This seems like not such a good idea, you basically will have 3-4 teams paying because they're top soldiers and think they can win and lower level players just enter without the fee.

This works if you're fine with not increasing your prizepool heavily with the entry fee

The item bans in the rules make barely any sense, just make a whitelist for this instead, chuck in some taunts?

Also: Solider is typo'd twice and there are a wide variety of stock weapon melee reskins available instead of the Saucepan (Frying Pan?)

The link to the rules and twitch channel are broken (the here texts)

Hope it will be a fun (to watch) tournament for the Oceanic players

Haha yeah sorry I tried to copy most of this from my ozfortress thread but they obviously don't like links, and as for the whitelist I'll do that up when we get time

As we did say we were arguing what should be done with the prize pool, but we just did it anyway cause who can't pay $2.50

Yuki and bonobo please come back

KappaPride

I'd advice any Aussies/Kiwis seeing this here and thinking of signing up to prolly give the ozfort thread a look before you do anything

Okay, there is no longer a entry fee, hopefully this makes it easier for everyone.

UPDATE
So we have taken on your feedback, and we so have made adjustments.
Maps
Round 1: koth_ultiduo_r_b7
Round 2: ultiduo_obsidiian_a10
Losers Bracket Round 1: TBA
Losers Bracket Round 2: ultiduo_baloo
Semi and Grand-Final Map Pool: ultiduo_obsidiian_a10, koth_ultiduo_r_b7, ultiduo_baloo, ultiduo_winter, koth_bunkalow or if both duos agree, any other map that isn't listed here (Must be Ultiduo based).
One member from each team must 1v1 each other, who ever gets the first frag selects the map from the above maps.

A lot of these maps and rounds are subject to change due to more signups

The Servers
Ah the servers has been a big one that we have been discussing as well, at this time we are unsure what servers we will be using but possibly Qixalites. We will keep you updated.

Prize Pool
I have gone out and bought the 10 keys for the prize pool, so no entry fee is required. And there is now in-game medals for everyone who participate.

Other Stuff

• We are testing a few new maps for this brawl, and we are in contact with some of the map owners and they will make sure the maps are sweet before the night
  
• Whitelist
  
• We are looking for admins to help out on the nights, contact me on our discord if you are interested
  
• If you didn't know we had rules, its on the bracket page
  
• SIGNUPS CLOSE 25TH JANUARY
  
• You must check-in to challonge 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the tourney
  
• All days are 8pm till 10pm AEDT

Cool, what do the medals look like?

Hi Kenneth, we aren't giving away to much yet but our graphic designer .concorlive is designing some pretty fresh medals that you will get to see when released into TF2

rockstarmacca on the spire meatshot meatshot

edit: this cup seems dead though tbh

No its because of people who hate me, and because of things I've done in the past, and I'm tired of people hating me, why can't people just get over the past and get on with the future. If people don't want this, why not just close this tab instead of making it look bad. I spent a lot of nights trying to gather people together to try and play a game we all love.

You dont just get a clean slate from past actions for free, people have raised legitimate issues about your ability to run a tournament and your responses to those as well as your recent behaviour indicate to a lot of people you're more likely to repeat history rather than learn from it. Address peoples concerns rather than deflecting and this might go somewhere.

Seriously what is your problem with me, everything I do you always find a negative, could we maybe look at the positives instead of this. Thank you for your concerns but I am not here to talk about me I'm here to talk about this tournament.

I've really tried hard to avoid being directly part of this for obvious reasons (TFLIVE & ozf), but come on man, give it a rest already. You are in no position at all to be saying stuff like that, especially given how your post just actively proves yauch's point further.

very well. http://ozfortress.com/showthread.php?p=1002289#post1002289

Hello,

On behalf of Qixalite, I would like to state that we will not be assisting or providing any of our services or resources to this event. We gave the opportunity for CappingTV to be organised and communicate properly with us, but this was never the case.

Over the period from when they first reached out to us and requested servers from us, they had nothing planned and we sent them away with the request "You need to go back, plan the entire event and keep us updated with everything that was going on", but this was never done. The only time updates were ever given to a member of the Qixalite team was when we had to argue or nag the people who wanted us to support their event.

To further clarify, another reason for not wanting to assist CappingTV is due to the distrust between CappingTV and Qixalite, as well as the community. This distrust began upon the announcement of their event, where they never outlined everything they would do with the extra keys they received from the entry fee, if there were any. In response to this we were told "the profits would go towards future ventures for CPTV and possibly we could give you guys some for servers". We would never ask for money for a community event completely funded by players.

Following further investigation into where the profit CappingTV wanted to claim was going to go, we were told that it would be used to pay a designer who created art for the tournament. Later we found that this designer is a part of CappingTV's management team, and that we were lied to about CappingTV wanting none of the profits.

After heated exchanges with the community they soon changed how their event was going to work again and yet none of us at Qixalite were ever updated with any of the changes regarding the event, yet they wanted us to provide our services.

Overall, with the constant excuses released by them, the inability for them to not be completely transparent with us and the community about their organisation of the event, and finally the failure of meeting the simple request of keeping us updated while needing to argue with them to tell us about information is the reason why we are not assisting them anymore.

Kindest Regards,
Qixalite

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Mitch mate I've said it before and I'll say it again, take a step back.
You need to seriously assess the reasons people are reacting this way to you and figure out whether it truly is just because they're hating for no good reason, or if maybe something about your behaviour is instigating this every time.

As you can see with Brion's post above even people totally disconnected to any previous issues, who prior to you contacting him would have had no understanding of any issues anyone else has with you, still was taken aback and offended by your behaviour to them.

I'm not trying to be mean here bud nor am I trying to hate on you.
You really need to take a step back and think about what issues people are having with you and think about a way to genuinely address that instead of trying to skirt around it with a new venture and getting upset when people aren't convinced.

And to add to that, CappingTV now has a better solution for servers, we have reserved some servers to ourselves and information will be released to duos closer to the brawl. We have had multiple issues with qix staff that have led to CappingTV not using qixalite servers.

We would also like to mention that we weren't using the keys for profit, we were only paying our graphic designer who volunteered time to work on graphics, this is not spread to anybody else. And because there is no entry fee it doesn't matter anyway.

We don't take anything personal to any qix staff.

Backend management, not normal management and so we didn't lie at all.
And we were going to give you some of the spair keys (if we got any) to give to you as a nice gesture to thank you, but that won't matter now.

Holy fuck you're not dead what the fuck

Hello,

You indeed did lie since that person was still on your CPTV team, it doesn't change the fact. Your ignorance and arrogance is unbelievable. If you continue to act in such a immature way where you constantly show that you can't take the brunt of the mistakes you made than I am happy to release the recording of the entire conversation we had with you this morning to clear up all the misconceptions the community might have about you.

Kindest Regards,
TheHolyKetchup

Smith we love you and miss you

<3 Miss you dearly

ALRIGHT BOYS we got some servers for the brawl so you won't have any of the shit lag thanks to Streamline Servers. Also, direct your stuff to me since everyone hates mitch and im prob better at this kek and make sure you join the Discord for updates and stuff about the event top keks lads, hope to see you at the event :)

I MAY have believed that if it hadn't been posted immediately after

I'm around yeah, i'll write something up in slack sometime today

Hello All,

The Ultiduo Summer Brawl starts tomorrow, but we have some important information to get out.

As for Day 1, some teams will be starting at 7:00pm AEDT, check challonge for to see if you're one of those. EVERYONE needs to be in the ultiduo discord as thats where we will be giving out ips etc.

For those who haven't seen there is 2 brackets, upper and lower, if you get eliminated from upper you go down to lower. There are a couple maps in lower that are TBA, we are still to decide that.

Please make sure that you have all the maps installed as we will be running a tight schedule, you can download the maps HERE
If you have any questions or inquiries contact us in #help on the discord, or DM Mitch or Mackey on steam .

We hope this will be a success and we thank everyone who signed up, the teams are listed below:

• 99% heals
  
• Vicious & Delicious mexican midgets
  
• Helb
  
• mge lords
  
• Karma Lads
  
• SquekerSquuuuad
  
• Crispy Calamari Cutlets
  
• Shifty
  
• This is an Alternate team
  
• Limitl3ss
  
• GGBLACK
  
• super serious 2's
  
• lmao donkey face w/ monkey ears
  
• AutismGaming HD
  
• yewl's nephews
  
• Versus Versus Versus
  
• warioware
  
• Phunt Clungers
  
• ye boi
  
• 2ophans

We will be live as well on http://twitch.tv/CappingTV with Grumpykoi on production and TBA casting.

Good luck, have fun and we will see you soon.
CappingTV Coordination Team

Alright, buckle up.

I started working with Mitch from around the inception of CappingTV for about 2 months, helping him find talent, and trying to prevent him from burning bridges with everyone within the AU community (completely in vain). I now work with TFLIVE, so I feel like I have a very unique perspective on Mitchcliff123 and this tournament.

On the first night, literally nothing happened. Nothing at all. The stream went live with quid and snazzy on the mic without anyone at CPTV knowing who was playing first, least of all the casters who weren’t involved in the organisational side. They just went for it. For about 15 minutes quid and snazzy were forced to flounder and waffle on stream because the only resource they were given by the CPTV staff was the Challonge bracket, which didn’t even publicly list the names of the players, before the stream cut back to music without a single game having been played. After another solid half an hour of music, the stream unmuted again only for snazzy, trying not to piss himself from laughter, telling the viewers that something has gone wrong and no matches will be played tonight. Guess what went wrong? The servers weren't working. Mitch managed to break them, just trying to sort them out to run ultiduo. Not that he told anyone besides staff, leaving the players and viewers left in the dark.

As this was happening, Mitch made a public post in the discord telling everyone to book ozfortress servers to play your games on despite being told in advance that he was not allowed to use ozfortress resources for a private tournament whatsoever and had to run this without any assistance from ozfortress. When reminded of this fact by ozfortress administrators, he replied in the public discord that he had never been informed of this (which is a lie) and that he can use ozfortress servers for anything he wants whenever he wants because they're public property or something to a very similar effect, I can’t remember his exact phrasing as he’s since deleted the post.

On the second night, well, only tournament players know because Mitch made the decision to only cast the finals, because to quote his words it’s boring to watch despite passive-aggressively flaunting their casting exclusivity on forum posts repeatedly. Seriously, all of this effort and he literally just gave up and decided to only cast the finals out of the 22 games that were being played. What a waste of time of the CPTV staff, viewers and tournament players. The only reason this really got attention was the fact that it was supposed to be streamed, as well as the promise of in-game medals. To quote them on their forum posts: It wouldn't be a CappingTV event without a stream, so we will be casting the event exclusively, yet despite this they chose to only cast the finals.

My inside source says that the second night was not any better for the players. Long server wait times plagued everyone as everyone wrestled to get their match in. One team even played half an hour earlier on an ozfortress server with the A-OK from CPTV staff. Again CPTV staff were told in no uncertain terms that they were not allowed to use for a private tournament, having been reminded of this the previous night. On top of that, the staff member didn’t even notify Mitch this was going on! On a night when you're supposed to have 20 ultiduo games going on almost simultaneously, the CPTV staff couldn’t even communicate properly about one.

As far as the promised medals know, I'm sure everyone here is familiar with the concept of valve time and how prickly an endeavour it can be to get items in game. Because of this, people who hand out medals (ToTH, ETF2L, ozf, UGC etc.) know to put the medals in the game well before they intend to hand them out. At this point, the competition is well and truly over and there's not so much as a 3D model, much less something actually in the game. All they have is a 2D concept sketch and a vague promise it'll be in the game within 3-5 weeks + valve time to obviously have the medals in the game at all. Then the small matter of distributing them obviously comes up. This smells an awful lot like an empty promise just based on those facts alone. I would love to be surprised and actually see medals appear in game but given everything else and the track record of Mitch and CPTV I have very strong doubts again. This was one of, if not the biggest drawcard to partake in this tournament, and due to a lack of organisational ability and timeliness it seems very unlikely that these medals will appear soon, assuming they appear at all.

Mitch and CPTV have been approached multiple times by so many different members of the community in an attempt to fix the difficulties the organisation has been having, but time again Mitch does not take in what is being said to him, and time again he makes what could very well be an awesome tournament/ organisation on paper into a serious kerfuffle for lack of a better word, and he cannot be allowed to keep on oblivious to his actions and his shortcomings. Because at the end of the day it always has come back to someone who isn’t Mitch to clean up these messes he and his organisation is creating, and he has to be held accountable at some point.