Season 4 Wrap Up & Revised Plans
Season 4 Wrap Up
With all the finals played, Season 4 is officially in the books. Congratulations to the following teams for winning their divisions.
Division 4 - PinkFluffyGorges
Division 3 - Gorge Busters
Division 2 - 2hrsLater
Division 1 - Gnarcolepsy
Premier Division - Titus Gaming
For a more indepth look at the season, please head over to the Season 4 Wrap Up & Feedback thread in the forums.
The Competitive Mod
With the season ended, the third iteration of the Comp Mod has gone live. Please continue to leave thoughtful and reasoned feedback in the forums. This iteration is still experimental and we need games on it for feedback. Summer events will be played with this version.
Revised Plans - EU Draft Tournament
After an unsuccessful attempt to get enough teams to sign up for the EU Night Cup, registration for the EU Draft Tournament is now open. The draft tournament will be held over two Saturdays on July 26th and August 2nd starting at 19 CEST on both days. Times are not final and subject to change depending on the amount of players who register. This tournament will feature a round robin format. All things being equal, teams will not be seeded and each team will play each other once.
Maps to be included for play in this tournament include the standard rotation PLUS ns2_caged (ModID - 63c559c) and a beta version of Kodiak for the 267 build, ns2_kodiak267 (ModID - 88fecb5).
The draft will be held at 19 CEST Friday, July 25th. It will be held on the NSL Teamspeak server (IP - ensl.org).
You can sign up for the draft tournament using this form here.
You can view the players who have already signed up here.
The North American & Australian Draft Tournament started this past weekend and it was loads of fun. I hope the EU one is just as successful in bringing players together from every division and a safe and easy way for pubbers to experience 6v6 in a friendly environment.
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14 July 2014, 17:46
14 July 2014, 18:55
14 July 2014, 18:59
14 July 2014, 19:00
14 July 2014, 19:06
14 July 2014, 20:34
14 July 2014, 21:27
I would be happy about a time-change to an hour later or so. But, yeah, it needs to be balanced to all players, I guess.
14 July 2014, 22:06
at least a hour later please :]
14 July 2014, 23:14
15 July 2014, 11:27
15 July 2014, 16:44
Also: could you give a short description of what the captains need to do (and what they don't have to bother with)? This might motivate more people to volunteer for it :)
17 July 2014, 09:42
17 July 2014, 13:36
Captains are required to organize players, communicate with admins, and report scores. They may or may not command their teams. Keep that in mind while drafting."
17 July 2014, 15:10
17 July 2014, 16:48
By the way, looks like the time has been changed, 19 CEST is a much better I think.
17 July 2014, 21:07
18 July 2014, 02:59
Team sizes - I'm aiming for team sizes of between 7 and 9, so teams won't be at the mercy of late or no shows.
18 July 2014, 07:18
That's nice and can relax the 18 CEST time for some players, if there are 6 in the team, who can start for the first game.
18 July 2014, 09:17
18 July 2014, 22:34
19 July 2014, 02:25
That way you don't have to care about no-shows, because they will not get picked in the draft if they are not around at game-time. Which means you can easily lower the team sizes to 6-8(only 8 if really nessesary) players per team, depending on the number of signups. With team sizes of 9, many players won't get to play half the games. That's extremely frustrating, please consider changing draft time to saturday 18 CEST and game time to 18.30 CEST. Or even move it half an hour ahead, so you have draft time at 18.30 CEST and game time at 19 CEST as some deem nessesary to be able to play.
19 July 2014, 12:58
swalk - No. The Aussie draft tournament and the NA/AU tournament was ran with this format and has been fine.
19 July 2014, 17:38
19 July 2014, 18:56
The fact is, even if some of us want to play it later, because it's not possible to sign up for that time, it doesn't mean the players, who already signed up won't be here for 19 CEST. So more players, more fun.
Your choice.
19 July 2014, 21:41
As for picking the teams, it took about an hour and fifteen minutes to do. Everyone wants to think about their choices and figure out what lifeforms they need and such. It wasn't a super quick thing.
20 July 2014, 00:03
20 July 2014, 16:25
Therefore it is more reasonable to set the games to be played through out the night rather than asking people with kids, girlfriend, wife and friends to drop all plans (dinner with family, mrs or friends. Coming home after spending the Saturday out) because they have a online mix starting with a bunch of losers at 5gmt.
I'm sure people are cable of playing into the night, but why not actually ask people rather that doing what you think best? Do a damn poll... "which time would you prefer to play the draft which is expected to last 3 or 4 hours? 18cest, 18.30, 19, 19.30 20.
20 July 2014, 17:42
21 July 2014, 01:42
21 July 2014, 13:33
24 July 2014, 02:47
25 July 2014, 19:03
25 July 2014, 20:56
26 July 2014, 22:12
27 July 2014, 09:22
27 July 2014, 17:59
28 July 2014, 20:45
2 August 2014, 20:37
2 August 2014, 20:49
+1
2 August 2014, 23:23
3 August 2014, 11:55
9 December 2014, 06:52
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