6 vs 6 Tourny May 17th

game 1 vod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fdxN6zwt6s

game 2 vod (still processing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfi4MY5GIeg

 

I feel like I'm the only one who legitimately enjoyed this. Ah well.

 

I also enjoyed rekking them and being victorians

edit: lel you guys got rekt

 

Wait, so you want to be 19th century British? Enjoy your child labor, overcrowding and plague.

 

I dont mind since Ill be the rich part.

 

Naw, you'd be one of the poor ones.

 

We all knew this was going to be a little crazy, so, honestly, the only person that really pissed me off was Grant.

He seemed apathetic about filling our last two slots weeks before the event. I expected the "Captain" or "Leader" to be the one that made all of the decisions about team composition, so maybe I had unrealistic expectations.

Grant as also the latest of the pirates. Lazy was also late which was disappointing, but Grant basically missed the first match. I think a "Captain" or "Leader" is late when he gets there five minutes before hand and is unable to organize his team's pregame shit, so Grant was really unacceptable.

Giving credit where due: Teef managed to organize two solid servers that were properly configured, which is awesome. It's a damn shame that he got discouraged from these sorts of events by people like Grant.

:/

EDIT The above is really rude and I don't want to seem like I'm scapegoating anyone. Even if Grant had run a tight [pirate] ship, the tourney still would've been ruined by the shit posters. These kinds of events require every participant to get their shit together and the blame rarely ever lies on any single person.

 

I don't like leading things.

 

I think there's a perception that gets created. Trust is gained or lost and that carries into future events.

If Teef ever decides to host another event, I may not have much faith in his ability to clearly organize information related to the event (unlike this fella), but I'll trust that he can actually have the servers in place when the time comes, which is arguably the most important (and hardest) responsibility of a host. I know I'll remember that.

If FN ever wants to captain a team, he'll probably get the opportunity. FN messaged me 45min before the tourney going, "oh fuck, I thought I had 2 hours." Despite being out of his element, he still produced all of his people and he did it on time. People remember that.

So while there's no overt penalties or rewards, there are definitely more subtle consequences.

 

Nah, I think some of the "offenders" will have a permanent stigma.

Since it's Pick-On-Grant Day, I'll say that Grant will probably never get the chance to captain again. Also on that note, if I ever happen to be on a team with Lazy or Grant, I'll be spamming the fuck out of them days before the event to learn their schedule and make sure they aren't fucking late.

Also PROTIP: Make a quick steam chat room with your entire team so you can effortlessly coordinate even if you're passing in and out of servers. Those chat rooms are too fucking easy not to use them.

 

Pick on moojuice as well, he was plain not there. I was 12 minutes late and saw both matches.

 

Yeah, I heard moojuice made himself look like shit as well, but I wasn't on that server or on his team, so I won't comment. The point is that the community as a whole can organically keep track of who is and isn't a shitty leader. I may only have like 4 good/bad examples from the event, but others have different examples.

And just to be clear - organizers/leaders of any event are expected to be present far earlier than its start. This covers IRL shit and all sorts of stuff. As far as I'm concerned, you were at least an hour late. A mere participant like Lazy was more like "12 minutes" late.

 

Events = drama

But you really shouldn't hate Grant or Moo just for this.
People just aren't too interested in this tournament.

They'd have been there if they thought MG I am so excited gotta participate.

 

Well it sounds like information has already been warped 6 hours later. I launched empires at 2:12 PM EST, 12 minutes after the event start, I don't see how that translated to one hour. I casted pretty much most of the first match and the second. I was present on the demos themselves. I'm not the first empires player to be late to something, let alone 12 fucking minutes; there've been scrims where teams arrived like an hour late. If people are really going to get pissed about literally 10 + 2 minutes then I'm not sure, people are angry these days. I still could've had the match.

 

I may have poorly worded my first sentence:

• If you're a mere participant like Lazy/Me, then your benchmark for "lateness" is the start of the event.
  
• If you're any kind of leader/captain/organizer, then your benchmark for "lateness" is about an hour before the start of the event.

It's cool to be a participant that's not super interested. It's not cool to be a captain/leader/organizer that's not super interested.

See:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Wfi4MY5GIeg#t=355
LELELEL PARADICKS DOESNT HAVE MANA LOL