ChristmessTournament - Help

[DuVeL]

Okay, I might need some help with this.
 
1)As it will be in Source what would you all recommend? Set up TeamSpeak for each team?
2)Admins: best to put 1 in each team if possible?
3)MR12 - 3 minutes rounds?
4)For finals, is Source TV and such necessary? What do you think?
5)I'll let others play this 1 and will be online for questions during matches and such.
 
I know TeaLeaf and such sorted it previously, any suggestions and tips are welcome.
 
Cheers, Pete.

[TeaLeaf]

My biggest best advice:

Keep it short.  Keep it punctual.

MR12 @ 3 mins makes for a 45 minute match on average.  If you plan on playing more than 2 matches then shorten it.

Never under-estimate how stupid people are.  They will need cajoling onto the right server and you will need to be running HLSW to monitor the lot and chase them up.

You will need a queue of I suggest 25% of the members signed up to play.  Yes, that many will not turn up and you will need those reserves to step in and make up the numbers at very short notice.  Make sure the SLs get their team member's phone numbers to chase them!

Source TV is good for the finals, people might want to watch and I believe it is already set up on the server.

I would play if you can, but make sure your team have an Admin in each one so that there will always be someone to start the match & rcon everything!

Teamspeak - yes you have to have a TS server for this imo as the comms on CSS are just too awful to contend with - the SOG TS server is available if you want.  I suggest a main channel, plus one for each squad - they can be named beforehand and passworded to help if needed.

Finally, the competition will take longer than you think.  Over-estimate the time it will take when planning the competition and then try to minimise the time expected.

TL.

[DuVeL]

Cheers m8!
I allready thought of a few things you suggested.
I might change the roundtimes still but I put up MR12 on purpose.
 
I'm not sure what cajoling means but I get what you mean. I haven't been using HLSW before, is it easy to set up and use? Am I allowed to use it as an admin?
 
On the numbers that I expect, offcourse it will be depending on the date and time but I expect dMw'ers and SoG'gers. I added the dMw and SoG tags just to show that both are playing.
When the SL's have been determined I will make sure that all the SL's should have a way of communicating between them and their team (MSN/X-fire/ICQ/IRC). I'm intending to be on MSN/X-fire/IRC with IRC as the biggest communicationmethod.

[Dr Sadako]

Okay, I might need some help with this.
 
1)As it will be in Source what would you all recommend? Set up TeamSpeak for each team?
2)Admins: best to put 1 in each team if possible?
3)MR12 - 3 minutes rounds?
4)For finals, is Source TV and such necessary? What do you think?
5)I'll let others play this 1 and will be online for questions during matches and such.
 
I know TeaLeaf and such sorted it previously, any suggestions and tips are welcome.
 
Cheers, Pete.

1) Yes definitely. VC in CSS sucks. Make sure that CTs and Ts have assigned channels for each server BEFORE the tournament starts. Post a thread and spam it everyday a week in advance until the tourney.
2) Yes. We have done so in the other tournaments since the first Christmas tourney (which I take credit for)
3) MR12 is good. 3 minutes is ok but no more. 2 min would do as well if we have many teams.
4) Source TV should be on for the finals. It is always good fun to look at the finals. I suggest that we have a STV channel in TS as well.
5) Could be a wise move as it is you first tournament as organiser.

[Dr Sadako]

Cheers m8!
I'm not sure what cajoling means but I get what you mean. I haven't been using HLSW before, is it easy to set up and use? Am I allowed to use it as an admin?

HLSW is dead easy to set up. Use it! www.hlsw.net
Yes you are allowed to use it as an admin.
 

On the numbers that I expect, offcourse it will be depending on the date and time but I expect dMw'ers and SoG'gers. I added the dMw and SoG tags just to show that both are playing.
When the SL's have been determined I will make sure that all the SL's should have a way of communicating between them and their team (MSN/X-fire/ICQ/IRC). I'm intending to be on MSN/X-fire/IRC with IRC as the biggest communicationmethod.

Consider having a TS channel called Admins ... saves you time writing. Every admin reports in to that channel prior to match start.

[DuVeL]

There arn't alot of people replying to the datesuggestions and these are what I got so far:
-24th, my own suggestion, Sunday before Christmas.
-Christmasevening (I don't really prefer this, especially for people with families);
-Boxing day (Not sure but is this the first day after christmas, the 27th?)
-27 or 28th;
 
If the admins have a suggestion, please let me know.
After that I'll make a poll.

[Whitey]

I'd rather not play on the evening of the 24th or anytime the 25th.  Boxing day sounds good though.  I'm happy to help out with the Admin stuff and getting the SourceTV running etc.

[DuVeL]

I'd rather not play on the evening of the 24th or anytime the 25th. Boxing day sounds good though. I'm happy to help out with the Admin stuff and getting the SourceTV running etc.

I wasn't thinking of the evening of the 24th. More like the afternoon and maybe the beginning of the evening (12.00-18.00 or so).
As said, when is boxing day? Is that the 27th?

[Whitey]

Boxing day is the 26th

[DuVeL]

Another question about HLSW, I can add bots and such through this program aswell yes?
For the settings of this, I've installed at my work so I can try it out from here, how do I connect to our publicserver?

[Anonymous]

Another question about HLSW, I can add bots and such through this program aswell yes?
For the settings of this, I've installed at my work so I can try it out from here, how do I connect to our publicserver?

enter 87.240.138.21:27019 in the IP box (use port 27015 for MH instead of Boomer)

Click ONCE on the server that appears in the list and put the RCON pw in the rcon box - remember to tick HIDE so no-one else can see it. As you are at work suggest you do not save RCON PW in program.

After that you can chat from the chat tab and carry out console commands from the (wait for it) console tab!

[Whitey]

If you have a proxy server/firewall at work then it won't work unless the correct ports are open.

[DuVeL]

Another question:
How do I make a poll now on the forum?
I wanted to make a poll in the Tournamentsection about the date for the ChristmessTournament but I can't get it to work with the "new" forum
 
-24 December;
-Christmas-Evening
-26 December
-27 December
-28 December
-None of the above, place suggestion...

[TeaLeaf]

Forget the last option.  

Use the includ epoll option at the botton of the new post section.  The following page gives you the options.  We need a date RealSoonNow(TM)

TL.

[Dr Sadako]

In Scandinavian countries Christmas is celibrated on the 24th ... :devil: