I have no web dev experience at all so please don't misinterpret this thread as an announcement for a new website. I just figured its a decent enough idea that somebody might take it into their own hands someday :)
It would be pretty cool if there was a website that would automatically put teams together and give them a mumble they can use so they can get on discord and find a team to scrim. Teams would be put together based on what classes/div they list themselves as. Simply put, it's another pug site but it puts only 6 people instead of 12. Maybe servme.tf could be integrated too.
I imagine the main interface looking like tf2center., but instead of leaders starting teams, the site always has at least one team open per skill division. Unlike tf2center though, players would be able to sign up for more than one class at a time.
Benefits to the community:
+Makes it easier for people to get some high quality playtime even if they aren't on a team.
+Could lead to the formation of new teams ("woah guys we beat that team together. Wanna play with me next season?")
+Pugs can be kinda dead during prime scrim hours so only needing to get 6 is nice.
+More scrims for teams to choose from
Concerns:
-possibility of lower quality scrims for the people who are actually on a team.
-further dilution of the tf2 pug scene.
-how should really low level players like mana be kept out of the IM /invite level teams? (Jk mana plz don't ban me xd)
-what sort of interface would be suitable?
-if the site doesn't provide teams with a, server, discord will be flooded with teams who can't play each other becuase neither have a server.
-makes it really easy for someone to troll teams just trying to scrim.
I have no web dev experience at all so please don't misinterpret this thread as an announcement for a new website. I just figured its a decent enough idea that somebody might take it into their own hands someday :)
It would be pretty cool if there was a website that would automatically put teams together and give them a mumble they can use so they can get on discord and find a team to scrim. Teams would be put together based on what classes/div they list themselves as. Simply put, it's another pug site but it puts only 6 people instead of 12. Maybe servme.tf could be integrated too.
I imagine the main interface looking like tf2center., but instead of leaders starting teams, the site always has at least one team open per skill division. Unlike tf2center though, players would be able to sign up for more than one class at a time.
Benefits to the community:
+Makes it easier for people to get some high quality playtime even if they aren't on a team.
+Could lead to the formation of new teams ("woah guys we beat that team together. Wanna play with me next season?")
+Pugs can be kinda dead during prime scrim hours so only needing to get 6 is nice.
+More scrims for teams to choose from
Concerns:
-possibility of lower quality scrims for the people who are actually on a team.
-further dilution of the tf2 pug scene.
-how should really low level players like mana be kept out of the IM /invite level teams? (Jk mana plz don't ban me xd)
-what sort of interface would be suitable?
-if the site doesn't provide teams with a, server, discord will be flooded with teams who can't play each other becuase neither have a server.
-makes it really easy for someone to troll teams just trying to scrim.
interesting idea, but what's the incentive of being on the other side? as in, why would you, as an actual team, want to play against a pug-scrim team where you know there's going to be minimal coordination? think of it as essentially opening a lobby and filling one side with your actual team and having the other side open. when you do an actual pug-scrim among friends it usually better represents a team than this system would as them knowing each other means there's some amount of shared knowledge in strats and synergy. i feel like it will mostly be just people using the system to form a team and just waiting for another team to be spewed out of the system and they just play eachother
it's definitely a cool take on the established pug/lobby system but i currently can't see it working out too well
interesting idea, but what's the incentive of being on the other side? as in, why would you, as an actual team, want to play against a pug-scrim team where you know there's going to be minimal coordination? think of it as essentially opening a lobby and filling one side with your actual team and having the other side open. when you do an actual pug-scrim among friends it usually better represents a team than this system would as them knowing each other means there's some amount of shared knowledge in strats and synergy. i feel like it will mostly be just people using the system to form a team and just waiting for another team to be spewed out of the system and they just play eachother
it's definitely a cool take on the established pug/lobby system but i currently can't see it working out too well
tons of teams play against pugscrim teams when they can't find a normal scrim or even if they can so rthey can play better players
tons of teams play against pugscrim teams when they can't find a normal scrim or even if they can so rthey can play better players