BlackEagle

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Congrats everyone! All very well deserved!

Merry Xmas fam

If there is one thing I know how to do it's how to bump posts in a legendary way. Appreciate the legendary rank!

My time has finally come. I just recently returned from a very long business trip in which I received the opportunity of a life time in the company that I am currently in. I stepped down from CE (or CA, whatever it is now) last summer once I started my new job because I knew I just wouldn't be around nearly as much as I used to be. I finally had the opportunity to come back in the last couple months but with work and receiving this opportunity I simply just don't have the time to play and be around anymore like I used to. As a result, I will be hanging up my dualies and finally stepping away. I may stop in from time to time but I really don't expect to play much, if at all going forward. I really appreciate all the times I have had in this community and it has been a great part of my life for several years now. There are way too many people that I have met along the way to thank. I think most of you know who you are anyways! I am fortunate enough to have been through this community's lowest and highest points and met some awesome people along the way. So to all my dads in the community, thank you for all the awesome times and I look forward to possibly scanning through the forums at some point in the future to see where this place stands. But for now I will be cashing in my SG 401k that was offered to me as a CE and be joining the previously retired SG members by hitting the beach and the links. Sincerely, Beagle xd (p.s. I never did find the perfect set of colored dualies, but i'll keep my head down in case I come across the perfect set in the future)

Congrats!

Congrats!!

This one is probably 10x better than that shitty CS:S max security map.

Congrats! Except Retro........... just kidding congrats to you too xd

Good luck with everything!! It's been good playing with you for all these years!

Not gonna lie, it was impossible to decide so I had to use a randomizer...

Congrats!

My vote can be purchased for stattrak dualies.

It would be impossible to set times for matches because as soon as we do that people would drop out because some people work on those days and have other personal things. Not to mention the time zone issues. So we couldn't simply say Team A plays at this time if half their team works or is in another time zone. We had 40+ people signed up, there is no way we could figure out who could play when. Which is exactly why we said the captains should talk to their teams and find out the best times for them. Seems pretty simple for me. They find out 5-7 people's best time and schedule from there. Versus us having to ask 40+ people when is best for them. As for subbing I thought the rules were very simple. You can have subs but both captains must agree and the subs couldn't be from other teams. That's it. Pretty simple. A couple of people had restrictions on them that they knew personally and those were going to be enforced during the tournament. This was obviously taken too literally when people started to run globals together for some reason. I thought common sense would be in play but people like to stretch it. I will take 100% blame for this though for not making it clear to the captains from the beginning. It should have been placed in the rules from the beginning and that was on me. The round Robin was for seeding instead of randomly drawing teams for slots. We wanted 10 games to make it easier and to prevent tie breakers having to be designed. The point was also to get to know your team better and not go into a tournament blind with people you've never even met before. The tournament was going to be different but we obviously never made it that far and therefore those rules were never posted.

Honestly don't apologize to me. The funny thing is that we gave the captains so much freedom to not only schedule their own matches but to feel free to contact us with issues. With the exception of my own team members I never heard one thing from anyone until now. So it's great and all that you guys have these ideas and issues but there really isn't anyone to blame but the captains themselves. Could we have done things better? Sure. I'm not saying that but when I say that BOTH CAPTAINS HAVE TO AGREE TO SUBS like 10 times and yet people still bitch about the situation don't apologize to us. As for the rushing into the scrim tournament I have to kinda laugh at that. We set this up for like a month and people kept asking "when are we gonna start?" "is this even really going to happen?". The thread was open for suggestions for like 2 weeks and nobody really provided a ton of feedback except on how to structure teams. Once again we were open to any suggestions. I tried to make the round robin fun by allowing other subs that joined late but restricting them for the actual tournament, yet people complained about subs when all you had to do was just say no they couldn't play. What's apparent is that it seems to be my team, which I stepped away from mainly after a few days because I knew that during June I was going be slammed at work, which I was. Now my computer is broken so I have been away for a few days because of that while I wait on the parts to come in. But from what I see my team lacked significant communication. In fact I only heard from about 2 of them about matches and the one I did show up we somehow got booted off and my other teammates didn't even know I was coming even though I told a member that I was. Yeah, people are busy and it's hard to schedule matches but when we give you 2 WEEKS to play 2 maps (less then 2 hours of your time) and yet only 1 set of matches gets completed then I don't know what to tell you guys. We didn't give you specific times because of time zone issues and peoples personel schedules. In fact we were open to adjusting anything for you guys, yet I have to come on here and see people listing out complaints of things that the captains should be taking care of themselves. There was also a thread about racism in scrim: http://www.steam-gamers.net/forum/showthread.php?t=61479 in which I thought it was pretty clear that racism wasn't allowed. Obviously if you want it to stop then just report them and they'll be banned. I can't sit around and babysit the scrim server looking for racism when 90% of the actual participants are admins themselves or clearly know that it isn't allowed in any SG server with the exception of TS. As for the start date, again nobody approached us before this began saying please start it later on. So saying that we "rushed it" and should have started later would have been great to know BEFORE we began. Not to mention that we gave a weeks time on a regular basis and on one occassion we gave 2 weeks to complete matches. That's half a month for those keeping track at home, which to me is a substantial amount of time and in no way can I see that as "rushed." Spiked created a couple reminders and even I made a post about getting matches in this week and it was laughed off but I knew that getting matches in might be a struggle sometimes. So anyways, yes this wasn't going to be perfect, nor did I ever expect it to. I knew there were going to be issues and there clearly are but the issues outlined are out of my control. As I said from the beginning this isn't ESEA yet people still treated it as such. I can't control latency, I'm not in charge of the server, I can't babysit racist people in the server, I can't make your teammtes attend matches, etc. But what I can do is fix problems that you approach Spiked or myself with. We always left the opportunity open yet nobody seemed to seize it until a group mentality was created the last couple of days with people just dropping out and comlpaining behind closed doors. Maybe you guys approached Spiked and I just didn't know but I rarely heard much from anyone. Just to reiterate: Captains should have been in charge of scheduling which was left wide open for obvious reasons, players using racism should be banned and warned because every team has at least 1 admin that knows how to make a complaint, and captains were in charge of agreeing to substitutions and matches and such. I really don't know how many more times I could have said all that but apparently it wasn't enough. So from this point on I'm going to remove myself from this scrim event in its entirety. Between the constant bitching about substitutions and people joining late to the scheduling issues that were left wide open for ease of the teams it really just isn't worth it anymore. Honestly, Spiked put a hell of a lot more effort into this than me and I really apologize to him for this not turning out. People really took for granted the amount of work he put in to this and its a shame. So @SpikedRocker, thank you for the work you've done with this, even though we didn't seem to make it too far it wouldn't have reached this point without your contributions.

Gotta keep you guys in line! But if the matches are mostly played on the weekends, which has been the case thus far, then they won't be due until Sunday evening to give you the entire weekend to play. Also, I can't stress enough posting the time of your matches to prevent overlapping matches like last week. That was just a giant mess and confusion. It's not a requirement but to help everyone out and to reserve specific times it would be helpful!

Week 3 matches are due soon. Please try get these done.

Happy Father's Day @Motox #Dadinator

The captains have been PMed with new information but I might as well put it up here for everyone to see the changes we have made. 1. This isn't a change but to clarify yet again that BOTH CAPTAINS MUST AGREE TO SUBS. You can't just substitute whomever you want when you want. Both captains have to agree to the changes. Also, you MUST use the players actually on your roster first before using outsiders. Only if you cannot find anyone on your team to play then you can use subs. It would also be wise to inform the other captain of what rank that player is. I don't know how you guys could possibly think this would be OK to play with. Yes, I said he could be a sub but I didn't mean to run 2 globals together. I thought that would be pretty logical but I guess not. Finally, do not have subs from members of another team. 2. Each team is required to play 2 matches against another team a week. Doesn't matter who you play just play 2 maps against a team a week for a total of 10 matches. But don't play the same team, you have to play 2 maps against each team for a total of 10 maps. This is so it'll be easier to schedule and so we can move forward closer to the tournament instead of waiting until the last minute and having everyone wanting to play at the same time. 3. Nobody should ever join the server except the 10 players unless approved by either Spiked or myself. We know people want to watch and we are working on making that happen for the tournament if not sooner. But again, under no circumstance should there be anyone in spectate unless you are informed otherwise by either Spiked or myself. But I don't even know why we would have someone in there so this is something you shouldn't even really have to worry about. If there are any other questions let us know.

Please get these scheduled ASAP so we can keep this moving along!

As I stated earlier, the round robin is a little more lenient so if both captains are OK with you subbing then you can play, but both must agree. However, you won't be able to participate in the tournament.

Get well soon!

Nice, week 1 is complete way ahead of schedule. Feel free to start your next set of matches.

In regards to subs: There are a couple restrictions on players that both the captains and players know for players that had joined late. For the round robin phase I am going to be a little more lenient in that if you are really struggling to find 5 you may add that person in only if it is OK with the other team. The round robin is really just a way to get comfortable with your team and to design the seedings in the tournament. However, during the tournament phase these subs will not be allowed. So I know Spartan played the other day as a fill in and I'm fine with that as long as both teams are okay with it, because again this is all in good fun. But I would at least like to see the tournament get a little more competitive. If there are any questions on this let me know and we will work something out! So far we have been moving pretty quickly which is great and we could even end up finishing this round robin phase pretty quickly if that's what everyone wants.

Congrats!!