Team Fortress 2 at V18 Options

[priorax]

Given that last Respawn we had over 10 teams sign up to the Team Fortress 2 competition, but only 5 teams were able to play due to the competition being delayed because of (among other things) Flatout 2 to a timeslot which it is just impractical for a large number of people to awake at, is there any changes being planned to make it more accommodate for players to play a larger tournament?

[priorax]

Also, even though I know I will never win the TF2 prize given the team that currently wins it constantly is still competing, but the prize for TF2 has been lowered over the time I have been at the lan because of lack of participation, could this be partially because it is constantly being pushed back?

[dead_man]

Also, even though I know I will never win the TF2 prize given the team that currently wins it constantly is still competing, but the prize for TF2 has been lowered over the time I have been at the lan because of lack of participation, could this be partially because it is constantly being pushed back?

i dont believe this is the case, when we had the $900 total prize for TF2 @ V15 with comp starting at midnight we got 8 team rego with 6 showup

V16 i lowered the prizepool for TF2 since at that stage we had half the teams to what cod4 and CSS got (think 22 rego for COD4 compared to 8 rego TF2 @ V15)
even though i didnt actually announce the prize money for TF2 for that lan, i advertised it as starting at 9pm (3 hours earlier than normal) and only had 5 team rego and 4 show up, this is after i delayed it back to nmidnight to try and get more teams involved

V17 saw the prize money lowered to $180 with the midnight time slot back in place and we got 15 team rego. so it doesnt make much sense tbh, there doesnt seem to be a pattern except that starting it early like i did with V16 really stopped alot of people competing due to COD4/CSS tournies under way