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Hildreth already asked my opinion about this, but I will state it again. This definitely won’t work out as a lot of people have tried it before and every project just died. Even then, you should have at least tried using Quakenet server.

1) We’ve had successful (HL) pugs before posting here, which will hopefully continue.

2) It hit a point where it no longer made sense not to give this a shot. I had the bot, I had cheap (and heavily discounted) servers, all that was left was to set it up and run it

3) GeeksIRC protects our bot from bans in a way Quakenet can’t. Due to the hoops Quakenet seems to make TF2 bots jump through, it would have taken months to rewrite our bot (which we use for NA pugs) to work for Quakenet. I would rather spend that time giving this a shot than hoping it would work in a few months.

4) Connecting to multiple irc networks using a client (where you can have multiple network connections in the same window) or webchat (you can just open multiple webchat tabs in your browser) is very easy. It takes approximately 30 seconds longer than just typing “/join #tf2.mix.euhl”. While I realize this is one more unfortunate hoop for players to jump through, it doesn’t seem prohibitively complicated. I could make a more detailed tutorial if needed.

Is there really any point in an irc for HL? People just use the spreadsheet & Colony mix group, and that works out fine. We had an irc for it before that failed and died. I don’t see why this new one would be any different.

edit: here’s the spreadsheet, in case anyone hasn’t seen it: http://goo.gl/HBsLf4

Well i’ve seen 2-3 irc channels for hl pugs in EU over the years. What usually made them fail was the bot not getting updated or malfunctioning, or if any alternative was better.

At least this bot has support behind it and i know the pugs are really popular in na.

Quoted from skeej

Me and huhy are just being realistic partypoopers here. Of course any initiative is welcomed. The TF2 community seems to have a lack of people who do the “behind the scenes” work, perform organisational roles, take on new initiatives etc. You seem to have put quite some thought and effort in the bot; the anti-fatkidding system is clever. For a 6v6 IRC pickup to have any chance of becoming something you’re gonna need more than an ETF2L thread tho, this shit needs to be plugged everywhere.

I did have an initiative to involve plugging this on a community level, encouraging the new and also reaching out to those who you don’t see PUG from the many hundreds of teams Div 3-6. It was basically a giant word-of-mouth campaign with team leaders to make them aware of such a thing and encourage them to join in. Sadly…time…sigh. Another week perhaps.

For now though, this can be included in the next newspost.

I’ve played 4 of them, and I think that’s all of them. All of them have worked out great, lots of credit to Freakie and Grenja to making them happen, together with Elena, Ryan and blindsight of course.

I didn’t even give the last pug channel a chance so I can’t really say what’s diffrent about them, what I can say is that this channel have beeing working great for the few hours it’s been up. And of course it won’t get filled with people in the first hours, it will probably take atleast a week or two before you can tell if it’s working or not.

And if a solid group of people puts some effort into getting pugs started this first week i’m sure the ball will be rolling in notime!

Quoted from nijoonen

I’ve played 4 of them, and I think that’s all of them. All of them have worked out great, lots of credit to Freakie and Grenja to making them happen, together with Elena, Ryan and blindsight of course.

Tbh I’m just hoping people will start coming there on their own so I won’t have to spend 30 minutes messaging 30 people every time I want to play a mix.