The moment has finally come!

2006-09-04 22:09 by ?ke Vader

The summer is over and it?s finally time to get some gibbing going. The EQL crew is back in business and we have a new season ahead of us to look forward to. In this first article i?m going to bring up what changes you?re up for and what you can expect from EQL this season.

First of all i must say that it's nice to see that quite a few clans have raised their activity level a bit, among both elite clans and the lesser skilled clans. Some people have said that this is the first summer that there have been significantly less clans active in the scene. I really hope most of the clans (and why not a few new ones?) will show up and play in EQL this season, and if not this season then they?re very welcome the next one. Last season ended with two very heavy W.O. victories in the final rounds of the division 1 playoff and that's something we all don't want to see happen again as it is very sad to not get the action you would expect from such great clans.

In time for this season i've tried to improve the site in a few areas. I made some work in the beginning of the summer so i might have forgotten about some of the differences you'll see. Most of the optimization has been on the admin side of things so i don't think there will be any big change for you. Anyway, there have been changes on the ruleset side of things too and the major thing being the decision to implement a bit of a more fixed schedule this season. We made a survey on the site as you may know that was along the lines of In EQL4 I would like to play matches on... (more info in Ideas for EQL4) and the result was:

This wasn?t any final vote however, it was just to see if a change would get accepted among the players. While the old system got the most votes, we believe that it would be interesting with a change to see if it (hopefully) has a nice effect when it comes to the amount of played games in time. Our goal with this change is that we don't want to see clans play all of their 7 games or so the last week of the season. We want the standings to be accurate to how the clans have played so far, just like in any other competitive acitivity.

With this we could also have a page on the site that shows upcoming games with dates and even times (even if some games will be delayed due to various pingwhine of course, but you'll still know that they will play) when they?re going to battle it out. It will be easier for the spectating player to know when he's going to buy his julmust and ostb?gar and tune in Sassa on teamspeak. The only downside to this being that clans might have to make QW a bit more of a priority of course. I don?t think it will be that great of a change for the clans though ? just make sure you have enough free players!

To pull this off we have made the decision to let clans supply us with at least three occasions in the week that are the most suitable for them. You do that when you log in with your team account and add your players e.t.c. In that menu it says "add weekdays and times", just add the ones most suitable to you. When we later on generate the schedule we will take these days and times into concern to make the schedule as good as possible. If things still doesn?t fit between two clans then it will be possible to reschedule ? but only one week forward and you have to do it one week before the game is on!

Enough rambling about, now it's time for you to sign up for this league and get some practice games going so you can shape up in time for the start at the 18th of september. If you notice any weird errors on the site then please comment on it in this news item. If you don't find any errors, then comment anyway!

Let's rock'n'roll!

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Comments

#1 2006-09-05 00:01 by mx (83.70.55.XXX)

is there still going to be a prize pot?

#2 2006-09-05 00:04 by manny (86.132.71.XXX)

so very green

#3 2006-09-05 00:08 by ?ke Vader (217.210.105.XXX)

mx: I'm not quite sure really. It's Zanne who made that statement back in May i think and he's been absent for a while now and haven't updated us on that topic. I'll make sure he gets back to this thread though. :)

#4 2006-09-05 00:10 by tumult (85.224.197.XXX)

wow!

#5 2006-09-05 00:12 by Jenna15 (62.142.245.XXX)

This really sux because I can't give any specific time for the weekdays because I atleast work at two shifts :(

#6 2006-09-05 01:54 by ?ke Vader (217.210.105.XXX)

We are thinking of skipping the day and time thingie we have now and are gonna use when we generate the schedule later on. Instead of the 3-day-a-week stuff we would just randomize a day and time (a decent day and time, like not friday/saturday and 18-21 cet) and if those times won't do, then the clans will have to reschedule well in advance. It will probably only be like 7-8 games at most and the rescheduling would be done via the site so it's quite easy to go through with i think.

What do you think of this? I guess some clans won't even bother to submit their times and stuff so this would be a straight on approach to make everyone not having to do it. Would also be easier to actually code i guess. :)

Enough rambling, i'm heading to bed. Nice to see some clans signed up already. :]

#7 2006-09-05 09:34 by Hooraytio (212.214.218.XXX)

i think most clans play on sundays so the servers will maybe be even more used on those days if you schedule on sundays

just something to think about

#8 2006-09-05 10:44 by vb (211.30.141.XXX)

Man, what the fuck is the deal with all this spam targetted @ Quake sites :/

Oh yer, congrats on a 4th season!

#9 2006-09-05 11:10 by cuky (84.42.163.XXX)

wtf colors? interesting change...

#10 2006-09-05 11:29 by mli (213.216.199.XXX)

EQL 4 = better than xmas and brithday at the same time!

#11 2006-09-05 12:03 by JohnNy_cz (84.38.184.XXX)

Please throw out outdated info from copied rules from previous EQL (at least map poll, allowed clients, ...). It's misleading for some people already.

#12 2006-09-05 12:21 by ?ke Vader (193.10.211.XXX)

Johnny: I added a small note saying that the rules aren't final. Better than nothing i suppose as i'm not 1000% on what to change and i guess some clans (especially the new ones) wants to have some kind of idea of what the ruleset looks like. :)

#13 2006-09-05 16:25 by Term (85.226.178.XXX)

i think most clans play on sundays so the servers will maybe be even more used on those days if you schedule on sundays

In my 1-of-3-day idea I commented this tho I might have made it more complicated then necessary.

I think that regardless of method (1-of-3-days or randomized) the ideal solution would be to have 20% of the matches scheduled on each day (not including Fridays and Saturdays) with 1/3 of the matches 19cet, 1/3 20cet and 1/3 21cet.

I'm sure most teams prefere to play on Sundays but a semi-fixed EQL-schedule should consider the server usage as well.

#14 2006-09-05 16:51 by Eta-bETa (81.229.236.XXX)

Like the color change!

#15 2006-09-05 17:06 by nas (83.226.240.XXX)

This red colored text is realy awfull :)

#16 2006-09-05 22:32 by Jaco (80.202.220.XXX)

HELP!!
Haven't yet found a clan to play with!
Had a four year break from qw, but i have been active since june. Skills are slowly coming back..
Any clan in div 4/5 needing players??
When does the singnup close?

#17 2006-09-06 09:33 by seni (212.226.133.XXX)

SSC and captain morgan will be ready!

#18 2006-09-06 16:22 by ?ke Vader (217.210.105.XXX)

Signup ends on the 17th september 23:59. :P

I guess we won't be too harsh on this but if you got your players ready to rumble then sign up asap. The more clans we get - the more hot for some action all other players will get too. :]

#19 2006-09-06 21:29 by razor (81.231.125.XXX)

the ones who said activity has been less this summer is totally out biking... i dont know what they got that from :) i usually am around on summers and from my pov this summer has by far been the most active summer in at least 2-3 years

#20 2006-09-06 21:31 by razor (81.231.125.XXX)

ok it has perhaps been hard to get prac but when was the last summer that you could get a prac? the inactivity has always been extremly low on summers, this summer had ALOT of mix games going thou, some summers before it has been pretty hard to even get a 2on2 going sometime :)

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