ClanBase presents the EC/OC Spring 2012 Cup season
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10 Mar 2012, 14:07
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ClanBase is proud to announce the start of the Spring 2012 Cup Season. Signups are due to open on Sunday the 11th of March. However, as a little teaser please feel free to preview which cups we plan to run this season...
What is the Spring 2012 Cup Season?
ClanBase hosts two kind of cups, OpenCups and EuroCups (often abbreviated to OC's and EC's respectively) starting in April and ending mid summer (towards the end of June).
EuroCups are invite only cups, with the top teams from the communities being invited, while OpenCups are open to everyone. This season we plan to run cups for 16 games, 4 EuroCups and 43 OpenCups.
Spring 2012 schedule:
Monday 5th of March - Pre-season announcement Sunday 11th of March - Open signups Sunday 25th of March - Close signups Sunday 1st of April - Announcement on ClanBase Radio Monday 2nd of April - Start of EuroCup qualifier week Wednesday 11th of April - End of EuroCup qualifiers Monday 9th of April - Start of the first matchweek (OC) Monday 16th of April - Start of the first matchweek (EC) Monday 23th of April - Matchweek 3 (OC) Monday 7th of May - Matchweek 5 (OC) Monday 25th of June - All matches should be played Signup Information
Signups will be opened on Sunday the 11th of March and you will be able to signup via the cup pages and the Signup page found in your admin link. To signup as a team to ClanBase cups you will need to be part of a clan, for 1vs1 cups you will need to set up a 1on1 personality. For more information please read our FAQ.
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Btw only visible to crew but all the welcome pages are already done.
IN B4 LOWEST_EC_EVER
wish us Good Luck this time :D
Hopefully this time you guys will work a bit different and surprises with a new map pool, giving the opportunity to test some new maps like Library, missile... perhaps some old decent maps like reactor etc. ET needs a refresh to be honest.
Lan finals @ Adroits ? :D
I still remember the joy of playing ESL back at 2006 or 2007 @ raw_te (et map.. check google), just because it was a new map and cool...
edit: in fact i won't even play ;) i don't play at oc since 2010 due to university schedule (night's only)
This is the NC map pool:
supply
sw_goldrush_te
adlernest -> perhaps with frost, although i think adler is alot better than frost.
radar
bremen_b3 -> replace with library
missile_b3
edit: and you are probably shocked due to low temps or snow freezing your brain. Open your mind a bit.
In recent memory we've likes of delivery, frostbite and braundorf i'd rather see them back and trying something new just the sake of it. In the past we had likes of oasis and battery which i understand why they removed but still those were good maps and were in main mappool for years and still would beat the shit out of missiles and libraries. We've had other maps like reactor, dubrovnik, base, sos which had their moments but again not very longlasting. We've had likes ice or karsiah which were playable but were in only because there was nothing better available.
Point? Majority of the new maps are shit and will be gone a second after theres anything else to take their place so whats the fucking use to put em there in the first place? You'll see easily if the map is good, theres no fucking need to force those into competions and experience the very same result with those beeing replaced in the next season. missile and library are not good and therefor should not be in the main competition mappools. Not for testing purposes, not for because they're new. Put the best maps in and do the testing elsewhere simple as.
Not opening my mind for the shitty maps.
I give you a example, i've seen from alot of wars people also like to play b4/adler at 3v3, BUT if they can choose it will always be supply/gr. Why? They say it's more fun, they know the map better.. etc.
Map fault? I don't think so. Some of them are bad and don't fit the competition anymore, thats true, but i do not agree maps like reactor for example are not good or suited for competition. They are simply less good comparing to the other choices, but calling them bad is harsh.
And i think everything can be fixed if people gets a open mind, even if it requires a 75% re-change, why not!?
But yeah, maps like delivery are not good for competition (regarding 6v6... )..
No idea about latest missible beta, haven't seen any game being played there :|
I don't understand why you'd need to change the map pool just for the sake of change. Atleast I have no problem playing the same (good) maps over and over again. Obviously if there are new good maps they can be first tested in minor tournaments and if they prove to be decent they can be considered for EC as well.
Missile could be included, but library is still absolutely a no-go for EC atleast. I don't see any reason for removing sw_gr/supply/radar/adlernest/bremen as they're all excellent maps and the current alternatives for them aren't. Personally I'd be fine with just those 5, but guess some map like missile or frostbite can be fit in as the 6th map.
If you don't give the maps a big try, which is the mappers main goal if they create a map for competition, they will loose motivation, therefore won't waste their time trying to create a new map, which kinda leads to current ET state. Barely few people try map making, specially because it's a hard task and boring.
Seems like a reasonable motive to give them a try, so they can improve more. Of course i don't mean taking a 2 weeks old map into EC, but for example OC if the map is bug free and seems to have a promising future.
no wrong choice can be made
:D madbruv?
inb4 "no"
ufo/base/escape/beach/frost/supply
lets go ho
Those maps require teamwork and at the same time individual skill. And no, beach isnt big. And snipers. :d Come on, get yourselves a decent sniper and it isnt that hard.
*not talking about your little list, just in general
OC 6on6 Mappool: supply, goldrush, radar, bremen, adlernest, missile_b4, frostbite, library_b3, karsiah_newest, erdenberg_newest
OC 3on3: supply, goldrush, adlernest, frostbite, et_ice, et_beach, braundorf, erdenberg, sp_delivery, et_ufo
Should be like this imo 8) better to test these new maps in lower leagues before adding them to top competitions (EC/NC etc). Also in my list there are 10 maps in both OC 3on3 and 6on6, to be honest im not sure if its not too much. So we can also go for 8 maps (6 EC maps + 2 new out of these 4) and as for 3on3 pick the best 7 maps and make a poll about 8th map.
xx
btw i like coast really really a good and exciting map, good mix between dubrovnik and radar, remember it ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scKeUDUZRn0
PS : need a team for OC 6on6
I am searching for a team.