AFL Signup

2007-03-15T16:25:43Z

Alex: /* Team Registration */

{{AFLTbl}}

{{:AFL_Deadline_Summer_2007}}

If you want to sign up for the July short season, please do so here. To register, you *must* create a page on this wiki that will contain your team's roster for the season. Every player listed must be verifiably unique, either via email or some other identifier. For more information, read about [[AFL_Registration|registration requirement]].

== Team Registration ==

Please place your team name here with a link to your roster, and optionally a link to your own website.

* '''Anarchic Wanderers''' (Rico, ...)
* etc.

[[Category:Events]]
[[Category:2007/06/05]]

Talk:AW for kotg

2007-03-14T16:28:31Z

Alex:

Wasn't it better to put this in a new section of the old AW page? --[[User:Madmax|madmax]] 07:12, 12 March 2007 (CDT)

Probably, but I couldnt be arsed changing it and thought I might as well just create a new one, heh. ~ '''Rico'''

AFL Servers

2007-03-13T13:24:52Z

Alex: /* Servers Available */

{{AFLTbl}}

Here is a list of servers available for the league. If you'd like to contribute a server, please add yourself to the list.

== Servers Available ==

{|- style="width: 100%;" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|- style=" background: lightgray;"
| '''Server''' || '''Location''' || '''Administrator'''
|-
| Swamplords AFL Server || Austin, TX || [[User:Lucifer|Lucifer]]
|-
| Z-Man's AFL Server (custom connect to l23.thp.uni-koeln.de:4540) || Cologne, Germany || [[User:Z-Man|Z-Man]]
|-
| Rico's AFL Server (this is normall ¦x¦ Fortress or ¦x¦ Sumo, I will convert it over for the tourmanent. This server is hosted free of charge, so can get quite laggy when it is busy)|| Germany || Rico
|-
| Your server? || ||
|}

== For Administrators ==

To facilitate administration, we ask that you share with team captains who wish to declare your server as their home server the admin password for your server. Obviously you should change the password to the one you intend to share before the game, and change it back to your private password after the game. However, we also prefer servers to be setup within our own network of game servers, thus they will not show in the master server list. It would also be nice if you make your servers available 24/7 like you do your regular server, so that teams can practice. Ideally, the teams who call your server home are teams that consist mostly of players that regularly play your server and already have established good relations with you.

More information on how we'd like servers to be administered for the league will appear here as it becomes available, however you do not *have* to provide a separate server for the competition. To help out, all you really need to do is make sure the server you are contributing will run the appropriate settings for the games when they are scheduled, and that it will be available for the games it is scheduled for.

Anarchic wanderers

2007-03-11T23:52:09Z

Alex: /* '''Message''' */

Ladle Feedback

2006-10-01T22:36:06Z

Alex: /* Feedback for the Fourth Ladle */

{{Ladle-4}}

Please write your comments below about your experience of the event. You can also add comments about how it could be better... This information may be useful for anyone who tries to do such a thing again... We have to discuss stuff so that decisions made...

== Feedback for the Fourth Ladle ==

;[[User:2020|2020]] 02.31, 29 September 2006 (CDT)
:Haven't started, one day to go, and the preparation, redesigning of wiki, simplifying procedure, hasn't increased the numbers of participants. My impression is, a lot of good players just want to turn up on the night and play. They don't want to plan, organise or anything. Kind of like anarchists, which is why maybe Anarchic Wanderers seemed to work. As for lack of clan presence, I think there are only two clans this time, that may be because I didn't advertise, but that is a bit of a lame excuse. So... although I hope we have a few good games tomorrow, I don't think it is going to run very smoothly. This is through no no fault of the system, nor even the players because that is just what they do. The idea of designing a system which is flexible enough to deal with no preparation on the part of the players... hmmm...
:I think all that is required is that you have just one person on the team organised enough to stick down names etc. On the night, it just depends who turns up. But if they don't use IRC, this could be very tricky indeed. Still, with the brackets set, it might just work...
:Finally, it doesn't take a month to organise this. It should if there are a lot of players and a lot of activity in the challenge board, teams meeting up and practicing and so on. But Tronic Monkeys haven't had one game together, and I haven't got contact details for most of them... Most of the other teams seem more solid though. But a month? Not needed.

;[[User:2020|2020]] 17.01, 1 October 2006 (CDT)
:Got kicked out of AST for some reason while recording the first match of the finals... pity we won't have a recording of the game... Tronic Monkeys were a bunch of monkeys, badly organised and not enough skill, so we lost in the quarters against WPN, the better team without a doubt. I saw and recorded most of Steve Taylor v proNoobz in the semi and that was some game. Impressive. Everything seemed to go proNoobz way on the breaks...
:Rounds are too short, at least not for the actual match, between the two quarters, one started on time, and the other about half an hour late. Mad and manta mentioned timing, and said it wasn't clear enough.
:Some players were very critical. Some get stressed. That's because some players are just not getting together on time, or people are trying to organise while playing... which is difficult to concentrate.
:On the whole, I think it demonstrates that people can self-organise. I mean, 6 teams playing matches in under three hours. That's not bad.

; [[User:Meriton|Meriton]] 17.27, 1 October 2006 (CDT)
:IRC worked well to agree on servers IMHO. All in all, it was well organised (and definitely worked better than last time). The few areas for improvement:
: I think we need a rule to deal with incomplete teams: At the official start time of the match, WS had 3 players. We waited 20 minutes to start (they had 4 by that time). Even then, some actually suggested to wait an hour (!) for spidey to emerge. The actual match took less time than waiting for it ...
: The issue about many ordinary players joining a server while a match is in progress remains unresolved. It was particularly bad as WildWest in our first match. My instant chat that asked them to leave was used every couple of minutes. Less, though still annoying are spectators how persist in chatting while a match is going on. Even worse was the question about the current standing that was asked every few minutes. Please, if you want instant news, delegate one person to watch the game who announces intermediate results in IRC.
: I'd like to play best of 5 to increase the proportion of playing with respect to waiting time.

;[[User:Durka|Durka]] 17.30, 1 October 2006 (CDT)
:Well, [[We Pwn Noobs|WPN]] killed the [[Tronic Monkeys]] in the first round. Then, the second round started almost immediately. We should have gotten like a 15 minute break...my brain was fried. The second round we played against the [[Holers]]. They completely slaughtered us. They took every hole possible. [[User:Sasha|Sasha]] went thru our middle it seemed like every time. We never really got a rythm going. One of our clanmates (not to be named right now) got kicked out of the clan due to his behavior during the Ladle. All in all, it was much better organized than the previous Ladles. Great job 2020 once again!

'''Alex ~~'''
:2020: i asked you to leave while we were sorting out our teams but you didnt. i never kicked you though.

:if you want my full response, read the General forum.

== Previous Feedback ==

*[[Ladle-1/Feedback]]
*[[Ladle-2/Feedback]]
*[[Ladle-3/Feedback]]

Ladle Feedback

2006-10-01T22:35:37Z

Alex: /* Feedback for the Fourth Ladle */

{{Ladle-4}}

Please write your comments below about your experience of the event. You can also add comments about how it could be better... This information may be useful for anyone who tries to do such a thing again... We have to discuss stuff so that decisions made...

== Feedback for the Fourth Ladle ==

;[[User:2020|2020]] 02.31, 29 September 2006 (CDT)
:Haven't started, one day to go, and the preparation, redesigning of wiki, simplifying procedure, hasn't increased the numbers of participants. My impression is, a lot of good players just want to turn up on the night and play. They don't want to plan, organise or anything. Kind of like anarchists, which is why maybe Anarchic Wanderers seemed to work. As for lack of clan presence, I think there are only two clans this time, that may be because I didn't advertise, but that is a bit of a lame excuse. So... although I hope we have a few good games tomorrow, I don't think it is going to run very smoothly. This is through no no fault of the system, nor even the players because that is just what they do. The idea of designing a system which is flexible enough to deal with no preparation on the part of the players... hmmm...
:I think all that is required is that you have just one person on the team organised enough to stick down names etc. On the night, it just depends who turns up. But if they don't use IRC, this could be very tricky indeed. Still, with the brackets set, it might just work...
:Finally, it doesn't take a month to organise this. It should if there are a lot of players and a lot of activity in the challenge board, teams meeting up and practicing and so on. But Tronic Monkeys haven't had one game together, and I haven't got contact details for most of them... Most of the other teams seem more solid though. But a month? Not needed.

;[[User:2020|2020]] 17.01, 1 October 2006 (CDT)
:Got kicked out of AST for some reason while recording the first match of the finals... pity we won't have a recording of the game... Tronic Monkeys were a bunch of monkeys, badly organised and not enough skill, so we lost in the quarters against WPN, the better team without a doubt. I saw and recorded most of Steve Taylor v proNoobz in the semi and that was some game. Impressive. Everything seemed to go proNoobz way on the breaks...
:Rounds are too short, at least not for the actual match, between the two quarters, one started on time, and the other about half an hour late. Mad and manta mentioned timing, and said it wasn't clear enough.
:Some players were very critical. Some get stressed. That's because some players are just not getting together on time, or people are trying to organise while playing... which is difficult to concentrate.
:On the whole, I think it demonstrates that people can self-organise. I mean, 6 teams playing matches in under three hours. That's not bad.

; [[User:Meriton|Meriton]] 17.27, 1 October 2006 (CDT)
:IRC worked well to agree on servers IMHO. All in all, it was well organised (and definitely worked better than last time). The few areas for improvement:
: I think we need a rule to deal with incomplete teams: At the official start time of the match, WS had 3 players. We waited 20 minutes to start (they had 4 by that time). Even then, some actually suggested to wait an hour (!) for spidey to emerge. The actual match took less time than waiting for it ...
: The issue about many ordinary players joining a server while a match is in progress remains unresolved. It was particularly bad as WildWest in our first match. My instant chat that asked them to leave was used every couple of minutes. Less, though still annoying are spectators how persist in chatting while a match is going on. Even worse was the question about the current standing that was asked every few minutes. Please, if you want instant news, delegate one person to watch the game who announces intermediate results in IRC.
: I'd like to play best of 5 to increase the proportion of playing with respect to waiting time.

;[[User:Durka|Durka]] 17.30, 1 October 2006 (CDT)
:Well, [[We Pwn Noobs|WPN]] killed the [[Tronic Monkeys]] in the first round. Then, the second round started almost immediately. We should have gotten like a 15 minute break...my brain was fried. The second round we played against the [[Holers]]. They completely slaughtered us. They took every hole possible. [[User:Sasha|Sasha]] went thru our middle it seemed like every time. We never really got a rythm going. One of our clanmates (not to be named right now) got kicked out of the clan due to his behavior during the Ladle. All in all, it was much better organized than the previous Ladles. Great job 2020 once again!

Alex ~~
2020: i asked you to leave while we were sorting out our teams but you didnt. i never kicked you though.

if you want my full response, read the General forum.

== Previous Feedback ==

*[[Ladle-1/Feedback]]
*[[Ladle-2/Feedback]]
*[[Ladle-3/Feedback]]

Ladle-4/Challenge Board

2006-10-01T20:04:08Z

Alex: /* Semi Finals 8.15pm GMT */

{{Ladle-4}}

The Challenge Board is designed to make the pairing of teams easier. '''The challenge board is now locked.'''

The following list is the definitive schedule. There is a choice of servers to allow predominantly American teams an opportunity to play in a low-ping grid.

=== Quarter Finals 7.30pm GMT ===
* Team 1 challenges Team 2 on Z-man's Tournament Fortress
* Team 3 challenges Team 4 on AST Fortress
* Team 5 challenges Team 6 on Wildwest - Fortress (bugfarm)
* Team 7 challenges Team 8 on LOD Lords of Destruction Fortress Server

=== Semi Finals 8.15pm GMT ===
* Team 1/2 challenges Team 3/4 on AST Fortress
* Team 5/6 challenges Team 7/8 on US Fortress

=== Finals 9pm GMT ===
* Team 1/2/3/4 challenges Team 5/6/7/8 on AST Fortress or US Fortress

Server allocation depends on what servers are available on the night. Check the discussion page to see recent availability of servers providing Standard Fortress Settings, and feel free to propose alternatives. Ultimately, Team-Captains will decide.

=== Challenge Board ===

* Team 1 is... [[We Pwn Noobs|WPN]]
* Team 2 is... [[Tronic Monkeys]]
* Team 3 is...
* Team 4 is... [[Holers]]
* Team 5 is... [[SteveTaylor]]
* Team 6 is... [[Wraith Squadron]]
* Team 7 is... proN00bz
* Team 8 is... .Tronners in pyjamas|

The Challenge Board is locked. Only WPN is either Team 1 or Team 3... flipping a coin... heads for team 1... done -- heads, so WPN is Team 1, and Team 4, Holers, get a bye in the quarters and their first game is in the semi's.

=== Provisional Brackets ===

{| border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px black; border-collapse:collapse; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show; text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" | Quarter Finals !! colspan="2" | Semi Finals !! colspan="2" | Final !! | Winner
|-
| colspan="2" style="border-bottom:3px double" | 7:30 PM GMT || colspan="2" style="border-bottom:3px double" | 8:15 PM GMT || colspan="2" style="border-bottom:3px double" | 9:00 PM GMT || style="border-bottom:3px double" |
|-
|WPN || nyp
| rowspan="2" | wpn/tm || rowspan="2" | nyp
| rowspan="4" | wpn/tm/ho || rowspan="4" | nyp
| rowspan="8" | WINNER
|-
|tm || nyp
|-
|none || N/A
| rowspan="2" | ho || rowspan="2" | nyp
|-
|ho || '''bye'''
|-
|st || nyp
| rowspan="2" | st/ws || rowspan="2" | nyp
| rowspan="4" | st/ws/pN/TiP || rowspan="4" | nyp
|-
|ws || nyp
|-
|pN || nyp
| rowspan="2" | pN/TiP || rowspan="2" | nyp
|-
|TiP || nyp
|}

This will be filled out throughout the competition

{{Ladle-4}}