As you will have noticed, recently there have been some changes to the look and features of the site, including this pretty little "King of the hill" box sitting snugly under the comments box. And, if you haven't read the news yet, there's a simple explanation: Crossfire is hosting its first ever competition.
A competition I hear you say! But what could a bunch of English admins with a sexy Belgian headadmin / coder offer by way of prizes? We toyed with the idea of Fusen PHP exploiting some prize giveaway on another site, but then, what if he got caught? And Nellie might have been able to send some Kendel Mint Cake, but what if the rugby team lost - he'd be too devastated to remember to visit the local post office. And as for TosspoT, well, he's busy visiting America trying to persuade
Mousie to ditch the "modelling" career. So you can see we faced something of a predicament. But! But then it hit us. What can a site with over 10,000 hits a day, thousands of users and a base for competitive ET offer clans? The answer is suprisingly simple.
Fame, publicity, exposure, hits, coverage, advertising. These are all words which describe what will be happening to the clan in pole position of our competition, with their name displayed on every single xfire page, links to their website, irc channel, lineup, and most importantly, history of dominance. And lets face it. Every clan has a voice comm server, most top teams already have a gameserver, and all are hosted. So there isn't much point in offering that. But what clan wouldn't want their profile given a highly substantial boost and attention given to their endevours? Even the most noise-shy clan would struggle to turn down this.
So the incentive was in place, now all we had to do was give the competition a structure that would allow it to run. One of the key points we faced was making sure that the clans given exposure were shuffled around, so as to avoid a list that read "dvotion" twenty times (using dvotion as an example 'cause they're not exactly ever going to win anything, so we might as well make it comfortable for them!). This is where the KOTH system comes into its own. KOTH stands for "King of the hill", and it means pretty much how it sounds. Teams fight for the right to be crowned "top". More about this system and how it works coming later on in the article.
In the beginning the KOTH will only be opened to "highskilled" teams to make the system manageable. Depending on results, we may look to expand into other skill bands with the passing of time. However that is not the case at the moment, and as such we have drawn up a list of 30 clans with input from the community who will be allowed to compete in the competition.
FINALLY, I realise some of this article will seem pretty confusing. I decided to post it now, sooner rather than later, with a view to improve the format page especially. Hopefully it will serve as a temporary base for now.
The first match is busy being organised as we speak, watch Crossfire news for more updates, news and infos. Happy koth'ing!
A competition I hear you say! But what could a bunch of English admins with a sexy Belgian headadmin / coder offer by way of prizes? We toyed with the idea of Fusen PHP exploiting some prize giveaway on another site, but then, what if he got caught? And Nellie might have been able to send some Kendel Mint Cake, but what if the rugby team lost - he'd be too devastated to remember to visit the local post office. And as for TosspoT, well, he's busy visiting America trying to persuade
Mousie to ditch the "modelling" career. So you can see we faced something of a predicament. But! But then it hit us. What can a site with over 10,000 hits a day, thousands of users and a base for competitive ET offer clans? The answer is suprisingly simple. Fame, publicity, exposure, hits, coverage, advertising. These are all words which describe what will be happening to the clan in pole position of our competition, with their name displayed on every single xfire page, links to their website, irc channel, lineup, and most importantly, history of dominance. And lets face it. Every clan has a voice comm server, most top teams already have a gameserver, and all are hosted. So there isn't much point in offering that. But what clan wouldn't want their profile given a highly substantial boost and attention given to their endevours? Even the most noise-shy clan would struggle to turn down this.
So the incentive was in place, now all we had to do was give the competition a structure that would allow it to run. One of the key points we faced was making sure that the clans given exposure were shuffled around, so as to avoid a list that read "dvotion" twenty times (using dvotion as an example 'cause they're not exactly ever going to win anything, so we might as well make it comfortable for them!). This is where the KOTH system comes into its own. KOTH stands for "King of the hill", and it means pretty much how it sounds. Teams fight for the right to be crowned "top". More about this system and how it works coming later on in the article.
In the beginning the KOTH will only be opened to "highskilled" teams to make the system manageable. Depending on results, we may look to expand into other skill bands with the passing of time. However that is not the case at the moment, and as such we have drawn up a list of 30 clans with input from the community who will be allowed to compete in the competition.
FINALLY, I realise some of this article will seem pretty confusing. I decided to post it now, sooner rather than later, with a view to improve the format page especially. Hopefully it will serve as a temporary base for now.
The first match is busy being organised as we speak, watch Crossfire news for more updates, news and infos. Happy koth'ing!
