30 minutes for a ffw :l

sorry what

sorry WHAT

Yea I'm trying to create a fast paced game, something upbeat, wihtout having to whitelist the Qfix. gunboats, vita saw, bluts, Ptrain all allow for that. and the Dhit for the sream viewers.

Direct hit? OH GOD! I HAVE A CHANCE TO WIN THIS!

I don't know about seattle servers

Aww, sucks. I can't do the 4th cause Pikmin 3 comes out that day.

i don't ping well to the West Coast so I'm not gonna join, but good luck with the tournament!

Pain Train should be banned because, in all honesty, it's the best weapon to use. There's literally zero reason not to use it. in the extv ultiduo tournament a while ago I remember they banned it for the exact reason that it was the best weapon to use.

Blutsauger is all right, I guess, it's just kind of annoying to play against.

Direct Hit is just...the Direct Hit. if you want to include it 'just for stream viewers' so be it, but it's really not fun to play against in any way.

the Vita-Saw is my main issue here. the weapon is effectively rewarding medics when they die for little drawbacks. it completely removes the risk/reward factor of committing your med to forcing theirs. whichever medic runs the vita-saw will always have an advantage on the other medic.

Paintrain: I agree, there really isn't anything better than the paintrain. So both soldiers should be using it, thus creating a much faster paced game with two soldiers running it.

Blut is incredibly annoying to play against, but it creates a very exciting game where a medic has a standing chance, and creates some very sxciting clutch plays.

Vita-saw speeds up the game by 10 seconds between every uber. It means building an uber will be a bit more important in this tournament as opposed to past tourneys, and having to /kill in order to get back with your soldier doesn't entirely reset the uber status which imop creates a much slower game.

I see several things wrong with this tournament, although I do like ducksoup a lot as a pub community.

-seattle servers
-DH allowed
-vita-saw allowed

Most people in the comp community are going to take big issue with those. Vanilla ultiduo is very fun and engaging. I'm sure you could get the competition casted and hosted if you did all of the organizational work. The last 3rd party ultiduo tournament had a good turnout and a lot of stream viewers.

The rational side of me says fuck no to allowing the dh, but my inner self says fuck yeah.

baloo with direct hit

Prancer's Pride soldier hat?

I think you mean exquisite rack

Yep, edited

would prefer the original ultiduo map over baloo especially with direct hit

Feedback:

Unlocks:
Vita-saw: Slows down gameplay. It does not speed up gameplay at all. It will force both medics to use it making it tournament less enjoyable for players and spectators.
Paintrain: It has been proven in the past to be a straight upgrade for soldiers in Ultiduo. Many people in this thread have also said it should not be allowed.
Equalizer: Allow it. Almost no soldiers will use it.
Blutsauger: Allow it. Provides medics with another syringe gun option.
Direct Hit: It will be very annoying to play against also (depending on if the DH soldier can hit his shots) can make the team with DH too powerful.

Servers:
Location: Please have the server locations be Chicago/Dallas only.
Routing: Make sure to test the routing of the servers before the tournament starts.

Map: ultiduo_baloo is fine.

Casting:
Mumble: I have watched some of the cast of the DSGL and their has been no use of mumble at all. Please use mumble for casting instead of in-game voice. It's really bad to be hearing in-game voices in STV demos. Also have mumble overlay disabled if your the cameraman.
HUD: Please use a custom spectator HUD (TFTV's spectator HUD would be prefered).
CFG: Generally its best to have show spec items and chat disabled if your the cameraman. Or you could ask for a spectator cfg (example: TrukTruk).

I thought this was more of a community (in-house) thing, i don't understand why you want to ask tf.tv

I mean it's your thing, go ahead, but why put our name on it if you're gonna go ask random people outside of the community that we don't know.

Thanks for the comments apollo.

The tournament will be played in Seattle, as this is a Seattle based community. So promoting the west coast server is the goal.

The games that are cast, will be cast using mumble, as are the rest of the current DSGL matches. Here is the mumble: ducksoupgaming.com (port 64738)

As for a HUD, I'm not too sure what we'll use yet. As who might cast this is still up in the air. My internet connection is not strong enough for me to cast, and the other DSG casters I have spoke with have expressed interest, but are having conflicting personal scheduling. So it is entirely possible that this may not be cast as much as one would hope.

As for the weapon whitelist, the only comment I have is that Ducksoup is a public gaming community, there are no weapon restrictions on the servers, so I wanted to keep the game somewhat true to that nature in allowing weapons like the vitasaw, paintrain, bluts, DH etc
Changing the format to suit other more "competitive" communities is not the goal. The goal is to say "hey, here at ducksoup we play different, and still have fun. Come check it out". Rather than the "we do the same cookie cutter format as everyone else".

Now it should be mentioned that I'm simply a member of the forums, not an admin or mod. So this is entirely at my discretion.
Thanks for the comments.

hope y'all are ready for the spire-shotgun