MCM Royale
The MCM Royale will be the second MCM-sanctioned tournament, to be held after the conclusion of the MCM Cup either during the Winter of 2016/2017 or the Summer of 2017. As the name suggests, this tournament will be larger than the Cup, with around 100 potential participants from the three newly-organized divisions, RXT (RPG-Xfire-Tournytime), CRA (Codemasters Formula 1-Race Department-AOR), and FLHEX (FPS-Lucky-Hex).
108 participants were announced in the Tournament. As a large amount of these will be debutants, and to make the tournament simpler, participants will be assigned to one of three divisions "division": RPG-Xfire-Touryimte (RXT), Codemasters-RaceDepartment-AOR (CRA) and FPS-Lucky-Hex (FLHEX). RXT, which has 49 participants, will largely consist of the same participants as the MCM Cup, whereas the other two divisions will be purely debutants, CRA having 37 invitees and FLHEX having 22.
The tournament will be split in to three stages: The Division Stage, which will see all participants fighting within their divisions to avoid elimination; the Group Stage, which will see 32 participants from all divisions dueling in eight groups of four, with the bottom one from each group being eliminated; and a slightly altered Knockout Stage, which will see 16 placed in a knockout bracket to crown the winner.
Like the MCM Cup, a host was voted in through a two-round vote. In the Division Stage, 49 RXT participants will fight for 14 spots in the Group Stage, 37 CRA participants for 11 spots, and 22 FLHEX participants for 7, with each division deciding amongst themselves how to determine those who are eliminated, using their own potentially-customized format. For the Group Stage, each group will have a predetermined amount of participants from each division. The first five groups will have a share of 2-1-1 from divisions RXT-CRA-FLHEX, the next two will have 1-2-1, and the final group will have 2-2-0. The Knockout Stage will follow the same normal format of duels eliminating participants, however the format will change when the last 4 face each other, to allow previously-eliminated participants a "second chance".
Schedule[edit | edit source]
Date | Day of week | Event |
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September 7, 2016 | Wednesday | Participants was announced, as will divisions and their distribution in the Group Stage. |
September 8, 2016 | Thursday | Host self-nominations were announced. |
September 9, 2016 | Friday | Both rounds of the host vote took place and were announced, and the host was declared as Wolf. |
September 12, 2016 | Monday | The format of the Division Stage will be announced. |
The Division Stage will begin. For the FLHEX and CRA divisions, the stage will be finished before the RXT stage starts, to help make coverage easier. | ||
Pots will be announced for the Group Stage. | ||
Seeding will take place. | ||
The Group Stage will begin. | ||
The Group Stage will end. | ||
The Knockout Stage will begin. | ||
The Knockout Stage will end, the winner shall be crowned. |
Participants[edit | edit source]
There are 108 participants total: 49 in RXT, 37 in CRA, and 22 in FLHEX. In the format name – division – MCM Cup result:
- 22px .Grim. – FLHEX
Acerees – CRA
aMadMouse – CRA
Andrew – RXT – Group stage
Andy88 – RXT – Did not qualify
Aurora – RXT – Quarter-Finals
Bendy – FLHEX
Beppo – CRA
Beyond – CRA
Blax – RXT – Quarter-Finals
Bly – RXT – Did not qualify
- 22px Brian – RXT
- 22px Cavalier Roy – CRA
Chef – FLHEX
Chicane – CRA
Chicne – FLHEX
- 22px Clone – RXT
Commander51 – RXT – Round of 16
Creed – RXT – Round of 16
da_great_ghost – RXT – Group stage
De_Lovely – RXT – Round of 16
- 22px Delgado – CRA
Destroyer – RXT – Semi-Finals
Digger – RXT – Winner
Dookmaster – FLHEX
Dr. Jones – RXT – Round of 16
Dysania – CRA
Emil Praga – CRA
English Paladin – RXT
Equinox – RXT
Erasmusguy – FLHEX
Fallen – RXT – Did not qualify
- 22px Fiodis – RXT
Fixer – RXT – Did not qualify
Flamerwolf – RXT – Did not qualify
Fordo – RXT – Round of 16
- 22px Fuyjin – CRA
Gadget – FLHEX
- 22px Harry – FLHEX
- 22px Hero_unit – RXT
Hoff – CRA
Holdit – RXT – Did not qualify
Iggy – FLHEX
- 22px Insomnia – CRA
Iraffnix – FLHEX
Jay – CRA
Jersias – CRA
JoeViiZaa – CRA
Kifla – CRA
Kirennian – CRA
Kit Fisto – RXT – Round of 16
KrAyZiE1991 – FLHEX
Kris – RXT – Did not qualify
Lemmiwinks – FLHEX
Link – FLHEX
Lrand – RXT – Did not qualify
M3hran – CRA
Marco FD – CRA
MattreX – CRA
- 22px MetroidNut – RXT
Mr. Longus – FLHEX
- 22px Multi21 – CRA
Naga – RXT – Group stage
Neil Bywater – CRA
- 22px Nicky FD – CRA
None – RXT – Group stage
Noob_Cybot – RXT – Semi-Finals
Oak – FLHEX
Omega – RXT
Onyx – RXT – Quarter-Finals
Padawan – RXT – Runner-up
Periwinkle – RXT – Group stage
Philter – CRA
Poi – FLHEX
Poppleton – CRA
Punisher – CRA
- 22px R777R – CRA
- 22px Raccoon – RXT
- 22px Ranger – CRA
Revan – RXT – Round of 16
Robbie – RXT
- 22px Schmucks – RXT
- 22px SenR – CRA
- 22px Shaki – CRA
Shepp – RXT – Did not qualify
Skeeter – RXT – Quarter-Finals
Snow Angel – FLHEX
Static – RXT
Steel – CRA
- 22px SteveRogers – CRA
- 22px Stobart Chilton – CRA
- 22px StonerSteve – RXT
Strew – RXT – Group stage
Suicidal Biscuit – CRA
Summer – FLHEX
The Genius – CRA
Toe – RXT – Group stage
Tourny – RXT – Did not qualify
Tundra – RXT – Did not qualify
Tyson – RXT – Group stage
Vat – RXT – Did not qualify
Viceguy – CRA
WatsOn – FLHEX
WeeKiwi – CRA
Winnie Der Puh – FLHEX
Wolf – RXT – Round of 16
Xenon – FLHEX
Yoshi – FLHEX
Host[edit | edit source]
The table below shows the 13 participants who put forward their own nomination to host on September 8 2016. On September 9, all players voted for a host in a two-round system, with players not being allowed to vote for themselves. The first round reduced the list down ready for the second, final round. The nominee to achieve the most votes in round one was to advance, as well as any nominee who achieves 75% or more of those votes, up to a maximum of four other nominees. If no one achieved 75% of the leader's votes, the second most-voted-for nominee would've advanced.
Wolf was announced the host on September 9. As it turned out, 8 participants fell within 75% of the highest vote of 11, but the five-nominee maximum applied, so Commander51, Kris and Tourny were eliminated.
Name | Division | Round | |
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1st | 2nd | ||
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RXT | 10 | 25 |
22px Insomnia | CRA | 10 | 24 |
22px SteveRogers | CRA | 10 | 23 |
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FLHEX | 11 | 21 |
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CRA | 11 | 15 |
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RXT | 9 | – |
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RXT | 9 | |
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RXT | 9 | |
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FLHEX | 8 | |
22px Schmucks | RXT | 8 | |
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RXT | 5 | |
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RXT | 4 | |
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RXT | 4 |
Division Stage[edit | edit source]
The Division Stage will see each of the three Divisions (RXT, CRA, FLHEX) fighting within themselves to determine who to eliminate in preparation for the Group Stage. While the divisions may decide amongst themselves the format of their stage, the two "new" divisions, CRA and FLHEX, will each be required to have a system that enables definitive ranking of the qualified participants, effectively crowning a victor within their division.
CRA will likely have a system that will see participants play as many different opponents as possible, and a different points system that will be wholly aggregated at the end to determine rankings.
FLHEX will likely have a normal group-and-knockout format, but with larger groups and a more complex knockout round with playoffs to help determine rankings.
Group Stage[edit | edit source]
The group stage will see 32 participants battling for 16 spots in the Knockout Stage, in eight groups of four with the top two from each group progressing. The Group Stage will feature 14 RXT participants, 11 CRA participants, and 7 FLHEX participants.
Knockout Stage[edit | edit source]
Participants will be placed in to two pots according to how they ranked in the Group Stage, which will then be seeded randomly so for the first duel, someone from Pot 1 faces someone from Pot 2.
The bracket will be split in to two stages: The Bracket of 16, and the Final Bracket.
The Bracket of 16 will be fairly conventional in that each duel results in an elimination, however there will be no finals so the bracket will effectively be split down the middle. The winners from the Round of 4 – conventionally called the Semi-Finals – advance to the Final Bracket, along with the six other participants who faced faced those winners (one from each half of the Round of 16, Round of 8, and Round of 4).
The Final Bracket will consist of four rounds, with the bracket split in half until they converge in the last round: The Second Chance 16, the Second Chance 8, the Semi-Finals, then the Final. Remember how everyone who faced the Round of 4 victors was given a place in this bracket? Well, the first round sees the respective loser of the Round of 4 face the loser of the Round of 16. Whoever wins then faces the loser of the Round of 8, and the winner of that duel features in the Semi-Finals, against the other Runner of 4 winner. Then it's business as usual; the winners of the Semis go on to the Final, and that duel crowns a victor.
The rationale behind this is that it reduces the "luck" effects of the random seeding. For example, say during the whole tournament it was obvious two people (Sigma and Tau) had a large margin over the other participants, but due to the seeding of the knockout table, they were to face each other in the Round of 16. The duel went on and Tau went on to win the tournment, but Sigma was eliminated at merely the Round of 16 despite the fact he should by all rights be able to get to the Final, robbing us of a substantial finale. In the new model, Sigma could still lose his Round of 16 duel, but he'd have a second chance by being placed in the Final Bracket due to losing against a Round of 4 winner (Tau). He'd progress through the bracket easy as toast, get to the Final, and we'd be given the finale we deserve.
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Bracket of 16[edit | edit source]
Round of 16 | Round of 8 | Round of 4 | ||||||||
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Duel 1 | ||||||||||
Pot 1 seed 1 | – | |||||||||
Duel 9 | ||||||||||
Pot 2 seed 1 | – | |||||||||
Winner duel 1 | – | |||||||||
Duel 2 | ||||||||||
Winner duel 2 | – | |||||||||
Pot 1 seed 2 | – | |||||||||
Duel 13 | ||||||||||
Pot 2 seed 2 | – | |||||||||
Winner duel 9 | – | |||||||||
Duel 3 | ||||||||||
Winner duel 10 | – | |||||||||
Pot 1 seed 3 | – | |||||||||
Duel 10 | ||||||||||
Pot 2 seed 3 | – | |||||||||
Winner duel 3 | – | |||||||||
Duel 4 | ||||||||||
Winner duel 4 | – | |||||||||
Pot 1 seed 4 | – | |||||||||
Pot 2 seed 4 | – | |||||||||
Duel 5 | ||||||||||
Pot 1 seed 5 | – | |||||||||
Duel 11 | ||||||||||
Pot 2 seed 5 | – | |||||||||
Winner duel 5 | – | |||||||||
Duel 6 | ||||||||||
Winner duel 6 | – | |||||||||
Pot 1 seed 6 | – | |||||||||
Duel 14 | ||||||||||
Pot 2 seed 6 | – | |||||||||
Winner duel 11 | – | |||||||||
Duel 7 | ||||||||||
Winner duel 12 | – | |||||||||
Pot 1 seed 7 | – | |||||||||
Duel 12 | ||||||||||
Pot 2 seed 7 | – | |||||||||
Winner duel 7 | – | |||||||||
Duel 8 | ||||||||||
Winner duel 8 | – | |||||||||
Pot 1 seed 8 | – | |||||||||
Pot 2 seed 8 | – | |||||||||
Final Bracket[edit | edit source]
Second chance 16 | Second chance 8 | Semi-Finals | Final | |||||||||||
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Duel 15 | Duel 17 | Duel 19 | ||||||||||||
Loser duel 1/2/3/4 | – | Loser duel 9/10 | – | Winner duel 14 | – | |||||||||
Duel 21 | ||||||||||||||
Loser duel 13 | – | Winner duel 15 | – | Winner duel 17 | – | |||||||||
Winner duel 19 | – | |||||||||||||
Duel 16 | Duel 18 | Duel 20 | ||||||||||||
Winner duel 20 | – | |||||||||||||
Loser duel 5/6/7/8 | – | Loser duel 11/12 | – | Winner duel 13 | – | |||||||||
Loser duel 14 | – | Winner duel 16 | – | Winner duel 18 | – | |||||||||