SL 9 week 3

[Mr Nice]

Time 7 PM GMT

Some rules

Bo3
2 subs per game.

Map Pick

1 server pick per round unless both teams agrees to switch server
top picks server
They will be able to pick servers before the game but they have 5 min to do so. they can pick servers after 1 and 2nd game and have 5 min to do aswell but if they have picked the server before the game they arent allowed to pick another server after that.

low picks map.

Round 5 ball_cave, ball_labyrinth, ball_snow, ball_asteroids, ball_hardcourt
Round 6 (Round 1) ball_mayhem2, ball_lostcity, ball_snow, ball_planepark, ball_core

[Mr Nice]

gonna add the maps in 30 min or so.

[Threevenge]

You forgot to specify that the roles are reversed in the second round. For example, we should be home against Vlix this second time we face them. I know it was mentioned elsewhere but this needs to be made clear in the rules. The advantage of being home is too great in some match-ups to not declare this.

[Mr Nice]

well i changed the rules so top picks server and low picks map. so every round now is changed except for round 5. in round 5 the low picks server and top picks map as it has been the other rounds.

[JWhatever]

Vlix 2-0 BBQ
Ball 2-0 Vlix

-J

[TwistedCookie]

BBQ<Vlix 0-2
BBQ>Zrog 2-0

[Carlos98]

ball vs arr 2-0
ball vs vlix 2-0

[Clam]

<X 0-2 everybody ffs

[lakospeter91]

{ball} - {arr} 2-0
{arr} - <X 2-0

[Tekn0]

Hm, sorry if I'm being dense.

In the Wins/Loss/Tie table it says arr win 1 lost 3.

But didn't we win against Zrog and <X? Shouldn't it be win 2 loss 2 or am I confusing with preseason?

[lakospeter91]

The table hasn't been updated with yesterday's results yet, that's why. Preseason's results don't count.

[Tekn0]

Originally Posted by lakospeter91

The table hasn't been updated with yesterday's results yet, that's why. Preseason's results don't count.

We played BBQ and Zrog on the previous week.
Following week was Ball and <X.

If the table has -not- been updated with the 2nd week's result, it should show arr: wins 1 lost 1. If it -has- been updated, it should show arr: wins 2 lost 2… but instead it shows arr: wins 1 lost 3.

Again, sorry if I'm missing something obvious, it's end of work and i'm pretty damn tired.

[sunshineduck]

arr lost to <X and vlix week 1: 0-2
lost to BBQ and beat zrog week 2: 1-1
week 3 hasn't been recorded so it says 1-3

[Tekn0]

Ah ic, I was missing week 1. Thanks for clearing it up!

[Cracker]

When is the break? Next week, the week after that or both?

[darknietzsche]

Yeah this probably should be made sooner than later. How are we handling the next two weeks with holidays rolling around. It may be fine since the holidays fall in the middle of the week, but it is something you should discuss with teams. Also, I think a playoffs system should be determined sooner than later, so teams know what to expect.

[Fartface]

My sense is that more people would be around for Sunday the 22nd than for Sunday the 29th, just because that time between Christmas and New Year's is tricky. I'd say either have games the 22nd and then wait till Sunday January 5th, unless if the 22nd proves to be busy.

Everyone go take a gander at this thread for a fun idea about postseason: http://altitudegame.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9236

[Mr Nice]

hey yea i was thinking about it. i mean, im thinking that it might be stressful to have games on this sunday that close to 24th. but i will have a week 4 and if 2 teams or more cant show up and havent showed up before 7 pm GMT on sunday i will post on the forum and call it off. sunday 29th of december there will not be SL.

[Mr Nice]

about the playoffs. i will decide based on votes from the clan captains that are participating in SL 9. their votes are going to be based on the votes they have gathered from each of their team members. does 2 weeks from this sunday sounds good? the vote is between double elimination or the ascension (JWs suggestion)

[Cracker]

Originally Posted by Mr Nice

hey yea i was thinking about it. i mean, im thinking that it might be stressful to have games on this sunday that close to 24th. but i will have a week 4 and if 2 teams or more cant show up and havent showed up before 7 pm GMT on sunday i will post on the forum and call it off. sunday 29th of december there will not be SL.

I don't think this is the best solution tho. All teams have to trouble their players to show up now, but maybe not even 1 game gets played. Call it off or play imo. If a team already knows now they won't be with 6 they can let the opposing team know and probably reschedule.

[Tekn0]

Call it off IMO. (not speaking on behalf of arr).

[darknietzsche]

I personally don't mind Evel's suggestion here. I don't think it should be that much effort, just come online at 2 pm EST/7 pmGMT if no one is there leave (takes literally minutes of time). If we are at home and available it would be natural to come on at that time anyways. I think it makes a lot more sense to play games if we can then waiting 3 weeks until we get back into things. I would have done the same thing most likely.

[TwistedCookie]

Same as crack.
What if we'll have only 3 teams? what then?
If you keep it like this I will probably just tell my team not to show up and wait for a real scheduled week instead of bothering players to come and not play.

[darknietzsche]

Do teams really need to plan to come that is my question? If I can't come I tell my team otherwise my team expects me to show up. I understand emergencies can happen, but this is the holidays, so I would very much think people would know whether they could show up. So what if only three teams show up, just don't have games unless those teams play each other. There is no harm one way or the other.

I really don't understand, there is literally no effort to take about people getting online for a few minutes to determine if there are games or not. I did not know people are making huge commitments for this game.

[Cracker]

Originally Posted by darknietzsche

I understand emergencies can happen, but this is the holidays, so I would very much think people would know whether they could show up.

So why wait till Sunday night then to see whether we play or not? And yes if we dont have games some people may wanna make other plans for that night, its the holidays.

[darknietzsche]

I mean, I understand not showing up if you have plans, perfectly fine. But I don't understand what is the harm if teams want to show up to play. There is no harm is my point in putting a schedule up and saying hey if you guys are here go ahead and play your games if not that is cool too.

[Clam]

Hey, yeah, I know it's just me and my clampinion man but I can't make Sunday and I've been out of touch for a couple days so I haven't been able to constantly bug people about showing up which doesn't particularly bode well for <X's attendance. I might be out this week and next depending on friends and relatives and skiing and new york and such SETTLE DOWN SETTLE DOWN NOW LET THE CHEERING SUBSIDE

So I guess, insofar as more or less cognizant of my actions and of sound mind despite being slightly drunk and sleep-deprived due to copious amounts of mildly distasteful sauvignon blanc and indecent behavior, consider this an official and completely inconsequential vote for taking it easy this Sunday. As DN says, if we somehow have immense attendance then that's great and we can play our games, otherwise we'll probably see you in '14.

Cheers and happy holidays and uh can't think of any puns now oh well merry christmas santa clamus rudolph the red nosed reinclam go blitzen blitzkrieg blitzklam dasher dingus sleigh ho ho ho

[Mr Nice]

yea have a good one clam im not expecting <X to show up then.

[VAN1SH1NG]

Kept forgetting to get the videos up. YouTube is not done processing them but they should be up within like 30m of this post. Unfortunately, still only got 1 video per round. Completely reinstalled Windows on the desktop that is having issues and tried recording to a new hard drive, but Fraps still freezes during recording. May try a new CPU, but not sure that will help (used to work fine). Tested RAM and it is good even. If anyone has any ideas let me know. It did seem to work better in windowed mode for some reason so maybe I will have success in windowed.

Only other thing I can think of is seeing if I can find an older version of the AMD driver to see if it was a driver update that caused this.

Round 5: ZroG vs X
Round 6: Vlix vs Ball

[BrazNomar]

It looks like ZeroG will have difficulties as well for this Sunday, many of us will be out of town. Will have the available guys alert but hopes aren't too high.

[VAN1SH1NG]

Just to let you know if any games are played I do not expect to be online to record them. Trying to do some last minute Christmas shopping.