If you dont mind i would try live streaming and comentating it (never did it before, i am gonna suck as hell in it but i wanna try it ). Because i would like to get some practice for an cup which viateam would like to setup sometime in June (something bigger with decent prices like ggl was). So what do you say?
Come IRC some evening, lets talk about how we could this in the best possible way.
Added bete (with correct flag), voety and blindy.
Also, as the format of the cup relies heavily on the amount of players, who sign up, so I can't publish the format right now. I'm thinking about having 1 groups, if we get less than 6 teams. 2 groups if we get 6-10 teams. Everybody would play everybody in groups, and play-offs would follow.
If we don't get an amount that divides with 3, then we could have some teams that have 4 players. The one player would act as an subsitute, and if 2 teams who have 4 players match eachother, then of course, they would 4v4 instead of 3v3.
Sound good?
I'm thinking about reducing the timelimit. Two reasons for that:
1) shorther length of the tournament. If you have to play 3-5 matches, then it takes ~70-110min, add play offs and you get a 2-3 hour tournament. I think the tourny should be ~2h maximum. And maybe grand final a little later, especially if it gets shout casted.
2) the gameplay might get monotonous, and it would be just boring to play it 20 minutes in a row.
10 min timelimit? 15?
Oh, and map picking is done as usual. Eliminating. 3 maps in the mappool, each team eliminates one. Play the one remaining. It is captains job, again, to explain members how the map picking works and work out the map they don't want to play prior to the game, so the map eliminating process takes as little time as possible.
Added ***Captains job*** to the original post. Includes suggestions how captains should run their team during the cup. It is important to me that the captains are capable or taking care of their team during the cup, because then I won't have to babysit every player throughout the cup.
Also, are there any players in the current sign up list, who would like to be a captain?