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Should be an amazing season. I know I'm very eXcited.

Is it for this or next season?

remember people for CEVO to be successful.. you have to ACTUALLY SIGN UP TEAMS in the league

How fucking stupid do you have to be to support this?

I'm pretty sure it's the same thing ESEA does, so I guess we are all pretty stupid.

Sounds great, I'm really happy to hear that Cevo managed to pick up servers to host official matches on, and even happier to hear that they have a a system in place in case teams want to use a different one.

I'd like to reiterate my question from a previous thread though:

Are their any plans to put money back into the league in other forms besides prize pots? For example, paying writers to cover the divisions, hosting periodic events similar to the Zowie Invitational, or even compensating the volunteer staff, casters, and cameramen for some of their time.

wat. That's how it always works

Did you watch the video? The first season's prize pool is already covered by a donation from Nahanni and CEVO. At $2000 that already surpasses ETF2L, so I don't see why you would expect it to be any higher for a fledgling online league. Putting signups from this season into next season's pool is a sustainability measure to counteract big splashes that tail off quickly after the one big lump sum is exhausted.

yo that video playing behind lange is his own frag clip :)

Is the anti-cheat windows only?

Plus it acts as an insurance policy in attracting previous season teams to re-register for a pot they've donated to.

My question is what kind of support does CEVO have planned for broadcasting or attracting an audience to league matches? Will they be doing a similar stream as ESEA_orange, or will broadcasting be left to the community to organize, or is there perhaps some agreements being formed to support current casting orgs.

I'm a linux user, it's a little disapointing, but I haven't really been playing TF2 recently, i was just asking out of curiousity.

Just a heads up, Bob and Weave plays iT for the CEVO S3 championship sometime this week

http://cevo.com/event/tf2-6v6/match/15733/

This is very exciting. I urge anyone interested in playing to sign up! The more teams the better. And of course show up to matches.

We getting a cast of this?

i believe so yes

when is the actual season? do we have dates?

I think logs.tf should be used in place of .ss the more stats is better for official matches imo, although i do think .ss is better for pugs/scrims but when it comes to matches logs.tf feels more fitting.

could even do both services to please everyone. not that i'm complaining though, anything is better than what esea gave us

We'll start with the first regular season matches the following week on Monday, February 27th.

Thanks,
CEVO|Pipher

How will matches be reported? Also is this one match per week or two?

- Monday & Wednesday deadline days

What does this mean?

... Can my map be run as a pre-season match thing? ;)

Aw yea let's do this #bigpapas

murf

You don't need sourcemod to run logs.tf on your server. You only need TFTrue which is actually a pretty useful and reliable plugin (never had any problems with it). And you can also view logs.tf ingame.

Honestly logs.tf interface is much cleaner and user friendly and the stats provide much more information. The only downside I can see is that the source code is not available (afaik) but Im not sure anyone asked zoob either, he always seemed to me like a very kind person and willing to help.

What about the division format, did anyone ever suggest another format like the australians and us europeans use (ie div6-prem)? Instead of the old Open-IM-Invite?

I feel the european system is much more representative of the real skill of teams (no huge disparity of skill between for ex: Top Open and Low Open) and rewards players much more because even by improving a little you go from div6 to 5 to 4, etc... While as with this format you might get stuck in the same division for a while and get frustrated.

Other than that, it looks like a very solid plan to me, I really want this to work. Already much better than ESEA

just watched the video, sorry lange :(

I disagree. In most cases, the more information there is the less clean and user friendly the layout is, and that's definitely true for logs.tf. That's not to say that logs.tf isn't good or useful (because it is a lot), but for the purposes of league statistics, the simple and concise layout of sizzling stats is much better for stream display and quick references by players and casters.

logs.tf is great for in depth information, but that's the kind of information a team might want to diagnose problems in their play, not casters or streamers to report on the game.

If you have 6 paid players on your team you should be able to have backups play for free and not have to pay $15 dollars to play one game. But other than that I'm excited, already paid up.

The interface of logs.tf is objectively cleaner than .ss, its not a matter of opinion as David put it so well in the linked post.

It seems you are dismissing logs.tf without even having used it before because that's the same excuse everyone gives and it's simply not true. Sorry for this little offtopic I'm not rallying for logs.tf but I just wanted to clear up some things because the NA scene seems to be very bad informed of what it actually is

Most of NA uses sizzlingstats. We are used to it, we like it. What is wrong with that Kaneco?

If I'm not mistaken, s5 pot is already at $1,350. Assuming all 15 teams end up with 6 registered/payed players per team.