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Quoted from Popcorp

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1 night cup and Pre-Seasons are different things
1 Night cups need to be played at specific day and time, while Pre-Season week can be played at any time but before Week 1. Pre-Season week is basically just to give a feedback to mapmaker(s), you’re not losing anything from adding Week 0, you just provide a huge support to Community Contributors (Mapmakers), ofc that doesn’t mean all teams going to play Week 0, but there will be teams that are going to play Pre-Season.

There are only benefits from adding a Pre-Season and no drawbacks

Why isn’t there any benefit from doing the same on 1day cups then? Its the same thing and having in account the site structure it makes even more sense since we can run tiered cups with different db entries, which have achievements/medals associated with them and a different page/db entry than the season page.

Actually if you want feedback on a new map a experimental 1 day cup for a new map makes much more sense than a completely pointless and useless preseason game no ones gonna care about.

Quoted from Fuxx

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BECAUSE ETF2L ADMIN TEAM CLEARLY GIVES A FLYING FUCK ABOUT THOSE EXPERIMENTAL 1 DAY CUPS AND DON’T JUST IGNORE SHIT THEN RAM A FUCKING USELESS MAP NO ONE CARES ABOUT AND ISN’T EVEN FINISHED INTO THE POOL

AND THEN THEY KEEP IT ANYWAY DESPITE MASSIVE PROTEST AGAINST IT

FUCK

Completely and utterly wrong

Case in point

Process Experimental Cup
http://etf2l.org/etf2l/archives/142/0/
Map was introduced the following season after overwhelming positive feedback (we paved the way for process, even playing it officially before the americans)

Logjam Experimental Cup
http://etf2l.org/etf2l/archives/277/0/
Map was introduced the following season after majority positive feedback and lot of high level players feedback (we paved the way for logjam, even playing it officially before the americans)

Metalworks Experimental Cup
http://etf2l.org/etf2l/archives/228/0/
Map was introduced the following season after reasonable positive feedback, after 1 season the feedback wasn’t so good and the map was removed

Sunshine Experimental Cup
http://etf2l.org/etf2l/archives/251/0/
Map was not introduced the following season, feedback was mixed.

enough?

Quoted from Casino

Kaneco I think Fuxx was referring to koth_reservoir being in the HL map pool but I could be wrong. Either way there was no experimental cup for that map iirc and it’s just been put in there despite the fact it has been getting negative feedback.

I personally haven’t played or even seen the map though so I can’t comment on the map’s quality itself

Rofl I should have realized only hl discussions would get to this level of autism

Well, one day cups and experimental cups are run by admins when they have the time, I reckon they have a lot more 6v6 admins than they do HL so here’s a good option: http://etf2l.org/etf2l/jobs/

Help instead of complaining.

KEEP GRANARY IN THE MAP POOL