Just to put in my two cents..
I have witnessed a bunch of EU 19s revivals over the years, and the activity of all of them died out, each time, in 1 or 2 months give or take. I don't see how this is going to be any different if not handled differently. I feel like the only reason it's even remotely alive is because people are all at home and don't have shit to do.
Had nothing to do last friday (obviously) and after being spammed by several people to participate in this event, I decided to give it a try and went in with very low expectations. Which has unfortunately been met. I immediately noticed the lack of coordination between the people on both sides which resulted in most of the games being tremendously unbalanced and unplayable. Which caused for people to leave the game, which in turn, resulted in this :
There were 1 or 2 high quality games, which were very fun and refreshing. I'm not trying to be demotivating by any means, but the 19s community has been put in a UNIQUE POSITION of opportunity because of the current virus/quarantine that it would be a shame to not capitalize on this. People are all at home, the activity potential is through the ROOF.
I'm not trying to throw shade at anyone, I think it's a great initiative of the people responsible for this revival and they're trying their utter best to make it work. I applaud and respect these people. But from my point of view, shit's gonna hit the fan soon.
I feel like the best possible thing for EU 19s to do, is to focus on 10v10 wargames for the time being. I feel like this would give all the interested people a taste of what the pugs could be like. It would spike interest and motivate people to invest more of their time on this project. It would also improve the gameplay of some people (god knows they need it), which in turn will result in better games. Another good thing about this is, you don't have to have gametime to play wargames. So the people at home, hestitant whether to invest their money on this project, get to play some games. Once a good structure and balance between players & classes has been established we can move on to pugs.
If people want to skip this idea all together, I feel like the only logical option would be a VERY "open communication" type collaboration on Discord and Battlenet where everyone that is expected to que up on the designated day, will share all the information about what classes and faction they would like to play so the coordinators can communicate with everyone involved to make the teams as balanced as possible. This will be a lot of work for the coordinators, but they should've known what they were signing up for.
In the end, coordinators can do so much. It all comes down to the people and if they're prepared to take certain actions and make certain sacrifices for the sake of the community to extend the lifespan of this revival as a whole. I hope this post wont get buried under a bunch of useless shit because I don't see anyone else spitting facts like these.
I also want to do some shoutouts to people I have seen put in an effort to make this revival work. I'm kind of out of the loop of this community as I have always been, so please forgive me if I forget to name anyone important.
@Bestworld Actively coordinating on Discord and Ingame.
@Spellpower Taking the initiative on this thread etc.
@Nature In the fery few games I had with this guy, he was always very actively communicating with his team in /bg chat doing his utter best to make games as competitive as possible.
@V idk her xpoff, has been actively trying to get people to que up
@Dave he carryin games
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