Regular High Elo/Whr Small Team Games

I think that there are quite a bit of highly skilled players that want small team games but don't find good matches because everyone is playing at a different time. It does feel uncomfortable to start a room alone just to have the next clusterpot starting without you.

I myself want to play some challenging and coordinated team games which are hopefully exciting to play and watch.



My current proposal:

- Every 2 Saturdays

Next meeting 02.01.21

- 18:00 UTC - ~21:00 UTC/Open-End
( https://time.is/de/UTC )

- Does not happen if tourney is on that day, in this case the next meeting is again in 2 weeks

- This is not some kind of tournament style room, come and go as you see fit and have time. The most important thing is to have some decent games and never forget to have some fun too!
(This is just to have some kind of high activity time for players to meet and play games together.)

- We would probably need a "Cold Elite" Room for that time period at about 2000+ Elo/Whr which is barely below/at top 50



Feel free to share your opinions and let me know if sth like this has some support to work


(join #topelo channel if you like high elo games, maybe we can get them to work even outside of the event.)


(PS: Feel free to watch these games even if you aren't able to join, you can probably learn a lot from these games)

Can we have these high elo team games on big maps with as much high elo players?

we had some of those already 13v13 on ccr 2000 whr + ....
average duration: 3 -4 minutes, then 1 side is raided to death...
so much for "porc is unavoidable in big teams"

i am definitely in. this is what i have waited for the last months.

As i already told you personaly, i look forward for the first games, hoping that i dont forget them either XD

But gj!

Changed start to 03.08.19 = this Saturday

Because there seems to be a good amount of players which want to join already and people are unable to remember things for over 1 week.

quote: Can we have these high elo team games on big maps with as much high elo players?

This depends on the players (and the playercount), if they want to we can play in a high elo lobsterpot lion's den room. But if people want to play small team games I want to provide them with a(multiple) room(s) to fight each other.

quote: ah question: casual or mm-whr?

I do not know how the elo/whr rooms work in Zero-k but I think they work with both (it should be casual or MM >= 2000)

Btw. I still need Admin support to set up the room (I cant create them myself) (maybe we need multiple rooms depending on the amount of players)

quote: I think all players minus grey should be able to play. cuz I'm an alright players but I don't play enough games and there might be other peeps like me

I am sorry but I do not want to make exceptions because of a simple reason:
I cannot predict your capabilities as a player so allowing every player to join would result what we call lobsterpot right now.
If you really are better then the others you can prove it by winning enough games to reach 2000+ elo in matchmaking or casual.
The only thing which barely is able to "predict" players skill is the current elo/whr system Zero-k uses so i have to rely on that.

I shall try to be there. When I get there, I'll probably play brown instead of blue, but such is life.

Sadly this weekend I am not available but hopefully there will be more occasions.

I believe that the best criteria is not having the top players, but being able to talk and cooperate with teammates. I don't think being restricted to top 50 is a guarantee that people will work together.

I only got promoted yesterday, and I still remeber a good match I had with corvus_corax that he helped me to 'expand naked'. Only that instruction was enough for my game to get a lot better.

I would believe that a invitation style for the people we see working together is the best way. (but I don't know if is possible)

I believe I will technically qualify if the matchmaking elo counts for the >2000 threshold, but I imagine I'd be one of the weaker participants nonetheless.

I intend to show up, but I'll be happy to give up a seat to more experienced participants if need be. I'm mostly really interested in seeing what modern high level teamplay looks like.

Perhaps in time, we might even be able to resurrect the scrims of old?

Well, problem with MM-Elo is that there just arent that many players ranked, and therefor there are players with +2000 Whr that will not be able to keep up in a high skilled team game.

Also i think the rooms only consider casual whr. But i'm not 100% shure.

Anyway, i will try to show up, but cant garantee... would be so sad to miss this tho....
We will see.