Crossfire Draft Tournament II Signups Open!

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Following the success of CDT1, the second edition of the Crossfire Draft Tournament is ready for the competitive ET community! Captains, Players and Spectators alike all seemed happy with the tournament. For those who didn't follow the first tournament:

Crossfire Draft Tournament I
  • Latvia Team Clown[/b]]
    Latvia Clown
    Germany Bl4d3
    Belgium dAv1d
    Canada monkey
    Germany sTOWNAGE
    Italy XyLoS

  • Estonia Team Night[/b]]
    Estonia Night
    Estonia frEeze
    United Kingdom koop
    Estonia Raul
    Finland Squall
    Germany urtier

  • Belgium Team Kevin[/b]]
    Belgium Kevin
    Germany butchji
    Poland dialer
    Belgium Gifted
    Finland Iron
    Netherlands saKen
In order to make Captains practice with their draft team in the days they have before the tournament date, we made the decision that the winning captain from each Draft Tournament will qualify as captain for the next cup, the other 7 captains however, will be able to signup as a player. In this case, Latvia Clown will continue as captain this edition due to winning CDT1. So Crossfire, I give to you the 8 CDT2 Captains!

Captains
Maplist
  • adlernest
  • supply
  • sw_goldrush_te
  • bremen_b3
  • frostbite
  • radar
Schedule
  • Signups Open + Captains Announced: Friday 24th February 2012
  • Signups Closed: Sunday 26th February 18CET
  • Captains Choose Teams: Sunday 26th February 19CET
  • Brackets Announced: Monday 27th February
  • Cup Starting time: Tuesday 28th February 18CET
Signups

Due to the mass complaints in the last tournament about no signups system, just pre-chosen players, we've made a signup for this tournament and those who signup will be listed here (unless you request not to be! then you can be *secret signup* - though all signups will be made public on Sunday 26th).

*You can sign up by sending a private message to United Kingdom Artstar. Your message should read: "I'd like to signup for the Crossfire Draft Cup on Tuesday 28th February" or something extremely similar to save confusion*.


Slovakia aiRen
Finland Altsi
France An7ho
Netherlands Ati_
Canada anim
Netherlands aphesia
United Kingdom Baggiez
Belgium bltzz
Poland BloOdje
Belgium Buzzer
Estonia Cannonize
Germany caTchEr
United Kingdom chewz
Sweden cupcake
Poland Czarek/voiler
Switzerland DabSter
Belgium dAv1d
Iceland deztro
Norway Domi
Finland eiB
Poland Elviss
Poland fanatic
Slovakia filuS
Poland fixxxer
Germany FLoPJEHZ
Sweden Fr!ght
Estonia frEeze
Finland froxe
Croatia frozz
Sweden fuchS
Poland fuxor
Latvia FUZZ
Belgium Gifted
Germany gr0ss
Poland grzesiek
Spain hayes
United Kingdom hsTE
Germany humM3L
Poland hunter
Finland Iron
Netherlands j4CK
Austria jaN
Estonia jenka/yEnch
Belgium Jere
Finland Jewe
Iceland jEzt0rr
Netherlands joshua
France kartez
France kARn4J
Belgium kaze
Germany Kenji
Belgium Kevin
Germany Kevji
Germany kiwi
United Kingdom koop
Poland Krein
Netherlands Kri
Netherlands L4mpje
Germany laNgo
Netherlands LavOd
Belgium Lazio
Finland lettu
Netherlands m4rk
Estonia mant
Germany mental
France MENTh
Spain methoj
Finland Metsuri
Poland mikEHhhh
Poland miks
Czech Republic milhAus
Finland miNd
Czech Republic mnew
Poland moLy
Israel montage
Netherlands MOTiF
Germany mztic
Finland Niki0o
Hungary Nonix
Poland numeric
Finland OldenSan
Sweden olpen
Germany Oxy
Israel p6tyyy
Poland palemki
Iceland phyZiC
Austria potter
Germany RAMOZ
Sweden ratZillA
Romania raZy
United Kingdom rAzZ
Finland rEEtyy
Croatia rimi
Iceland rNz
Germany s1LENT
Portugal saeba
Finland Salaneuvos
Sweden sAvage
United Kingdom Scarzy
Germany ScaTmaN
Austria Scorch
Hungary sebi
Latvia sfinnn
Estonia Sinnu
Estonia Skeit
Sweden slajdan
France sMiRZz
France Snatix
Norway Snuble
Germany Specula
Netherlands spho
France spltH
Finland Squall
Netherlands SQuid
United Kingdom sqzz
United Kingdom sRTz
Finland Statti
Poland stexx
Germany stRay
Estonia subbi
Poland sw1ruz
Poland tanchez
Poland techhh
Poland tIKEJ
Germany TimeN
France TOMOYO
Netherlands ton1
Finland toNi
Finland twidi
Poland upload
Finland Vanhaomena
Germany viol
Italy vj7o
Finland vokki
Sweden Weslann
Spain Winghaven
Belgium Xionn
Denmark xcN
Poland Yoddha
Netherlands ZaK
Croatia Zheljac
Norway Zodiac
Poland zMk


Rules
  • In the private message, you're required to give a link to your CB and TZAC account.
  • TZAC entered in your CB account must be the one that you gonna use in cup.
  • There is no restriction on the age of your TZAC account depending on the ages of your CF/ESL/CB accounts (you will need to give these to me if you think your TZAC age is an issue).
  • CB/ESL/TZAC Banned players are NOT allowed. (with acceptions)
  • Some players may be turned down due to cheathistory
  • Matches are BO3.
  • All matches will be on ETTV.
  • THIS IS A ONE DAY CUP.
  • You are required to idle in #crossfire.cup
Backup Poule

Instead of each team having a backup, there will be a backup poule of players who volunteered as a backup. You can pm me that you'd like to join the backup poule now, but I'll only take people seriously if they apply as a backup on the day of the tournament - 28th February.

ANY QUERIES, SEND A MSG TO AN OPERATOR AT #CROSSFIRE.CUP

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Comments
207
gl to all captains :> hope it'll be a good one without any dramas this time ! :P
Izi4matias :D
Very cool! Nice rotations of captains.
Sounds good Artstar. Gl!

But i would only remove bremen and perhaps frostbite and add Missile_B4 and Library_b3! It would be epic for viewers. Think about it!
TEAM MATIAS BRAP BRAP
great job! keep it up :)

edit: dave gay
edit2: needs Library in the mappool!!
OMG United KingdomDAVE IS CAPTAIN!

Now I'm actually considering to sign up
signed up

no homo
Shoutout IceQ for banner and footer :o)

+ GL everyone participating!
Looking forward to see clown win again!
gl guys
Lycka till Sweden tornis!
lovely effort and great mappool


or other way around if you wish
izi 4 Belgium xionn
kresti
jere
phyzic
razz
joshua
sqzz

best line-up
Good luck to the captains!
nice idea allowing "unknown" people to sign-up, however, i think we wont see any of them playing.
I would even say that the chosen players will be quite similar to those who played the CDT 1
last tournament the complaint was that we didn't allow public signups, we can't tell the captains who they can pick, but next tournament because of the amount of signups I guess it's a good idea to have 16 teams =p
Parent
well u still can add 8 teams if u have 96 players who signed up. So every players gets to play + prolly backups ;)
Parent
it's hard to find 8 captains who can be relied on, let alone 16, besides as you can see they're all from different countries etc etc, really wouldn't be balanced 8[
Parent
that was my point,with 8 teams "only" 40 players will be selected.

Taking a fast look to the signup list i can see almost 50 EC players,so the chances of an OC player to get selected are irrelevant
Parent
I can see that happen aswell. Do you have any plans to change this though? Or prehaps any suggestions hosting a different kind of draft cup?
Parent
16 teams. By signups I can tell you right now, that any 'random' player will not play in this draft. I even doubt that I and many other quite good players will play. So 2x more teams may be a good idea.
Parent
(15:56:48) (mental) if the amount will be higher, maybe you should make it to 16 teams? :d
(15:57:17) (@Artstar) too much work, next tournament possibly though
(15:57:32) (@Artstar) this one was arranged pretty late, I was away for like 2 weeks for the beginning of feb so
Parent
France smirzz ? :D
t plus moisi que moi ;)
Parent
t'es plus moisi que lui
Parent
seems like a huge amount of signups. Might wanna add another 8 captains if the number of signups allows it!
oh dave going extreme
g5 boom!
Just ask 8 other Players, who signed up as "avi Player", to select a Team. Who cares, if Belgium,Germany,UK have 2 Captains or not?
remember we need to have fresh Captains every cup =p if there's 16 capts every time it won't work :z
Parent
or. 8 old, 8 new. so the first 8 now with 8 new. and next cup, if there is a big signuplist again, the 8 new of this cup and new 8...
Parent
what the fuck
Parent
and each captain should not be able to pick same players as last round, and no player is allowed to play in same position as they did the last event. Not to say that the captains has to choose a different class to play between the first 2 rounds, but can switch back again between round 3 and 4, but only if they manage to win the first match within 40% of time left.

However, if one axis player during the match, manages to take out at least 3 allies players, only by using luger and knife, but without hitting any head, then the captain who was in both the last event and the new even, be allowed to participate as captain in the 3rd event.


Rules to be made!
Parent
funny how many low+ players are avi :DD
Why is that funny
Parent
ich meinte doch nicht dich babe
Parent
weiß ich, ich weiß aber auch wen du gemeint hast. ;)
Parent
nene das war doch nur spaß ;) bin heute avi, wegen mathe physik und chemie klausur am dienstag..
Parent
heute avi? Heute bin ich bei eric prydz. :_XD
Parent
ach halt doch die backen!!! :D dienstag abend darf ich ja auch wieder feiern..
Parent
Why is that funny
Parent
where is that funny?
Parent
Swedenolpen best player in that Signup list!
Watch out for me though! ;)
Parent
Well wanted to sign up, but Artstar hates me and : Some players may be turned down due to cheathistory
too bad your past will always follow you somehow.
Parent
you didn't feel weird when you cheated all those years :)
Parent
all those years, the ban is al those years, not the time i cheated but np
Parent
I'm not interested in giving you a 5th chance, CB already failed by giving you extra chances =)
Parent
funny thing is, if you see him irl u wont act as cool as you do now...
Parent
what makes you say that? in fact I 100% would react the same way as I do online :)
Parent
about the cheating part yes ofc, but you wont insult him etc :P
Parent
I didn't insult him?
Parent
wow what, I thought u were some1 else wtf.... I take all my words back
Parent
why the fuck should he actually act different towards him? that guy has been busted/banned multiple times, clearly he is a retard who even fails in cheating in a free game MULTIPLE times
Parent
about the cheating part yes ofc, but he wont insult him etc :P
Parent
I don't seem him insulting outlaw here also..
Parent
HAHAHAHAHA CaTcheR :D
basically gonna be the same faces in different lineups, sounds super fun.
There's always one.
Parent
It kind of does.
Parent
was thinking the same :p
Parent
Good luck to all captains!
i blame the date
ur not playing?
Parent
i'll be in school... shit time :(
Parent
no win for team clown than
Parent
gl guys!
Cool, enjoy!
shit players. so ill sign up and stuff
Only UK guy in top 3 last cup

f yeah!!
gratz mate,
youre one of the bestest! :)
Parent
;)))))))))
Parent
TOO BAD YOU DIDNT GET PICKED XD
Parent
LOL I KNOW
Parent
Too bad everybody wont be able to play, I hope captains wouldnt pick only the best and knows players.
Isn't it suppose to be best mix vs best mix :OO
Parent
wrong,a draft is suposed to show new talents to the public.

What you are saying would be "allstars"
Parent
funny how even the cup host does not understand it :D
Parent
I do :) owzo & fumble got the idea of the draft tournament from a QL tournament where the admins made a signup and selected the most skilled players from those signups to do a mixed TDM draft tournament (4on4).

I understand these POVs completely but that's not how I want it to run, I like the idea of captains fighting over the best players and making a fun tournament for spectators. that's all. this tournament wasn't made for newtalents, if they want to make it to the top they have ESL/OC and ladders to prove they're good enough.
Parent
Thats what et allstars should be all about, the idea of draft for me is to mix top players with mid-low tier players. That should be both fun to watch and play for players (probably not possible in this community though).
There is a reason why allstars tournaments were hosted max once a year but if ppl enjoy watching random mixes of the same high skilled players playing 4 fun more often then maybe its me who got no clue.
Parent
nice to see Sweden tornis as captain instead of backup - I hope he picks a Sweden/Norway mix.
that would be dumb
Parent
I like your "straight" style :D
Parent
heck no, u put together:
Swedentornis
Swedensavage
Swedenslajdan
Norwaysnuble as Fop!

then it would be nice if

Swedennuggan
NorwayEirik

signed up..

they will bring some pain. Fun to watch no doubt.
Parent
why choose player u always play with? thats the whole point for this cup, at least for me
Parent
Nice adjustment with the backup issue!
:D even more than needed
Parent
L-I-B-R-A-R-Y
Great effort again! Nice and good luck everyone:)
gl to me
herpaderp
What was that 1 map that was a mix of supply (blowing a gate) and grush (grabbing some parts and running them to a truck)? It was made like a year ago
missile maybe?

e: nvm I played that in 2009 :3
Parent
that was pirates
Parent
LOL GermanyHUMMEL THINKS HES GONNA GET PICKED
LMFAOOOOOOOOOO
maybe his clanmate will pick him! :D
Parent
NO EVEN THEY AREN'T THAT STUPID =D=D=D
Parent
avi to pown everybody with my stick =DDDDDDDD
guys im sorry but my Finland friends only team will win
A wager than? Your eyes are mine if you lose?
Parent
deal, I want brown eyes anyway.. easier to get chicks in finland :D
Parent
Don't change your Finlandmind later on
Parent
but I want my eyes back when I go to brazil! ok?
Parent
No, fuck you!
Parent
that wasn't nice from u :(
Parent
Sorry, roids got to me! :(
Parent
FinlandOxy reporting for duty! :'(
Parent
dream on! :D
Parent
Please, as if I'd ever play for team matias. Scrubs!
Parent
:D you will if I pick you??

buhahaha
Parent
dream on! :D
Parent
u forgot about last team tomoyo bruv ! pwning session !
Parent
wat team -_.
Parent
only if you take FinlandSwanidius
Parent
only over my dead body!

näh I think he's fine but there are just better finnish players! :)
Parent
well you are almost Finland and smoke weed so there's a little chance (like 12%) that I'll take u! :)
Parent
Im more fluent in finnish than mantm8 :)
Parent
really ? being finnish wasnt the point here tbh :D but I think that makes u chances to 13,48%
Parent
I smoke weed too and even grow some (indoor)

dont forget me.
Parent
that makes ur chances get picked to 6,67% :o
Parent
multi-generation zZz incoming
really bad that it runs during the week. Most of players are avi week end ...

But it's better than nothing :)
all the games are played on tuesday evening, so guess it shouldn't be a problem for too many players

also sunday is a bit problematic as it's the deadline to play ESL & CB NC games -> most of the games will be on sunday
Parent
Yes sure but think about all player at uni that can't play from here :(
Parent
Would've liked to participate. Too bad I'm most likely out of town at that time.
gl chry
i dont get why there are so many sign ups from low players isnt it obv that they wont get picked ?

would be more interesting if you would remove the players which played last time already
I highly doubt it would make it more interesting, more "fair" to the community as a whole maybe, but definitely not more interesting.
Parent
well the et community is the low scene and not the 40 EC players
but maybe i m wrong since every one seems to be fine that they can sign up for the cup and know that captains will pic again the same players and not them
Parent
like 10-20 of the guys from the last cup didn't even sign up here =)
Parent
i hope it will not be something like ET allstars...it's draft tournament..usually plays new talent and stuff not same known players :D
Parent
Quote by ClownOC + ESL -> SHINE -> EC/DRAFT CUPS/NC/INVITE CUPS

=P
Parent
idd but what i'm saying is: as the last season most of the players will be the same...maybe a better mix based on last OC premier/second league 6on6 ESL and known players aswell will be same interesting with a lot of new ppl...but: Hey that's still a good idea :)
Parent
Because we want to see our names on a crossfire news!!!
Parent
ye i see it same way
Parent
Idea : Do the same with 8 random nerds picked up from the CF community. They will choose the players they think worth it. It's a good way to get the crowd more involved in this tournament since THEY decide.
Would be cool, if each capitan would choose one unknown player.
There will be arguments on who's unknown and shit..
Parent
What about this?

There will be registering system... Every player can register and will get his own #number
Captain will gets 6 random players (random by clicking, and system will give you some number - etc (click - #40 Artstar)

They will fight with random picked players by system ;)
Well, you can try to make a cup like this, but I'm pretty sure there won't be much signups, that would be like gather, only more teams.
I wouldn't play that cup if the system was like this. Reason I play this is because if I get picked, then I can be sure that the team is decent.
Anyway, as I see, then you recommended this system just because you know that you wouldn't get picked. So, prac hard, go pro!
Parent
Your words made ​​me cry...

No, i just recommended this because it was on Jedi Academy tournament that i was played in 2k8 and it keeps JKA alive! :)
Parent
May the force be with you!
Parent
draft = pick not randomize ..
Parent
I don´t mean draft cup... I mean new cup ;)
Parent
inb4 kevji forever alone again :(
don't let stray talk for you this time and he won't fuck you over :] last time it was obvious he wanted to take your spot =D
Parent
what happend? that stray sounds like a big fucking wannabe?
Parent
since the start stray was spamming fumble to let him play (kick out one of the invited players and tell them we asked stray first). I told fumble to tell him to gtfo but he wouldn't give up (<oxid`stRay> i want to fuckin play this). then the drama came about razz wanting to take a merc, he could have taken his backup (Kevji) but stray told razz that Kevji would ONLY play rifle (which Kevji never said). stray started sending private msg's to fumble that he wants to replace Kevji in razz's team. razz wanted to play with someone a similar skill to xPERiA (his player who couldn't make it) and stray isn't that, but captains kept denying it for him. so razz got pissed off that he would have to play with 2 rifles (kevji+mant) and quit as captain after mega arguments in the private channel with some other captains.

then stray continued pathetically messaging fumble that he wants to replace Kevji in team-razz or replace razz as captain, in the end fumble agreed because he couldn't stand being spammed even though I told him to ignore every single thing stray writes but yeah that's what happened.
Parent
haha :D what a big piece of shit that guy :D
Parent
hahaha :DDD
Parent
:))

there's an ignore function on IRC for a purpose!
Parent
and then he gets rape 1st round :/
Parent
where is mAus :(
For everyone complaining, i understand your frustration and i agree with it completely. Frankly, as i have said in the past, playing with a bunch of "skilled" players that are just going to play to boost their egos does not interest me. I and the Crossfire Admin Team will be running a COMMUNITY Draft Tournament in the coming weeks, where the idea is to have 2 "skilled" players and 4 hats/groups comprising of different skills and players, but categorised/seperated into which class they play.

Idea would be to have 1 group/hat consisting of med+ (maximum) players which will be assigned to the 2 "skilled" players first. Depending on what class that player plays, they will choose from the remaining groups such as medic, engi, rifle, multiclasser. If the 2 skilled players get a "med+" rifle assigned to them from that group, then they would skip picking from the rifle group and just get players assigned to them from the medic, engi, multiclasser hat. There will be no picking/choosing the players, it will all be done randomly like picking a name out of a hat.
sounds nice, good luck with it! :]
Parent
Is it going to be a same type of tournament as the current CDTs (one day cup, minimium time to prepare)? Because if it is, I can't see how it would be more interesting for the spectators. "Skilled" players are certainly not the only ones who can have big egos and tend to play just for theirselves. So you can't really expect a good show with less skilled players if there's no time for them to prepare and make decent tactics, get some teamplay going on etc.

But yeah, hopefully you have a good concept figured out! Definitely interested to see how it'll turn out and it's great to get more of the community involved.
Parent
Was going to do it over 2 weeks, with double elimination brackets. Depends on interest/signups i guess. With 1 week of preparation for the teams
Parent
the signups should be good, considering the signups here =P
Parent
Sounds good. Don't think that you'll have any problem getting enough sign ups out of the people who didn't fit into CDTs! I'd think that the hardest part might be to get enough "skilled" players who want to get involved in that sort of tournament if there's no prizes or other motivating factor. Good luck with the tournament!
Parent
sick, good luck with it ;)
Parent
Nice one, good luck with it :)
Parent
awesome idea, hope this will be done as it should.
Parent
I woulld've loved to participate but playing 6o6 without tax or any prac i sone of the things that i hate the most. Perhaps i may help you with the organising of this cup. So if you need help , i'd love to be part of it ;)
Parent
while this sounds fun, I know that many players have issues playing with many other players, how would you work around that?
Parent
Some sort of compromise could be made to swap a player(s) in conflict with others. This isnt primarily a competitive draft, more fro the community's benefit.
Parent
Any chance to move the draft to 19:30cet? :D

if not then is it ok if i give my list to twidi for example and he tells who I pick etc? :x

soz
Hm I would like to pracc at that time with swe for the playoffs.
Parent
would have loved to signup but i have to go to the army in the week :<
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