(30 Dec 14, 10:37PM)Jason Wrote: how do i participate when i've been banned from your teamspeaks for no reason?
You've only been banned from one of the three listed teamspeak servers. We're working to resolve this issue, but in the meantime feel free to use another teamspeak, the IRC channel (embedded in the website if you don't have a client), AC forum/rC forum and the official league forum (when some bugs have been ironed out on it and it becomes usable, hopefully done in the next few days). You can even message us on facebook if you want :D
(30 Dec 14, 05:18PM)Lozi* Wrote: Could you change it to 3v3 instead of 2v2, would be better. Something like a summer cup would be cool and would have more room for other players who are starting in the competitive or even wanting to increase their skills... 2v2 is boring.
"2v2 being boring" is subjective and entirely down to one's own opinion. The reason we're using this layout is merely as a gauge of community activity and interests in such events, and also because we feel as though the standard 3v3 single elimination format of countless previous tournaments has been overdone and that 2v2 would be an interesting change since it's still yet to fully be seen how well it plays out in a "real" competitive scenario in this version. That's not to say that we're against 3v3 tournaments entirely, we are definitely up for running some of the future events in this format.
As for those expressing concern about the team limit, we currently believe that 8 teams is a reasonable amount, although we're considering expanding it to 12 teams (which would then leave the format as 3 groups of four teams each, rather than 2 groups of four) if there is actually enough interest. After some discussion we've decided that hosting a playoff for a certain spot is a good idea although would not work over a one-day tournament due to the time constraints which would face people in awkward timezones such as AEST, for example. As I recall, Sveark had to play the final of the Christmas Cup at 4am his time, and a playoff would add an additional hour or two of time on top of that, so it's not something we'd consider with the current format we're using atm (although we have some ideas in the works that could alleviate this problem somewhat).
We'd also politely ask that this thread be kept for date discussion and questions about the tournament's format, with external discussion about map quality taking place elsewhere. We're of the opinion that a good team should be able to adapt to any map which has good gameplay, a decent flow and not too much bias. We've selected the map pool with these thoughts in mind - we have seven years of competitive experience in this game between us and it's our prerogative to make sure that the event is competitive whilst still also retaining some degree of fun, hence our reasoning for picking some maps may be different than the way previous tournaments have selected maps in the past.