EE Showdown 4 sign ups are now open. The date of the tournament is on the 2nd/3rd of May, starting at 15:00 GMT as with all past tournaments

I'm experimenting with some fairly significant format changes for these Tournaments:
There will be a Swiss Qualifiers round on day 1, of which the top 4 players advance to the Knockout Stage on day 2.

4 Sign ups will not be required to play in the Qualifiers round, by virtue of being past EE Showdown champions or the highest rated players. This means there will be a total of 8 players participating in the Knockout Stage of the Tournament.

The other main difference is that I'm going to be bringing back Random map as the main map for this tournament series. This will make things simpler, as I'm aware that some people found it troublesome to check the maps in the previous tournament.

In the Swiss Qualifiers stage, games played will be BO1, with no vetos.
In the Knockout Stage, BO3s have 1 veto, and the BO5 finals will have 2 vetos.
If a game is vetoed, it does not count. Players will play again on RANDOM map and CAN CHANGE THEIR GOD if they wish.

Join the EES Discord for more details, and to sign up: discord.gg/ScTyMcR

Brackets:
https://challonge.com/eeshowdown3

Congratluations to skady for winning the tournament and mrboat for coming in 2nd.

A big thank you to Aol_Iron_maiden for streaming some of the events and Ro8 matches.

Streams from the live event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amyOW_Usp-U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUz-INQneAE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NgPDYEX3cE

Quaterfinals recorded game cast:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/589899963

The recorded games for the tournament can be found in the EE Showdown discord server: https://discord.gg/ScTyMcR

EE Showdown 3 is coming.. this time on the 11th and 12th of April

What's New

Split Into 2 Days
The event will now be split into two days, with games being played starting on Saturday until the Semifinals and Finals, which will be taking place on Sunday. This way, players that do make it to the later stages of the Tournament won't be fatigued with having to be on hold or playing for 6 hours straight!

Fixed Round Times
Each round will have its own allocated time, so players will know when they are expected to be at all times. Players that finish the previous round early can then take a break, and all players are expected to be on time unless they are still playing their games for the previous round.

An Awesome Streamer
AoL_Iron_maiden has kindly volunteered to stream the event. The Semifinals and finals games will be streamed, so we will be watching lots of exciting games live!

2nd Place Prizes
The total prize-pool of EE Showdown 3 will be $75. The winner will get $50, as with the previous Tournaments, but this time the player coming in 2nd will now also get $25.

EE Showdown Discord
EE Showdown now has its own Discord server and no longer be hosted in the Hades Society server. All participants are required to be in the server.

https://discord.gg/ScTyMcR

Sign up stages are currently open and will close 1 day before the Tournament Begins. Head over to the discord for the full rules and to sign up.

Also, quick reminder of rules, TL;DR version:

Brackets here: https://challonge.com/eeshowdown2

Maps for each round are shown on the challonge page.

Use Blind Pick Mod: https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1298842000

You can play any God you want for each game, including Chinese.

1 veto before 2:30 for each BO3. 2 vetos for Finals. Replay with same Gods, on same map for each veto.

Make sure to post recorded games, either on the discord server or on meta-plays.

I will not be observing any of the games. I will only stream the recorded games of the tournament. This is to avoid necessary lag.

Stream will start after ro16 (first round) ends.

This means it is very important to submit the recorded games as soon as you are done playing them. I will not move any players along in the bracket until recorded games have been submitted in #ees2-recorded-games

Users not on discord can upload the recorded games at meta plays instead at this link.
https://meta-plays.com/index.php?/forums/forum/219-extended-edition-27-replays/

Sign ups will be closing on the 28th Feb, 15:00 GMT (one day before the Tournament starts).