"Mutual Support" 2v2 BVR Tournament v4 - November 7th 2020

[dundun92]

INTRO

 

Mutual Support is a 2v2 BVR Tournament. Naturally, the smaller team sizes often lead to more aggressive and interesting fights that are focused on solid mutual support.

Various editions of it will have various rulesets based on the approximate time era chosen; this edition is 1990s themed.

 

 

DATE AND TIME

This second edition of Mutual Support will start at 2000z on November 7th, 2020. The running time will be no greater than 3 hrs. If this is exceeded, the competition will be resumed one of the the following Saturdays at a similar time, based on the teams preference.

 

 

Registration ends on November 6th.

 

 

 

OBJECTIVES AND TOURNAMENT STYLE

Each match is conducted as best of three rounds. The objective is to destroy all enemy aircraft (by doing so preventing them from RTBing), and still be able to RTB to the designated base. Note that enforcing the RTB is up to the loosing team; if they want they can tell the winning team to simply respawn.

 

 

The competition is a knockout-style competition, with teams being eliminated after loosing a 3 round match. Time permitting, looser of the first round of fights will participate in a separate championship.

 

 

 

RULES

1. A single team may be comprised of as many pilots as desired; however, only two may be used at a time.
   
2. Only one pilot is allowed to change between rounds (note that for the F-14, changing RIOs is allowed as much as desired).
   
3. Aircraft types may not be changed between the individual rounds of a particular match. They can, however, be changed between matches.
   
4. Mixed fleets of aircraft are allowed (e.g, one F-18C and one J-11A).
   
5. All spawns are air spawns separated by 100-120nm.
   
6. Either of designated airbases for the chosen arena (Kutaisi-Tiblisi) is a valid RTB airbase.
   
7. The competition will be on Caucasus map.
   
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9. Weapons employment from outside the engagement zone is not permitted.
   
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11. Ping limit of 300 is server-enforced.
    
12. Lonewolfs are allowed; the pairings are to be decided automatically the day before the matchup, and will stay that way for the tournament. Alternatively, you may decide on the pairings yourselves; in that case, simply state the agreed pairings no later than November 6th at 2300z.
    
13. AWACS will be present, but will NOT have datalink enabled.
    
14. To keep the event running smoothly, I would ask that suggestions/questions be kept until the end of the event, unless they are relevant to/will affect the remaining rounds (e.g, concerns about excessive lag/rubber banding).
    
15. One squadron may enter up to 2 primary teams. Any further teams will be put on a reserve roster to allow space to accommodate more teams. If a team cannot show up, or registration is not full by registration end, reserve teams will be moved to the primary roster.
    
16. More Rules TBD
    

WEAPONS RESTRICTIONS

This edition features a roughly 1990s rule set with some exceptions.

The BANNED weapons are: AIM-9X, AIM-54A Mk.60, AIM-120C, Nukes.

Restricted weapons are: AIM-120B to 6 total, AIM-54 Mk.47 to 4 total.

 

 

COMMUNICATION

All team captains must be present on the Alamo Squadron Teamspeak (server info below) during play.

IP: 73.32.85.67

PW: 5775

Questions are to be asked either in PMs, or on this thread.

 

 

STREAMING AND PRIZES

There is no anticipated stream as of RN. If you would want to volunteer DM me.

There are no prizes, its simply for the fun of it!

 

 

 

REGISTRATION

Registration format is as follows:

 

 

[Team Name]

Player #1

Player #2

Player #3

...

 

 

As an example

 

 

Alamo Squadron

Alamo 1-1 | dundun92

Alamo 1-2 | Dankguy

 

 

There will be a limit of 16 teams.

 

 

OTHER RESOURCES

For those that may be interested, but may not be familiar with 2v2 BVR, the 2v1, 2v2, and Tactical Intercepts of "Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering" are very informative. It is widely available as a PDF online.

Edited October 22, 2020 by dundun92

[dundun92]

The default/alternate airspawn loadouts are as follows. Slots 1-2 use the default loadout, 3-4 use the alternate:

 

 

F-14: 4*AIM-54C,2*AIM-7MH,2*AIM-9M. Alternate: N/A

F-15C: 6*AIM-120B,2*AIM-9M. Alternate: 6*AIM-120B,2*AIM-7MH

F-16C: 6*AIM-120B. Alternate: N/A

F/A-18C: 6*AIM-120B, 2*AIM-7MH, 2*AIM-9M. Alternate: 6*AIM-120B, 6*AIM-9M

Su-27S: 4*R-27ER,2*R-27ET,4*R-73. Alternate: 5*R-27ER,1*R-27ET,4*R-73

J-11A: 2*R-27ER,2*R-77,2*R-27ET,4*R-73. Alternate: 4*R-27ER,1*R-77,1*R-27ET,4*R-73

 

 

REGISTERED TEAMS (8/16):

Alamo Squadron

104th Phoenix

Iranian Sky Guardians

Raviar/-= IRIAF =- Hunter

64th Aggressors

Eclipse Task Force

Eclipse Task Force Plastic Edition

Task Force Trident

 

 

RESERVE TEAMS:

 

 

None

Edited October 23, 2020 by dundun92

[dundun92]

Alamo Squadron

Alamo 1-1 | dundun92

Alamo 1-2 | Dankguy

Alamo 1-4 | Prez

Edited October 23, 2020 by dundun92

[dundun92]

***COMPETETION DATE IS BEING MOVED TO THE 7TH OF NOVEMBER***

[104th_Fallen]

104th_Phoenix

 

104th_Fallen

104th_Blaze

104th_Spade

104th_Bullet

104th_Tiger

104th_MoGas

104cdt_Wiley

104cdt_Aeons

 

P.s. Appreciate you bumping the date for us mate!

[E-TF[101] Breeze]

Why did you change the date? I have a satal game on the 7th... the satal schedule have matches every 2 weeks, if it is hosted on the 31st i had gotten 9 teams to maybe register. Because the 31st is the free week for some of the teams.

Edited October 23, 2020 by Breeze[Thunder 69]

[dundun92]

The date was moved to deconflict with the Top Gun Super Hornet comp, I did not realize it was on the same day, and was probably one of the reasons for the overall lack of entries

Edited October 23, 2020 by dundun92

[Zodyac]

ISG

 

ISG | Zodyac

ISG | Javelin

[Raviar]

Raviar

-= IRIAF =- Hunter

[dundun92]

In light of DST, is 2000z still an acceptable time for everyone?

[E-TF[101] Breeze]

The 104th cancelled the guns only comp wanna re think the date?

[dundun92]

So considering the recent AIM-54 issues caused by the latest patch we have 2 options:

1. Simply revert to DCS 2.5.6.55960
   
2. We could alternatively all agree not to use F-14s
   

Im leaning towards 1 but if everyone would be OK with no AIM-54s we could go ahead with 2

[TaoHermit]

64th Aggressors

<64>TaoHermit

<64>NoWheels

[E-TF[101] Breeze]

Eclipse Task-Force

 

 

E-TF[101] Breeze

E-TF[119] Riker

[E-TF[101] Breeze]

Eclipse Task-Force Plastic Edition

 

E-TF[142] Arthas

E-TF[109] barracuda2

[Triggerjo23]

Task Force Trident

 

TFT Orange

TFT Lynx

[dundun92]

So here are the preliminary brackets:

[dundun92]

Also I will add: ECM is banned. We will be watching for use of the ECM exploit, so please dont do it.

[dundun92]

Just a reminder that the competition starts in one hour! Please try and show up in the TS around 10 mins before if possible, it would help speed up things. Stream is yet TBD

[dundun92]

Congratulations to ETF for winning this edition of the Mutual Support! The link to the tacview is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YOTUmg9PhxI3n3wELVfhp7PGp_AIXh3e/view?usp=sharing

[TAW_Blaze]

Congrats guys! The jeffs were a lot a lot stronger in this format than I expected.