This "scene" has much more of a problem than the next tournament idea aKa the numbers in each side of the arena...
- Let's commonly recognize that leagues are/should and will be the best and main tournament system, of which every active players and team should actively seek to participate in and been evaluated primarily (if wanted) upon,
- Let's commonly establish arena map standards, of which every hoster will have to respect the perfect lenght and scheme in order to have a map learning curve
- Let's reserve one day tournament to relaxed and fun tournament, not the inverse, let's stop playing one day tournament that take us more time waiting in spec than actually playing
- Let's stop accepting that the number of tournament is more important than the quality
- Let's stop playing tournament that we are not interested in, simply to play every tournament
- Let's stop hosting so many large tournament solely to satisfy a few teams huge roster base or the last most stacked team formed realizing they have slighty too many and everyone should play their magnificient armada
- Lets base our evaluation, reputation boost and lists of players and teams on well selected (in advance) quality tournament with factual result instead of minding any junkfood tournament, popularity survey or thursday trolly casual gf vs tbe outcome in the conversation
- Let's have match previews, preparation, ft 15 great, dense, comebackable, surprising, well filmed and commented matches, everyone playing until the tournament has ended, not being fucked by a bad day, instead of cancerous 10 minutes ft 5 cancerous sweat matches, cya in 3 month if loosing, randomish corrupted brackets, 5 minutes of gameplay for every 10 minutes of spec, unsurmountable bad ping and servers when happening, 70% of the tourney playerbase eliminated by half the tournament length
And last but most important
- Let's commonly build that best combined organizing staff hosting the best tournament event possible,with the best rules and depth, let's declare what it is, and let's host it multiple times a year for most of the year , instead of having 12 month a year of instable in any aspect (map, number, rules, server quality, staff quality) junk tourneys.
Can we do that ?
you can have a well organised and hosted league, but in the end its the players or teams (usually weaker teams) that decide to drop off mid-season coz they know they don't have a chance... if we could prevent these rage quits and other issues with players' motivation, leagues would be perfect
that being said, Shadey and I are looking into making a league happen, will keep y'all updated
I think we had in the past a bad design for leagues, too huge, not enough fast paced
If you take a
fast paced approach 14 team league with playoff, 2 qualified per group, separated in two group of seven, make it a only a 6 matchweek regular season length,
one month half, +70% of team are eliminated at that point, the remaining teams (4 qualified) are likely to be the most motivated for the league's end with their performance. Short but dense. And that quality, fast paced league, can be spammed 3/4 time a year as a must main event, instead of having junk tourneys, 12 month a year.
