Current state of ET

Plenty of columns, journals about it nowadays. A lot of opinions written, here is mine. Since I don't feel like writing an entire column about this, I'll keep my comment short and simple.
  • ET needs online tournaments (possibliy with prizes) so that many teams will compete (not 16 like @ lan...)
  • consider a tournament where lower skilled players are able to win smth
  • PHX lan failed because of shit timing (too close to last lan event,making lan after/during holidays)
  • Merlinator should join Clanbase and host EuroCup as main supervisor (hopefully with prizes? He is able to do it, besides, I think he is able to finish the cup).
  • new maps are not really necessary. Ofc, would be good to have 1 new decent map but still it's possible to have a quite good mappool amongst current possibilities
  • there is a holiday period, no need to panic (Although I agree it's a good time for discussion)
  • community should give a more support for people hosting cups


Over and out, feel free to discuss
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cool story
- consider a tournament where lower skilled players are able to win smth

How?
High Bracket/Low Bracket
Then there are kings of the noobs
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so people will lose on purpose because they cba to play against high brackets people ? :P
Parent
Okay I agree,
now you make the diffrence!
Been there, done that.
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Hearth and commitment to the game, that is all what we need.
+1 homeslice
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get 6o6 back goddamnit, most people dont care for lan at all.
bring 6on6 back with mortar, mg42 and all the old shit.
bad idea tbh, mortar as impossible for competition
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how so, when they announced to put warbell in the OC 6v6 Summercup, I was training hard with blizzardx on mortaring the shit outta y'all

(two weeks before start, they deleted mortar in the config, week after that they removed warbell, but that's all irrelevant), you would have gotten nowhere if that shit went trough
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Merlinator should join Clanbase and host EuroCup as main supervisor (hopefully with prizes? He is able to do it, besides, I think he is able to finish the cup).

i c what you did thur
I think establishing crossfire as the central of one-day cups and longer more prestigous cups would be a better option than running things through multiple platforms (CB, one-day-cup.pl.pt.ee.fi.de.uk, etc.).

It "just" needs a proper working ladder/league system linked to the clans and profiles already existing on this page. It also provides best overview of current teams and players, as well as some implementation of SLAC (or?).

Other than that, I kinda agree on most points. A new map would be lovely still and I think the first rounds of one-day cups can be used to check them out. At least that's how it way done several years ago. I remember playing some extremely weird maps in some et-cups :-P
The crossfire ladder! Tosspot will start pointing a finger to YOU!:D
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Well, in my opinion testing random maps in one day cups won't do the trick since I believe the best feedback a supervisor can get is when people actually prepare some tactics for it. In the times I used to work actively for Clanbase, I was using summercup for that purpose. Too bad there is no 5o5 SC this season, but well...current supervisors squad @ CB is poor :(
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Somebody should host more one days in the upcoming 2 weeks :P
im unbanned in a few days = more games than ever b4
I think most of the people have already lost motivation.

Just let her die a peaceful and painless death.
DEATH BY LETHAL INJECTION?
I THINK NOT!
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he said painless
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It is painless, trust me I've been injected before.
and
Trust me, I'm a doctor.
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how can it be lethal then
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That was the joke -_-
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they used to split tournaments into upper and lower brackets after preliminery rounds to decide brackets, so the lower teams would get a chance to win too... kept it interesting , as even if you lost, youd still be in with a good shout of winning lower bracket. ok so no-one wants to be in that lower bracket, but still gives a lot more midskill teams a chance to shine and improve...

unterelite tourneys did it. oh look baggiez, this seems to be on gtv...

http://www.gamestv.org/downloads/203-unterelite-season-3/

cough*
saving et:

1. host another crossfire chalenge
2. ....
3. profit
I'd be willing to organize and run a big 5v5 (6v6?) tournament with multipe leagues and with a refreshing mappool. Something along the lines of the "old 3" (Supply, Radar, Goldrush) plus some less popular maps.

I'd be willing to do this if I could gather some capable, intelligent and mature people around me, though I would have no idea where to gather any prizes.

Also : Revive GamesTV by not allowing every single match to be broadcasted, give it the "special" character back.
I can halp u with it bro, by providing some banners, logos etc, just hit me here mate
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I can help pmme here or on mIRC
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avi to eventually admin matches & other small works.
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QuoteAlso : Revive GamesTV by not allowing every single match to be broadcasted, give it the "special" character back.


Said this already ages ago and they decided to make "Top matches" feature instead `-`
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I can support ET scene providing horrible fragmovies :U
I got many fails on demo !
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ET needs something which is a cross between steam, xfire and quake live. A program which is downloaded with the installation files which makes it easy for public players to switch over to competition.

For example, you run the program then select competition or public. If they select Competition, then they have options such as;

- Search for "Clan war" (opens irc channel with the browser built into the program)

- Search for Clan (#clanless-et opens same as above)

- Choice of AC (game is executed through program similar to how SLAC/TZAC and Steam work)

...etc

The Public option will open up the server list like other programs do.

Also, with the inbuilt browser the default webpage would be crossfire, and the "adverts" on the program would advertise upcoming cups, leagues etc.

If this is plausable, I think it would make competition a lot more user friendly, and bring a lot of new players to the scene.

QUICK PAINT MOCK UP

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nice idea, maybe a new project to code...
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irc works just fine to get wars
irc works just fine to contact people
crossfire works for searching players and talking trash
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It would be irc, just implemented into a program. It would be aimed at attracting new players to competition, because thousands play public, but most have little knowledge of the competitive scene. ET was the first PC game I played and I was playing public for 2-3 years until i stumbled onto the competitive scene.

For someone who has little knowledge of computers, these things can be difficult, you may think that they are easy, but for a newbie, a simple thing like using IRC can be confusing.
Parent
sounds brilliant tbh, nice ideas
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sounds cool, but i guess your idea will die, because it is community of ignorants.
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I did something like that for the war search - http://et.ycn-hosting.com Not sure if it's going to be used anyways.
Other thing we should do is an competitive only ultimate installer.
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Yeah that is similar to what I was thinking for the "searching" aspect. Would be nice if someone could implement it into a program which combines everything. We just need one program which removes the hassle of downloading loads of files from different sites.
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Steamlike program. Hm..
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how to save ET



You start sponsor/manage us again and arrange over 9000 matches per day
+1(to his idea, but replied to you so you notice it instead :P)
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if someone is in need of a second or third admin of his or hers cups, write me a pm, i've hosted several successful one-day-cups in the past (#fake69, like 1 year ago :p)
THIS THREAD IS GOLD.

e: sticky pls!
ET needs more Homer! =)
IN-f*-DEED
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Chris! <3 How are you ? long time no see mate^^
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I'm fine. Good to see you back in action! ;D
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ET needs Bani back!
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