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Communiqué — Saturday Schedule

GROUP STAGE / BO1
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Standings

#CompanyW–L–DDiffBuch.
1 b Team · b. 5–1 +627 19
2 NoSoul · NoSo ! 5–1 +945 18
3 dicE · dicE [::] 5–1 +695 16
4 North Atlantic Treaty Org · NATO 4–2 +410 14
5 onLAN thunder · FJTM 3–3 +520 15
6 Herd of Cats · ฅ(=^・ェ・^=)ฅ 2–4 -196 20
— BYE LINE (seeds 1–6 bye to the Quarterfinals · 7–10 play in) —
7 icyHOT · icyHOT ~ 2–4 -384 19
8 Best Buds · [bb] 2–4 -773 17
9 Uncle Rico's Time Machine · uR[TM]* 1–5 -620 24
10 Price is Right · [$] 1–5 -1224 18

Tiebreak: record → head-to-head → Buchholz → differential → seed. Live as results post.

Matches

Each map is best-of-one. Report the two flag scores — the higher score wins the map. The left box is the team listed first.

Round 1

Match Final score Server Report flag score
dicE v Price is Right 654–234
NoSoul v Best Buds 708–158
b Team v North Atlantic Treaty Org 284–112
Uncle Rico's Time Machine v onLAN thunder 91–162
Herd of Cats v icyHOT 89–92

Round 2

Match Final score Server Report flag score
dicE v Herd of Cats 312–110
NoSoul v onLAN thunder 592–503
b Team v icyHOT 242–224
Uncle Rico's Time Machine v Best Buds 462–132
North Atlantic Treaty Org v Price is Right 498–145

Round 3

Match Final score Server Report flag score
dicE v icyHOT 236–205
NoSoul v Herd of Cats 229–216
b Team v Best Buds 303–253
Uncle Rico's Time Machine v North Atlantic Treaty Org 66–223
onLAN thunder v Price is Right 593–170

Round 4

Match Final score Server Report flag score
dicE v Uncle Rico's Time Machine 268–149
NoSoul v b Team 207–176
Herd of Cats v North Atlantic Treaty Org 588–556
icyHOT v Price is Right 254–135
onLAN thunder v Best Buds 489–279

Round 5

Match Final score Server Report flag score
dicE v b Team 282–448
NoSoul v Uncle Rico's Time Machine 452–101
Herd of Cats v onLAN thunder 252–159
North Atlantic Treaty Org v icyHOT 255–153
Price is Right v Best Buds 272–284

Round 6

Match Final score Server Report flag score
dicE v NoSoul 325–236
b Team v Uncle Rico's Time Machine 380–128
Herd of Cats v Price is Right 95–198
North Atlantic Treaty Org v onLAN thunder 133–131
icyHOT v Best Buds 329–684

Why this schedule — strength of schedule

The format. Ten companies, six rounds, one map each (best-of-one). It's a partial round-robin — each team plays six of the other nine, never the same opponent twice.

How the six opponents are chosen. A careless draw can hand one team a murderers' row while another cruises, which would distort the standings. To prevent that we score each team's slate by its strength of schedule — the sum of its six opponents' seed numbers — and pick the set of pairings that makes that number as equal as possible across all ten teams. On the locked schedule every team's slate lands near the fair average (about 33 on the 1–10 seed scale), and the spread between the easiest and hardest slate is roughly a third of what a naive seed-fold produces (variance ≈ 6.6 vs ≈ 19). No one runs a gauntlet; no one coasts.

Two rules baked in. No rematches, and the top four seeds never meet before Round 4 — so the marquee games land late and no contender's standing is settled by a brutal early draw. The upshot: Sunday's seeding reflects how teams actually played, not who they drew.

How standings are decided

Companies are ranked by, in order:

  1. Record — wins first.
  2. Head-to-head — among teams tied on record, whoever won the meeting ranks higher.
  3. Buchholz — the sum of your opponents' win totals. A high Buchholz means the teams you faced did well themselves — i.e. you came through a tougher field — so ties break in favor of the harder road. (It's the classic Swiss-chess tiebreaker.)
  4. Round / flag differential — capped, so a blowout doesn't snowball.
  5. Group seed — the pre-event captains'-ballot seed, as the final fallback.

Seeds 1–6 bye straight to Sunday's Quarterfinals; seeds 7–10 open in the play-in. Final standing for everyone is played out in the consolation bracket.

Example Saturday timetable + calendar (.ics)

SUBJECT TO CHANGE — times below are an example only. The Saturday schedule is not finalised and will shift before the event.

11:00 – 12:00 Round 1
12:00 – 13:00 Round 2
13:00 – 14:00 Food break #1 (1 hr)
14:00 – 15:00 Round 3
15:00 – 16:00 Round 4
16:00 – 17:00 Food break #2 (1 hr)
17:00 – 18:00 Round 5
18:00 – 19:00 Round 6
~19:00Final standings → Sunday seeds

Each block is a full hour for server setup. All five matches of a round run concurrently.