Staff Changes, ETF2L Recruiting

Staff Changes

We’re glad to announce that Menty has completed his trial and is now a part of the staff as a League Admin.

However, with one new addition joining the ranks we have to sadly announce two people leaving, these being deathyy and Steve!. We thank for their contributions to ETF2L and we wish both of them well in all of their future aspirations.

ETF2L Recruiting

With the staff changes being said, we’re also glad to take in more applications as well to the admin team.

Newswriter

We are still looking for a newswriter to handle 6v6 newsposts. Users that have already attempted applying can always re-apply. Please don’t be intimidated to apply, it’s a position that you can really only improve on with real experience. For some additional information you can look at the Join us! page. When writing an application send an email to [email protected], and make sure that the subject is proper like “Newswriter Application”, with the following information:

• Name
• ETF2L profile link
• Country of residence
• Age
• Previous experience (optional)
• Special skills or contacts that may help the league (optional)
• Available free time: how often would you be able to look into writing newsposts? What other commitments may affect your availability?

League Admin

Among other things league admins take admin requests on IRC, deal with match conflicts, handle the setting of Default Dates and the verification of played matches. They also create and oversee cups.

With the change to the swiss system setting Default Dates does not create as much of a task as it used to do, since a notable portion of it is now automated. It is basically a non-factor in the regular season. On the other hand dealing with match conflicts has become a task that has to be adressed in a more timely fashion. Additionally providing support during match times has grown in importance, therefore we cannot really employ admins who have team commitments every four to five times per week (especially but not limited to Thursdays). Same goes for creating and overseeing cups. It is always easier said than done, having the idea and setting up a cup is only a small part of actually running a cup. Being there when the cup is under way, providing match support, adressing conflicts, lending out servers, seeding further rounds, verifying finished matches and many more tasks have to be handled, while possibly over 100 matches are going on simultaneously, you may not be alone, but you will be part of it.

Also something we want to adress is our interest in self-managed admins, we will not take you by the hand and lead you through everything there is to do. YOU have to show interest, YOU have to ask what you can do, YOU have to prove you really want to be an admin. There are plenty of admins around almost all the time, who are happy to help you and show you the ropes, but at some point routines will have to be dealt with without someone telling you that they need to be done. At the same time, communicating with other admins is very important, to avoid certain tasks being done twice, conflicting results in decisions or even decisions overwriting previous ones.

If you are interested in supporting the administrative backbone for the league, you should also check out the details on the respective application page, this will tell you which information we need from you at the very least. With an emphasis on THE VERY LEAST, most applications that cover only the very basics will not go very far. Additionally this general page may provide you with some more information.

If you are interested in any of the roles on the Staff mentioned above, send an email to [email protected] with the following information:

• Name
• ETF2L profile link
• Country of residence
• Age
• Previous experience (optional)
• Special skills or contacts that may help the league (optional)
• Available free time