I'd think Grodd, Clay and Psychotic would be hard to contact

Hmm.... I don't think I'm good enough to participate in this yet...

Meh, I'll be spectating you guys in my dropship (Don't kill me) watching you all kill each other hopefully.

I will get an STB squad or if not I will join anyone. Maverick STB is my tank alts name

I'm in.

Char how do you feel about a draft?
It would be fairer...

No because it goes against finding THE best tanker in the semifinals and championship 1 v 1 rounds. Naturally, similarly skilled tankers will end up in the same team, so when one team is crowned winner, the top 6 will likely already be there to compete with eachother.

Fairness =/= handicap.

I want the best team possible so when we go for the championship rounds, we have the opportunity to get the best fights against the most vicious tankers.

The reason drafting people into teams would be hard is because and getting everyone into a chat at once is impossible.

If its blaster V blaster then I'm in Char. The only problem is that the weekend after 1.5 drops I might be out of town. Also, 1.5 got delayed in case you guys didn't know.

Team Mango
Charlotte
Void Echo (confirmed)
Bob (confirmed)
Grodd (confirmed)
Covert Clay (confirmed)
Psychotic Shooter (confirmed)

My team is set.


We could have third party bets for this too, just to make it interesting...

I'll fight that team solo for giggles.

Trust me you can still pull a team together, Maple, Siedello, and others are available...

Trust me you can still pull a team together, Maple, Siedello, and others are available...

I know I can, but I disagree on principle with not having an equitable distribution of top tankers amongst the teams.

I would have much preferred a 1 v 1 tourney where we could actually break down each others skills instead of allowing certain people to ride on others coattails.

There is a reason why Charlotte suggested a six man team. Not because it is a parallel to real tank tactics, because it isn't, but because that number permits him to create a team like the one he picked that will optimize his chances at making it out of the first round. He knows his own weaknesses in regards to up close tank fighting, so he wisely chooses others to do the heavy lifting in the hopes that he will be able to slide into a later round without risking his own self imposed title.

I cannot support such things. If you want to do teams, they should either be pairs or teams of four, to mimic common armor disposition in the real world. This would open up the tourney for more teams, and create more competition.

^How would you propose we have 24 tankers face off in a tourney without 2 tankers having redline rail duels?
Blasters only? Not fair to shields.
No redline sniping? Nobody can know where there own redline is.

And I chose a team to do this:
2 brawlers
1 brawler-killer
1 sniper
2 generalists to fill any holes that might appear

It is what any smart person would do.