The Star Citizen Competitive Combat Club is hosting a 1v1 tournament for 3.7, currently scheduled for November 9th at 1700 UTC.



3.7 isn't perfect. In fact, the inability to customize rented ships in AC is an egregiously P2W situation and horrible game design. But ultimately this is a tournament for an alpha game, so it's not necessarily about winning -- it's about having a good time and pushing the game forward. And at least it's not 3.5 and 3.6...

Because of the true lack of fair, competitive gameplay and difficulty in getting several people into a working game, this tournament will be 1v1. We'd obviously prefer a team-based, 3v3 match system, but past tournaments have been plagued by crashes, an awful match setup system, and terrible spectator modes. We also have drastic flightmodel changes in 3.4 that we want to see panned out.

Remember -- the overwhelming feedback from players participating in past tournaments was that they really enjoyed the experience. With all of the many negative aspects of SC, it says a lot about the competitive community that we can still come together and have a good time. So here's the deal: this tournament is "competitive", but not really. No one should judge winners or losers with the format and game that we have. Just fly and see what happens.

Tournament Structure

There are two stages -- a group stage followed by a single-elimination playoff bracket

During the group stage, players will have a match with everyone else in their group. The top 2 from the group will advance to the playoff. The goal is for everyone to have at least 3 matches.

Because the default game modes are pretty bad for fair play, each match will be composed of a best of 11, round-based system in a Free Flight game mode (Dying Star). For each round, the opponents will line up ~7km apart, ready up, and fight to the death. When someone has been killed, both ships reset and start again. (if someone is just flying around for multiple minutes trying to delay the inevitable or waste time, that's unsportsmanlike. Record the incident and report to the officials)

Ships

All "small" fighters ships and their variants will be allowed (notably, the Vanguard, Freelancer, and Defender will not be).

300 series

85x

Arrow

Aurora

Avenger

Blade

Buccaneer

Cutlass

Gladiator

Gladius

Glaive

Hawk

Hornet

Hurricane

m50

Merlin

Mustang

Razor

Reliant

Sabre

Scout (Xian)

Scythe

Weapons

Missiles, EMPs, and tachyon cannons are prohibited. Any other weapons or components deemed broken by the time of the tournament may also be banned at a later date.

Seeding



Players will be ranked in the bracket based on their BR rank on Nov 8th. If they aren't listed, they will be tacked on to the end based on sign-up time. We realize that BR rankings are highly flawed and that some players can power their way through the bracket regardless of rank, but it's our best system at the moment.

Disclaimers:

- It's highly likely that at least one subpatch for 3.7 will be released prior to our tournament date. If the patch breaks things, we may have to postpone.

- All competing players must be on this Discord, pay attention to tournament officials, and be ready to communicate and setup matches with their opponents. We probably won't have officials, since it's just 1v1. Players will have to keep track of their scores and report results to the officials.