User:Garlic/Rewind 2017

[e][h]Rewind 2017

Tournament Information

Series:

Esports Arena

Organiser:

Esports Arena

Sponsor:

Marketplace.tf
Weedmaps

Broadcaster:

Esports Arena

Game mode:

6v6

Type:

LAN

Location:

Santa Ana

Venue:

Esports Arena

Prize pool:

$8,192 USD

Start date:

21 January 2017

End date:

22 January 2017

Final positions

Champions:

Runners-up:

Third place:

Fourth place:

Links

Esports Arena Rewind LAN 2017, commonly referred to as Rewind 2017, was the first Esports Arena Team Fortress 2 tournament. It was a 6v6 LAN event, held at the Esports Arena in Santa Ana, California, United States from 21 January 2017 to 22 January 2017.^[1] Rewind 2017 is extremely notable for being the first intercontinental LAN event outside of the Insomnia Gaming Festival, and the first intercontinental LAN in North America. It was held very close to the median date between Insomnia58 and the projected date for Insomnia61, creating a bi-annual period for global 6v6 Team Fortress tournaments. Two non-North American teams attended the event, Se7en from Europe and Jasmine Tea from Australia.^[2]

Rewind 2017 was split into two divisions, Invite and Open. The format for the Invite division consisted of a six team round robin group stage proceeded by a double-elimination bracket. The prize pool was contributed to by the organisers Esports Arena, Marketplace.tf and crowdfunding.^[1]^[3] Prominent community figures b4nny and samiface were heavily involved in the organisation of the event.

Se7en, having won the latest intercontental event Insomnia58 (as Crowns eSports Club) were eliminated by froyotech following a five map Grand Final. Jasmine Tea finished fourth, unable to break the infamous "curse" of Australian teams finishing fourth at intercontenental events.

Tournament details

Prize pool

The initial prize pool was announced by on 3 December 2016, consisting of $7,000 USD contributed by Esports Arena ($2,000) and Marketplace.tf ($5,000).^[1]^[3] This was further increased by crowdfunding, which raised $1,192 for the invite division,^[4] bringing the total prize pool to $8,192.

Place	USD	Team
1st	$3,686	froyotech
2nd	$2,048	Se7en
3rd	$1,434	EVL Gaming
4th	$1,024	Jasmine Tea

Map pool

The map pool for Rewind 2017 was announced on teamfortress.tv on 21 January 2017.^[5] It was slightly different from the map pool used in ESEA Season 23, with Metalworks being excluded and updated versions for Snakewater and Sunshine being used. Whilst the most recent version of Snakewater at the time was cp_snakewater_final1, the tournament used a previous version, cp_snakewater_u13.

Badlands
`cp_badlands`

Granary Pro
`cp_granary_pro_rc4`

Gullywash
`cp_gullywash_final1`

Process
`cp_process_final`

Snakewater
`cp_snakewater_u13`

Sunshine
`cp_sunshine`

Product
`koth_product_rc8`

Ruleset

The ruleset was initially released by b4nny on 19 December 2016, originally with a 45 minute win limit.^[6] This was later reduced to a 30 minute win limit on 5 January 2017 due to scheduling concerns.^[7] The resulting ruleset for the tournament was the same as that used in the North American ESEA league. Each team was also given two 120 second tactical pauses for every map.^[7]

Game mode settings

	5 Control Point	King of the Hill	Golden Cap
Time limit	30 minutes	Indefinite	Indefinite
Win condition	5 round win limit	4 round win limit	1 round win limit

Class limits

At any one time amongst six players, class limits of:


2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	2

Whitelist

See: 6v6 Global Whitelist

Broadcasting

The event was livestreamed by Esports Arena on their Twitch channel.^[1] The broadcasting team was organised by teamfortress.tv and announced on 21 January 2017.^[5] showstopper, who competed with Street Hoops eSports, was used as an impromptu analyst during the grand final.^[8]

Role	ID	Name
Caster	Bren	Brennon Hook
	Dreamboat	Graham Morrison
	Ma3la	Wyatt River
	MR SLIN	Steve Lin
	TheFragile	Nick Leon
	truktruk	Kurtis Russ

Role	ID	Name
Stage host	eXtine	Jeff Extine
Desk host	Getawhale	Mike Lockman
Analyst	kaidus	Jason Allen
Analyst	showstopper
Observer	Tino	Ryan Vislai

Rosters

Rosters were announced unofficially on teamfortress.tv prior to the tournament. Two player changes occured on 19 January, two days before the event.

EVL Gaming

froyotech

Jasmine Tea

Meat Market¹

Se7en

Street Hoops eSports²

¹

CheesyMacgyver decides not to attend the event on 19 January. Meat Market replace him with

bl4nk.^[9]

²

duwatna is forced to pull out of the event on 19 January after contracting appendicitis. Street Hoops eSports pick up

Muma to replace him.^[10]

Results

Group stage

The group stage consisted of a round robin with teams playing each other once in a best-of-one.^[2] All teams advanced to the playoffs stage but the lowest two teams were placed into the lower bracket, giving them a disadvantage.

Pos	Team	W	L	RF	RA	RD	Qualification
1	froyotech	5	0	23	4	19	Advance to upper bracket
2	Se7en	4	1	24	10	14
3	EVL Gaming	3	2	17	11	6
4	Jasmine Tea	2	3	13	15	−2
5	Street Hoops eSports	1	4	8	23	−15	Advance to lower bracket
6	Meat Market	0	5	5	23	−18	Advance to lower bracket

Round 1
MEAT	1	JT.
7	1	EVL
20b	1	FROYO

Round 2
20b	0	1	JT.
7	1	0	EVL
MEAT	0	1	FROYO

Round 3
JT.	1	FROYO
20b	1	7
MEAT	1	EVL

Round 4
JT.	1	EVL
MEAT	1	7
20b	1	FROYO

Round 5
20b	1	MEAT
7	1	JT.
FROYO	1	EVL

Playoffs

The playoffs stage consisted of a six team double-elimination bracket with each match being played as a best-of-three except for the Grand Final, which was a best-of-five.^[2] Teams chose maps in a pick/ban process that was not made publicly aware. froyotech were given an advantage in this pick/ban process in the Grand Final due to them coming from the Upper Bracket.

Semifinals