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Hey guys.
The 39 bracket is living again, but …
… it certainly lacks some sort of competition to get really working on long term. We need to get some people log on their twinks more often, so we need to put some interest in the twinking experience.
And let's be realistic, organizing a tournament sounds quite impossible (the twink is rarely a main character, people often play it when they don't have anything better to do on their 80), an unofficial tournament will be subject to random catastrophies, misunderstandings, changes of mind, rage quitting and it's just a one day thing. So … since organizing one seems really hard, organizing two seems impossible, I thought we should try it in a different way.
I was thinking about creating something new ! Here are the basic ideas i'd like to work on.
We could make some sort of short-term league going on on Blackout for 39s.
Requirements :
- a few 2v2 or 3v3 teams
- people who gather and write information (registration, screenshots and results) - they'll probably have to give their realID to all players (but we'll see)
- people who write the rules and organize the games.
How does it work ? (this is just a basic example of how it could work, everything is subject to changes and improvement, of course)
Basically it will look like a football league (except our league will last 4 days over a month)
- Some forum threads should be created first : a thread for rules, a thread for registering(teams should register at least 48 hours before league starts), a thread for real-time results and screenshots, a thread for the ratings, a thread for comments, we can also make thread for people looking for mates.
- We set a fixed day each week (let's say sunday), at fixed hours, "official matches" will start (this will all depend on everyone's free time). Matches will depend on the number of teams playing (I think if we get at least 8 teams it can be really nice, but number of teams will not be limited i guess).
- Once the games start, someone will post results and screenshots on the related forum thread.
- This will last 4 days/month (one day/week).
- Each team gets to play against every other team (one or several times, it will depend on the number of registered team)
- Games will be "Best of 3" - Winner gets a certain amount of points
- At the end of the four days, a winner is declared.
- Each month we will decide if the next league will be for 2v2s or 3v3s.
- While the league is playing, other teams can register for the next one (one month later then).
Why organizing it this way ?
- A short-term event like this one looks really easier to put on, since it gives us several days to organize some games with a few teams.
- One month is a short period, if some people don't make it time for registering, they won't have to wait long before a new league starts (registrations for next league will be open while current league is on).
- It's an event that can be repeated and it can become a kind of "fil rouge" (or benchmark) for 39s to hold on to. It should give the bracket something concrete, people will want to improve, find new team mates. Rage quitting will be a lot limited of course since it won't depend on a one night event (we will have leagues every month, if somebody is not happy or failed somewhere there, he/she can just register for next months and get the chance to get it right).
- It can be intense, it should bring more people on long term.
- One night per week events like this will give people time to play as they like every other day of the week.
- On a longer period, we will get to know each other's in game characters and create a more solid community.
- This way of organizing things should allow people who are not interested in arenas not to get bothered queuing with someone just to keep the bracket alive. And it should give some kind of honoring reward to players who only play for arena PvP (and queue BGs just to keep bracket alive
)
- This will also create new topics and variations.
- It should also keep 39s alive when Cata comes out (one night/week is easily free-able, specially if there is some interest in playing 39)
What we really need :
- Some real rules written down (about registration, games timing, game mode, team comps, specially for people who have more than one char etc).
- Somebody who will be a sort of 'referrer' in case of misunderstanding, misleading or something.
- Somebody who gathers registration information
- Somebody who organizes the games
- Somebody who gathers real time info and screenshots and post it on forums
- Somebody who modifies the rating and declares the winning team at the end of the 4th night
- Ventrilo (?)
- And players of course !!!
Still lacking some sort of price for the winner (other than eternal glory, ofc), we'll have to figure something out.
Basic rules :
- Arena rules
- League will last 4 nights over a month (one night per week)
- Team must be registered at least 48h in advance
- Games will be played on pre-fixed nights (let's set sundays for example)
- Info will be sent to 1 or 2 guys who will place it where it belongs (forum threads).
Every idea in this thread is subject to changes and improvements. It cannot/should not be done by a single person. If somebody out there who has some organization skills is interested in this kind of idea (i was thinking about Eloc, Incorrupto, Zay, Scarborough, Grounding, or everyone who's interested), just make contact in game or through forum. We set a day, go on skype or vent and start something concrete. I think we have enough people interested in arenas to get some event like that going on.
Work has not begun, I'm still just trying to gather some ideas and information to get it concretely done.
Then if all this looks like shit or impossible to make, just let me know what you think.
Share your ideas, suggestions, or opposition if you have some.
Please, dont let this thread die by lack of answers, kill it if you want, but give reasons why it should or shouldn't work, thanks
Also, i'm more than willing to let other people create this, maybe people who are most known or who have nice organizing or GM skills, with more influence, so let me know if somebody is interested in making it happen (with or without me). I'm a better player than organizer (ask my opponents, oh no you can't they're already dead)
Cøwa.
The 39 bracket is living again, but …
… it certainly lacks some sort of competition to get really working on long term. We need to get some people log on their twinks more often, so we need to put some interest in the twinking experience.
And let's be realistic, organizing a tournament sounds quite impossible (the twink is rarely a main character, people often play it when they don't have anything better to do on their 80), an unofficial tournament will be subject to random catastrophies, misunderstandings, changes of mind, rage quitting and it's just a one day thing. So … since organizing one seems really hard, organizing two seems impossible, I thought we should try it in a different way.
I was thinking about creating something new ! Here are the basic ideas i'd like to work on.
We could make some sort of short-term league going on on Blackout for 39s.
Requirements :
- a few 2v2 or 3v3 teams
- people who gather and write information (registration, screenshots and results) - they'll probably have to give their realID to all players (but we'll see)
- people who write the rules and organize the games.
How does it work ? (this is just a basic example of how it could work, everything is subject to changes and improvement, of course)
Basically it will look like a football league (except our league will last 4 days over a month)
- Some forum threads should be created first : a thread for rules, a thread for registering(teams should register at least 48 hours before league starts), a thread for real-time results and screenshots, a thread for the ratings, a thread for comments, we can also make thread for people looking for mates.
- We set a fixed day each week (let's say sunday), at fixed hours, "official matches" will start (this will all depend on everyone's free time). Matches will depend on the number of teams playing (I think if we get at least 8 teams it can be really nice, but number of teams will not be limited i guess).
- Once the games start, someone will post results and screenshots on the related forum thread.
- This will last 4 days/month (one day/week).
- Each team gets to play against every other team (one or several times, it will depend on the number of registered team)
- Games will be "Best of 3" - Winner gets a certain amount of points
- At the end of the four days, a winner is declared.
- Each month we will decide if the next league will be for 2v2s or 3v3s.
- While the league is playing, other teams can register for the next one (one month later then).
Why organizing it this way ?
- A short-term event like this one looks really easier to put on, since it gives us several days to organize some games with a few teams.
- One month is a short period, if some people don't make it time for registering, they won't have to wait long before a new league starts (registrations for next league will be open while current league is on).
- It's an event that can be repeated and it can become a kind of "fil rouge" (or benchmark) for 39s to hold on to. It should give the bracket something concrete, people will want to improve, find new team mates. Rage quitting will be a lot limited of course since it won't depend on a one night event (we will have leagues every month, if somebody is not happy or failed somewhere there, he/she can just register for next months and get the chance to get it right).
- It can be intense, it should bring more people on long term.
- One night per week events like this will give people time to play as they like every other day of the week.
- On a longer period, we will get to know each other's in game characters and create a more solid community.
- This way of organizing things should allow people who are not interested in arenas not to get bothered queuing with someone just to keep the bracket alive. And it should give some kind of honoring reward to players who only play for arena PvP (and queue BGs just to keep bracket alive
)- This will also create new topics and variations.
- It should also keep 39s alive when Cata comes out (one night/week is easily free-able, specially if there is some interest in playing 39)
What we really need :
- Some real rules written down (about registration, games timing, game mode, team comps, specially for people who have more than one char etc).
- Somebody who will be a sort of 'referrer' in case of misunderstanding, misleading or something.
- Somebody who gathers registration information
- Somebody who organizes the games
- Somebody who gathers real time info and screenshots and post it on forums
- Somebody who modifies the rating and declares the winning team at the end of the 4th night
- Ventrilo (?)
- And players of course !!!
Still lacking some sort of price for the winner (other than eternal glory, ofc), we'll have to figure something out.
Basic rules :
- Arena rules
- League will last 4 nights over a month (one night per week)
- Team must be registered at least 48h in advance
- Games will be played on pre-fixed nights (let's set sundays for example)
- Info will be sent to 1 or 2 guys who will place it where it belongs (forum threads).
Every idea in this thread is subject to changes and improvements. It cannot/should not be done by a single person. If somebody out there who has some organization skills is interested in this kind of idea (i was thinking about Eloc, Incorrupto, Zay, Scarborough, Grounding, or everyone who's interested), just make contact in game or through forum. We set a day, go on skype or vent and start something concrete. I think we have enough people interested in arenas to get some event like that going on.
Work has not begun, I'm still just trying to gather some ideas and information to get it concretely done.
Then if all this looks like shit or impossible to make, just let me know what you think.
Share your ideas, suggestions, or opposition if you have some.
Please, dont let this thread die by lack of answers, kill it if you want, but give reasons why it should or shouldn't work, thanks
Also, i'm more than willing to let other people create this, maybe people who are most known or who have nice organizing or GM skills, with more influence, so let me know if somebody is interested in making it happen (with or without me). I'm a better player than organizer (ask my opponents, oh no you can't they're already dead
)Cøwa.