About the tournament

Many people have been asking when the tournament matches will be upoaded on our Youtube-channel.
We'll bring them to you as soon as possible, which means in 2-3 days. Since there are 10 matches and we only have limited amount of time to render & upload videos, please try to be patient.

About the tournament...

It was a disaster. Some people had serious connection problems, some people did not show up when they were told to join the lobby and play, and some people didn't join the chat room at all. If there ever will be another tournament, the contestants must stick to the rules, because there are only 2 people running the whole tournament thing (with limited recources and internet connection) and if someone starts making their own rules, it'll affect all the contestants and delay everything. Luckily we didn't have to replace any players and all the players succesfully joined the games they were invited to.

We had huge problems with LIVEstreaming. We ran many beta-test and they all were succesful. That's why we thought that nothing could go wrong when streaming the actual tournament. We were wrong and we are very sorry about the lag and bad quality. The videos, which we will upload on Youtube, will be HD as usual, and there will be no lag at all.

The route to Finale..

In the first round Agent-Abu23 played against The-Wolf (both allies). Because of better micromanagement and money management, Abu managed to force Wolf to retreat back to his base. After that only one riptide full of javelin soldiers was enough to win the game. In the semi-final round Agent-Abu23 faced his "nemesis", an Israeli elite player tomi10011. After 20 minutes of awesome allies-vs-allies battle, Abu finally managed to get into tomi's base and destroy him.

Kmh42 used an unusual fast naval yard strategy when playing allies, and beat THEDONOFRA3's peacekeeper-vindicator rush. In the semi-final round playing against The_Ghost_Boy_, kmh42, went fast naval yard again, this time as Soviets, though. With successful Stingray rush kmh42 managed to harass The_Ghost_Boy, giving kmh42 time to expand and build twinblades. In the end kmh42 had more twinblades (but no MCV) and he destroyed The_Ghost_Boy's base.

The Best-Of-3 finale was full of action.
In the first game, which was played in Hostile Hostel, kmh42 built crane and launched a base rush. Kmh42 managed to destroy Abu's refineries, but Abu also decided to base-rush and captured kmh42's super reactor. Kmh42 could no longer build tesla coils in Abu's base and kmh42 had to give up. 1-0 for Abu.

The next round was played in Cold Showdown (Abu as Allies, kmh as Soviets). Kmh42's all-in sickle-bullfrog push with MCV sell was succesful, and Abu's vindicators and peacekeepers became useless. kmh42 won round 2. 1-1.

The final round was played in Hostile Hostel again. Both players chose Allies. kmh42's fast naval yard couldn't stop Abu's double-barracks PK-rush and vindicators. Abu won the final round and the RA3Tutorials' very first LIVE Tournament.

Congratulations, Agent-Abu23!

Many people have also been asking if there will be another tournament in the future. Well... maybe ;)
But seriously guys, stop spamming these questions. We'll keep you up to date. That is a promise.

The winner of the first RA3Tutorials LIVEstream tournament is Agent-Abu23. Congratulations!
The runner-up, kmh42, played very well, too.

More about tournament tomorrow. G'night.

UPDATE ON RULES:

- In case of disconnection, the player with the "upper hand" wins (bigger army, more money = bigger chance to win the match). If the situation is not clear, then the players will have a rematch.

- The Grand Finale will be Best-of-3, which means that you'll need 2 victories to win the title.

- The wall glitch is allowed, but it shows great sportsmanship not to use it. Since I know that someone will use it anyway, it's not a sin to do it.

- Hostile Hostel will be the main map and the players must choose positions above or next to each other (not in opposite corners). In case both players agree, they are allowed to choose any other 4 player map.

- EVERYONE MUST ADD RA3TutorialsLIVE (Sharkoon-) on their friend lists ASAP.
Have a nice tournament , do your best and play fair.

Yo what's up RA3 fans and players

The contestants for the tournament have now been chosen.

THEDONOFRA3
Violent_M
Agent-Abu23
kmh42
The-WoIf
tomi10011
The_Ghost_Boy
Solo-Commander

We'll keep you guys up to date. See you on Saturday!

RA3Tutorials LIVEstream Tournament is coming this week!

Yeah! It's finally here! On Saturday 30th October! Precise time will be decided as soon as possible, but we are pretty sure it'll be at 5 or 6 pm Greenwich Mean Time (1 or 2 pm Eastern Time)

So the basic idea will be this:

YOU, will be able to watch EVERY SINGLE GAME of the tournament using your very own PC or laptop or whatever you happen to have. Just go to www.justin.tv/ra3tutorials at the time of the tournament and just sit back and watch.

We are able to stream only one game at time, so other contestants will have to wait for their turn. Meanwhile, though, they can watch their rivals playing via livestream.

There will be 3 rounds. Losers will be eliminated from the tournament.

First Round: Everyone plays one game against randomly chosen opponent. Winners will go to semi-finals.

Round 2 - Semi Finals: Winners of the first round will play one game against randomly chosen semi-finalist. Winners will proceed to the final round.

The Grand Finale: The winners of the semi-finals will play against each other.


All the games must be played in 4 player-maps due to lack of spectator mode.  Hostile Hostel, Pool Party and Death Aquatic are preferred maps. Contestants will be able to decide which map they want to play.

The main arranger will be Soigge
The in-game-spectator and main livestreamer will be RA3TutorialsLIVE (Sharkoon-)

Soigge will be running a PSN Text Chat, in which every contestant must be during the tournament excluding when they are in match. In that chat room Soigge will tell you when to play.

Soigge and Sharkoon- won't be participating in the tournament.

Umm.. that's about it.. I think :) If you wanna know something, go ahead and post a comment.

BADMAN_187 vs x1-TechNique-1x

Yo 'sup people! It's time for another great 1on1 Pro match. Does Badman stand a chance despite the collector glitch? And how is Tech gonna react on twinblade crush? Found out by watching the match!
Pretty neat quality, eh?

RA3Tutorials Blog opened!

Hey guys. We've been concentrating on pro matches lately and there is definitely more to come! Especially as the Live-stream Tournament is just around the corner. But no need to worry, we'll be also uploading tutorials and possibly some tactics.
This blog is for more in-depth video analyses and announcing upcoming events and videos. We'll be also showing some of the videos on this site.

And remember to subscribe to our youtube channel, dear RA3 fans ;)