by james- » Tue Jul 05, 2011 3:32 pm
I love that this community is still trying to bring more leagues, new players, and lans together. But after a while you have to stop, take a look around, and be realistic.
Dod is an old game. You're not going to attract new players, the best luck you're going to have is converting casual pubbers into pub clan players. Even then once they get into the leagues, better teams sandbag into the lower levels and stomp the shit out of these pubbers while spamming voice_areaclear.
The tournament idea is cool, but I don't see it working unless you spread the games out, most likely on a weekly schedule. (which just makes it another league) Teams don't even show up to TPG matches half the time, so to expect several teams to have 6 players on over a 2-3 day period to compete for bragging rights...
Focus on what we have. Work on making TPG better, get some good admins who are not going to be biased and still have the time to invest in a league. Encourage the new players, they're the only hope this community has for staying afloat. This community has never been supportive of new members, but at this point in time, you guys need to be teaching them how to play and get better. Take out the sand baggers, and merge the SA teams with equal skill into the lower division so they can get some real practice and have fun.
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I love that this community is still trying to bring more leagues, new players, and lans together. But after a while you have to stop, take a look around, and be realistic.
Dod is an old game. You're not going to attract new players, the best luck you're going to have is converting casual pubbers into pub clan players. Even then once they get into the leagues, better teams sandbag into the lower levels and stomp the shit out of these pubbers while spamming voice_areaclear.
The tournament idea is cool, but I don't see it working unless you spread the games out, most likely on a weekly schedule. (which just makes it another league) Teams don't even show up to TPG matches half the time, so to expect several teams to have 6 players on over a 2-3 day period to compete for bragging rights...
Focus on what we have. Work on making TPG better, get some good admins who are not going to be biased and still have the time to invest in a league. Encourage the new players, they're the only hope this community has for staying afloat. This community has never been supportive of new members, but at this point in time, you guys need to be teaching them how to play and get better. Take out the sand baggers, and merge the SA teams with equal skill into the lower division so they can get some real practice and have fun.