CTF League

[cd57]

For anyone that is interested I'm trying to start a ctf league, with the help of a couple other people. The plan so far is to make it a 2 v 2 competition. To make it as fair as possible we are going to divide the players into two tiers. The top tier being composed of the players that typically do better in our pickup games and the bottom tier being the opposite. We then will randomly assign 1 player from each side to form a team of 2.

Nothing is set in concrete as far as how the matches will go, but here are my ideas so far. Each week you play one match composed of two games on the same map (there will be a different map each week). Each map that you win will be worth a certain amount of points to be determined. At the end of the season the teams will be seeded for the playoffs according to their point totals. I figured the map rotation would be something like, ctf1, ctf4, ctf5, ctf8, ctf2m3, red alert, cheat 2, Egyptian pig factory, and "the place of two bases."

Too add a little extra fun to it I figured we would also include a lot of statistics from the matches. After each pickup game we play there's always a brief period of silence while everyone types in, "killstats", "flagstats", "eff", "quadstats" etc, so I figured we could keep track of stats for the league. After each game a player can take a screen shot of the statistics and we can also keep a database of the statistics and update them each week on the website. Along with this I'd like to develop some sort of player ranking similar to something like the quarterback rating in the NFL. This would take into account things like kills, deaths, captures, flag returns accumulated from each game.

After discussing it with a few ctfers last night we got a real positive response, so Frenzy did up a signup page at www.quakeone.com/tourney I'm up for any changes or suggestions anyone wants to provide. I hope that anyone who's interested in playing will check it out, whether you've ctfed before, or never have. I'm just doing this to provide a little extra competition without it being too serious.

[monoz]

Looks like I wont be able to play in the tourney. Vis banned me from HDZ for some reason. GL

[Frenzy]

I noticed that 'PIGREMIX' has a small bug, at BLUE base in the room that has the NAILGUN and GREEN ARMOR there should be two health packs to the right of the doorway that leads to the blue-base-flag-room. Looking at the server logs, those two health packs are placed touching the wall and thus they fall through the map when spawned. I might be able to hardcode their correct origins in the mod, as it is a bug that the author of the map created. And might create an unfair advantage to the red team, which has those 2 health packs present.

How's this going?

[Rampage]

I spoke to r00k about it last night, he wants to make it so we can vote-enable both 25 second weapon respawn, and also vote-enable team base spawns instead of random spawns.

[Frenzy]

Sexy idea guys.

Locknload, you still in? Let me know!

[Solecord]

How about try the above idea (20 second wep spawn) in our "preseason" to the league so we can see if it will work well or not.

[cd57]

Lets try and keep the league talk to this thread, we're getting too many different threads going on here. First rook, good idea to fix that if we're going to use that map. Second is something Papasmurf brought up to me on Sunday that made a lot of sense, how about we change weapon spawn times from 30 seconds to 25 seconds ? His point was that people are much faster with the hook then they were back in the day, so with the increase in speed maybe the spawn times should be increased, since people can reach weapons a lot quicker. I ran the idea by rampage and he seemed to think it was a good idea, but that we maybe decrease it to 20 seconds instead of 25, to match the armor spawn time. I actually think this is a good idea, it's not like it is weapon stay where everyone can just go and grab a weapon. What do you guys think?

[R00k]

I noticed that 'PIGREMIX' has a small bug, at BLUE base in the room that has the NAILGUN and GREEN ARMOR there should be two health packs to the right of the doorway that leads to the blue-base-flag-room. Looking at the server logs, those two health packs are placed touching the wall and thus they fall through the map when spawned. I might be able to hardcode their correct origins in the mod, as it is a bug that the author of the map created. And might create an unfair advantage to the red team, which has those 2 health packs present.

[Frenzy]

We can still seed him

[cd57]

I knew you would be curious about that JBone, sorry, I guess we'll never know.

[Hitman]

Jbone, you have already been put in a team. you have to register though at www.quakeone.com/tourney . when do we get to see you play, you've been away for a while. you're in a team with me (xav), hw, swoosh

[mylo]

Jbone needs seeding

Hey guys.. this is actually Jbone "Icrappedmyself"... i need to know where I would be seeded if you included me in the list.... it is driving me bat shit crazy...

[Trickle]

count me in!

[cd57]

I want to make it clear that anyone who finds out about this late and still wants to participate, we will definitely try and find a way to get you in.

[Frenzy]

Frenzy, thank you for the information in your reply. It was a huge help.

I just went to the signup page to get myself entered in the tournament, but I was unable to find a place to register. Is it too late to join as of now? If not, I'd love to join. If so, maybe next time.

Thanks again for your help.

It's not too late. If you want to play, I'll simply add you Just click my name on any news post on the site, and you can send me a private message through the www.quakeone.com/tourney page