We're moving the deadline up a week.

how many teams do we have signed up?

I'll be livestreaming tomorrow and I'll talk about it. Lolowut's Coffee Break is coming back ;)

Tease

Lolowut's Coffee Breaks!!! <3

when it will be the livestream?

http://www.twitch.tv/wargaminglive <-- will be live doing a show in about 10 minutes.

Anyone want to form the ultimate team of people who are gonna get murdered? PM me lol.

Deadline is pushed back another week. Stop asking how many I have signed up, I've said multiple times 4 teams for both regions atm. :/

I expected way more interest in this. Is the RT portion putting people off? Or something else?

As did I, but I don't know what's bothering people. I think it's that a lot aren't even aware it's happening, or can't be bothered to sign up. There's scores of people who have told me they'll submit a team, thusfar have not.

I think a big problem is the total disarray of the forums. EVERYTHING gets buried on here. I can see things easily because I am using that ignore thread filter. But when I log on at home these forums still look like a disaster and I cannot find anything.

The RT part could be a factor though. I know a few people on my team probably won't be able to do it. And if it were not for the RT portion, we'd simply have 3 people, not 6. If you eliminated RT, you'd probably have a lot more teams because you wouldn't need all the alternates.

I'm not saying that is what SHOULD be done, I get the RT aspect of it. But that is a big part IMO.

You know, the initial rt argument was the length of the event and the length of the event is dependent upon the number of participants. It's not too late to reconsider full md if that'd bring at least a few more teams.

Food for thought

This respects vacations, right? If so, then no team would need more than 3 players and we'd probably have almost double the teams.

Is there a way we can play more games at once and not have RT? I'm good with that to get it done faster.

Vacations aren't honoured, no.

well, those two things are the reason why we have a low amount of teams.

If we ever got a setting to allow for a teammate to take over for boot, then we'd get a solution to vacations.

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@Szeweningen: The argument of RT is not only length of the event, it's also streamability. I want to be able to have consistent games to cover twice a week. Also if we make it MD, we'll get more teams then the series will last even longer, to the point I wouldn't be able to control the event to be finished within a year. (Take Clan League for example. Great event, lasts almost an entire year sometimes). Sure we could do vacations off, but with the volumes of games and the fact some people will prefer to take their full 3 days, a 10-turn game turns into a 30-day game. Even if I started all the games at the beginning of the event, the load would be too heavy, and there's still no guarantee that a game won't last 18 turns, which is almost 2 months. I cannot stream consistently like that.

I really do need it RT for pacing and to be able to stream. If we want competitive events like this streamed, then we're going to need more players willing to play RT.

@Chris: Alternates are used for almost every competitively streamed team game, so even if all 6 of you could play RT on the days described, you deserve the right to switch out players. It's the same for sports. Maybe Warlight isn't ready for this kind of an event, but just counting from the top clans (those in A) we have this many active competitive players: ~126. These are also people who are logged in, today. That's 21 teams if all take 6 people in. We're not even counting those who are semi-competitive who could actually play in this series and do well. (3 teams in my mailbox are not part of what we'd consider top competitive clans. Infact one is from a clan we consider to be trolls, but they seem to be more serious members from it.)

No one from GG has joined, from Lynx we have 1 alternate, none from warlighters/french, 1 from AHoL, and 1 from blitz so far. These guys have all played the template ;/. Idk what's really stopping them.

I think the timing of the event is odd. It seems strange to have it now, as opposed to wait for summer break.

Also when the games are played is offputing.

(Refresher)

"Game 1 will be played on Tuesday @ 17:00 GMT-8 for North America region and 17:00 GMT for Europe region. Game 2 will be played on Thursday at the same times. Broadcasts will be on Wednesday and Friday @ 12:00 GMT - 6. "

The timing simply don't fit. I would imagine very few can be home at 5 on a weekday (+/- a few hours for some), and if they can the inconvenience is not worth it. (Why place it in the middle of dinner/family time for many timesones?)

Now ofc finding a (semi) global time is difficult. If it was up to me I would have it on Saturdays, around lunch time. But that is just speaking for me, no clue if this applies to more people. And I would also reduce it to 1 RT game a week.

I put it on weekends, and people will complain they have activities scheduled for the weekends. The times I placed it at I specifically asked people constantly for about a week, they told me they'd be willing to play after getting off work. Shall I re-ask everyone?

Maybe conduct a poll? Since Fizzer's involved in supporting this, maybe it could be an official poll where you can only vote once per account?