Dear Community.
Resulting from the wish of a certain amount of people who took part in this tournament, this thread will be exclusivly dedicated to the discussion concerning the second edition of the ECS, no matter which part of the competition they want to highlight.
However and before going further and deeper into the subject, I would like to remind everyone of some basic rules of cortesy which must be followed If we want an useful discussion to happen.
- Trolling will not be tolarated here. This thread is made for people who want to bring constructives critisms or proposal towards the admin team or the tournament in general, not to settle their scores with some individuals.
- In the same idea, please, in any ways, remain respectful towards the people you discuss with, even though they don't share your opinions. Especially if they don't, should I say.
- This thread brings no promess to solve all the problems you will speak about. The aim is simply to give the possibility of a mature and calm discussion to happen.
Hope we'll see something happening despite the general bad-tempered attitute of some individual. No matter what you think, I personally care about what you have to say, it's your role to get the forms to express it.
I repost what Alene wrote has I see it as a constructive critism towards the ECS and the admin team. I would like to see If some want to anwser it, then I will eventually give my personal opinion as one of the person concerned by it.
Resulting from the wish of a certain amount of people who took part in this tournament, this thread will be exclusivly dedicated to the discussion concerning the second edition of the ECS, no matter which part of the competition they want to highlight.
However and before going further and deeper into the subject, I would like to remind everyone of some basic rules of cortesy which must be followed If we want an useful discussion to happen.
- Trolling will not be tolarated here. This thread is made for people who want to bring constructives critisms or proposal towards the admin team or the tournament in general, not to settle their scores with some individuals.
- In the same idea, please, in any ways, remain respectful towards the people you discuss with, even though they don't share your opinions. Especially if they don't, should I say.
- This thread brings no promess to solve all the problems you will speak about. The aim is simply to give the possibility of a mature and calm discussion to happen.
Hope we'll see something happening despite the general bad-tempered attitute of some individual. No matter what you think, I personally care about what you have to say, it's your role to get the forms to express it.
I repost what Alene wrote has I see it as a constructive critism towards the ECS and the admin team. I would like to see If some want to anwser it, then I will eventually give my personal opinion as one of the person concerned by it.
Alene said:Well done, another tournament over. However, there's always room for improvement, so here's some criticism:
In this tournament I was mostly a bystander, but I took a note of some things that I thought should be discussed before the next tournament.
The biggest issue is naturally the pink javelin issue, or "the javelin gate". I am aware that the rule was discussed before the tournament, and based on that I agree with the ban of Sotamursu. Therefore the criticism goes to the moment when the rule was discussed. I cannot understand who really thinks that having pink javelins would give an unfair advantage big enough to be banned from the tournament. Maybe it's just me not understanding the game mechanics, but to me it sounds really stupid. In any case, in the next tournament, I would like to see common sense used in each and every rule.
Other issue from the "javelin gate" is the verdict. There was a rule breaked by the other team as well, one that resulted with suspension. Now, I said I agreed with Sota's ban, but I don't agree with the rest of the verdict. The match was to be replayed, and Sota cannot play in it because of the ban. How come the person from the other team could? Wasn't WDY the team that was wronged, and should've gotten the advantage, and not the next one who was fighting them? Weird. In the next tournament, I would like to see common sense used in each and every verdict.
Third issue is banning of clan's name. Sure, the abbrevation was stupid, but who wanted it banned? Are we going to be an odorless and tasteless community where unwanted material is swept under the carpet? I really don't like the direction.
And fourth issue is the sponsors. Well, one of them. And that is the great and magnificent Team Razer. Ok, you got it to sponsor a Warband tournament. Well done. Really. But is it really necessary to spam it everywhere? There's stuff of it forums and twitter. In streams their logo is visible all the time, there's their ad running every now and then and there's even their damn logo in the map? And, other sponsors did not get anywhere near that amount of visibility. Whether Razer required that visibility, I do not know, but too much is too much. I probably have less tolerance for this than most though.
Despite my criticism, the tournament looked great. Since my criticism was towards the admin team, I honestly must say that for the rest of the stuff it seemed to work seamlessly. If I had to pick one admin who shined in this, it'd be Aeronwen. She seemed to have a huge amount of responsibilities in the tourny, and tirelessly piloted it to the finish line. And also apparently secured sponsors. Extremely impressive work. Thumbs up for other admins as well. And players. And streamers. And referees.
Oh, and congratulations to Freelancers!
