Fighter Squadron SDOE Squad Tournament

With the release of Plane Pack 6.1, Harman's Ground Pack and the 1.5.2.9. Patch right around the corner what better time to celebrate the achievements and possibilities in this sim than now? And what better way then a Tournament!

SDOE WAR, the more recent Squad War, and various organized skirmishes in the past have allowed squads and even lone pilots to strut their stuff in the virtual skies of SDOE. Flying WWII planes has always been the focus in all the previous events, with only occasional attempts at trying to incorporate some of the “experimental” moving ground units. WWI has never been given a serious look by the SDOE community at large, but instead those fliers have been a splinter group off on there own. In fact, many seasoned SDOE veterans of WWII at this time may never have even flown a WWI kite, at least not online. Those who have know the experience the others are missing.

This Tournament (I hope) will change all of that! :)

Harman’s Ground Pack has effectively torn the "experimental" tag off of the moving ground units. Willys Jeep, the Halftrack, along with other vehicles have brought a whole NEW dimension to our little world. Then we add to that the WWI Test Pack 2 with all the great planes it has, and throw in the aforementioned PP6.1 and the 1.5.2.9 Patch, and it seems the time for this event has come!

So what do we hope to offer with the 'Tournament'? How will it work?

The Tournament is designed for Squads matches, but don’t stop reading yet if your not in a squad! You will not be left out.

Each active squad in SDOE can register if they wanted to participate in the tournament (and why wouldn't they). The registration includes the names of the members of their squad along with the squad name, and squad C.O. ( or in the case of those Squads without a C.O. Nealg's email address).

Those flyers who currently do not belong to a squad will sign-up to be put into a 'Tournament created' Squad, i.e. Red Squad, Blue Squad, Yellow Squad, etc. The number of Tournament created squads would be determined by the number of applicants. This would allow All pilots who wanted to participate to do so, and let those participants see first hand what makes squad play so fun. Who knows, maybe the squads formed for the Tournament would continue past its play.

A set of 25 missions will be provided for squads to fly in competition. Those 25 missions would be grouped into 4 classes.

WWII ETO
WWII PTO
WWII Aerial and Ground
WWI
The majority of the missions will be WWII Aerial, however a good sampling of the others will be reflected in the Tournament.

Missions will either be won, lost, our judged to be a draw. Unless your squad has Won the mission, no points would be awarded.

Several missions will be made for each of the classes mentioned. Some of these will be made to give an advantage to one side over the other, i.e. 3 109k's vs 4 P51D's. If the winner of this type of match was the squad at the disadvantage (the 109k squad) then more points would be awarded to them. If the winner was the squad who had the advantage (the P51D squad) then fewer points would be awarded. For example the wining squad from an even match would recieve 10 points. If they won a match where they were the underdog, they would recieve 15 points. If they were to win a mission where they had the advantage they would recieve 5 points.

The reason for doing this is twofold.

1) It will allow a seasoned group of players the opportunity to gain more points by achieving a victory in this type of uneven event.
2) It will allow rookie pilots who often are to intimidated to join this type of event a chance to succeed.

The only requirement is that each squad must fly every mission at least once (however they can fly them more than once), and that they must have flown against each squad in the tournament at least once from each category of missions.

The Tournament will end when all requirements have been met, or at the end of a predetermined deadline (to be finalized later). The winning squad will be the one with the highest point total as a percentage of missions they have flown.

The downloads necessary to compete in all the missions for the Tournament will be ...

PlanePack6.1
Patch 1.5.2.9
Harman’s Ground Pack
WWI TestPack2

Notice I said the downloads necessary to compete in all the missions. If you are unable, or unwilling to fly in the WWI matches for instance, that's fine. As long as someone from your squad can, it's not necessary for you to have that download.
Our website SDOE Tournament has been put up. It allows the winning Squads of matches to post results, as well as a provide a place for each squad to challenge one another on the forum. It will also provide a place to see up todate results of the Tournament matches, as well as the current standings in the Tournament.

Missions in the Tournament will vary in size so that even 2 vs 2 matches will be possible. This means that matches will not have to be flown on any specific day, but can be flown at any time that is convienant for the participating squad members. The decision of "when" is totally up to the competing sides.

Specific rules for the Tournament are located Tournament Rules.

Just why are we doing this?

Several reasons.

A) SDOE shines online, and any attempt to gain more interest and get more flyers online is a good thing.
B) The recent achievements with the various packs and patches cries out for this so that everyone get on the same page.
C) Flyers who have never ventured out of their little niche in SDOE would have a reason to try the other things it offers.
D) Because it’s fun!

I know the proposal has raised some questions, and caused all of us to look hard at SDOE online standard and patch issues as well. With all of your input and a little persistence, I'm sure this will be a great online experience for all.

If you have any questions, or just want to help (please) flip me an email at the address below!

PR

Email me at pvt.roger@home.com

-by Roger 'Pvt. Roger' Hagerty, June 3rd, 2001