Respawn 12: Soviet Lanski De-Brief Thread!, for Comments, Criticism, etc! Options

[Tank]

Hey guys! well V12 is now over!

Since one of the main goals of the Respawn team is to continue to run fantastic events, feel free to post any comments, issues, critism, etc in this thread!

What would be awesome if you could firstly say which area you are adressing (power, network, food, comps, theming, other (or whatever), as that will make it easier for the respective admin's etc reply and also help us when we meet up to discuss things!

Please keep this thread orderly, no silly spam posts (which will be removed).

Thanks!

-Tank

[atticus]

Cooling: Have to agree with neon here - Vortex must have been sitting in a very different part of the hall to where I was if he's thanking you for not turning on the heating, because me and everyone sitting around me were pretty much freezing. I for one was certainly ready to sacrifice a significant degree of air quality for some heating in the morning.

Comps: My concern is that Respawn seems to be somewhat torn between running the TF2 comp as an event for casual players and a tournament with a serious ruleset like the other main comps, even though doing the latter doesn't really do anything to harm casual players' interests. This is somewhat frustrating because as far as I could tell CS:S and CoD4 enjoyed the same ruleset used in their respective competitive leagues, while looser class restrictions had us playing quite a radically different game from typical competitive TF2 with no real benefit apparant for it. Did casual teams feel like the game was significantly better because they were allowed to run two medics instead of one?

There were also some strange discrepencies and confusion in the scoring system, especially in the finals match. 5-CP push maps are generally played 30 minutes or first to 5 points, and finals matches are often played as a set of best of three games on different maps. Our first round involved that correct scoring system but playing the same map twice, and the finals were just played as one game with best of three points? lol

All I'm suggesting is that making that last step to fully match the ozfortress ruleset would make only positive impact to the gameplay and in return would open up the potential to bring in more decent teams. This is, in my opinion, a really important step for improving TF2 @ Respawn.

Aside from that, as the CoD4 players have mentioned for their own community, bigger prize money is always the big attraction for expansion. If the prizes are good, good players will want to come.

I don't want this post to be all suggestions/criticsm, because I had a really fun time at Respawn. I enjoyed all the comps I entered, and having those frequent fun comps was very cool. All the staff I talked to were friendly and clearly committed to running the best event they can, which is awesome. Thanks for your hard work guys.