Changing the Signup System Options

[Zantikk]

For the next Respawn, I really do think the signup system has to change in order for the competitions to be run at the best of there potential.

This Respawn filled up in less than 48 HOURS. That's less than 2 days for teams to organize their roster for their respective competitions. It's difficult for most competitors because they have to round up players over xfire/steam and get them to confirm their attendance (which is tough considering respawn was announced a whole 2 MONTHS in advance).

To be honest, I don't think 'First in Best Dressed' works well for a LAN of this scale, especially with the 500 slots filling up so quickly. So it's either change the player limit (which has been discussed many times) or change how things work.

Sure, for you admins, this surplus of attendees is great, but for competitors in the comps its difficult.

I'm suggesting dividing up the 500 limit to allow teams competing to signup up separately. For example, allocating 50 seats to the CoD comp (10 teams), 50 to CS, 50 to TF2 etc. Or, allow team captains to reserve 5 seats for their team (this would therefore mean having the team/comp signups before respawn instead of having it done on the respawn intranet).

Just an idea. Because at the moment, it looks like I won't be able to get my other teammates in.

Discuss.

[wolfmother]

To be honest, I don't think it's "fine" or "fair" at all, but there's no better and fairer way given the circumstances. The current system has a lot of problems and I personally think it's rather rude to some of the people who are missing out unfairly to act like it was their own fault. However, it's a very difficult problem and there's no perfect universal solution.

The only way to make sure everyone who registers comes is to require payment before you register, which has lots of different problems that prevent it being practical in the immediate future. However, ticketing for any event which has more potential attendees than seats is never going to be fair in the sense that lots of people are going to miss out (and there's no magical way of deciding how much people "deserve" to come other than nonsense like 'how quickly they registered' and 'how much they're willing to pay').

However, this does not mean that a solution isn't possible; simply that it hasn't been found yet. It's something that's worth working on and experimenting with, particularly after seeing this event book out in ~27 hours.