Four finished events in February, congrats time!

168. AWP World Tour - Grand Slam - New 1v1 Ladder
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=30951
Congratulations to Kurdistan49 for his 4th (!!) Tour event win!
He saves 800 points for Kicorse regarding the battle of the Year End No.1, against Timi :)
And gain for himself of course :) He has got very nice rank already!

Here are the TOP16:




165. AWP World Tour - 500 Series - Red Dead Redemption
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=30707
Congratulations to tornado for his first Tour event win!
He was able to win among so many Lynxer :)
The only not Lynx winner in February :O

Here are the TOP16:




174. AWP World Tour - 500 Series - Hannibal at the Gate
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=31477
Congratulations to Jo Jo for his first Tour event win!
Another Lynx-ONE! battle, but Lynx winner this time :)

Here are the TOP16:




177. AWP World Tour - 250 Series - Baltic Sea
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=31722
Congratulations to krunx for his second Tour event win!
Lynxer everywhere! :)

Here are the TOP16:

@Ekstone, one thing I love about reading your updates is how enthusiastic you are :))

Yes, I do this for pure fun :)

Monthly Tour Update - 02/2020
The tables below are based on the status of the 1st of March 2020.

• The TOP10 on the Tour after February:
  
  
  
  Congratulations to kicorse for his 18th consecutive month in the first position!
  
  You can find the full list here:
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTpmlciswHmiTdrqBCAzibplC2rqJvKcKBdGGVRqgJtXn4PblDYHlIWeHxSv3fAxues9dGj8qmLZ6E8/pubhtml
  
  
• The Tour Records:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  You can find the Tour records of every players here:
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTpmlciswHmiTdrqBCAzibplC2rqJvKcKBdGGVRqgJtXn4PblDYHlIWeHxSv3fAxues9dGj8qmLZ6E8/pub?gid=470794679

Monthly Tour Race Update - 02/2020

• The TOP20 on the 2019 Tour Race after 2020 February:
  The table below are based on the status of the 1st of March 2020.
  
  
  
  You can find the full list here (with all 2019 results, events and records sheets):
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSidacjrAI--dqT7XtstvQ5XkU8IVqCK0H3iL9jBbxsKfbyOqbTHt9CkwVTIZRQZ3K1m4wl8aa94g0Y/pubhtml
  
  
• Above you can see the official 2019 Race Rankings, with only the finished 2019 events.
  But I have updated the actual results from the 5 still ongoing 2019 events too, and here are the current (based on the status of 7th of March) live TOP25:
  
  
  
  This gives a better picture so I did my analysis based on this live Rankings.
  
  • Only 4 games left from 2019!
    (2 of the running 5 events finished meanwhile)
    
    • AWP World Tour - Masters 1000 - China
      https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=31311
      The semifinal between Lew and Suschel is ongoing, and the winner will fight against Timi in the Final.
      
    • AWP World Tour - 500 Series - Post-Melt Antarctica
      https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=31792
      The Final between Hergul and JV
      
    • AWP World Tour - 250 Series - Discovery
      https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=31568
      The Final between Ragnar Lothbrok and Terence Kill
  • And two remained questions
    
    • Who will be the Year-end No.1 player in 2019?
      If Timi won his last game (China final) he will be the first seeded player on the Tour Finals 2020, and will have 265 points advantage over Kicorse, which mean Kicorse will need minimum a semifinal (two fight wins) on the Tour Finals for the title (if Timi loose his first fight again)
      If Timi lost his last game, Kicorse will be the first seeded player, and will have 135 points advantage, which means that need better result for Timi than Kicorse, for the title.
      Anyway, they will be the first and second seeded players, so maybe they will fight in the Final for the title!
      What a great battle it would be! :O
      But the prospective 2019 title defender (Rak/Buns/Alex) will have a few words, I am sure :)
      (all of them qualified to the 2020 event too)
      
    • Who will be the 2020 AWP World Champion?
      
      • 15 players already have qualified to the 2020 Tour Finals
        
        • The two players who fight for the 2020 year-end title:
          Kicorse, Timi
          
        • The three players who are still fighting for the 2019 title:
          Rak, Buns, Alex
          
        • Three Tour Final veteran (played in the first edition):
          FSG, MoD, Malakkan
          
        • and seven new faces:
          Hergul, Kurdistan, Suschel, Schwarz, Guest, Jo Jo and Wini
      • And only one space left!
        
        • Lew will qualify
          
          • if he win the China event (won against Suschel and Timi)
        • JV will qualify
          
          • if Lew won't win China event, and
            
          • JV win his last game against Hergul
        • Turkish will qualify
          
          • if Lew won't win China event, and
            
          • if JV won't win his last game
    
    To be continued, stay tuned! ;)
    And good luck & have fun for everybody on the Race!

GO rak!!!!! it s very excinting :)

if Alex is in the final , so GO alex !!
sry rak , Lynx forever

But there are many Lynxer in the final, not only Alex (Kicorse, Kurdistan, Jo Jo and Wini (and Turkish still has chance)
;)

yes sry wrong chat! i m talking about AWP final 2019

Six finished events in March, congrats time!

167. AWP World Tour - 250 Series - LOTR no cities
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=30870
Congratulations to KKND for his first Tour event win!

Here are the TOP16:




172. AWP World Tour - Masters 1000 - China
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=31311
Congratulations to Timi for his 14th (!!!!) Tour event win!

Here are the TOP16:




175. AWP World Tour - 250 Series - Discovery
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=31568
Congratulations to Ragnar for his first Tour event win!

Here are the TOP16:




176. AWP World Tour - Masters 1000 - EA&O
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=31625
Congratulations to d-ceo for his first Tour event win!

Here are the TOP16:




178. AWP World Tour - 500 Series - Post-Melt Antarctica
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=31792
Congratulations to Hergul for his 5th (!!!) Tour event win!

Here are the TOP16:




182. AWP World Tour - 250 Series - Reverse Tic-Tac-Toe
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer/Tournament?ID=32301
Congratulations to huddyj for his first Tour event win!

Here are the TOP16:

Monthly Tour Update - 03/2020
The tables below are based on the status of the 1st of April 2020.

• The TOP10 on the Tour after March:
  
  
  
  After 18th consecutive month, kicorse was removed from the throne (actually he left :( )
  Long live the new king, Timinator! :)
  This is his 7th month in the first position (he already had a 6-month reign earlier)
  
  You can find the full list here:
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSoy6HYTW_BND8_CGAOt6ArUh2mrUPgPEAART0aVt27WtcVnhS7LekyS8DD4xcv1oOcGzpteQ1UJ9bT/pubhtml
  
  
• The Tour Records:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  You can find the Tour records of every players here:
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSoy6HYTW_BND8_CGAOt6ArUh2mrUPgPEAART0aVt27WtcVnhS7LekyS8DD4xcv1oOcGzpteQ1UJ9bT/pub?gid=470794679

Edited 4/5/2020 05:06:21

I plan to change the Tour system a bit.
From now, I stop the 52-week rolling ranking system (with expiration), and focus only on the annual Tour Races (closed with the AWP World Championships)

This will mean a much simpler (and only one) ranking system for you and less administrative work for me.
Still there will be monthly updates with records (although the record system will change a bit too), but that will mean Tour Race updates.
Plus I plan a weekly live race updates too (with results from ongoing events).

So my hope is that this new system will be much simpler, more exciting and more agile :)
Let me know if you have other opinions ;)

The new system sounds good as well and as long as it means less administration work for you, I like it!

On May 30, the Tour will be 4 years old! :)
As usual, if the Tour birthday is around then a Tour Race final result is coming.
So here is the final result of the 2019 Tour Race with some statistics and records.

• The TOP25 player from the finished 2019 Tour Race
  (counted only the 2019 events):
  
  
  
  A brief history of the 2019 Tour Race:
  
  • The year began with a strong run by Turkish, he won the first two finished 250 Series events, and by June, with a new 500 Series event win, he had already earned 80% (1200/1510) of his final points (which final point was enough for the qualification in this year)
    
  • By June, however, Kicorse began to dominate this Tour Race again, winning the first GS event (plus a 250 event too).
    FSG and Rak tried to keep up with him, but their backlog was already close to 1000 points.
    So a group of four players (Timi was the fourth with strong ongoing points) formed to fight for the first place.
    
  • By July, Kicorse had already an advantage of 1500 points (with a GS, Masters, 500 and 250 wins) on the live (with ongoing points) race, followed by Rak, Timi and FSG.
    
  • By September, Kicorse's run was still very very strong, with a new Masters and 250 event wins, but Timi managed to keep the point difference around 1500. Rak was in the third place, but already a 2300 points disadvantage, FSG was in 4th, but seemed to be completely behind with 3500 points disadvantage.
    
  • But after this, Kicorse decided that he finishes his competitive WZ carriers (and missed one GS and two Masters totally) :(
    Despite this, in November, his point (7355) advantage was still almost 1500 points against Timi (5900) on the live race! So Timi had a good challenge :)
    The third place was still held by Rak (4250) and the 4th by FSG (3590), but in this time appeared a new Italian hero whose points rose very quickly! Hergul (2900) the heir of Gnuffone and FlyingBender :)
    Schwarz, Kurdistan, Guest, Malakkan and MoD reached the 2000 points by this time, and qualified for the Tour Finals.
    
  • By January, Timi's point disadvantage was only 135 (7755-7620) on the live race by reaching two finals in a GS and Masters (which are missed by Kicorse), and needed to win one of the two for the takeover. It was tight :)
    Hergul got the third place (4650), followed by his clanmate, Rak (4270) and FSG (3890)
    Suschel, Buns and Wini qualified to the Tour Finals too, so only three places left in this time.
    
  • By February, Timi lost his GS final, so his only chance for the takeover if he won the China Masters.
    Jo Jo and Alex qualified too, so only one space left and three aspirants, Lew, JV and Turkish (if Lew and JV failed)
    
  • In the end, Timi succeeded, and won again the regular season!
    But both Lew and JV failed, so Turkish got the last qualification place.
  Soon, I will create the 2020 Tour Finals, and invite the qualified 16 players (and the reserves if some of them will decline)
  So stay tuned! ;)
  
  
• Here are the full Rankings (including "Results", "Tour records" and "Events" tables) based on only 2019 events.
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ0YV0VcUeBfetAjDw_VPufAvaNQEQozyymPJpJcFIKc93JnBCq3N8qQpQ0s7OP8NnmhKML5RwycEiy/pubhtml
  
  
• And here are some statistics from 2018:
  
  • 338 players joined to the Tour events during 2019 (and 618 total so far)
    
    • 17 players joined to 40 or more events
      
    • 41 players joined to 30 or more events
      
    • 78 players joined to 20 or more events
      
    • 138 players joined to 10 or more events
      
    • 180 players joined to 5 or more events
      
    • 278 players joined to 2 or more events
  • 50 tournaments
    
    • 4 - Grand Slams
      
    • 8 - Masters 1000
      
    • 12 - 500 Series
      
    • 26 - 250 Series
  • 3918 finished games
  
  
• And here are the Tour records based on only 2019 events
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

GL&HF in the 2020 Tour Race as well!
Who will win the new race! :)

Edited 4/13/2020 04:32:57

The new system sounds good as well and as long as it means less administration work for you, I like it!

To maintain that 52-weeks rolling rankings means only a few additional minutes per month (because the structure of google docs), so likely I will continue, but I would like to shift the focus to the Tour Race and especially to the Tour Finals.

Ok, this will be the new update system:
- I will do a very short monthly update, only with the TOP10 picture from the 52-weeks rolling rankings, and the TOP16 picture from the actual Tour Race and the link of the monthly google docs (I changed a few things (more automation)).
So I stop posting the Tour Records pictures (it will save 30 mins per month for me ;) ), but you can find the auto updated Tour Records in the google docs link.
- on Wednesdays, I will do weekly Live Tour Race update (with the results from the ongoing events - using Deadman's automation (and my automated google docs) so I just start two scripts ;) ) with the actual TOP25 picture of the Race and commentary only this.

Sure, focusing on the Tour Race rank does make sense ;) Nice in any case that the rolling ranking is kept as statistic.

This event is great, thanks for the organization and the passion you put in it!

Edited 4/13/2020 10:52:12

So many players have been enjoying these series now for many years. Thanks Ekstone!

Good plans and keep up the great effort! Focusing on the 2019 Race makes sense. The rolling 52w average is cool and the other records can indeed be kept accessible for interested players or for an update whenever you or someone else has time.

I think that the format of the tour finals and the effort required to get there make it a major WZ achievement, congrats to Buns and Rakleader!

The new system sounds good Ekstone! Thanks for all the hard work you've put into this!

You are welcome guys! :)
But without the monthly system (=much less admin work) which was your idea PJ, I am not sure that I still run this, so thank you m8 too!
And since I am the biggest fan of the Tour, so I need great performance (stories) like Hergul's to keep me motivated, so thank the Tour Heroes too! ;)

I forgot to post the 2020 Tour Race live update on Wednesday, and I even owe you the official 2020 Tour Race April ranking, so now I make up for both.

First the 2020 Tour Race official (with only the finished events) update:

• The TOP16 on the 2020 Tour Race after 2020 March:
  The table below are based on the status of the 1st of April 2020.
  
  
  
  You can find the full list here (with all Tour tables in the new format):
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTWO0orsQ0ewo-SxDEtlpg0NGusXdBTK7-3_XT-m-8Egxj2UmHosBEdogLyOYA_fEQcsvlAPEbIpmQE/pubhtml

And here is the 2020 Tour Race live (with results from ongoing events) update:

• The TOP25 on the 2020 Tour Race based on the ongoing and finished event results so far:
  
  
  
  
• Jo Jo and tornado both took a big step towards qualifying, they will fight for the first Grand Slam title in 2020, and the winner will get the very early qualification for the 2021 Tour Finals! (at least so far there have always been enough 2000 points for that)
  
• But in the beginning, a Grand Slam result greatly can distorts the rankings, so if we remove the TOP4 points (SF and F) from the first Grand Slam, we can find familiar faces in the TOP places: Kurdistan, Timi, Hergul and Rak (WZ RIP Kicorse :((( but his clanmate, Kurdistan, seems to be (try) taking over his Tour legacy somewhat :) )
  
• So this is the live situation on 2020 Tour Race, but the journey is still very long, stay with me and let’s see who will be the 16 fighters who will be able to fight for the 2021 trophy? :)