BlackEagle

First post is edited with the teams!

Teamspeak at like 10-10:30 if everyone can make it.

If everyone can meet tonight then I'd like to get it done. I'm shooting for ASAP so that you have time to meet with your teams before we begin.

My bad I thought I had season listed, must have overlooked. Thanks for the heads-up.

Is there a time available either today or sometime in the next couple of days that all the captains could meet so we can start the draft? @Pan32 @PingPong @Fishey @Noobster @Malibu @Griffin Also one thing I would like from everyone is an idea of the maps that should be in the rotation. Obviously nuke was taken out of the active list but it is still highly played. Also if train should be added because even though it is on the active list it isn't highly played compared to the others. I am cool with whatever and will most likely include them all but was wondering everyone's feelings on that. EDIT: Obviously on the maps I meant: Dust2 Mirage Inferno Nuke Overpass Cache Cobblestone Train Season Thanks fr0ndz

We most likely won't start until the first week of June unless we get everything done real quick. But even if we do start before that time we have enough for subs and the actual event will last much longer than a week so you will still be able to play. @Whimsy

No worries. If any of the other captains don't feel comfortable with being a captain let me know. I don't want to force you to be a captain. However, I would like to keep the captains at the highest ranks possible. EDIT: I screwed up the list. The newest captain is @Fishey. If I could actually do my job I would have this all correct. If any other captains don't want to be a captain then let me ASAP so I can replace you with another captain. I'd like to start this process on Wednesday or so.

Perfect. Unless I hear otherwise we will proceed without the event.

If the captains don't want the event then it won't take place. Less work for us lol. This was just a suggestion if the captains didn't really know how the people perform, especially if people were boosted to a certain rank. However, I don't feel that this is the case for all, if not most of the participants. Ranks are generally a good reflection of the skill level in any case. But if there is a captain(s) that want the reg event to happen I will see what we can organize.

Alright d00ds: After speaking with @SpikedRocker we have decided to go with some captains that way people will be able to choose their own teams based off their own judgement. In doing so we have chosen the highest ranks to become the captains. Now obviously we have 6 LEM's so we had to divide them up in order to determine the captains. By doing a random drawing here is the list of captains and the picking order: 1. @Pan32 2. @PingPong 3. @Fishey 4. @Noobster 5. @Malibu 6. @Griffin What we would like to do is have an event where everyone can come and play, hopefully on a giant reg server, and that way the captains may be able to see the list of players participate if they have never seen them play before. In regards to the draft for anyone that does not know how they work: -Alucard will have the first choice of any player on the list. -After Alucard has chosen then Pan will choose his first teammate and so on. Each player receives 1 pick per round. -This isn't a "snake draft" so after Griffin has chosen his player we will go back to the beginning and start round 2 with Alucard. -In the end we will have approximately 6 teams of 7. I am hoping to get the draft started soon and hopefully we can do this on the forums in a very short period of time.

Actually I requested that people update their ranks so that they would be current. This is because when the thread was originally created, approximately 2 weeks ago, I realized that ranks would change before we actually began the event. And a lot of people have seen rank changes. This will also help determine captains, which I will be doing later today.

In regards to dropping out: Unless it is for a pretty solid reason I'd suggest not doing so because you'll probably just be left out from future tournaments and such. I'd also like to point out that this isn't ESEA. Teams will not be perfect by any means but I can already foresee people bitching about what team they are on, what captain they have, how bad their teammates are, why their teammates buy music kits instead of defuse kits, etc. This is meant to be a fun event to bring the community together, not to crown people as e p i k m e m e r s. Yeah there are going to be some ground rules but this isn't supposed to be an international championship. Nobody is betting skins on these matches. Anyways, I expect to have more information this weekend. If not tomorrow, sometime Sunday about how teams will be structured and how we will create the scheduling.

No problem at all. I'll add you to the list. If anyone else wants to join in feel free. You are able to do so until we officially begin the team selection which should start shortly.

All ranks have been updated to this point, thank you. We have exactly 42 which is perfect (we did have 43 but then someone got banned to bring it back down xd).

Appreciate everyone signing up. At this point please make sure your rank is correct in your original post. I will go through all of them later tonight and make sure everyone is listed correctly. Either tonight or tomorrow I will hopefully talked to Spiked and get a final determination on how to designate the teams and other information on the event will be posted fairly soon! Right now we have 41 sign-ups which means 6 teams of 6-7. If someone else wants to sign-up to make it even at 42 that would be awesome!

I've played dust 2 quite a few times and have yet to determine where the armory is. If someone knows that would be great because then I would save money on buying dualies. #MoneyManagement

Going along with what Spiked stated, please if want to participate have your name in by the end of tomorrow! This way we can make a fair assessment of how to go about doing the teams. I've also added a rank breakdown on the first page. The ranks aren't as bad as I thought they would be when this was first proposed. We have also reached the 36 mark which means 6 teams of 6. I think we will most likely stick with 6 teams so anything above 36 that we receive will obviously be added subs into the league. Also thank you for the rank updates. I have updated those accordingly. As for teams we have really 2 proposed ideas: 1. The first idea is to have a draft. We would have 6 captains and then the captains would choose their teams. This is probably the easiest and best way to go about picking the teams. 2. Use the proposed idea earlier of evenly distributing the teams. So for example, right now we have 1 Global, 1 Supreme, etc. Each would be placed on a separate team. We would keep going down the ranks and randomly assign people in each rank to a team. Thus making everything completely random.

We've reached 30 which is awesome. Would love to gain 6 more if possible to make it 6 teams of 6. The ranks are much more balanced than I had originally anticipated which makes this an easier process.

Updated the first post with all the ranks submitted thus far. Please if you are thinking about playing get this info in ASAP so I can get started on this. I just finished my spring semester so I'll be working on this with Spiked a lot more these next couple of weeks to finalize everything and hopefully start before the end of the month. Also, please if you haven't, post a screenshot just to confirm your rank. If your rank changes between now and the beginning of the event update your post or just reply again. You don't need to update it every time your ranks changes as there is no point until we actual begin the process. Lastly, if you do not have a rank or are unranked please attempt to become ranked/get your rank back so we can fairly create teams. Last thing we want is someone who was a DMG 5 months ago to now play like plastic 3. Looking forward to getting this going. Appreciate all the support so far. We have 20 people signed up as of this post which means 4 teams of 5, but as Spiked noted we are going to try and add subs as well due to peoples personal lives.

Everyone loves nostalgia but in all honesty I think this is a bad idea. Splitting the ZE population between two servers when we finally have a strong population is not a good idea. I get wanting to go back and play css for old times sake but for the benefit of the community I think we should stick with what we have.

If you have been inactive then please just make a solid estimate of where you should be to not only make it fair for you but for everyone else.

That is still top of cells. You can access the top of cells on vipinthemix without going through any vents. However, if a player enters that vent or goes through the vent in disco you can kill them. Top of cells are ok. What Caution was referring to is that catwalks themselves that lead to anywhere else are KOS. For example, razor maps typically have catwalks that leave the pool area. Since those leave the actual area those are considered KOS. The catwalks in the soccer just go in a square and don't leave the soccer area so therefore are not KOS. Think of it this way: If a catwalk basically gives a T an opportunity to rebel, such as giving them an advantage to leave the room or go to a secret room, they are then considered KOS. If they don't do anything other than just provide a vantage point for CTs to watch over the Ts then they aren't considered KOSable.

We have always defined catwalks as those typically leading to armory. Tops of cells, medic, sauna, iso, etc. are not considered catwalks. The reason why they are restricted is because of their access to armory. So for example, razor catwalks are pretty obvious, however those in soccer are not KOSable. VIPinthemix are the catwalks all surrounding the entrance to armory. It can be difficult to really define exactly what a catwalk is because it varies on the map but in general they are those that lead to armory. EDIT: Since you are an admin you should be able to see this thread: http://www.steam-gamers.net/forum/showthread.php?t=54057 These are obviously CS:S maps but this kind of outlines what are considered catwalks. Also, what Caution states in a couple posts down is probably the general rule to follow.

I actually called one right lol

I bet TSM against them and won pretty big there. VP and Fnatic make me very nervous now. Probably don't wanna take my advice but I might take a low bet on Na'vi.