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@Golden FT isn't stacked, we started from the bottom, learning A to Z, in a uncompetitive and pretty hostile french community dominated by GB and GER on the eu scene at the time, for most we started in randomish regiments, a community in which dozen regiment would be estimated better, in which dozens of players would be estimated better.
Just don't forget, back then, herishey or lebrave could tell you about, it was all about the anglo-sphere, if you we'rent part of them or friends with them (like : 91st, 92nd, GB, 1st 17e?) you would have to do 2 or 3x more, if you we'rent part of their teams or organizations they run, like FFE for exemple, you probably wouldn't be backed up by them as a good/top groupfighter. They would always say the best frenchie is their frenchie, the best polish is their polish, the one that plays for them.
No lie, they we're winning, but you get what i meant. it's harder.
Being britons or english-speaking in this game (even nowadays for the whole EU experience), joining those pillar organizations, you would easily and steadily improve, meet very good players, learn about the "meta" of then, make them learn about you and back you to get in good teams, and all in all : your get your ticket easier for the eu scene top show. And despite not coming from this environment, hostilities in our own community, we made it from scratch, and our meta is still unmatched, favored, and continue to influence as obelix stated, we get the credits for the meta right (8 EU duel gold, 5/6 silver, bronzes etc...), tryhards they say. FT was the place we offered safety, solidarity, good fun, and constant improving curve, that's why people like fwuffy joined and stayed, not for winning, he stayed even when we faced a few losses.
Our core : LeBrave, Maharbaal, ExtaZz94, Drake would never ever leave, allowing us to continue improving at our path to reach the level we did, not by stack strategies.
What where the chance from some noobish frenchies to climb like that, and establish new standards : very low. So golden, we had a good team we constructed in the first place from A 1) We heavily formed our players 2) Created our own meta 3) Climb the ladder to the top 4) Successed at top with consistance.
As for all All-Stars, it ended up a super-team no doubt, but not always we had the rosters people might think of, even at our highest, they were still others very good teams, if you look at native, there's the Frontline Tactics (FT rocks both way
), they have every fucking best player at every positions taking players from former dominant AE to play cash prized tournament. would you imagine gb + fra for a cash prized nwwc ? that's how crazy a true super-team is.
All-Stars was an answer to larger formats, DF, Herishey, Mightypain enforced to "bring more competitions", didn't really succeed at the end, ironically, it wasn't necessary and produced the inverse effect. After FT disbanded, i saw they started hosting 5v5 back, i'm curious but i won't ask them
. Morale if you want a great scene, host every kinds of tournaments, polyvalence is the real sign of capabilities, if you are the TBE or TFFO leader and only host tournaments your team can plays in then you're not helping your community, no disrespect mighty and herishey friendo.
Edit : However, i want to point out that we can thank these 3 guys for all the time and work they put on organizing events for others people, and this message isn't intended as a blame on them.Host tournies for duellist, for duo, for trio, for 5 people team, for 8 people team or if you don't like one of theses, host the one you like when needed, don't spam it, that's what i did when hosting a few 5v5.
I believe herishey has a good idea, but it need to be done carefully, doors should always be open, regulating organization is a good solution but it must be handled in a careful way as to who, how, and why decisions are taken, fairness and diversity without conflict of interest or bias.
You could do something like both Tournaments Agenda + List, a system of both tournament opportunities and public rewards and listing, on the basics of what marxeil already done, and huge emphasis only to respect these, not going to play others ones. You can also do lesser numbered tournament but more quality and dedication demanded as Marxeil did, but you would do it with more dedication by players, it will increase the skill ceiling even.
Yes, i mean csgo tournament are made of few teams finally, with more than average motivated and talented guys.
Solution ? You don't need 120 players per tournament, you need interested and motivated players that will
really come and produce quality competition and opposition, whether they are 16, 32, or 64. UFC and Boxing only needs 2 guys to make big money. Ask tardets tips for hype. You can very probably add new features to tournies, like just not, signing-up + come at the server + goodbye. Work on regulation, originality, interest, hype and accessibility for every nw players, not just the same 60 people.
One word on originality, it doesn't need to be necessarily new formats and rules, but how do you hype it and make it living and interesting without making it a fun event that hold no contest to it, self-vanity of own guessed capabilities is the fuel of competition at the end of the day.
