Hey guys so this post is to shed light on somewhat ‘dead’ events or events on a/or server(s) that could be deemed dead so that maybe they can be revived once more. Allow me to start off.
Scrim - SGSL, SGSL was a great event but so far has had only 2 seasons, everyone had fun tuning in to the streams and playing the game regardless of skill level and it was just an all around fun thing to do while stuck in quarantine with nothing to do. A reason the event was disappointing at times was when final match, the last team couldn’t come to an agreement to forfeit until an entire MONTH after, and when there was not enough players to play even though each team “promised” to have back-ups that could show up whenever. Not calling anyone out in particular but I remember the match I was playing we almost had to forfeit because we didn’t have enough players, I think we pulled out Ninjabao from thin air at the last second and he didn’t even sign up for the event I don’t think. I think we should bring back the Scrim server with a weekly tournament that could be streamed to our twitch as mentioned by Daft, people would be more than likely to play again if they get to see themselves kick another teams butt in front of a large group of people. Lastly, another Mega-Mashup week would probably make the server populate quickly due to the limited size of the scrim server.
Jailbreak - In no way is this server dead but the events get super repetitive, I know there’s not many events we can do without ruining the core game mode but having another event besides protect the president, couples or holidays/occasions, and admins verses regulars might just help it out a bit more.
TF2 - This server has been buried in the dirt, I didn’t even know you could apply for admin if I’m being honest, yesterday it had 2 players but only for a short amount of time, I’m not a Team Fortress 2 player anymore but I’m sure we can come up with a fun event that would bring attraction to it.
Retakes - I’m just going to put this here because we need another point reset soon since we can’t have Mr. C9 Raggy sitting on 10s of thousands of points ahead of second place. Also, because in the last few months the server lost a few hundred players although I won’t deny the success of the server once only like 3 players get on.
1v1 Multi Arena - The last event we had for this server was when Chad was Server Manager, this server does great when you seed it with friends but most of the time it’s usually 3/64 players. Maybe not reset the points because I’m not sure that’s what that part of the community wants but maybe headshot only or something. Also, (The prizes included forum awards for top 3 and forum awards aren’t even here any longer).
Multi Config FFA DM - I don’t think a point reset would hurt here as well because the second you start playing you’re already top 50 in terms of players. I have 16,000 points and I’m still in top 9 and if you’ve played with me you know I’m no better than the average Gold Nova 2 at best and I think I have only one day on that server. It’s also really hard to take over the best player when he/she has 216,000 points when most of the time you are farming bots that give you 2 points each and the occasionally active players that come on and give you 5-20 points each per kill.
Surf - I think the Karaoke event only flopped because of bad timing, this isn’t even the event creators fault because we are literally 7 or so hours behind him and we should be giving him massive props he even stayed up for it. Anyways, I think we should try this event over again but maybe with an EC member that can have a better timing. (Again, no hate to Asher). BHop and Surf timed events have been kicking ass and I’m sure KZ will have the same effect.
Conclusion, I think all these servers with some TLC can do great it’s just how we execute ideas like these that make them do good. Some MGTS that have done great are the Minecraft one, it was so popular we made the server lag and crash quite a bit. Also a Valorant event would be Epic, I have some people in mind who would love to have their teams clash it out in another Valorant Scrim ACT Part 3 Edition. More Events could be Among Us Voice Proximity or Hide ‘n’ Seek. Secret Hitler and Town of Salem did noticeably well. Also, the past Rust events did extremely well to the point we had to make our own private lobbies and we couldn’t keep them open to randoms, there’s been an influx of Rocket League players so maybe a tournament for that could a viable idea. Lastly, prizes other than games could be more incentivizing to players because the last time we had that Deagle event Janseen and Amazing were foaming out the mouth to non-stop play the server until they realized all their time was spent on a game that was 2 dollars. Some final words before I finish this post, don’t clown the Server Managers and/or Event Coordinators because I think they are doing great, these are just some suggestions to boost server pop a little more than it already is. This has been shown time and time again by the pop we get on the ZE server when there is a map test or map collection event.
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