=470794679

Monthly Tour Race Update - 01/2019
The tables below are based on the status of the 5th of February 2019.

There are only 8 ongoing events from the Tour Race 2018 so I did a live Rankings, included the results from this 8 ongoing events too and made some calculations about the possible max points as well.

Here are the players who are still in the race for TOP8 Tour Final event (with green who already qualified, with cyan who still have a chance) - on the right side you can see the possible points and max points too for the players.



You can find the full list here (with all 2018 results (points from ongoing events included) and records sheets):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTmh58DCSCBL_bkfm8Ex_z84rleXSH3IrM6QTtMHWN2_JnyS4T1-huHjeulo7Na9HOxzNrf5uLLyKiC/pubhtml

And here is the standard (without ongoing events) Race google docs too:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ2KsTyE4xJUUXnUlaaT4-okV7fhi_n80IPZO_mDSfTTIe7jcEbnZfcw4SAXgeNMbLYDzf4GW5DYKqV/pubhtml

And some analysis.
As I wrote above, 3 players are already qualified:

• We already have the name of the Tour Race 2018 winner, big congratulations to Kicorse!!!!
  He will have 7385 points at least, which is the new record! It is almost 1000 points more than the old record held by reakleader! And it is not over yet, because he is still playing in four ongoing events (two Masters and two 500 Series events) and his possible maximum points for this Race is 8925! Aaand he has the opportunity to further increase this record in the next year, because he missed the February and March Masters events in last year. Well, I'm really curious where will be the end of this great story :)
  Of course, he qualified to the TOP8 Tour Final event, as the first seeded player (he will play with the 8th in the first round)
  
• Rento qualified as well, as the second seeded player (except if Timi will win all the 3 events where he is still playing, in that case only 3th seeded). But I saw that he booted and surrendered before the picks in some events :O So I am not sure if he will play on the Final event or not :( We will see, if not, the next ranked players (9th) will be invited and so on.
  
• FiveStarGeneral qualified too, because no any scenario where 8 other players can gain more than 3120 points (additionally he has the chance to incraise his points too). His final position is not known yet, he can be from 3th to 8th.

And there are 11 players who fight for the rest 5 places:

• TheRiverStyxie is now in 4th place, and mathematically not qualified yet, but she has a very good chance for this in practice (especially since she can gain 410 additional points from an ongoing 500 Series event too).
  
• malakkan is the 5th now, and very similar situation than Styxie (only difference is that he can gain only 160 additional points from a 250 Series event)
  
• MoD is the 6th now, and good chance for qualification with that 2800 points in practice, and he has got very big possible additional points too (he is in the GS SF already, and if he win that game, he will be qualified)
  
• Timinator is the 7th now, good chance with the present 2775 points for qualification, but he has got 1430 possible additional points too (from 3 ongoing events), so he even can reach the second positions too.

So these 4 players have a very good chance to be TOP8 already with their presents points, and still have possibilities to gain more additional points.

Now the 7 players who will have to fight very hard to catch a TOP8 place in the end:

• JV is now in the 8th, qualified place, but he has only 2540 points, and can gain only 200 points additionally. So he doesn't control his own fate regarding qualification (for his qualification need that all the other 5 players below to fail)
  
• In contrast with JV, AI controls his own fate, and have a good chance of qualifying, he is in the GS Finals, so if he win that one game, he will have 2900 points already, and he is still playing in two 500 Series events too.
  Interesting way, he was only in the 150th position with only 65 points in the last Race update, but then he fired the rockets at the very last minute :)
  
• A Tour legend, rakleadrer still has to fight for the TOP8, but he controls the things at least, though he have to win many more games for the qualification (especially his three remaining games in the China Masters are very important, but he can gain points from two additional events too)
  
• alexclusive is the smith of his own destiny too, but for the qualification he has to win the EA&O Masters event (which means 4 more games). Not simple, but not impossible.
  
• In any case, it is more simplier than linberson's situation, who still control the things, but he should win the GS and the China Masters. Well, still not impossible ;)
  
• There are some (not too big) chance for the qualification to Muli and Reza too, but for this they should to win the EA&O Masters and need the other players to fail as well.

So this 14 player is still in the hat, we will see who will be that 8 players who can fight in the first TOP8 Tour Final event, stay tuned! ;)

Edited 2/6/2019 11:59:25

In the meantime, rakleader defeated linberson in the China Masters querterfinal, so dropped linberson out of the game (and get better chance for the qualification for himself, although still long way)

Ok, only 13 players left, who will be that 8? :D