Dec 08, 2008, 09:25 PM
What about this?
forget about all the highlander stuff and the smaller teams. From the start, I thought that the whole tournament was made for a fun thing to do between each of the servers. Take the regulars of each and have them pit them against each other. But now with the whole highlander theme, it limits who gets to play, and in my opinion, all regulars should have the chance to represent the servers that they play and they all deserve it. Breaking down so that its 6v6, or 9v9, to me, ruins the whole fun aspect of it by making it more of a clan verse clan match.
I was thinking of having a set time for all (from the SOP Tourney group) to meet up before the match and then divide the teams from the lowest count from any server (i.e. lowest group has 12 people so it would be a 12v12 math), but then that would just mean some people could intentionally not sign on to keep it down.
Dont get me wrong, I think server vs server is a fun idea as long as its not so clan like. I have played a game where it was very "clan-like", and to be honest, it just ruined the game for me. It was a game where you are grouped with other people and essentially had to be in an alliance else you would be bullied or destroyed. Now I understand that is a stretched from where we are now, but I just want you to know where I'm coming from.
So for that, I say to get away from that. Take all people on and before joining a game, randomly place them into teams (i.e. teams 1-2 or teams 1-4). So that way we can all play among and against other servers. Why separate the servers more with the "best of the best" and why not just have fun playing among each other? And I wouldnt even limit the classes. You get to play with your friends and hopefully make new ones. nothing wrong with that.
And if you do insist on a tournament like system, you CAN take my suggestion above and giving a set number of games to be played and keep the random teams for each game. And if team 1 of game 1 wins, all players in team 1 gets 1 win. Team scramble. Team 1 of game 2 wins, all players in team 1 gets 1 win. And so on. continue until end of the "season" and winner(s) would have the most wins. Now I said season since not everyone can play for hours It would be nice to allow them the same chances. Not playing one game would be an automatic loss. At the end you can tally the wins and losses and have a "victor" at the end
The things I like about the sourceop servers (or at least goldrush), and I think everyone can relate, are:
1. The people
2. Full or near full server(s)
3. No class limits
I'm still playing because of those reasons. And if we need this first serious tournament first, then so be it. But it would be nice to have a tournament that did not come out to be so serious. To be honest, I rather sign in that type of tournament over the highlander deal.
forget about all the highlander stuff and the smaller teams. From the start, I thought that the whole tournament was made for a fun thing to do between each of the servers. Take the regulars of each and have them pit them against each other. But now with the whole highlander theme, it limits who gets to play, and in my opinion, all regulars should have the chance to represent the servers that they play and they all deserve it. Breaking down so that its 6v6, or 9v9, to me, ruins the whole fun aspect of it by making it more of a clan verse clan match.
I was thinking of having a set time for all (from the SOP Tourney group) to meet up before the match and then divide the teams from the lowest count from any server (i.e. lowest group has 12 people so it would be a 12v12 math), but then that would just mean some people could intentionally not sign on to keep it down.
Dont get me wrong, I think server vs server is a fun idea as long as its not so clan like. I have played a game where it was very "clan-like", and to be honest, it just ruined the game for me. It was a game where you are grouped with other people and essentially had to be in an alliance else you would be bullied or destroyed. Now I understand that is a stretched from where we are now, but I just want you to know where I'm coming from.
So for that, I say to get away from that. Take all people on and before joining a game, randomly place them into teams (i.e. teams 1-2 or teams 1-4). So that way we can all play among and against other servers. Why separate the servers more with the "best of the best" and why not just have fun playing among each other? And I wouldnt even limit the classes. You get to play with your friends and hopefully make new ones. nothing wrong with that.
And if you do insist on a tournament like system, you CAN take my suggestion above and giving a set number of games to be played and keep the random teams for each game. And if team 1 of game 1 wins, all players in team 1 gets 1 win. Team scramble. Team 1 of game 2 wins, all players in team 1 gets 1 win. And so on. continue until end of the "season" and winner(s) would have the most wins. Now I said season since not everyone can play for hours It would be nice to allow them the same chances. Not playing one game would be an automatic loss. At the end you can tally the wins and losses and have a "victor" at the end
The things I like about the sourceop servers (or at least goldrush), and I think everyone can relate, are:
1. The people
2. Full or near full server(s)
3. No class limits
I'm still playing because of those reasons. And if we need this first serious tournament first, then so be it. But it would be nice to have a tournament that did not come out to be so serious. To be honest, I rather sign in that type of tournament over the highlander deal.