Toss' CC5

CC5 is pretty much over and if I dont recap it quickly I'll forget it because during events my memory is goldfish'ish!

The final poker tournament is live in WZZRD at the moment and I err lost :( Three nights three poor performances in the poker tourney, but I played well in the admin ET game which I've gotta say was quite pleasing!

The objective of CC5 was 'just' to run an event inbetween up scaling the event to a much bigger project. This primarily was for ET's benefit as the scene imo needed something to aim for. The big turnout for ET was really pleasing, getting 24 teams and knowing that we could have maybe had a few more barring some subjective problems was really reassuring that the game still has a lot to offer, whilst also giving a powerful statistic for sponsors and interested parties in the next game. Whilst CoD4 was quite disappointing not to get at least more than 16 teams, considering we had some crazy amount of teams signup last time. However the game is in a transition period and it will take companies like crossfire supporting it to get it through it, and thats perhaps what we have to do. So I think we achieved our objective, but fortunately for me CC5 was more than that.

CPC1 I was able to both socialise and admin, since then its been quite a lot harder as we've grown but here fortunately we had more admins this event so there was a little more time to socialise with people at the event rather than go from one problem to another which at CDC4 was crippling and not fun. So here courtesy of bigger staff we had more time to meet people and I can actually come away knowing a few more names to faces, which is a rarity! I can safely say as a result its been more fun and the fact we've still got 25 people in wzzrd playing poker (which will likely go on for a while yet) is testament to the fact we grew in the social side of the event.

The ET tournament was really exciting too, with having seen so many tournaments of which recently many haven't been as interesting to me (particularly cdc4) I was really interested in the tourney this time around. Epsilon winning was fantastic for me, whilst I've a vested interest in ButtonBashers, I'm glad a team that nobody thought would win, won. That changes everything, BB and Mumut must go back to the drawing board and whilst Impact have potential they're not they're not there yet. Something new in the story of ET is fantastic, just what is needed to make things interesting again. The new players rising also lead for a bright future for the game.

So this was good fun this weekend so thanks to everyone who made that possible. See you again in April!