Welcome back to the 2017 Summer Elite Cup, one and all. The last day of GRIP Weekend is upon the boyz in blue, and we're up against the biggest challenge we've had this weekend- a fight to finish with our good friends from the FLGS, /m/!
Win and we're through to the knockouts, and we're in for one roaring fight!
>What the fuck is this?
A virtual divegrass tournament run in Pro Evolution Soccer and streamed for the enjoyment of anons everywhere.
>Why the fuck should I care?
Dank memes, top bants, bragging rights, and hype by the bucket load. For more info see implyingrigged.info
Friday's battle with /sci/ ended up poorly with some unfortunate PESing with two blooters from way outside the box killing that attempt on getting to the knockouts, but the Colony is Dropping and that might be our platform to victory when we take on /m/. (Kick off 1700 UTC, 1:30 pm EDT)
Right after that, keep an eye on /vp/ and /sci/, and hold onto your dice and praise RNGesus, because it's one last match between to lock our group down and see who will stay Elite! (1730 UTC, 1 pm EDT)
Be sure to stick around to see the end of GRIP WEEKEND and the Knockout rounds draw.
IT'S TIME FO' FOOTSLOGGIN' BOYZ. GET HYP, TONIGHT, TODAY!
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
>>54728496
We have a discord server set up for all things /tg/ Cup-related. So pop in if you want to talk about the team or just anything in general. https://discord.gg/011qOR7qt0vo3Siiv
Let's hope we made the right choices at character creation...
/m/ here, may the best team win
IF YOU ARE THAT ONE FAG FROM LAST THREAD DON'T EVEN TOUCH THE FUCKING DICE.
>>54728573
We intend to, but we look forwards to the battle none the less. Ditto to you /m/.
For a bit of pre-match discussion: people have been wanting a roster poll.
If you have suggestions for changes, please specify them here so we can work them into the poll.
Said poll will probably end up happening during the knockout weekend, though the exact timing will depend somewhat on future events.
Do keep in mind we'll hold to our philosophy of balanced representation: not too many players from any one franchise.
You bastards better give us a good fight. I won't accept anything less.
>>54728736
Player called "Stat me" with an owl bear blender.
>>54728736
Put emps and doomrider back where they belong
>>54728920
What do you mean? Doomrider is where he belongs.
I agree to the Emperah being back in the Golden Goal however. We need that Girlyman blender on the pitch.
>>54729128
>Girlyman
Emprah, Tankred and Doomrider is more than enough. We don't need anymore 40k than those.
give cocaineboi his gold medal back
>>54729230
We already have girlyman though, and his blender is fantastic. I'm not a big fan of the smurfs either, but you can't deny that the blender looks great.
Just swap him and the Emprah, and stick him in the midfield.
>>54728736
Put Emprah and Creed back where they belong. Remove Girlyman.
>>54728736
I'm at a very weird point where Tankred really wormed his way into my heart as goalie, but Emprah isn't cutting it on offense. Perhaps we need to cut him and just bring back our boy Creed for the elite offense.
5 MINUTES TO MATCH TIME. GET HYP!
10 MINUTE WARNING! GET HYPE!
Rolled 10 (1d100)
>>54728586
You can't stop me.
Rolled 84 (1d100)
>>54730904
Anon leave this to the professionals
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
>>54730904
Ban this man.
>>54730904
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT
STOP
Rolled 8 (1d20)
>>54730904
>>54730919
Wrong die, faggots.
Rolled 5 (1d100)
Rolling for /m/
>>54730969
yeah i'm saving that for when the match is setup for proper rolling.
Rolled 20 (1d20)
>>54730969
d100 is for cocaine % d20 is for overall team
>>54730983
>>54730987
WE GOT DIS BOYZ
>>54730987
EVERYONE STOP ROLLING
STOP
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Good luck may the best team win
t. /m/
Let's make it one for the ages /m/.
No matter what happens next this match will be one for the ages!
Game will start in around 5-10 minutes.
First match /tg/ vs /m/
>>54731013
I'd be happy to lose to you mighty mecha.
BUT DON'T THINK WE'LL HOLD BACK!
AKUR AKIR AKAM!
>Red Doomrider
Noice.
>those conditions
Fucking yikes.
AKUR AKIR AKAM
AKUR AKIR AKAM!
SHOUT IT WITH ME BROTHERS!
AKUR AKIR AKAM!!!
AKUR AKIR AKAM!
Darn unlucky.
AKUR AKIR AKAM! GOOD JOB URIST!
DORF
BASH YOUR TANKARDS, BRETHEREN!
AKUR AKIR AKAM!
DEM DORFS MAN DEM FUCKIN DORFS
that's a damn good way to pull level.
Okay, since this worked so well last time let's POST COCAINE! And cocaine accessories.
>>54731278
C-C-C-YEAHHHHHH
Noooooooo!
Damnit Char.
Come on guys. You can't just do a 1 and park like old /sp/.
>>54731278
Accessories, you say?
My connection is shit so i can't watch the stream whats the score?
This is why you don't make Doomrider a fucking Silver.
Rolled 23 (1d100)
GIVE DOOMRIDER YOUR COCAINE
SOMEONE GET DOOMRIDER MORE COCAINE
>>54731368
2-1 /m/'s favor.
He's rolling fucking 1s.
Rolled 43 (1d100)
>>54731373
NOT ENOUGH MORE
Fucking Empurder
Emprah, why must you abandon us in our hour of need?
Damnit we fought bitterly to the end.
Okay /tg/. You fucked up by having both Golds never taking shots. At least 1 striker should be a Gold.
We chaos now
Emprah out
Horus in
>>54731335
why are you laughing at ants?
It was an honor, /tg/. Thanks for the tough fight.
THE EMPEROR DEFECTS!
>>54731445
Remove Emprah bring back Creed bring back Golden strikers
>>54731445
no not Horus
Archaon.
Who thought it was a good idea for both Emperor and Doomrider to be silvers instead of gold? Weren't they both gold before?
Let's go home, boys.
Wish /m/ luck.
>>54731447
Good luck.
What a game.
Guys... We're sorry. And we're still not safe. In a fair world, we would have made it together.
>>54731426
A draw mean both team were out.
It hurts.
As much as it sucks though, all our hopes ride with you now, /m/. Carry the standard of FLGS to the knockouts. (hopefully)
Emperor confirmed for useless dead skellington
Good game /m/.
>>54731469
/toy/ still has a chance...
Least we get to play again in Autumn, Only 12 weeks, not 24 weeks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXSkThtywIE
;_;
SACKED?
>>54731454
>Arcuck
even if /m/ advances, we both lose, because we couldn't do it together.. ;-;
We made it from fetus to elite group stage in the smallest number of cups possible.
Not a bad run.
Vote to replace Emprah with Chaos Gods?
>>54731461
Always next tournament, battle brother. You guys had the better day.
Yeah, Emps needs to go back to playing a goalie.
As long as Marquod has anything to do with our team, we'll keep losing.
Well I'm gonna go back and watch the Winter 2015 cup and cry. Till next time.
>>54731515
is marqoud in any sort of management role now? i thought he was essentially our pr guy at this point.
Well, fuck.
If we gotta lose, it's good to lose in favout of someone we like, at least.
Now it's time to see if /m/ can actually make it and save some FLGS honour.
Also, we should get working on prep for the next outing in Autumn.
We could always use more tactical and aesthetics help, so if you want to contribute to the team, head over to the Discord linked higher up to help us out.
A further announcement about our future plans coming up soon.
>>54731515
Good thing for you I have basically no tactical input in the tactics, then.
Urist was ROBBED ;_;
>>54731492
Go home /sp/. Our guys are still new and improving, give them a little longer.
WE DEMAND URIST GET'S HIS RIGHTFUL 7.0 MVP!
>>54731536
Sack Doomrider.
>>54731536
We need our golden strikers back.
>>54731536
Keep Doomrider, but Emprah has been consistently shit during spring and summer, I feel we should move him back onto the throne.
>>54731608
>>54731636
give doomrider his gold back and get rid of the corpse"""""""""emperor""""""""""
So besides bringing CREED back who else would you like to see take a turn at the front?
Okay guys, can you all post your ideas for the team.
Who you want in? Who you want taken out? Maybe even who you want replacing who.
I can't support /sci/, they ruined our chance of advancing.
>>54731662
that's not a healthy way to look at it.
>>54731657
Also to add, we do have a Discord, more people have it installed. Just drop by and give us your ideas there too, it's always good to have a discussion going and we're always looking for people to help out, it's all down to how much effort you want to put into it.
>>54731679
That's okay, there's nothing healthy about the cup anyway.
>>54731650
>Implying
It's not the Emperor. The Emperor died and merged with the Astronomicon. The Golden Throne is occupied by Horus.
>>54731657
Sack Bolas. The Gatewatch never let him do anything. Put in Mox Opal.
>>54731662
/Sci/ shouldn't even be in summer anyway, they did shit in the babby and got carried by sheer bullshit of deleting teams after the tournament.
>>54731657
Don't really care for Gorillaman or GURPS, so I wouldn't mind seeing them go. Emperor taking his place back as keeper and Creed returning is a given.
As for new characters, recently playing through TWW makes me want Karl Franz, Tree Hitler and Surtha Ek, but we're already saturated with Warhammer as it is.
As for more meta suggestions, I believe we've never had an alignment related meme as a player?
>>54731732
Honestly M:tG has been constant source of disappointment.
>>54731773
Jace wasn't really a disappointment he was just a great supporter. He fed the balls to Doom and Creed and let them do their thing.
As most of you will know, for the last couple of cups (since Dakka up and disappeared for personal reasons) we've had Lazyturd as our chief of tactics.
However, he's going to be too busy with IRL stuff in the near future, so we'll have a change in managment once the cup is officially over.
Our current testers, CptCourage and CorgiLord, will be taking over tactical control, with Lazy remaining as an advisor and making any required final decisions.
I will still be around in a community relations role, with no real tactical input.
As stated previously, we'd love to have one or more of you with us as well as testers or aesthetics people. No experience with PES or anything required, just willingness and time to help out.
>>54731732
Not Smokestack
>>54731744
It wasn't bullshit, /t/ never ever made any sense. And /y/ has only themselves to blame, not even posting on /y/.
>>54731806
Exactly how much time does a tester need? I've thought about it several times, but I don't have the friendliest work schedule.
>>54731773
GURPS is too perfect for /tg/ to be sacked. Guilliman is a bit too much 40k though. I'd recommend switching him out for an MTG Wall like Windwall or some known tank, like Minsc.
>>54731873
If you can spend a couple hours here and there, especially just before and during a cup, you'll already be a great help.
You can hop into our Discord if ya want to talk some more about it.
>>54731881
I'd probably put him into attack and switch emperor out instead.
>>54731873
Not that long, honestly- so long as you have roughly an hour thirty every other day and an hour a day on cup weekends, then you've got time to run a battery of tests. Feel free to come around the /tg/ discord (link off of the OP post) and we can give you a rundown of how to test.
Also, hello, I'm CorgiLord, local Space Corgi player.
Wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf.
>>54731657
">Stat me" with an owlbear model as suggested earlier could be cool, and maybe President Dunkelzahn or Lofwyr could give Shadowrun some more representation
As far as I'm concerned we can sack any 40k players other than Tankred and Doomrider.
>>54731869
Then maybe they should have waited till the fucking summer cup was over instead of giving free handouts to teams that didn't deserve it.
But hey gotta have that audience for a meme tournament right?
>>54731873
A match can last around 10-15 mins, maybe not even that.
We usually test formations, etc in matches of 6 but depending on the results, maybe less.
You'll have to ask one of the management council (Yes I said council you fucks) if you can test 1 match at a time or if it'll be better to run all the matches 1 after another.
Just general info for everyone, PES + crack is from a torrent, you just download the cup aesthetics "dlc" and general save info. Then the brainboys will give you a file to save, you import that into the team, sometimes it requires a little bit of slider changes and then you just test. PES generally requires 2 controllers but I make do with 1 and a keyboard. It's fairly simple to set everything up but we're always here to help.
For anyone still watching, /sci/ is leading on /vp/ with like 2 minutes left.
/m/ is going to the knockout stage.
>>54731922
>">Stat me" with an owlbear model as suggested earlier could be cool
I love this idea.
>>54731806
Hi.
>>54731922
Even I've heard of Dunkelzahn, but I know nothing about him other than his name.
>>54731945
its /vp/.
they are dangerous until the final whistle.
>>54731934
Yes? What's the point of having teams with no support pretending to be elite just so 1 guy can jerk his e-peen?
>>54731960
Seconding this.
>>54731977
congratulations
OUR BROTHER LIVES!
Good luck in the knockouts!
>>54731960
>>54731994
I also love this idea.
Give your energy to /toy/ If they win then half of the FLGS is still in the Elites and Ro16
>>54731977
good luck you potatospawn
Well, this match has cheered me up a bit.
>>54732009
>congratulations
Thanks. I suppose I should say something more but honestly I'm just drained from this weekend. It's been a lot of stress and I'm sorry we got re-Babbied but I'm happy we went down if it meant /m/ could live.
I'm determined to get us back up where we belong in the Elites but for now, a much needed break is needed. I promise to you /tg/ that many sleepless nights will be spent working to make this team something to be proud of.
That's all I've got for now. See y'all soon.
P.S. THANK YOU BASED MADOKA! GO /toy/!
>>54731657
Everyone.
Sideline everyone and preserve that roster as A team and lead into the next cup with the /tg/ Youth Team (or maybe B team) of newer fresher memes with wild and untamed dreams. This is the path to a new star.
>>54732327
For something like that we'd need more player suggestions though.
>>54731873
toplads have said it, but testing doesn't require much. Don't test for numbers or goals, test for how the teams play. Create something, watch it break, patch it, break it, patch it some more, break it, send it into an official game and let PES do the rest. Don't stress about numbers and volume. PES 17 is fairly consistent, especially if you craft something strong.
Why is Cobra Commander on /toy/?
>>54732573
GI Joe is a toyline
Can't even be mad about those results. At least half of the FLGS is still in the Elites.
Congratulations /toy/.
>>54732416
I suppose it's more of a crashing into the Fetus option.
>>54732626
But the original FLGS members have consistently flopped.
I'm new to this, what's an FLGS?
>>54732982
We're aware, but that's where the dice fell.
>>54732994
Friendly Local Game Store, where you find /tg/, /co/, /m/ and /toy/.
It's also a competition between the four boards that we do every once in a while.
>>54732994
The four boards have a fair amount overlapping interests and users, so there's a camaraderie when it comes to inter-board events like the cup.
Are we fixing the medals back to the original?
>>54733199
Either 2 gold strikers or 1 gold 1 silver.
We've got 12 weeks till figure it out but most likely comes down to the playstyle we choose.
>>54733232
If strikers aren't as effective in 17, I'd say 1/1 it. But this 0 golds up front is bad.
Kaine is the best girl. Why isn't there a Nier RPG?
>>54733270
Pretty much, Doomrider at the moment is wasted player. He waits for the chance that never comes
>>54733232
>>54733270
1 gold 1 silver for strikers and midfielders is something we'll definitely looking at in the weeks ahead. We were able to shore up our defences but our attack was rather toothless. Maybe the gold is what we were missing.
>>54733998
Defense is naturally stronger because of the sport itself, it is better to use your medals on offense and supporting offense
>>54733998
What Courage said. The 3-5-2 that we ran today was as strong as we could get the offense with our current set up, so our ongoing fight against insanity continues.
>>54732327
What new memes? We haven't had new memes for years.
Rolled 16 (1d20)
>>>/co/94464671
>>>/co/94464745
asked us to roll for them, so here goes.
>>54733165
i love this picture, but it bothers me that /m/ and /toy/ are dressed as the source material and /tg/ and /co/ are dressed as people who are into said sorce material.
>>54736843
What
>>54736855
/m/ looks like a robot, people who visit /m/ don't. /toy/ is a toy, people who visit /toy/ aren't. by the same logic, /tg/ should be in armor probably, and /co/ should be wearing a cape.
>>54736843
>>54737153
You're pretty new here, aren't you?
>>54737200
not really, why?