TF2 tournement - Clan interest test

[AcidReniX]

This is just a small test of mine in an attempt to plan an epic TF2 tournement at i34. This is all theoretical and there is no word of sponsorship or anything for a TF2 tournement at this time, but let's just do a small test here...

IF the TF2 tournement had a prize fund of say... £3000, would your clan attend the event?

The idea behind this post, is if we can get enough clans from the UK and maybe across Europe to commit to saying they will attend the event (if there is a decent prize fund)... a decent prize fund might be posible (sponsors would be more interested).

So now, reply with your clan name / any other information if you would realistically attend a UK LAN with a prize fund of 3k. If not, what would the prize fund need to be before you would consider attending (again, be realistic).

I'll start with a clan list of teams I'm pretty certain would attend reguardless, and see if we can build on that. Ideally i'd say at least 32 teams would be a good start to this idea.

You can add a reply here or PM me on Quakenet IRC (TLR|Arx) when I'm online obviously.


Clan List:
Team count: 13
TLR - The last resort
WotR - Weapons of the Rebellion
St*rs - Celebrity gaming with new aliases.
Anim - Animate Gaming
4K - 4Kings *(maybe TUP only, not sure)
Sir - Knights
Fracture - Clan Fracture *(Turn up and play only)
No Daddy! - No Daddy Not The Cupboard!
[SAS] - SAS
CantFitMyN - Cant Fit My Name In
HwA - HwA - *(Turn up and play only)
Jolt - Jolt admins
CiMH - Censored in my hair
...

[RikkiTikkiTavi]

It's St*rs now, not [CG]!

Well, more like *, **, ***, ****, *****, ******, *******, ********* and so on :p

[AcidReniX]

fixed ;p

[RikkiTikkiTavi]

Haha :p

[Anim]

Im fairly sure you'd get 4K attending aswell, youre gonna have to spread this far and wide though as i doubt many of the decent tf2 teams are going to be keeping an eye on this forum...

[sirmick]

I really hope to see my lads at i34 taking part. Animate Gaming will be attending for sure in other games also. But lets hope this TF2 tourney takes off!

[Towneh]

Whilst on this subject, any possibility of MPUK getting some sponsorship from Valve at all, or if they can offer some sort of LAN event support? I'm sure it would be cool to have someone from valve at i34 :)

[AcidReniX]

I believe valve won't sponsor a LAN personally because of some bias issues (if they sponsor one they feel they have to sponsor them all) or something like that, but what i think valve do is if people approach them for sponsorship, they speak to their affiliates to try to get something for the event, rather than them doing it personally.

[Anim]

Thats pretty much spot on, Rikki has more details of that situation but maybe with some advance warning we could arrange something before the signups close for i34 ;) gogo email gabe!

[DRz_joske]

Alot more 'top' clans should be attending i34. Meaning for a better final and tournament overall. Looking w/ it.

[TomM]

top clans will attend - unless you do something crazy like - sellout an event with a low prize fund and THEN get a big pool after the tickets have gone ;)

[AcidReniX]

lolz

[AphexTwin]

Indeed!

4K 100% if the prize pool is better then 200 quid and doesnt get changed 2-3 weeks prior to lan :p

[eCK|DiCe]

No Daddy! will be there again :)

[Wlv]

Hopefully with the 15,000 people space, more sponsers will be interested to start with :)...

Really hope more .eu clans make the travel to come over, would like to meet a lot of them and play vs them :D

[liv3d]

Only 2000 BYOC spaces...

[oxy]

lol where did you get 15,000 from :D

[Towneh]

He's talking about "LAN traffic", potentially you can have upto 15k people who pass through the stands throughout the weekend as the events get more "exhibition" orientated.

[Wlv]

Exactly what Towneh said, whilst there are only 2k BYOC spaces, it said quite clearly on the i34 vid and on the site that the expected "traffic" will be huge!

Not sure how many TUP spaces are avail too, baring in mind, the majority of the "big name" tf2 teams are based around europe..

[AcidReniX]

It's true, would they be able to play TUP for TF2? I'd imagine so right?

[midas]

[SAS] have 6 TF2 players signed up and paid. That will be at least double by the event

[liv3d]

It's true, would they be able to play TUP for TF2? I'd imagine so right?

We didn't have TUP for i33, but we did have TUP for i32, so I really don't know.

[eCK|DiCe]

No Daddy! clan name "No Daddy Not The Cupboard!" btw ;) just me being anal :P

[appe]

I can tell you that Fracture will only be able to participate if TUP is available. Bringing our computers all the way from scandinavia is out of the question.

[Oggy]

Anim will be going already looking at flights for epo not sure if coinz and haunter can come but we'll have a team there for sure afaik me lit abom grim lecoste epo for shizzle m nizzle!

[Anim]

Werd, lets bounce!

[{AWOL}Assassin]

AWOL Gaming is looking at fielding a team for TF2 at i34

[Reaper]

No Daddy! clan name "No Daddy Not The Cupboard!" btw ;) just me being anal :P

No Daddy Not The Fortress you spoon :p

[Kloopy]

CantFitMyN will be back for another 49-0 owning. But just a word of warning, i33 was a hustle, we'll be showing our true skill at i34.

:)

[Yeggstry]

CantFitMyN will be back for another 49-0 owning. But just a word of warning, i33 was a hustle, we'll be showing our true skill at i34.

:)

Was just about to post something similar :P You are going to be playing this time, aren't you Kloopy? :)

Any chance of getting the tournie moved to a better/more sociable time than 10am on the last full day?

[Kloopy]

Yes, unless Wizzo springs up with a bunch of i35 free ticket competitions. I can't resist a freebie that I have to work for. ;) Was worth missing i34 TF2 tournament for free i34 entry I think. ;)

[Barney]

Will be looking to enter this if I can get in with a team.

[Luniz`]

HwA clan. TUP only.

[Henners]

The Jolt admins are on our way. I'm leading the advance guard of signing up and paying but they all assure me they will be signing up soon. So put Jolt down - i'm certain I can get them into a team for a tourney. Course we'll lose badly, but then we'll use admin powers to slay everyone else.....

[Anim]

You can only do that if the servers full of ridiculous mods, oh wait jolt admin you said? ;)

[Henners]

Who said anything about the slaying being in game?

[Breath]

Jolt admins at i34... i hope AO is coming along as well ;)

MPUK Admins vs Jolt Admins anyone?

loosers buy the beer? :D

[Henners]

Could well be a distinct possibility breath...

[Blackreign]

Well I reckon [MM] will be back for another go at i34, so you can put us in the pot :)

[KnifeEdge]

Clan List:
Team count: 10
TLR - The last resort
WotR - Weapons of the Rebellion
St*rs - Celebrity gaming with new aliases.
Anim - Animate Gaming
4K - 4Kings *(maybe TUP only, not sure)
Sir - Knights
Fracture - Clan Fracture *(Turn up and play only)
No Daddy! - No Daddy Not The Cupboard!
[SAS] - SAS
CantFitMyN - Cant Fit My Name In

...

I wonder why =|CiMH|= / GTR didnt appear on that star studded list ;)

/irony

Never less we will show up in some form or other to annoying you with our blatent lack of skill

[Shifty3003]

Bump, a lot bigger teams are attending this i34 for TF2, if its going to get announce soon.

[DRz_joske]

Hopefully it will be announced soon, so that teams can organise transport/accomadation/payment etc :]

[PussyHunter]

Well I reckon [MM] will be back for another go at i34, so you can put us in the pot :)

This, however I feel we should rebrand as something like, I don't know, [KASAP] ?

[fishmongeruk]

i might sign up the Cake clan again! and get battered ;D maybe some practice matches vs towneh again eh? =] like i32

[Skilgannon]

Jolt admins at i34... i hope AO is coming along as well ;)

MPUK Admins vs Jolt Admins anyone?

loosers buy the beer? :D

Bring it on!

as long as I get to pick on Parva :P

[Jolt]Skilgannon aka the dreaded Rachael ;)

[Wlv]

The rate at which the seats are selling, I seriously doubt there will be many big name teams coming over from other countries to play. :( Unless the comp gets announced like soon :P

[AcidReniX]

Yea, i'm pretty much scrapping this thread, because if anything does happen, it will be the same situation as the last event. A sponsor might jump in but only after the event has sold out so none of the big teams will be able to attend anyway.

[Anderson^]

Count AWOL-gaming in i guess as we're all signed up and paid :)

[Anim]

yay for more pointless tournaments!

[PussyHunter]

A tournament doesn't need sponsors/prizes to be fun...

[Anim]

Neither is a tournament fun when there are only 2-3 teams in it that play to a high level, when you know the top3 before it starts its a bit boring ;)

[fishmongeruk]

its the mid table and lower end battles that provide the true epics! or the final like CG did with the pyro rush etc

[Coolshot]

Put down cc// Crackclan :)

[DRz_joske]

Neither is a tournament fun when there are only 2-3 teams in it that play to a high level, when you know the top3 before it starts its a bit boring

Alot of high teams have clarified or discussed about coming if a tournament with a sufficient prize fund is announced. :]

[Anim]

yes as was done the time before, its not a new thing for that to happen...

[AcidReniX]

A tournament doesn't need sponsors/prizes to be fun...

It's not even about the prizes. For example, if the top teams from Europe did come, our team wouldn't win anything, so surely if it was all about the prizes, I wouldn't be pushing for more high skill teams to attend lol.

The point is, we want to play some competitive matches, against teams of our skill level or above. Imagine you are an under 21's football team playing against an 8 year old school team. Do you think it will be fun for either team? Sure it might have fun moments, but it doesn't have the potential for a great (fun) game as a really even one.

In order for a lot of teams to attend, there has to be some kind of prize fund, because it costs teams from Europe a lot more to attend and they would at least want a chance at winning some of that back.

[PussyHunter]

Even if none of the 'top' clans make it, it still looks as though you've got enough interest for a fairly competetive tournament.

As you say, your clan wants opponents better than you to compete with, but the same can be said for my clan & probably most others.

It may turn out that your lot r4pe everyone in site, but you wont know for sure until it happens...

[Anim]

The point is a couple of the teams entering ARE within the group of top teams in europe, with more of a confirmation on prizes the rest would come along too and all of a sudden you have a tournament where you dont know who's going to be in the final before the tournament even starts.

I can fully assure you that unless you spend the next 2-3 months playing against 4k syre tlr etc etc you will be destroyed at LAN.

[PussyHunter]

Some of us still play games for fun, & don't actually care if we win/lose/get destroyed.

Fact remains there is enough interest to get a tourney going.

If we have a good one then maybe potential sponsors will sit up & take notice & we'll see something at i35...

[Wlv]

Hey PussyHunty :) Nice to see more TFC names coming along :D. Not sure if we will be sat in the BYOC area or not yet, but either way, you owe me a beer :)

On a second note, the main reason I personally want more "Big Name" teams to come along to the competition, isn't soley on the games from my player perspective, but more to push the game out there to other competitions.

i.e if you watch the final vs CG and someone else, dispite it being funny, there was no serious competition. In the i33 final, that was slightly more interesting to watch, but it still wasn't the top 2 teams in europe fighting it out....

I feel tf2 certainly deserves a spot up there with CSS / CoD4 in terms of lanning. But hey, who knows? With cdc5 picking the game up, more might follow :)

[liv3d]

i32 Celebrity Gaming vs =CiMH= (http://www.quadv.com/content/view/46/?vs=1a1162ec85b1d21244d7d3ecba5bc65878b73777)
i33 video is here (somewhere) http://i33.multiplay.co.uk/video
I don't have a direct link :(

[Shifty3003]

liv3d give us some news on the tf2 !

[liv3d]

To everyone who keeps asking me*:

I find out about Tournaments the same time as you guys.

* This includes IRC

[fishmongeruk]

we played cimh as the cake clan and our battle was a true epic (we were complete underdogs in that game and we only lost in the final seconds of the game it was the tense) the celeb guys came over to cheer us on for a bit which was fun since I know quite a few of those guys.

The final however was just rofls celeb just broke the rules on finals and instead of being ultra serious made it into a good bit of fun =]

[cc//ZeuZ]

cc// (crackclan) will have TFT team :)

[Shifty3003]

bump

[liv3d]

bump

Dirty, dirty bump :E

[Hudson]

we played cimh as the cake clan and our battle was a true epic (we were complete underdogs in that game and we only lost in the final seconds of the game it was the tense) the celeb guys came over to cheer us on for a bit which was fun since I know quite a few of those guys.

The final however was just rofls celeb just broke the rules on finals and instead of being ultra serious made it into a good bit of fun =]

you wanna enter again fish? im sure we can get another 3 off the 100,000,000,000,000 people goin in our clan ;D

[Beta`]

bump bump, any update on this ?

[AcidReniX]

Well with the event being sold out, there's not much point in a TF2 clan interest test. This thread could be used just to show that we are still waiting on TF tourney info.

[Towneh]

Yeah tourney info would be appreciated by those clans willing to do the TUP option, but need to know well in advance to book flights etc ;p

[Butztanx]

ROY CROPPER clan is interested.

Prepare to get croppered.

[DarkMatter]

tf2 tourney :O I'll be there ;D

[Skilgannon]

ofc you will you are on our team muppet :P

[DarkMatter]

oh yeah xD

[QueKees]

cc// Crack Clan will more than likely enter with a TF2 team :)

[Beta`]

Had some good interest from some EU clans about TUP, again it really does depend on tournament announcements, mainly the prize fund involved! :-)

Mike

[Deman]

There is no TUP ast I34, just the ELITE section. TF2 teams need to look at the PC Gamer LAN which is later in September ran by Multiplay which has £15,000 as prize fund.

[Beta`]

Didn't realise No TUP was confirmed?

The Elite section unfortunately only applies to Source and COD4 I believe?

We are already booked in for i34 as are wotr , it was some of the EU clans which were more interested in TUP.

Thanks for the info.

[liv3d]

Tup = Elite zone

Which is only being run for CoD4 & CSS, The same 2 games as run at i33

[fishmongeruk]

Cake- clan shall be entering :)

[Neophyte]

There will be a TF2 Tournament at i34, I didn't tell you that though ;)

[Shifty3003]

shame theres never any announcements early for tf2, itd generate so much interest from clans, pcgamer lan it is!

[Tapley]

Please at Wotr2 to the list! we've got 2 teams going now ;)

[Shifty3003]

sigh tf2 as fun 6v6 tournament, is there any point, seriously?

so now we have 2 headliner games cod4/css which as basically the same game but cod4 has better graphics and bf2 you could almost class as them

in mp we trust

[DarkMatter]

believe it or not some people play games for fun ;o

[liv3d]

http://i34.multiplay.co.uk/tournaments/register/
Login -> Fun -> TF2

Go go go!

[Anim]

believe it or not some people play games for fun ;o

Believe it or not some people find competition fun ......

[Tapley]

http://i34.multiplay.co.uk/tournaments/register/
Login -> Fun -> TF2

Go go go!

Can only clan leaders log into that?

[Skilgannon]

clan leader registers the team then members log in and register for that team afaik

[liv3d]

Everyone needs to sign up so you have a full team