BurnPilot
A Kamikaze Wombat
Registered: Oct 2001
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Disclaimer: This is not directed at you Mekk. I am greatful that you seemed to take a mature approach to your thoughts about the tournament rather than just blurting out your issues during the event. This is more of an overall response to things I have heard about the running of the CS tourney at the event. Plus I am very tired.
The biggest problem with the CS tournaments is knowing exactly how many teams there will actually be and from that figuring the time required. If we had an exact number before the lan it would be easier, but people are always adding and dropping out so we have no idea. While the time for the tournament was very bad it was viewed as a necessity due to everyone whining about the round count. When did we finally finish? Think it was around noon or 1pm when the final match was finally done. If we had left it to our original plan of about 8am it would not have finished before we had to leave. Because of this the early start time was due to giving the participants what they wanted. We are currently looking at how things are scheduled so that hopefully this won't be a problem.
In addition to the number of teams effecting the number of rounds it also decides the maps played. As I have stated before we try not to duplicate maps. As a result of us not knowing exactly how many teams there will be most times we simply say, "Be prepared to play all standard de_ maps that are included in CS" If we had a way for teams to form before hand, this would have to include throw together teams for those without teams, we could be more exact. Unfortunately we usually don't have a definite count of teams until right before the event. This is why definite list of maps is not released until right before the events. Plus if you are a good team then you should be able to handle pretty much any map thrown at you with at least a decent level of competitence.
Another problem is that Anthos was essentially the only person running the entire tournament. Quite frankly the tournament is probably too large to be run by a single individual. Sure there were a couple people helping here and there but he carried the majority of the workload for this one. To add to this fact you have to consider the amount of people that think they know how to run a tournament "better" than us and keep coming up and offering their "input" while things are going on. This is a major distraction and leads to things running slower. This is not directed at you as you actually seem to have experience but I can't say how many times people came up and said something to the effect of "why don't we do it this way" in the MIDDLE OF THE FRIGGING TOURNAMENT. Quite frankly this is why I didn't really help run the CS tourney this time. 90% of the CS community is immature people who think they "know" better than everyone else. If you have a suggestion for the tourney, then make it in the forums before the event. We will try and take them into account. Don't come up and bother the members running the tourney with how you things shoule be done during it, because they probably have enough on their plate as it is. There is always the chance of little technical issues coming (ping spikes etc) especially when we are getting used to a new location.
Another note to ensure tournaments run smoothly in the future. Report your dang scores when you are done. Anthos asked me at least twice to go and find out scores because people hadn't reported them, so we could enter the information and move on. If the tournament is going to run smoothly and as fast as possible time wise, this is necessary along with being in the server in a timely manner.
So to sum it all up here's the things you can do to help with the tournaments:
1) Make suggestions before the events in the forums, but once the event comes leave the running of the tournaments to the Members in charge.
2) Report to the servers in a timely manner so that the matches can start. Once they are over report the scores to the official immediately so we can move onto the next round.
3) Don't complain about something during the tournament. Save it until after the event and post your thoughts and suggestions on how to fix it in the forums. Post them in a mature way, because if you act like a little spoiled kid we will ignore you. We will then look into it and try to solve the problem.
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