This is a whole other hurdle for standard week day events. I think for now (Until September 20) we will leave Wednesday as is. For the next batch, though, I am considering setting start time for 5:00p - 6:00p PST

I must admit that I am selfishly hesitant to push back the times for Sunday to scrim times. With CS:GO timing remaining as is I would be at the computer from 8:00a EST until 11:00p - 12:00a EST.

Could we compromise for a push back of 1 to 2 hours for both NA and EU on Sunday?

What is scrim time?

6:00p CEST?

I have made many posts regarding the timing of the events. For the Wednesday events I have pushed both EU and NA start times back by 1 hour so they occur later. I figured holding Sunday a bit earlier would give more people an opportunity to participate without eating into one's evening.

The only real request that I could identify related to match times dealt with the Wednesday events. I did not realize Sunday was an issue too..

I have no issue pushing the timing back for the Sunday events either, so long as that is desired by the players.

I am very happy you guys enjoyed your experience!

With regard to the bracket format; double elimination is still in development and we plan to bring that to you as soon as it becomes available. :)

We are working to bring more events in and as mentioned above and are looking heavily at skill grouping. This should alleviate some of the pain from early knockouts, but doesn't really solve the lack of play issue.

Prizing is really the major facet that is preventing more events from occurring. If there is enough interest it would not be an issue to hold a lot more events without prizing. The concern in doing that though is that we do not have enough participants to make the event worth while for those that do attend.

With that said, if you are interested in simply playing let me know. If it seems there is enough interest I will get some tournaments created.

Again, a huge thanks for the feedback. Please keep it coming, it helps us to build the platform you want to play on, that is after all the main objective.

I forgot to mention...

Log.tf has been integrated. We are seeing some discrepancies in the stats that are being recorded. Most matches seem to be fine. Nonetheless we are one step closer.

We made adjustments to correct Golden Cap, you should now experience a complete position reset and a forced ready menu on map timer expire. This causes a disconnect with the logs.tf statistics, we are working out a solution for that as well.

Pause also should be in place. The pause needs to be done from the console though. The command in console is "pause" and "unpause" respectively. There are currently no limitations to this -- we are of course exploring our options to set limitations and have the pause available via chat command. It doesn't need to be said, but please when using pause communicate to your opponents why it is being used, do not abuse the pause command and communicate with your opponents before unpausing.

Thanks!

Crazy issue with the EU servers at the start of the event - Crisis averted, sorry for the delay in start time all.

In the confusion of server issues and other factors I forgot to manually seed the teams. Permzilla had been helping me with that and I simply forgot to reach out for this tournament... That is on me. Sorry guys.

The lovely Buttnose and I are exploring options for lower tier events. I understand that people don't like to join up and get rolled right out of the gate. My team at Gaming Grids with Razer need to identify a solid path for handling skill groups. More details to come later about properly handling skill groups.

While nothing is officially set in stone, a big thanks to Buttnose for leading the charge on getting some additional events going on Arena!

Is something going on this Wednesday that I am oblivious to? We have no registrants for EU and 1 for NA.

Thanks for the kind words all!

I have pushed the Wednesday EU TF2 event back by 1 hour and will do the same for NA TF2 Hopefully this helps additional teams with timing so that we can get some more registrations for these Wednesday events. TF2 seems to be around 1-2 hours shorter than CS:GO so there really should be no issue with pushing these times back.

I would be more than happy to work with you on event seeding. Thank you!

Let's connect over Steam?
http://steamcommunity.com/id/dilusive

You clearly deserve an award. Your team has come across some of the most unfortunate bugs in the mod.

Right now the seeding is automated by the platform. I do not try to manually seed, because I do not know the teams.

I am being asked by some to start EU Wednesday 1 hour earlier and by others to start 1 hour later. I can't get a grasp on what is most desired. I have already reduced timing between bracket rounds by 20 minutes. Anyone care to weigh in?

I believe as it currently is we start at 18 CET. If I push it back by 1 hour (19 CET) we can better accommodate for standard WET work hours. But that makes the end time a bit later.

I think with the 20 minute reduction between bracket rounds we should be alright to push back start time by an hour.

Thanks again for streaming!

I will post the STV for the finals.. If anyone wants to cast I would love to watch.

I won't have any of those fancy casting tools available for you though. Nothing like flying blind. :p

Also if someone does decide to cast it, let me know and I will link the stream on the match page.