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    <title>ETF2L &#8211; Latest activity by user BLITZ Darkowl</title>
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        <title>Reply to &#8220;i37 TF2 Tourny&#8221;</title>
        <link>http://etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-4936/page-6/?recent=85468#post=84103</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I felt the need to contribute to this one, as I was the FragSoc team leader for i37, and although I had great fun and the end match was a delight to watch (the surprise proro by SAS was fab) there was far too much confusion about the start of the tournament.

Being the one who came up with the suggestion to fix the tournament I feel like I owe an explanation about what happened, because whilst many people are blaming everyone else the tournament start was screwed up by confusion and misunderstanding.

There were two key issues:
1) The randomisation of the teams into groups had placed several of the best teams in the same group, meaning that at the end of the elimination the best teams would not be present, making for an un-professional looking final and semi-final
2) The chap who organised the tournament in the first place was using double-elimination for the winners bracket, however with 6 groups there would be 6 teams going through, which is impossible to do with double elimination.

1) When faced with the choice of re-starting the whole tournament team leaders were given the choice of restarting with the best teams in different groups, or to carry on. Many lower-ranked clans voted against this because, if this were the case, it would appear to be a cynical ploy by the pro teams to ensure they all got in the limelight by pre-picking the winning team for each group. Regardless of the end result this would be a most unprofessional move by the pro teams, as it would fly in the face of proper competitive play. Equally I was swayed by the argument that the final would only focus on two teams, and they would have to give a good show to impress Wizzo, so I voted in favour of restarting the tournament.

2) This first problem was all besides the point. Even with the 6 best teams going through, the admins would still have to fiddle the results to include another 2 \'runner up\' teams from the 6 groups in order to fill out the numbers in the elimination to 8.
This led to the chief admin (whose name I didn\'t catch) deciding to \'seed\' the teams by their performance in the group stages by the number of rounds won. The result was that when two high-skilled clans played in the group stages their matches were close and the difference between rounds were smaller than the difference between rounds elsewhere.
Am I right in saying this? I think that this is the reason that the cows did not go through to the winners bracket.

The only way it would have worked, short of deliberately sabotaging the groups to favour the best teams, would be to play another group stage where teams would be shuffled again to reduce the chance of the best teams coming up against each other again, and creating a scoring system for wins, losses and draws, that could be totalled from first &#38; second group stages to create a top 8 of teams to go through to elimination.
The only other solution would have been to take the top 2 teams from each group and then play a triple elimination between 12 teams, which is uneccesarily complex and would have taken up more time.

Either way, apologies for sitting there and not being more direct with the admins. I ended up being in the background for most of the time I was there, and didn\'t really follow the admin\'s solution. They received a list of seedings from team leaders (I hope they went to X-man as I asked), put them down, and then I left. I guess they still didn\'t know what to do once I had gone, since they appeared to have changed their minds later on.

At the end of the day, Wizzo was impressed enough to give TF2 cash at i38, and tapley will do an ace job at admining the tournament.

N/B: When explaining my method I accidentally said there were 3 teams a group, instead of 4. Doesn\'t make much difference but I\'m sure my crap maths confused people.
N/B2: Wordy post is wordy.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:09:08 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title>Reply to &#8220;Season 4 Spaces&#8221;</title>
        <link>http://etf2l.org/forum/league/topic-1358/page-1/?recent=13294#post=12857</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Bleh, we\'ve had better days :p

Anyway, I found out my mate hadn\'t put in the skill level. If you want something done...

However we\'re in the league and looking forward to it. Cheers guys.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:59:29 +0100</pubDate>
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        <title>New topic: &#8220;Season 4 Spaces&#8221;</title>
        <link>http://etf2l.org/forum/league/topic-1358/page-1/?recent=13294#post=12399</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I\'m posting to ask what the chances are of expanding the spaces for Season 4.

BLITZ applied to Season 3 and didn\'t get in. We were on the waiting list, and eventually told to sign up for Season 4.

Since then we\'ve been part of ED Season 3 (okay, it might be ED but we still played 100% of our matches), signed up for ETF2L 4th Cup (got knocked out by an excellent team) and then played the Highlander matches to the Quarter Finals.

We put together a team of 9 players each week to help make one of ETF2L\'s most fun tournaments a success, and we aren\'t given a place in the 4th Season? Is there anything we need to prove that we\'re more than deserving of a space in the league, besides being ready and waiting for 5 months?

To say we\'re dissappointed is more than an understatement. I hope ETF2L can accomodate us at least this once.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:51:43 +0100</pubDate>
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