Hey everyone, I'm posting here to spread the word about a SWBF2 PlayStation 2 tournament taking place this summer over at the BFC. This is the link to the signup thread:
http://www.theswbfc.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2003

This tournament uses an open ladder format that usually takes place annually in the summer. Currently there are 6 teams signed up, teams may sign up at any point in the season.

So if any of you still have your PS2 lying around, feel free to sign up for Season 15 by posting in the topic that I linked. A clan needs a minimum of 4 members to sign up and the minimum size for battles is 3 on 3. There's also always the option of joining a pre-existing team as a single person, and it appears that certain people are looking for members.

The site has been running this ladder since 2007 and it will be the 15th one, so we have a lot of experience running these, there is even going to be a cash prize this year for the top 2 teams.

You can also feel free to ask me any questions at all related to this competition or how to connect to SWBFSpy on PlayStation 2, I would be happy to answer.

Whatsup Led, about 2 years ago you guys pointed me in the right direction of finding GameMaster, I then contacted Kalle and was able to test some PS2 things for him back in 2014.

I am totally down to help you test SWBFspy for PS2. A website I help run has been doing tournaments on PS2 SWBF2 for many years now and the players want to keep it going.

I would be able to personally help starting on Monday night when I'm with my PS2. I know that there are others who I can ask to do something if you wanted to test something tonight. Antony and Snake were also super helpful when we were setting things up on GameMaster so they should be helpful again too I hope.

I'll explain the process we did for GameMaster, and then you can tell me what you think we should test first.

On PS2, we can't edit our hosts file or .exe. The only thing we have access to is the network configuration screen. It lets us change a few things but the most important thing was the ability to change Primary DNS and Secondary DNS. The screen looks like this:
Note that this number is an old one we used to connect to GameMaster.

At some point in May 2014 I found GameMaster, and I did a DNS lookup on their website domain, and I was able to get the IP Address of their website, aka the DNS address. This is what we used to connect to them. It did not work right away, but after I spoke to Kalle and he did some setting up on his end, things were working.

So, looking at the hosts file you made, I am assuming we would use 162.248.92.172 as the new Primary DNS number for SWBFspy. I could try this on Monday but I would need at least one other person to test it with because the server list would be empty. Ideally, I would try out your DNS number, and then host a server on this list via my PS2. On PS2 there is an option to host a small server from the machine itself. We usually call these "4 mans" because the maximum amount of players is 4. Then I would have someone else try your DNS number and see if they can see my server on the list and join it. If that works then we know its all working.

In order to host larger servers we will need to hex edit the Playstation 2 Server Manager to redirect all the GameSpy addresses to your addresses. However we might not need to do this for another month because Kalle is redirecting the GameMaster server to you guys for a month so maybe we won't need to do anything just yet. I can try to find the old vanilla files at some point so we can get them edited properly. Finding the SWBF1 one might be harder though.

I also have a copy of SWBF1 for Playstation 2 and I am willing to help you guys test that too.

Hello everyone, I know most of you are SWBF1 players, but I still wanted to let you know that sign ups are open for a SWBF2 PC Conquest tournament, which will be starting soon. This tournament will be using the Gamemaster GameSpy workaround to conduct its matches.

The tournament will be in an open ladder format and will consist of mostly 4 on 4 matches (although teams can still play in 3v3s at the minimum if they would like to, larger matches are also possible as long as its even). This format means that teams will be able to openly challenge teams and play matches at their leisure. Points are awarded for wins and deducted for losses. At the end of the open ladder period the top teams will move on to the playoffs, which will be a bracket format. Some matches in this tournament will be streamed provided one of the streamers is a available and individual stats will be recorded as well (inputting scoreboard stats into google sheet). This could also be the last SWBF2 tournament hosted on this site as the new game will be out soon.

Right now there is no official set start date because this will be influenced by the number of signups (once there is about 8 teams signed up things can start).

If any of you guys would like to sign up as a team (meaning you have at least 2 other people in mind who you can play with) you should go here:
http://www.theswbfc.com/page/register-clan

If you don't have anyone in mind, you guys can feel free to organize a team right here in this thread, or you can post on the free agent section of the site, letting pre-existing PC teams know that you would like to play:
http://www.theswbfc.com/viewforum.php?f=27


Lastly, once the new game comes out this site will be hosting competitive tournaments on that game too, but since we don't know a lot about the game yet I don't have any details about that at this time.