thick. solid.

I'm happy to see GPit back somewhere in an official capacity.

Looking good, Lange.

CEVO-P?

Lan Finals?

;)

this is pretty damn good stuff

i've got some minor beefs about cevo to throw out here

1) why is the site designed so poorly? It has a shitton of functionality, but the design makes it impossible to find anything relevant, which leads me to

2) why are there still no automated sourcetv for every event with easily accessible ip addresses I can just copy paste into my game? I spent like 10 minutes in a roundabout conversation with Lansky (terrible experience) on how to find STV for lb of the spring tournament so I could cast it, but we both came up with nothing

love,

a cevo champion

dont tease me adam i'll turn on my monitor

So for those not in the Spring classic, how does the match mod function? How 'hands-free' is it when a match is occurring(essentially I mean how much if at all do i need to touch the rcon)?

Any rule changes for s5?

And no Illuminati voting for new P-class teams, huzzah!

So there are 3 divisions now?

Is it possible for my team to get a CEVO-M roster this season without hijacking / playing open?

What about roster locks? In S4 you could hop from roster to roster and play in a team's match and immediately jump back to your original team directly after. Or add a new player minutes before a match.

Otherwise, the new match mod and other rule changes sound awesome!!

And last question--how will patches affect the match mod?

Alright... CEVO got a LAN... What is the defense for ESEA now? Weren't all the top players worried about having a LAN?

Will it be possible to have the map rotation in sync with ESEA's this season?

ded

That's a shame. I think it would be good for both leagues if they just worked together on that part.

So league fees are $40 for CEVO-P and $18 for CEVO-M and CEVO-O?

There is no defense as long as CEVO has a sustainable one.

Time to play some Team Fortress Two.

Oh my. Incentive. ANYONE NEED A PLAYER?

Well, except the prize pot disparity (which could also go away, eventually).

TF2's never been about the prizepool.

Even being out of the scene for some time you can tell it's never been the incentive. The one thing ESEA had was the ability to nerd out for a weekend with some anime loving, crossdressing, trophy stealing nerds in a hotel for a weekend.

Now TheFragile and CEVO have solved this problem.

We gucci.

Except for the fact that traveling to LANs is expensive and I find it quite possible that traveling to Philly (of course, who knows where LANs post S5 will be) may end up being on average more expensive. Seems like the bottom three teams will come out in the red while even the 4th place team at ESEA broke even (approximately).

I believe this is a huge positive for the community but we will need a couple more seasons to see if there will always be a LAN and how much the prize pot grows. Maybe the crowdfunding will be big this season and that alone could help.

I hope crowdfunding is promoted strongly this season.
I think having lots of money in the game is more beneficial than sending teams to Europe for a small prizepot.

Will there be any change to how FFW's work or to the use gameservers.com servers?
The S4 FFW system felt like a punishment for having your team ready when the other team was not.

Also, I think we noticed that paladin didn't seem to do much. I recall a few matches where, I would tab to paladin and see clients at 5v6 or a player would have to restart and forget to launch paladin & there would be no issues. ESEA client has had a lot of issues, but you knew it was doing "something."

It seems kind of odd that you can add a player to your roster mid-match. I liked the way that ESEA locks rosters once a server is assigned for the match.
We had a situation during process week (I think) where our opposing team asked to use a ringer. We declined because they had several backups on their roster. They talked to Pipher and he told them to add the ringer to the roster (& pay) - which they did. By the time this all happened, it was after our default match time. That's something that would happen in UGC, but not that should in ESEA or CEVO.

Considering how often teams die or experienced players decide to take a break & then come back to playing - I don't think it is unreasonable to want some sort of roster lock in place for regular matches.

Edit: I meant to say after our scheduled match time, not the default match time. Not that it changes anything

I believe UGC even has a rule against that. Something like the player has to be on the roster for 24 hours prior to the match.

Also consider (in the case of GXL), a huge number of players not competing in this CEVO tournament are also attending, and the options of carpooling grows. I think nearly all players fly to ESEA LAN. For example, I'm carpooling to GXL from the same city squid lives in, whereas squid flying to dallas probably costs him $500+.

Of course this point doesn't mean much if CEVO hosts LANs where this isn't possible, like as someone brought up if they hosted at a place like Ignite.

What does when a "server is assigned" mean? Is that when it's initially scheduled or when whatever automated system actually sets up the server like a half hour before?

I think rosters being locked the day of a match would be reasonable (so they have to join the roster the day before a match).

This is when the automated system sets up the server, so like 15 - 30 minutes before scheduled math time. A 24 hour lock isn't necessary, but you also should not be able to add players after a match starts.

http://play.esea.net/index.php?s=content&d=league_rules_tf2
"Once a match is assigned to a server, rosters will be locked and no new players will be able to join."

I remembered during the regular season of this season, teams that played matches during the later end of the week would be matched against worse teams. Will this get fixed during s5?

Also is the policy with ffws going to change?

So pumped for this season of CEVO, I know it is going to be great!

Just want to bump this thread to remind everyone that there are just 10 days left of team registration for CEVO Season 5 before we release the first preseason schedules. If you have any questions about the upcoming season, feel free to post them below and Lange and I will do our best to reply here.

Any lft threads for open?

Alternatively, any open teams looking for a med?