UT2k4 Team Challenge

[DW_Mobius]

I'm down for sticking to those maps, maybe a little Dreamus for fun.

Any other peeps stepping up as captains?

Skytech and Brainpan check your PMs. I've also recruited Karma. Looking for two more people to join my team, and we also need a sweet name to put fear into our enemies. Rabid Bunnies? Swiftboat Veterans? I'm hoping to have a team throwing together some strats and maybe a quick practice this weekend.

Team Cheddar Fondue?

[JDub]

I'm in, and Ahebban needs to be on the map list. Maybe Roughinery too.

Remove Severance, Frostbite, Red Planet and Nevermore. Even with non standard node setups they're not great maps.

Are you trying to bring back TWL or just get some competition going? Because if you're after the latter I think 10 player teams would be more fun, especially on maps like ArticStronghold T32. Do you have a server or permission from Toxic to shut down SV for a night?

I've thought about this before and it seems like the fastest way to get alot of people would be to just set a date and time (every Friday/Saturday at X time) and have captains pick from the people that come. Word of mouth is your only hope for promoting this kind of thing anyways. This prevents people from signing up and then not showing. It was a big problem in the omni tourney. This might fall through the first time but as word spreads things will pick up.

Don't bother with UTComp and don't let noobies in. There shouldn't be any problems. If you don't know how to set team preference or hit "switch teams" you shouldn't be in any tourney. I'm serious, DON'T USE UTCOMP... its begging for trouble.

[DW_ToxicWaste]

I'll play, no captain. My practice time will be limited, but I'll do my best. I'm pretty rusty, but I have a punchers chance.

I can start a private server for this.

I suggest we dump the old maps. Why go old school? We're not talking about a bunch of old fussy clanners who can't play anything but Torlan or Frost. Why not pick from the most balanced custom maps? Oh and while not perfectly balanced, Dreamus 2 had better be in there if you want to play this thing at all (if you catch my drift :cyclopsani: ). And TBH, I think some maps are made for superweapons. Dreamus 2 without superweapons would be craptacular. Dreamus, however, I think it would be an improvement with more back and forth. So I think the whole sup vs. no sup should be on a map by map basis.


I also suggest we keep the map rotation extremely small (Maybe three maps?), and the scope of the tourney extremely small. Getting people organized for this will be very difficult.


Rich (TW)

P.S. Karma, if you get there before I do, can you change the Message of the dat on SV to say to visit clandw.com for infomation on the ONS tourney? Thanks.

[DW_Ifondlesweaters]

We should pick a night (like this Friday or Saturday at 9PM EST) and all get on vent and pick teams and play a couple maps, then see if we're interested in extending it into a more organized system. We can iron out other kinks after we hammer on each other for a bit :)

Sound like a plan?

I can make either night work.


And Dreamus2 would be sweet, as well as, dare I say, DeathDome?

I wouldn't kick Spiffy out of bed, either.

[Emotion]

Primeval
Torlan
Ascendancy LE
Articstronghold
Dria
Dawn
Crossfire
Ahebban
Dreamus (we have to decide which version)
Dinora?
Deathdome might be too unbalanced for a 6v6. Maybe.

JDub, Im not trying to bring back TWL. I'm just trying to get some fun competition going.
It should be up to the captain of the team to make sure his team members show up. Also this way, if the teams are chosen before hand, they can plan strategies before the match.

Toxicwaste, ok I agree with make the map selection smaller. Also we can play Dreamus, but the reason why we should turn superweapons off is cos we want strategy and skill to prevail over a redeemer. We want to make it more challenging to build or destroy things. The redeemer is too much firepower for a 6 v 6 match. This is just my opinion though but Im up for whatever everyone thinks.

Fondles, ok lets meet up Friday night at 9PM(August 8th), pick some teams and see how it goes.
Can you post vent and server info where we are meeting? We will need at least 12 people for this trial run. Also we'll need a server admin since we're not using UTCOMP

[DW_Bomzin]

I'm in .

IMHO good in theory , don't think you can pull it off , peeps won't show for consecutive days .

You just want to play with some strats and have some GG's go for a school yard style of team picking on the given days . Sounds more live a PUG though .

We tried this with TAM awhile back and day 2 didn't work .

Basically what sweaters said I know

B

[DW_WailofSuicide]

I'm up for it.

[JDub]

No to both Dreamus2 and Deathdome... Neither one of them are good for competitive play. Dreamus2 to a lesser extent.

[Emotion]

I'm confident I can get all of my team (although I dont have one yet) to show for our matches. Thats cos I'll hold thier wives/gfs ransom...lol

Should we all meet up tomorrow night and PUG IT UP as a test run?!

[DW_ToxicWaste]

I can't do Fri/Sat. Sun, Mon, Tues are ideal for me.

Rich (TW)