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Quoted from san alex

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Because olurist genuinely believed that only the powerful earned medals.

I don’t really think you can take anything Olurist said seriously.

Quoted from Hildreth

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Don’t see you volunteering to run one, youngling.

  well im not an admin or an influent person in EU community so i can’t do one tournament. i needed to apply for admin in etf2l or talk to kaneco to host one for comp.tf but he is too  busy with collegue

Quoted from ducky

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First off,it’s kind of pointless to do cups mid-season.
People are still competing in S19 (don’t forget about the various playoffs for the teams placing first in their group), S7 has just started.
That’s why the only reasonable option is to host cups during the off-season,when nobody is competing elsewhere (ignoring participation in other leagues ofc).
Secondly,as already mentioned, it really is a lot of effort.
There’s no magic button that initiates a cup. Everything has to be done manually.
Writing several newsposts,constructing a custom ruleset for that specific cup, creating and editing the competition to suit our purposes,pooling and assigning teams to similarly skilled groups,generating fixtures for every group (and later those groups’ finals),overseeing the cup (which includes but is not limited to support on IRC,providing servers for matches,handling match conflicts ASAP,defaulting/nullifying/coinflipping unplayed and/or unsubmitted matches etc.) and distributing prizes afterwards are amongst the things that we have to do.
It requires a lot of planning and communication within the staff.
Who’s doing what? Are enough admins available and willing to help during the cup?
Generally the longer a cup goes the more effort it takes,which is why TAAHD-cups are more common than longer projects.
The reason why it appears as though ETF2L didn’t host “mini-events” in a long time is such a long project: The HLO. One of the,if not the, longest cup in ETF2L history.
It left no room for other events during the off-season,outside of the logjam cup that we managed to squeeze in before S19 hit the deck.
Not to mention that any attempts at getting feedback from the community for ideas on how to host a cup are vastly ignored.
Just look at this for example: http://etf2l.org/forum/feedback/topic-28794/
~150 votes on an official poll in a league where we have around 3000 active users really begs the question: Do people even care?
The funny thing is that if it wasn’t for medical/availability problems on the part of our staff we would’ve still hosted that cup

its not that pointless to do mid season cups, it actually can boost people to be more interested in competitive! a large amount of teams in etf2l lose because they don’t train with their teams or get default wins because they lose interest since they are being raped or getting ties all the time. doing cups can improve the confidence most people don’t have to try and talk to stronger players they played against and ask for advices. that happened to me, i was getting raped in a bball cup hosted by etf2l and i asked Kalho for advices on bball, late ri started mge with him and stronger players in the portuguese community.

i understand it requires a lot of effort but thats the burden of being and admin in a league. admin is not banning cheaters and arrange the seasons, and if the “excuse” (don’t get flamed because im not accusing anybody) is “it requires a lot of effort” you should consider getting a temporary staff willing to work for you.

if people don’t care, make them care, give them a reason to play this game instead of the general season and one night cups with new maps

@san alex – sunshine was a trial cup for the people get used to the map and prem get new strategies for the map teamfortresstv casters said themselfs… stop acting like a 12 year old just because its me try to solve the problem like the rest of the guys in this post are trying to do (i guess?)

How about bringing the ladder system back? I know it wasn’t that popular but might be worth taking a shot again

Fair enough!