New faces from ETQW › -> Revengeful

Introduction time

Well, I am Revengeful and I work as community manager in the free time for few companies. I am part of the well know ClanBase Crew since 2003 and now I am the Italian Chief Manager of ClanBase Italy, and also a member of the Game Committee of the European division. This is why I was appointed as supervisor of the ETQW cup.

How far back does your experience in supervising extend?

Well, I started with Quake3 in 2003 and I supervised some OpenCup, after I was appointed as supervisor of both OpenCup and Eurocup Quake4 1on1 tournaments. Then I moved to the PES game crew where I was the Game Supervisor, but now it's time to come back with the origin, it's time for Quake Wars.

While Nuke has been playing Enemy Territory in the past, people might not know you as well yet. How well do you know the history of ET, and the community it now holds?

I played ET only a Quake fan and I've never been part of the ET Game Crew but I know something about the game community, also because we talk a lot inside the crew.

Is there a chance that could be a hindrance to you?

Me and DuruS are members of Game Committee, one of the reason is that we play a lot of games and we know almost of the game communities, then we can manage different games without problems. I investigated a lot about QuakeWars so I know all the aspects based on what we got also from open/closed beta and some internal contacts.

What are you aims for ETQW as a new game on CB, how will you develop it and unlock its full potential?

One of our goals is to understand what will be the best suitable rules for the game, as you may noticed we are trying both ET and BF2 (Battlefield 2) sides. We also trying to support the game from the beginning and this means supervising a cup for the open beta.

I understand you are being forced to rush the cup due to the expected end of the open beta, how much pressure does this place on you?

A lot of pressure! The cup is intended as a QuickCup (you may know that ClanBase introduced a new cup system where these sort of tournaments should be done within 2 weeks). The ETQW tournament is listed as a Featured Cup since we have some partners for the servers and the coverage, but actually it is a kind of QuickCup.

That said, for a quick cup there's already been some negative attention. What do you make of the recent turbulence with Adacore arriving in place of DuRuS?

Well, there is not turbulence actually. DuruS is one of the most active ClanBase Crew admin, but he has a lot of tasks since he is also inside the management (he is the Co-Chief of News and a PR Assistant). We found that Adacore has more time to dedicate to this cup that must be handled in a very short time.

It's interesting you should say that..

[q=ClanBase's Adacore]I'd rather have him [Durus] on the QW cup than me. I don't really have enough time in the evenings atm, playing in both a QW and ET team[/q]

It seems that might not actually be the case..

Adacore has a good ability to manage his time and help us even if he is busy in the evening :) There might be another reason but I can not tell you more. I can give you just an hint... the applications for ETQW Game Supervisor are open.

There has been debate and opinion about the early running of the cup, for instance the frequent rule changes. Do you think this criticism was justified?

The problem is, should we use rules that players want or try to use rules for understand which is the best way to play ETQW? This is a new game so it's not easy to develop a standard rule set.

But forcing clans to rethink their entire set of tactics, surely thats very tough?

Well, this will train the clans to develope new tactics for the new maps (since the open beta has only one map)

Finally, what are you aims for ETQW on CB, once the cup is over? Is the game EuroCup material in ClanBase's eyes?

ETQW will get full support even if we have to talk about it based also on the results that we will get from this tournament. One of the reason why we are supporting a beta cup, it's because we want be really competitive immediately with the game's release. The EuroCup will depends also on some game issues (cheating, mods and so on).