Howdy. This is a suggestion I have come here to make. I enjoy tournaments. Football tournaments to be exact, I enjoy them.

Now it's come to my attention that SpA is getting pretty massive now and I thought it might be a laugh to have some sort of mini tournament with teams that people organise and name. I dunno how many people would be in each team, obviously they would have to be large enough to cover the requirements of TF2 but still, I think it would be interesting to follow the progress of teams that get knocked out and those that prosper and conquer.

Obviously there are already all the SpA's but that's the clan. I'm talking about teams. So it doesn't matter who's with who, it's just a giggle. Just might be fun... or not...... I dunno

We've talked about this idea for several times in the last few months now.
The only problem with it is, that someone would have to organize it. I can do the technical stuff, but the scheduling, verifying results, keeping track of the fixture, ... is not something I want to do.

So if you think you're up for the task, we're looking for someone who has (too much?) time to spare

I'd be happy to give it a shot yeah. As far as the tournament structure goes that would be a piece of piss. Just break it up into group stages, quarter finals, semi finals and the final. The biggest problem I could see is the Team organisation...

Don't know quite how to go about that. Clearly each team would need a Captain to pick out the other players. And how many of them would there be? And how many teams?

What do you think?

We've installed a good software to manage tournaments (thx Lim-Dul for the find).
Once we've linked it with the forum database, we can start using it.

I guess the first even will be a soldier 1on1 cup.

How about a litle 3on3 cup? If we can find an appropriate map.

I think this would be awesome, 3on3 is perfect for a tournament like this.. i would deffo vote for 3v3

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Well how about each team captain goes and finds two others for their team. Then each team captain posts their teams and team name here and then I'll start to organise it into a tournament structure.

For example, my team will be;

DrMcMoist
bOse
Mint

I haven't thought of a snappy name yet but I will. Basically the more people who go off and organise their own teams and come back here and post them up, the better the tournament will be.

Anyway, consider that team I just posted the first. If you build it, they will come guys.

EDIT:- Mint came up with a team name, so we shall now be known as "The Iron Pigs"

With the tournament system in place you won't need to post anything etc. It will be possible to simply sign up with your team directly for a potential tournament and everything will be generated automatically when the bracket is filled. ^^

You can find all the info on this page:

http://kmleague.net/

There's even an admin demo although we will be running a stripped down version of the system (thanks to demm) because we don't need some features...

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Bertrand Russell

Well that's pretty cool but I'd still like to know who everybodys team is going to be called and who they're going to be made up of. I can't exactly anticipate matches if I don't know who's going to be involved in them. That's what sport is all about.

Could we have alitle breakdown on the rules before we start enlisting. What maps will be played? Will crits be enabled? What class limits, mediclimit:0 classlimit:1? Any sweet prices to the winner? There's probably a bunch of other specifics that would be nice to know before one enlist.

Cheers

i've had a long term wish for a bookable server system kinda thingy... Perhaps we could make something like it, make an open ladder, and have a warserver availible for it so people can play wars any time

Ooh.. I like the sound of that, like an intern ongoin SpA league

Well - the system demm and I found kinda does that. You can list war-servers as well... I think it just needs a bit of tailoring to our needs...

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Bertrand Russell

I oppose that one, that means I have to become a SpA to play with McMoist.... and face it.... Saint K hates me waaay too much for that to ever happen,


anyways, I would probably vote for a deathmatch kind of thing, since when doing intell or capture points the scout would have a superior advantage when it comes to small amount of people playing (like 3on3) also, classes should be choosen BEFORE the tournament and be locked the rest of it, no class changing in-game.. would be fun to see how it goes

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[SpA]Revenge "Wheres the element of surpise :/"

[SpA]Mint "IN.... MY....PANTS"

[SpA]Minimoose "Revenge is going to jump out of your pants?"

I don't get it. The idea is to rank the team, right? Who cares who gets the most points in the team? Also, why should the classes be fixed? Different maps requires different setups, having a versetile team should be encouraged.

that's just how I would have played it,

anyway I'm just a McMoist groupie, so I would do anything he asks me too (including naughty stuff <3 )

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[SpA]Revenge "Wheres the element of surpise :/"

[SpA]Mint "IN.... MY....PANTS"

[SpA]Minimoose "Revenge is going to jump out of your pants?"