Go ahead and do your post, loial21. I'm not really sure how it matters. I've been too busy to bother myself over the whole maplist thing. It was drafted, revised, revised, revised, etc. months ago. I would hate to put DirtyTaco, Pureblood and myself through the lengthy process of detailing exactly why every pair of maps was chosen (when they were chosen and in which order they were chosen) just so that a couple players who are still disagreeing with the selections can base new arguments on.
A couple goals that I had in mind while creating PBCup was to push the competitive pball2 scene in a new direction.
I will be the first to admit that there exist similarities between PBCup's direction and the existing state of eR33t. I spent 4 years pushing eR33t away from the 3v3 arctic/crates/arenaball gameplay trend that has been strong among clans for the last 6 years. eR33t has found their home on a couple maps, most notably castle1 and encounter.
Now with the launch of PBCup (some 2-3 years after starting it) I would like to give pball2 the push it needs to become a strategic team-oriented game.
Due to commitments I've made with regards to the PBCup launch, I've stepped down as a leader of eR33t. I will not be participating with eR33t in any of its PBCup matches, nor will I be providing eR33t with any tips/tricks/tactics/strategy that wouldn't be available otherwise.
Most people don't seem to give themselves a chance in PBCup against eR33t simply due to size of some of the selected maps. I would like to point out some weaknesses that eR33t is carrying into pre-season of PBCup:
- 5 player roster with little intentions on recruiting a player (makes it hard to practice 4v4 strategies internally, any practice would be exposing strategy to other clans during scrims)
- Very inexperienced using Ventrilo in matches. (Very bad at it as well)
- No formal strategy for either pre-season maps: mirrorr/kfields
- No formal practice on mirrorr/kfields
- BoB's ping is very unstable (usually 180-200 on PBCup servers)
I've already noticed a couple clans taking to the servers and practicing a few of the maps on the maplist and I think we some well-thought strategies and careful execution I wouldn't be surprised if a couple rounds get stolen from eR33t unless eR33t fixes some of their issues fast.
eR33t is not alone in terms of lack of preparation though. I'd strongly advise any clans that haven't began any preparation to get at least 2 hours together this week to really go over their strategy in-server for the pre-season round.
The pre-season round isn't going to be worth points in the final season standing, it's main intention is to allow clans get an idea of the structure and timing of matches so that they can make a few adjustments before their results make it to the scoreboard.