CDC4 Revisions
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23 Dec 2007, 10:27
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News
CDC4 will be running the following adventurous tournament format for the event now just a little over 2 months away! We've a new sponsor that allows us to increase capacity significantly which will be announced in January, however the resulting logistics have cost us somewhat, hense a lower redistribution from the original outset.
Call of Duty 4 - 40 Teams - 6500 Euro
Wolf ET - 16 Teams - 3000 Euro
ET:Quakewars - 12 Teams - 3000 Euro
Warsow 16 Players - 600 Euro
That takes our total gaming prize purse to 13100 Euro!
Timeline
- Signups close January 6th
- Payments are due January 18th
- Tournament starts 9AM Friday 29th Feb!
Call of Duty 4 - 40 Teams - 6500 Euro
Wolf ET - 16 Teams - 3000 Euro
ET:Quakewars - 12 Teams - 3000 Euro
Warsow 16 Players - 600 Euro
That takes our total gaming prize purse to 13100 Euro!
Timeline
- Signups close January 6th
- Payments are due January 18th
- Tournament starts 9AM Friday 29th Feb!
rather put warsow to 12 since et got more 6-man-teams than wsw got players atm.
There are now 13 signups for ET, ... you will get 16 ET teams for sure, (atleast +1 already, soon! -> 14*)
and for warsow; 11 atm .. better to end it at 12 since some players might even drop out.
so 16 teams instead of 12 for ET, 12 instead of 16 for warsow, would be the best solution.
I guess this high number of players would just not be realisable.
It's just a matter of raising the ET teams, since there will be more teams signing up soon, and in case of ETQW/warsow .. it won't be imo.
And yes I play ET :P
still doesn't mean they can't decrease warsow and increase ET and/or ETQW (the double players will make that the amount of players isn't too high)
Changing warsow to 12 players has no effect on the volume of PC's needed for the team games. Warsow is the easiest thing in the world to schedule and plan for, team games (especially 6on6 games) are not
12 teams = groups of 3 = 3 matches per group + 2 matches run off matches
The ONLY way this would be possible is if either the lower seeded, or teams who had players in two tournaments played the additional matches online
It is about the maxmimum capacity we have at the venue. There is an X amount of computers and you can only play a maximum amount of matches on it.
This is the utter max we can do and still run an event like the others. Only difference might be this time, that the admins will be more on the ass of the players to be ready faster.
The only difference was last time with ET where we paid down onto top 5.
It will not be any different from that thumb rule, just the amount of finishes as in top 3 or 5 has not been decided yet.
The CoD community has favoured top3 only, ET has favoured broader spread.
No matter how many teams will add, the sign up rate on all games has become fairly steady (ET lacked in the beginning, but caught up), so te relative proportions are visible now.
Therefore we looked at the maximum capacity and split the amount of computers up.
"We've a new sponsor that allows us to increase capacity significantly which will be announced in January"
so the et-players have to play outside, since there isnt enough space inside :>
oops I said it on crossfire :oooooo
Cod4 0.87 (40/46)
ET 0.92 (12/13)
ETQW 0.7 (12/17)
WSW 1.45 (16/11)
Lower number=more unfair. If you should balance it after the numbers you would cut some ET and Cod4 slots and add ETQW. Guess it wont happen, but just pointing out the obvious, its etqw getting it up the ass here not any other game so stop bitching unless you're playing etqw :)
Kinda saddens me that its not possible to make more room for etqw as lots of people have been looking forward to CDC and I know there is still some clans that are going to signup. And even when ETQW was kicked off with a 2k prize purse and 8 slots people still signed up, ET showed the opposite trend.
Really hope some miracle solution suddenly appears giving ETQW a 16 team tournament, because I think etqw will get 20+ signups and it will really be bad for the community if CDC end up having a 12 slots compo :/ EQW needs to grow a LAN culture for more than the top 12 teams and we might even see some top teams drop for this prize purse as travel costs will be greater than most prize positions :/
the fact of the matter is, CDC is now too big for enschnede or at least too big for a one weekend tourney at enschnede. the best decision would be too either find a new venue or have et and cod4 one weekend and et:qw and warsow another. but i guess that won't happen until cdc5
Im not sure if you ever had something called math :p I didnt work anything out, I just divided the numbers of signups on the slots of each game and the result is how unfair it is. (I can work out the percentage of teams missing out if thats easier for you) You should bash basic math instead of me :)
But I agree that it should be split up. Really hope ET and ETQW gets its own CDC part and cod4 and h1o-game is pushed off to some other random date! Split is really the only solution that can please all communities, but I guess there is a problem with the admins there :)
Cod 2 @ cdc 3 got canceled :p
And it is strange how billions of euros have gone to charity, to save these africans, yet you never seen any progress: they are all just as hungry, they dont have any blankets, only the occasional loin cloth... so what would €13000 actually do in Africa? :(
ET > QW
2. too much CoD4 teams
3. 16 ET teams would be better, but NOT more
2. Few ET:QW slots compared to signups
3. Too many slots for wsw
would be so much nicer :D
ET:Quakewars - 12 Teams - 3000 Euro
made me giggle!