One big problem we noticed is that you can't bring in people after check in. So if someone on your team has their power go out you're just SOL.

Other than that it would be nice to have only Chicago servers instead of some East and some West coast.

Besides that it's been really solid work!

Totally gonna get a team together for this.

Great work, will attempt to play in these as schedule allows and looking forward with great anticipation for the larger tournaments!

thank you so much for this!

is there like skill restriction? or is it open to everybody

We have the ability to remove individual members from the check in queue, so long as the match has not gone live. We are exploring options to handle mid game substitutions. The check in phase is how we determine who has access to the server, so we don't want to end up in a scenario where too many people have joined.

We do have Central servers in place now.

Thanks!

Any word on the black screen after dying? Was incredibly frustrating not being able to see and make calls based on teammates/enemies positioning because your screen went black.

Would there be any way to have weekday events start at a later time? They start at 3pm western time that's pretty much impossible for people with jobs to make time for.

Currently this is open to anyone and everyone within the designated region.

Fixed ! :)

It is a catch 22. Accommodating for West Coast work hours means pushing the event back to 6:00p PST which means that the event starts at 9:00p EST, the event would span too late for East Coast players.

We will have to try and find a balance or explore separately timed events.

What would you propose?

You could lower the number of teams allowed per event, or split it up over multiple days, thus lowering the daily time requirements. Having a potentially 6.5 hour weekly event on a weekday is a little ridiculous. Super excited for the Sunday events though!

EDIT: the other thing to consider is that only 4 teams out of 16 will be actually playing for the last half of the event, and they will tend to be the more dedicated players anyway.

i think starting at 9 est isn't actually too late for most (commited) EST players. i know that my ESEA league games are usually at 10:30 (we even scrim then daily) and other teams have scheduled as late as 11:30, midnight.

edit: oh right, events got bigger. disregard

might as well give b4nny the money now

Well other teams dont pull their modems apart mid series so not sure why you would say that.

would already have applied if my last team member could access his profile to confirm that he does indeed play the damn game
curse you and your runtime errors

Now this is awesome, super awesome work from you guys at Razer <3

The EU wednesday cup ends extremely late and also starts very late. Can't it be moved back 1-2 hours?

6 to 10 is late?

south america? :(

http://puu.sh/jdEc7/0c7fe03d26.png
Says it ends 0:40 in the night, which is 1:40 is Finland.

Since it's the summer and most people in tf2 are in education and on holiday, I guess you could start it an hour or so earlier.

You saints suckers aren't getting to the final anyway tho

Does this include ETF2L ruleset? Will you be following their ruling on the new weapon pickup mechanic introduced in the Gun Mettle Update or will it be allowed? I only ask since viaduct is in the map pool for the tournament and it is especially broken on that map.

Currently weapon drops are enabled. I will look into the proper handling for this and see if we can't have it added.

It's not that they're restricted automatically in ETF2L, it's just against the rules and if somebody does it and is reported for doing it, the round in which it was done is overturned.

Allow picking up dropped weapons pls. And yeah, moving it back one hour should be the optimal solution because most of the players are in CET.

Probably would be a good idea to try it out in smaller but competitive cups like these tbh yeah.

I just want to be clear that the issue with the timing is for the Wednesday European events and not anything else correct?
Solution is to move back the tournament start time from 14:00 CEST to 13:00 CEST?

Looking into it - ETF2L looks like they will be allowing weapon drops.

If the rules state that weapon drops are not allowed, what is the difference between simply removing the feature entirely?

It looks like on this one though, we are going to continue to allow weapon drops and keep an eye on it for a while before making any decisions on the matter.