I applaud the effort to create a new stomping ground, but pls format your post and add breaks in your paragraphs. It reads like scribble notes.

Thank you.

i apologize for that. its been a while since i made a post but ill fix the paragraph break part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpxDl68brww

I understand wanting to start a tf2 league, but take it as it comes. Don't plan Season 2 yet, get somebody willing to help you with writing these posts, and just try and get staff and more ways for people to play and know how to play. Maybe consider doing short 1-3 day cups with like a 4 key prize pool to try and get yourself familiar with organizing stuff.
Edit: Forgot to mention this, but personally I would really not try and do both cs and tf2 at the same time. TF2 I'd imagine is a bit easier to organize this type of thing for (plus, even a considerably tiny prize pool rivals those of the biggest leagues in comp TF2 as of now, so you're more likely to get players). Good luck!

Also, I did my best to correct your grammar. Don't mean to be obnoxious, just want to help!

Well I tried making a cup but only one team were actually willing to participate in the cup, and it kinda pissed me off so that’s why I got this idea here.

Maybe try getting more exposure with this cup and maybe have a small entry fee (11 ref/44c per player? This would be enough for a little over 1 key per team of 6.) so there could be a prize pool. Even a prize pool of just a few keys would be at least some incentive for players to participate. I know have a team that may be willing to participate if it's a short cup with a prize pool, and I'm sure you could find others!

imma be real with u chief i doubt anyone will play if there's an entry fee

https://i.imgur.com/L9LTAFX.png

well the cup originally was a format never before seen made up by me and had a 15 key prize pool for top 2 teams. it was gonna have signups end on the 15th and the tourney start the 19th.

have you ever heard of RGL or ESEA? if not, then why make a statement that has been proven wrong by these two brands of esport?

Entry fees through leagues are incredibly difficult to acheive. Let me provide some examples of why this is generally not a good idea without a huge knowledge of some sort of web-development or "middlemen"

1) Ensuring trust between you, the provider/company, and the end-user.
Making sure that the money given to you from the end user is going exactly where you tell them is no easy task. Without directly telling them everything, how does one assume this money is going to their prizepool? Trust comes with past decisions or by trusted community members, but there's plenty more than that.

2) Ensuring payment is secure
Payment isn't easy. Weather that boils down to getting payment, processing it, or whatever; it's not easy. Knowing who's paid up, who's not or whatever- it takes either a lot of manual effort or will take a complex system to build. There's no reason to be taking money yourself, either by paypal or trade offers, this is something that requires a lot of effort on your end to make sure that you're doing this properly.

3) RGL and ESEA are established
These "services" are large platforms that have done this for years. They've perfected this system, and an example include paying for other players. These companies have been trusted by the community to ensure their payment goes towards "something", be it a prizepool or whatever.

4) Some people just don't want to pay
It's a league, or is it? Making it clear weather this is a long-lasting service or a one/two day event makes it just a bit more trustworthy on the end user. Are they paying for something they can win? Or perhaps they're paying for a service they'll be using. A lasting service will always have a web interface, and coming from experience, it is something that requires a lot of patience, skill, and people who can help.

Entry fees are something that requires skill to balance. You must know exactly how much people are willing to pay for your league. No one wants to give money to a new company unless something they are providing is seen. If I released a new league that was exactly the same as ESEA or RGL, but you still had to pay just as much as those services, people will not (I hope) come to me playing even with a prizepool because they simply don't know me (as the company) at all, and this makes it even more concrete when I add in that, "I, on behalf of the company, is taking the payment". No one wants to give me, even on behalf of the company, money because you, the end user, does not know me. They have no idea who I am in relation to the company.

There's so much more to this that I don't even think about right now.

understandable have a great day. i did say in my main post that there is no entry fee for the first season, and depending on the results we may or may not have an entry fee for challenger division and if that's the case, the champion entry fee would be much less than originally intended for season 2

i do see your points of establishment and the trust in the points of it going towards the prize pools for future seasons, and that's what I've been trying to do for basically the three years I've made the CGA. currently I've been accepting donations of a key for CGA development and so far since the cup has basically resulted in cancellation, i decided to upgrade what ive been doing into what I've been dreaming of for the past three years. if you have any more questions about the CGA, you can send me a private message on TFTV, my discord friend code: cre-8#6954, or my email: hunterholdren@gmail.com and let me know any feedback, comments, questions, fanmail, whatever you feel like writing to me about the CGA and ill respond as soon as i can!

my home.. LFT!

Never quit based on backlash. If anything I've done has taught me anything, is that when I quit on something: I fail. Rather than quitting (Or in your case, a "halt"), look another way to achieve your goal. What other routes do you have that you've never taken could lead you closer to your goal?

Something that I overlooked is having a respectable staff is something that will go even further than anything. If players respect and know the people on staff, then there's no reason to drop what you're doing. Having any supporting staff will also push you to do stuff you've never though possible.

Putting that all aside, just by putting in contact information is a strong step forward. When I know where to contact you at helps a lot.

Remember, RGL took years to establish themselves. Anyone has a chance to do anything they want, but without proper criticism and a large amount of critial thinking, you will never achieve the best system. Cheers.

why this read like an ai wrote it

cre-8 why did u leave my csgo game the other night

one, you were drunk
two, i was very angry at the team.

im trying to sound like a business man, not a bot. my apologies to you.