$3,000 Tt eSPORTS NA Open - Page 5

On June 19 2011 01:34 The.Doctor wrote:
Ive had a pretty terrible experience with this tournament.

I'm working 2 jobs this summer and one of the jobs involves night shifts some days throughout the week often conflicting with the scheduled time of matches. Because of that, I think I've forfeited 3 matches. However, I've been playing in Cevo tournaments since counter strike and know that it's not always absolute. For every match I've posted in match comm asking to play a day earlier or earlier on the day off, before work but I haven't gotten a reply in match comm once except from sooch. Thus, I have no choice but to forfeit because players make no attempt to communicate with me. From my past experiences with Cevo, I know I can get it overturned so I always find those players on bnet and hound them to play. Most guys have been cool about it and played it out and we then overturned the results.

However, this guy I'm supposed to face in the finals bracket for the tournament, only a 1200 masters who took a FFw over the only other good player in the bracket (sooch) wasnt so cool. Firstly, I haven't relied on the schedule list since on Sunday I think it was there was a huge, huge change and I was lucky to have been home coming from a LAN because I didn't even know there was a match that day...the schedule said something like Wednesday iirc. Had to pm an admin to fix the achedule so i could even check in. Anyways, so I'm going yo work on Thursday when all of a sudden, at like 830 saying I have to play a match at 10, well, no way in hell that's gonna happen. I figured this guy would be cool and replay the matches the next day, I come home at 8am (one of those jobs, yeah) and I see him on SC. I ask him if he wants to play now, he says nope and signs off. I forgot to mention, I played him earlier and 2-0d him, quite handily.
So yesterday night I message him again asking if we can play them out and he (and I have screenshots of this) says no, I don't want to play you, I took the forfeit win and don't need to play you. I tell him admins can overturn it, nope he says. I swear at him a bunch and say fuck it, I'll just try and talk to an admin. This guy Is on a local toronto team so I'm not gonna post the SSs, but I know if I ever see him at a local LAN, I'm gonna be hard pressed not to punch him in the face.
I have no problems with lower ranked players playing in tournaments, I even encourage it so you can learn, experience the thrill and adrenaline, but when shit like this happens I get beyond angry. Sorry, this has been my rant/venting of my experience, Im angry that I had to rush home for work, put off the limited time I have to spend with friends and go late to work and 2-0 everyone just to be given an FFL in the finals.

Sorry about spelling, typing from phone.

I definitely think the tournament format needs to be worked on. If anything, I think it should be mandatory to post in match comm. Even if you're gonna be a dick and try to get a forfeit win. I also think it's extremely annoying to have to play so many matches and on every other day at that. I know I'm a minority who has things to do at night but I feel there should be a way to incorporate such players, maybe a calendar sort of thing you fill out with all the times you're available without being able to see the other persons, then agreeing on similar times.