RTCW Q3 & Q4 2014

I have talked with Warwitch about trying to revitalise the RTCW scene a little bit, as the number of teams has dwindled since it's resurgence back in 2012 - we have both agreed that laying off the main game format (6on6) for the remainder of the year is probably the best course of action to create motivation and get hunger back for teams in the main formats. So for the remainder of 2014 WarwitchTV and myself have no plans to cover 6on6 tournaments.

This being said, 6on6 should still be on the horizon in the future with the hopefully the next tournament being covered by WarwitchTV in early 2015.

Why?
There have been four tournaments since 2012 and all have had summer or Christmas holidays fall on them. This is bad practice to keep people motivated and avoid drop outs (the last cup had 13 sign ups with 4 teams dropping out over the course of the tournament). I am not pointing any fingers but I think we can all agree this is problematic when it comes to keeping RTCW going in 6on6 format.

As well as this, Warwitch himself has passed all donations while casting RTCW 6on6 tournaments onto the cup which has nearly totalled $2,000 so far - which imo was far too generous considering the tournament itself did not provide a lot of games.

What's next?
I had personally back before the World Cup planned a little 6on6 tournament to start sometime in September, but with the current state of affairs I think forcing another tournament on the scene will rip it apart even furthur. After discussions with Warwitch we came to the conclusion that 3on3s until Christmas could help the scene get their hunger back for 6on6 as well as bring more punctual and enjoyable (all-round) tournaments to RTCW.

Between now and Christmas I will be organising 4 one-day 3on3 tournaments through the one.soldier 'one more cup' series, all with minor prize funds (30-90 euros) as well as CF Championship Season 2 which will have hopefully a larger prize fund with the last tournament having over $1,000 (€735) donated directly by the the community .

Current rough dates for the ODCs, with roughly 3week breaks in between, are:

Sunday 31st August
Sunday 21st September
Sunday 12th October
<CF 3on3 Championship>
Sunday 21st December

The CF 3on3 Championship would start some time around 19/26th October (lasting approx 6-8 weeks based on sign ups and divisions) the aim is to have 10-12 teams with two divisions (I hope that multiple divisions will encourage teams that don't think they can match the bigger teams/players in RTCW to still sign up and compete in a league of their own.)

I will do posts for each tournament when the time comes, hopefully this is of interest to most of you.

2015 6on6 ideas
Just to end, an idea perhaps going forward would be to split up American and European tournaments. The NA scene I understand is a lot smaller but would benefit more, imo, from draft tournaments that last 3-5 weeks (you could do 2-3 of these every 'season' jan-june/sep-dec quite easily).

I mainly say this just because of two things, game organisation is horrible NA vs. EU, server arguments are becoming the 'norm' and there are teams that have/do try to exploit these situations - sometimes backfiring miserably. Tournaments will be faster and everyone prefer playing with <100 ping. I would happily help out anyone who wanted to run a cup, even if it is just to bounce ideas off and get my opinion on something.