I play medic for Power Rangers, and I'd like to have an IM level or higher medic go over one of my demos with me. I'm mainly looking for advice on my positioning, and how I can be more effective with my ubers.

http://cf-event.multiplay.co.uk/events/i46/

Scholar wrote:

you shouldn't give the teams too much shit, not everyone knows every single weapon and a whole league depends on their decision. the safe choice for them is ban anything that isn't a medlock, the soldier melees, the paintrain and boston basher

I've never even heard of cp_evergreen. Foundry and cp_ashville are good candidates, but why only four maps to pick from? I could list about six or seven maps total that deserve a vote-in. Croissant, Standin, Follower, koth_ashville, and Mainline would all have a good chance at beating Warmfront in a poll, which I think should be the basis of whether the map should be in the poll in the first place.

Granted, you can't really put as many maps in as exist because then the results would be skewed, but I really think that at least Foundry, cp_ashville, Mainline, Standin, and Croissant should get in the poll.

One map I'm curious about is cp_quay. I've never played it, but it's from the developer of Snakewater. I know the new maps pug group played it a fair bit, how did it do? Was it viable for ESEA, or is there more work to be done on it?

I got it to work by changing my dxlevel to 81.

wareya wrote:

wait when was the lsat time someone seriously suggested a beta map on this forum for ESEA
croissant ashville foundry and follower aren't beta
obscure I don't remember though

cp_ashville is also still in beta.

Shwan wrote:

TL/DR: If a map has the word "beta" in it we probably shouldn't put it in the season, and certainly shouldn't put it in playoffs.

Looking at the last two seasons, I don't think we had any problems with maps simply because they were in beta. Standin didn't really do great, but that was more because it wasn't that good of a map, not that it was underdeveloped. This season we had Process, which I think will be a staple map for many seasons to come. Both were beta, and were ready as they were for league play.

There needs to be some beta maps in the group, especially if they're pretty much fully developed as is, and the creator is willing to adjust the map after the season as Scorpio did with Process already.

Killing12 wrote:

3) IM teams

I'll have to think about that but a question back to you. Do I take all IM teams or top x?

If that doesn't sound feasible, then you could just take the teams that played in IM playoffs last season.

Going back to the banned items, I would suggest expanding the voting to at least some IM teams, like those who were in IM this past season and are continuing on to participate in IM next season, too.

Right now I feel like there's too few people voting on the weapons in the first place, and it can lead to radically different results each season. The way it's set up now could result in having Bonk banned, and EQ (now the Escape Plan) + gunboats unbanned like last season, and then we could see the opposite of Bonk being allowed and EP and gunboats banned. That's just a huge shift that could happen every season and screw with everything from season to season basically forcing us to guess whether something will be banned while scrimming before the ban lists are announced.

If you're not wanting to go to IM teams, how about having each invite team have 2 voters each? I feel like you're wanting highly experienced players to be the ones voting, and having more invite players on the panel can only lead to better results.

Banny is still playing better than Platinum, even as well as Plat is playing.

How did they manage to screw up this badly?

Looking again. Add me if you need a medic.

Found a team.

mustardoverlord wrote:

grats on getting stinger, he rapes now

just dont let him scout :>

Bump again, still looking for a team.