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Quoted from Rinta

btw can we maybe have this topic sticky?
(and this – http://etf2l.org/forum/community/topic-15580/?recent=418396 – not sticky)

Done. Once or if pixelpickup is back, I will sticky it again.

Some things you might want to know guys.
Those of you who were active in the last few days, surely noticed we haven’t played a lot of pickups. Mostly due to the lack of the proper game and mumble server. But now we are back in business with our new sponsor – Lethal-Zone(http://lethal-zone.eu).
Also, we’ve added some new features to the bot, so go and check it out at http://pickups.tf!

Quoted from SabaSaba

Is the bot dead for good?

February 25th 2013

[11:05] Boyakaah: Q-Ball: should we even continue with this? Lets shut it down?
[11:06] Q-Ball: yeah its dead
[11:06] Q-Ball: let them do whatever they want
[11:06] Q-Ball: was a nice try tho :)
[11:06] Q-Ball: could’ve gone far better
[11:07] Booyakah: yeah it was fun a while :)
[11:07] Q-Ball: will you be able to make a post at etf2l?
[11:07] Q-Ball:so people wont come whining or something

Enjoy your Lokalen.

??? but highlander is noob game mode, what do you mean with “absence of good players”?

Quoted from fraac

This works if Crafz does a website for it and I bring in the people. Doesn’t work otherwise.

I talked to crafz already the possibility of implementing a HL feature to the existing pickup site.

Let’s just say he doesn’t really fancy HL, but it would definitly fill a huge gap in the scene and could potentialy become even more popular as the main pickup site in EU

Quoted from fraac

This works if Crafz does a website for it and I bring in the people. Doesn’t work otherwise.

Out of interest Fraac, how does your NLPG Mumble channel fare with Highlander pickups? I believe I’ve seen rooms for each class on there.

It’s unfortunate to see this pickup channel being discontinued, but I can’t say I am that surprised really. Apart from its initial launch, I’ve barely seen any promotion for it whatsoever. I know there’s a front end website so people can connect to the IRC channel via web chat, but a couple threads on ETF2L/TF.TV/UGC buried in the middle of many others is insufficient to sustain player numbers. Although I think Skyride’s opinion on who the intended target audience was for this pickup channel was obviously biased (as he likes to remind us so much about promotion of highlander), he was right.

The impression I got is that it’s supposed to be for experienced highlander players, but new players are also welcome. The reality is that if you want these new players to join then you have to engage them in some way – even something as little as reaching out to TF2 communities with player bases who either don’t play highlander/6v6, or have in some form in the past (Highlander Community Challenge) would help in spreading the word. Perhaps asking ETF2L if you could have a banner in the Sponsors section would’ve went some way towards promotion as they did it for Pixel Pickup in the past, but that bot is now dead so the benefits are questionable :)

Anyway, big credit to Q Ball and the other guys involved in making this. It’s always good to see people actually implementing ideas and not just suggesting them.

Quoted from Q-Ball

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41623885/images/pickup_preview.png

gud jub, exactly what I was bugging you for :p