Isn't that limit for the title? I've sent longer PMs than 50 characters.

It looks like those are manual tweets given the format.

Also, I'm surprised to find that this drive's been going on since Friday without any sort of formal announcement anywhere - just a brief mention on Facebook and that was all.

Looks like CEVO recently began their crowdfunding drive for the prize pool.

75% of donations goes toward the Season 4 Main pool and 25% toward the Season 4 Open pool, according to their breakdown. Of course, Main already got $1,300 (65%) and Open $700 (35%) of the initial $2,000 pool.

They also give some interesting incentives to donate - at $20, a shoutout on CEVO-TV during playoffs; at $50, a match broadcast on CEVO-TV; and at $150, a chance to play with CEVO staff. According to Lange in the registration announcement, CEVO-TV casting will most likely be done in coordination with TF.TV and eXtv will also cast matches of CEVO, so it'll be interesting to see who does the shoutouts and casting for those perks.

It looks like even CEVO hasn't properly announced the crowdfunding drives yet (at least as far as a headline on their site or an article here, though the crowdfunding is on the main page), so I'm hoping that Lange & co. have a better overview than I have.

CEVO Official Rules

I don't know where the TF2 rules were, but I remember seeing them somewhere.

CEVO does record on its website who on a team has the client open during the scheduled match time, so I presume that if there was a discrepancy they would just overturn the results of the match.

Which brings me to a question: will CEVO have an API to access information about the league such as teams, players, season standings, brackets, etc.? If not, is this on the roadmap?

Plugin should be ready and working, I haven't had the chance to test this on a live server but it's based on stuff that I've worked on before.

https://github.com/fwdcp/TF2-Round-Clock

The main cvar is mp_roundtimelimit, set that to what you want it to be. IIRC the default for 5CP games (and the default for the plugin) is 10 minutes.

Let me know if any issues come up.

It will. I've experimented with modifying in-game timers a bit and probably will release one later tonight.

I think that the round time and timelimit are more akin to the play clock and game clock in American football when it comes to parking the bus, but I don't think we need another long-winded metaphor description.

Unfortunately, the problem with trying to test a shorter round time limit is trying to simulate it realistically - people play much differently in a low-stakes scrim or PUG than in a playoff-implications match, as has been mentioned above. However, if there is interest, I can whip up a plugin that can change the round time limit to something else for such purposes.

Heads up, server owners already have a way to find out which account you're sharing with.

It looks like mgemod_stats does the same thing but reduces unnecessary database overhead if you're never planning to enable ELO.

I think that would require some modifications to the MGE plugin itself.

Seems like it's fine now.

This will be interesting... a ladder system is something that people have wanted for a while.

Still could forge votes with other people's Steam URLs, but there's no way to prevent that unless you have them log into Steam. Hm...

Lange hasn't actively worked on MGE since 2.0 was released, so I'm not sure why you'd expect him to be fixing the bugs in it. You're better off filing a bug report so that the people who are (namely Cprice) actually know about the bug.