Its day 1 and I already have a taste of this position. Hopefuly the mods won't freak out by how chilly I start debates and how I respond to people. Also the fact I have to operate from my phone most of the week so lets just hope I don't accidentally click any self-destruction buttons.
A couple issues have been brought forward so far, regarding the areas I am most familiar with (may I insist it's been just two days as CR) and I though this would be a good way to begin with.
First off I will make a comment on the voting that got me to this position as there seems to be people in disbelief I actually am here and also a user pointing out what I sense few others think: that I boosted myself with the votes of all my spanish "friends" to outvote any potential candidates. I am aware it makes for a fantastic conspiration but reality is much more dissapointing. People there really dislikes me for "backstabbing our nation" or something, barely anyone even knows what FSE is and take into account you need Corporal rank to vote. It was a two day voting and I could only teach a couple of my closest friends about how to do it, out of them willing to vote (literally only Marquez got to vote for me, how cute is that). I really believe these elections are for the people who care about this role to vote and not some mindless popularity contest, neither would I ever be so desperate over a videogame forum to force anyone to take their time and vote in a poll they don't even know. And I feel dumber now for having to seriously debunk that but I though I'd rather do it and forget about it.
Now to the real stuff. As this week progresses I will be finishing all the details to re-structure a calendar for (for now) competitive events. I though an extensive edit on
Herishey's current event list would do very well, mainly focusing on giving it a much more visual design with easy to navigate graphics. Point number 1 is to create the templates and fill in the current events, working on a system to classify them all in various groups and also use past data to create an accessible archive. From there on what comes next is yet to be discussed, as I'll be talking to many organisers and team leaders.
A very interesting proposition is the
Tournament Organisational Group which so far has banded all the big teams together in hopes to ensure good quality standards. This may work out wonderful although mistakes can be made: we need a platform to visibilise competitions and give people all the tools and opportunities to develop their project, encouraging the revival of old and new competitions. But such an organisation can be easily used to monopolise the scene and leave out anyone who doesn't fit on it, alienating people and mainstreaming competitions even more. I hope they are reading this. In any case I'm already in touch with Herishey and Voluble and will do my best to have their aims well-set.
Thats it for week 1. These are the main issues to me so don't expect this much text every week.
Posting an update during the weekend, but I'm sure I'll be reaching out to the cavalry folks next week to expand my view of the community and attend their issues.
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