One Day Cups, also known as ODC. We all know them, we've all played them. They are part of the game, same as trolls are part of Crossfire. And they have something in common with trolls - only few of them are decent, while most of them simply tries hard to be cool but fails.
Cups like that are enjoyable way for teams or mixes to spend the evening. You simply sign up on the page, gather with mates on vent and wait for opponent to play against. The further you go, the more fun it is and eventually you might win a pokal. Some cups even offer prizes such as gameservers, BNCs or voiceservers. If hosted properly, such events can turn out to be a success, make people happy and gives admin the confidence to host more cups. That's where poo hits the fan.
Nowadays most "admins" are not capable of efficiently hosting such cup. Many of them write rules that they can't even follow, are too lazy to check players for CB/ESL bans and usually can't handle the pressure of mad players. Over the past few months I've seen very few that could make a succesfull cup. There are few reasons why people fail with taking care of such event.
First and most common one is the laziness of the admins. Some people that are hosting the cups are simply too lazy to do some background check around the teams, thus allowing cheaters in and harming the innocent players. Another reason is the belief of some admins that ODC is an easy event to host. You just create page, let people sign up and let them play right? No, it's not like that. Hosting ODC requires time and patience.
Well without further listing the obvious problems I'd like to share my little list with you, list entitled What A Successful Admin Should Have:
Now let me explain what I mean with those. First two are quite obvious, you got to have some brains and a lot of patience to run the cup efficiently. The next one is possibly the most important thing. Good admin must be able to reason with players and talk without instantly flaming him and calling him a retard. Even if the player is mad and has is not right at all, you must remain calm and show him that he's wrong. 4th position on the list cracks me up most. Nowadays almost everyone knows basics of English, but many people stop at the basics. It's quite annoying when you try to talk with the admin, asking about rules or complaining about opponent and admin can't answer you in an understandable way (mostly happens with
admins). The last 2 abilities are vital ones. Admins are not machines and can make mistakes. If so, they should be able to admit that they are wrong, instead of being a stubborn bastards. Also they have to defend their point and not give in to players just because they whine hard. Just because someone is loud, doesn't mean he is right. If someone has all those skills, he can become a succesfull admin and make community happy.
Cups like that are enjoyable way for teams or mixes to spend the evening. You simply sign up on the page, gather with mates on vent and wait for opponent to play against. The further you go, the more fun it is and eventually you might win a pokal. Some cups even offer prizes such as gameservers, BNCs or voiceservers. If hosted properly, such events can turn out to be a success, make people happy and gives admin the confidence to host more cups. That's where poo hits the fan.
Nowadays most "admins" are not capable of efficiently hosting such cup. Many of them write rules that they can't even follow, are too lazy to check players for CB/ESL bans and usually can't handle the pressure of mad players. Over the past few months I've seen very few that could make a succesfull cup. There are few reasons why people fail with taking care of such event.
First and most common one is the laziness of the admins. Some people that are hosting the cups are simply too lazy to do some background check around the teams, thus allowing cheaters in and harming the innocent players. Another reason is the belief of some admins that ODC is an easy event to host. You just create page, let people sign up and let them play right? No, it's not like that. Hosting ODC requires time and patience.
Well without further listing the obvious problems I'd like to share my little list with you, list entitled What A Successful Admin Should Have:
- IQ over 115
- Patience
- Ability to talk with players
- Understandable English
- Ability to admit that he's wrong
- Ability to handle the pressure
Now let me explain what I mean with those. First two are quite obvious, you got to have some brains and a lot of patience to run the cup efficiently. The next one is possibly the most important thing. Good admin must be able to reason with players and talk without instantly flaming him and calling him a retard. Even if the player is mad and has is not right at all, you must remain calm and show him that he's wrong. 4th position on the list cracks me up most. Nowadays almost everyone knows basics of English, but many people stop at the basics. It's quite annoying when you try to talk with the admin, asking about rules or complaining about opponent and admin can't answer you in an understandable way (mostly happens with
admins). The last 2 abilities are vital ones. Admins are not machines and can make mistakes. If so, they should be able to admit that they are wrong, instead of being a stubborn bastards. Also they have to defend their point and not give in to players just because they whine hard. Just because someone is loud, doesn't mean he is right. If someone has all those skills, he can become a succesfull admin and make community happy.
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ah couldn't even get further than 2 chapters when I got bored. Just thinking if "cups can be a success" if u have a plural word becoming to one :D
But still, at least there are some cups to play and attend, better than nothing.
Besides, there would be no need to argue with players if they would just organize it well, check the backgrounds of teams and follow their own rules, especially with timelimits (not slipping from them or changing them randomly).
get it back SPU!
spanish ppl aren't that good aswell
i literally stopped reading there
set stupid admins below that
set admin requirement above
win
Although i'm a frog, I know and I admit we have some problem with english.
But stop blamming us, just blam the government.
It's really funny to see how my english is bad when I talk with some of you, but it's really sad to see that I am and I always was one of the best at school :[
* Patience: wut o.0
* Ability to talk with players: talk about wut?
* Understandable English: learn engrish and stfu
* Ability to admit that he's wrong: admin is always right
* Ability to handle the pressure:wut pressure?
you´re right.
fucking polak :-D
admitting hes wrong is deffo the most important of any admin job
also, they should avoid acting upon personal views about things - for instance, if you think someone cheats but it is not proved, they should be allowed to play etc
I haven't personally ever had much problems with ODC's or admins. Usually always the admins listen to what I have to say and they always believe me or say that they are wrong if they are. But I guess it's about the players as well. If u stay calm yourself and present your case in a mannered way, then u get better response from the admins as well :)
One thing that I could note out. If an admin is hosting the cup alone, then he shouldn't play in it himself, because then it often runs out of hand. The most important thing for the admin is to be avi when he is needed in my opinion.
ODC are a meant to be fun, most people take it too serious even tho it can piss you off as hell if you end up losing a supposedly pretty easy match (
I know personally from about the lots of I Kannt Spall cups I've hosted that you can't always live up to the demanded standard most people have towards ODC's and such.
I personally ain't that type of admin that check every team for banned players and such however I am of that opinion that a team should always before match start check players out for hackinghistory. I've banned tons of teams as soon as I received a clear proof that a player has been banned, actually I sometimes ban teams simply because of their no named players and if their guids are way too young for me to actually believe that they're clean.
ODC's ain't worth bitching about seriously, it's like writing columns about random IRC wars.
not checking pbguids/ips (need to be pbbans admin for that)
ignoring rules and just letting friends join your cup eventho they are cheaters
making stupid calls so your ''friends'' can get the advantage (cock sucking your way up)
running a cup with several admins, never works so host it alone
adding stupid maps per round and making teams drop by lotto wins
But 2 fail admins is 4x fail :D
Ubercup
were nice