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by icycalm » 31 Aug 2014 15:08
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by icycalm » 02 Sep 2014 18:22
mot9001 wrote:If you want a real challenge you shouldnt kick me out of your lobbys lol, i actually only wanted to talk yesterday but you could have asked me to play and i might have done that.
I wrote:First of all, I don't think I saw you yesterday, but I only played one match. My teammates played several of them, so you might have seen them. But my teammates don't know any of the other players because they don't read the forum, and we kick randoms out of lobbies all the time when a lobby is full and a teammate of ours is trying to join it. If I was online I would have recognized you and we would have talked and played together. Next time, dude! (But it would also help if you use your clan tag, because without it you look like a random to someone who doesn't read the forum.)
by icycalm » 04 Sep 2014 16:09
I wrote:Clan Challenges (Challenge #1, Sep 6, 18:00 UTC, The Cult vs ???)
To celebrate the game's imminent release, and also to promote clan creation and clan play (which I believe is the best way to enjoy PA), I'd like to try instituting a new tradition which I will call Clan Challenges. On Saturday the 6th of September at 18:00 UTC, Clan Challenge #1 will take place, between my own clan (The Cult), and whichever other clan decides to accept our challenge.
This event is not a tournament or in any way affiliated with a tournament, but a straight-up one-off challenge. To accept our challenge, simply post your acceptance in this thread, which will function on a first-come first-served basis. Ideally it'd be a 5v5 match, but if you have fewer players available we are also willing to play 4v4 or 3v3 (we won't go lower than that, however).
If an established caster (i.e. someone who has made a number of videos already, so we can check his work) is willing to cast it, then let us know by posting in this thread and we'll arrange it.
The idea is to promote clan creation and clan play. My clan is tired of demolishing groups of randoms who -- even though they may have better players among them -- keep losing because they don't know each other, and hence are uncoordinated. I would love nothing more than for this challenge to encourage people to create a clan simply in order to participate in it, and would be just as delighted with facing a brand-new clan as I would be if The Realm or PAG decided to take up our challenge.
This will be a recurring event, and we plan to hold challenges more or less every week (which we will announce in this thread, at first, and on a dedicated site linked off this thread, in due course). If no one formally takes up our challenge, we will still assemble the team on the day and time indicated, in a lobby titled "CULT GAME: EVERYONE WELCOME", and we'll spend several hours taking on all comers. However, considering how unaffiliated players will flood such games, you would be well advised to officially accept our challenge in this thread well ahead of time, so we can set a proper lobby name (e.g. "The Cult vs. Clan X") and a password.
by icycalm » 04 Sep 2014 18:31
I wrote:Thanks to the tireless efforts of Realm member mot9001, my clan is considering reentering the tournament, and Exodus is considering allowing us to do so. The problem remains the color choices, on which Exodus is not willing to budge. In view of that fact, I am asking each clan individually whether they would agree to accommodate us on this matter, before signing up my clan to the tournament again. Here are the allowed color combinations:
orange vs. light blue
green vs. purple
white vs. pink
We would like to use white in all our matches, but we would also be willing to go for light blue in a pinch, in those cases where our opponents would prefer to not use pink. The way I understand it -- and correct me if I am wrong -- PAG and The Realm are okay with this. Is everyone else okay with it too?
by icycalm » 06 Sep 2014 07:02
by icycalm » 06 Sep 2014 15:45
burntcustard wrote:The Realm accepts this challenge (sorry for being last minute!), and will have at least 4 people around for a 4v4 when this starts.
We'd like to do a best of 3 set of games, you guys can chose the first system, and then the team that lost the previous game chooses the second and third systems?
We might also be able to get WPMarshal to cast, gotta do some poking...
by icycalm » 06 Sep 2014 21:49
by icycalm » 07 Sep 2014 16:02
I wrote:One thing this thread has helped me understand so far is the distinction between what people in the esports community call "competitive" and "casual" players. Competitive players follow the metagame and casuals don't. So by this distinction, I and all my clan members are indeed casual players. Which makes me wonder if I really have any business joining that Clan Wars tournament after all...
by Qpo » 07 Sep 2014 18:23
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