Spring 2011 CTF Tourney

[Grim Warlock]

[R00k]

http://www.nextplay.com/action-games...Vs-Ninjas.html

eh thats old news

[shaonull]

Why are these ninjas attacking my ship?

[lunatichigh]

Relative to other quake tournament events that have fizzled, our New Year's CTF tourny was actually really successful. We had full servers, balanced teams (for quake), and some really GGs. Having people on the server generated many times as many pickup or casual games as actual tourney games, which are definitely more competitive and intense than any scrimmage. Thank you to anyone who showed up consistently intending to play, or actually got to play, and anyone involved in getting or keeping it going in a constructive way.

CTF Q2 will have upgrades, and be even better!

I look forward to being a top tier 3 prospect.

[bluntz]

Sorry my ride is in the shop at the moment and the mechanic is out.
I suppose I could try another like X or DQ
Qrack has never spun a main before.

[rambo]

HELLO friggin ctf'rs where are you? i cant find anyone anymore..

[muller]

Rook and cd
Muller and Rambo

Sunday evening.



R00k, tourneys don't do anything special. They're just fun. Competition with some structure and your name in lights. That's about the most they can offer. Some people dig that, some n00bies will avoid it. But ultimately they can draw attention and get more people playing just because servers are active. Hey don't get me wrong, I am very happy to 1v1 you in classic mode.

Oh, one more thing that is good about tourneys... when you're playing a match that counts for something, the intensity of the game can go off the charts - if the teams are evenly matched (yeah blowouts are boring). You can't get that in a pickup game, imo. Of course, what they "count" for is nothing tangible or important, it is just our agreement that they do here in ctf candyland.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

I'm honestly kinda confused about what a tournament really does?
I mean there is no money, no booth-girls, no trophy, no over sized check, no champagne in your face, no blinding camera flashes, not even a "game over" finish.
What a tournament does do is scare off a lot of medium based players that don't want an official "you better be there or else".
Can we just show up and play, then everyone can pretend all the tournament things that dont happen, happen in their minds?

Or stop trying to SCHEDULE SHIT. Thats the number 1 reason why these things fail.


The most successful tournaments that have happened since 2006, was Sunday Night CAx 2v2 Tournaments. The premise was simple, show the fuck up and you're in. Don't show up? NO PROBLEM, we wasn't expecting you to start with. This leaves you only working with AVAILIBLE players, and provides a mini bracket tourney ONCE every week!

Stop biting off more than can be chewed, it just makes a mess of things. I went 3 fn weeks with NO CTF GAMING cuz I was always missing a team member, then on top of that, server's half the time was filled with shit ton of observer's and "recorders" and even getting on the server was a mega failure due to the complete chaos that comes with SCHEDULING. Sure, some of you guys got to play a whole lot in the last tourney, in my opinion and from where I stand, it was a total failure.

OOF

PUB CTF > 3WAVE/MatchMode

[R00k]

I'm honestly kinda confused about what a tournament really does?
I mean there is no money, no booth-girls, no trophy, no over sized check, no champagne in your face, no blinding camera flashes, not even a "game over" finish.
What a tournament does do is scare off a lot of medium based players that don't want an official "you better be there or else".
Can we just show up and play, then everyone can pretend all the tournament things that dont happen, happen in their minds?

[cd57]

Judging by the activity in the past 24 hours it looks like we are doing a 2 v 2 tourney with the following teams:

Rook and cd
Muller and Rambo

What time works for you all this weekend?

[R00k]

We could just recycle old demos from 2008 and fake a tourney then just play the final round in one night

[cd57]

This thread lives! Thanks Muller. Do we need to move this back down to a 2 v 2 tourney? I much prefer 3 v 3, but I don't know how many people we are going to have involved this time.

KEEP POSTING IN THIS THREAD. IT KEEPS UP THE ILLUSION THAT WE ARE ACTIVELY PLANNING THIS THING. You can even say random things like
CROW!!!!!!!!!!

[rambo]

Posting here from now. Sorry sir muller sir. =)

[muller]

R00k and I played half a dozen maps last night in 1v1 classic mode to officially kick off this 1v1 tourney.

GG's!

j/k.

Let's get some teams selected.

CD, stick wife in RuneQuake ice trap this weekend.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

i'll play. Sign me up, if ever im needed just send a txt to [edited by frenzy: Don't put your cell number on here you fool.]

rofl