Serious Business: Semi-Casual Amalgamation of Semi-Competitive Players.

[copulatingduck]

Plenty of clans don't have a unified form for the tag. And others even claim the non-uniformity shows 'rank.' Unless we want a special tag to separate the competitive from the community (I don't think it's necessary).

[Vandamguy]

I'm going to be first to complain about this clan name.

BAL-SACK is entirely too long.  We need to shorten this up and I feel the word choice is random. 

I figure BA is a good start but the rest is just random shit to create a dick joke, I don't want my clan to revolve around a dick joke. 

Anyone else agree?

i don't think you've quite grasped the spirit of the community yet.

[Geoff]

[quote author=ZoSo link=topic=245.msg11203#msg11203 date=1212989029]
I'm going to be first to complain about this clan name.

BAL-SACK is entirely too long.  We need to shorten this up and I feel the word choice is random. 

I figure BA is a good start but the rest is just random shit to create a dick joke, I don't want my clan to revolve around a dick joke. 

Anyone else agree?

i don't think you've quite grasped the spirit of the community yet.
[/quote]

qft

[ainmosni]

I'm going to be first to complain about this clan name.

BAL-SACK is entirely too long.  We need to shorten this up and I feel the word choice is random. 

My Idea: Anyone with a physical dictionary go to the B's and go to "Ba" and list out all the words starting with Ba that are less than 5 letters in length

I figure BA is a good start but the rest is just random shit to create a dick joke, I don't want my clan to revolve around a dick joke. 

I tried to search an online dictionary with "ba*.*"  but I couldn't get a list of words on the site I tried.   

Lets get a list and try and figure out a different meaning.

Anyone else agree?

I just have to say: Wooooooooooosh

[Kor]

I'll refer you, ZoSo, to the title of the thread.

Also: The Wednesday scrim is starting at 8pm EST. My apologies to the Euros, in advance, I'll attempt to get something rolling on Ain's server at your timezones forthwith.

[copulatingduck]

The Fratellis are playing in town on Wed. at 8pm.... :'(

If there is a separate time for Euros, might I be able to play in there? I've been waiting for this concert for weeks. :'(

[Kor]

The Fratellis are playing in town on Wed. at 8pm.... :'(

If there is a separate time for Euros, might I be able to play in there? I've been waiting for this concert for weeks. :'(

There will be more then one scrim happening, there's no way I can properly evaluate anyone from a single performance.

[Surf314]

[quote author=Vandamguy link=topic=245.msg11221#msg11221 date=1213015138]
[quote author=ZoSo link=topic=245.msg11203#msg11203 date=1212989029]
I'm going to be first to complain about this clan name.

BAL-SACK is entirely too long.  We need to shorten this up and I feel the word choice is random. 

I figure BA is a good start but the rest is just random shit to create a dick joke, I don't want my clan to revolve around a dick joke. 

Anyone else agree?

i don't think you've quite grasped the spirit of the community yet.
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qft
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Ditto

[ainmosni]

I'll refer you, ZoSo, to the title of the thread.

Also: The Wednesday scrim is starting at 8pm EST. My apologies to the Euros, in advance, I'll attempt to get something rolling on Ain's server at your timezones forthwith.

Gladly, give me a headsup and ill make it happen.

[ZoSo]

Plenty of clans don't have a unified form for the tag. And others even claim the non-uniformity shows 'rank.' Unless we want a special tag to separate the competitive from the community (I don't think it's necessary).

I think we should have some distinction between competition brb.u members and standard.

I'll refer you, ZoSo, to the title of the thread.

Also: The Wednesday scrim is starting at 8pm EST. My apologies to the Euros, in advance, I'll attempt to get something rolling on Ain's server at your timezones forthwith.

What does the title of this thread have to do with our clan name?

I thought it was just some random title on a thread.

If we are naming our clan BAL-SACK I think I'm going to be competing elsewhere.

Doesn't mean I'd leave BrB.U servers

[quote author=ZoSo link=topic=245.msg11203#msg11203 date=1212989029]
I'm going to be first to complain about this clan name.

BAL-SACK is entirely too long.  We need to shorten this up and I feel the word choice is random. 

I figure BA is a good start but the rest is just random shit to create a dick joke, I don't want my clan to revolve around a dick joke. 

Anyone else agree?

i don't think you've quite grasped the spirit of the community yet.
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Please elaborate.



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I understand this is all just for fun, but I do believe in having a tag that isn't something a 13yr old kid would make up.  See yall at the scrim on Wed @ 8PM EST

[Surf314]

Zoso, it was a joke.  The idea is that we aren't going to have a real clan with a real tag, but we'd scrim with some other clans in friendly matches and kick their asses.  Because we are cool like that.

Explaining the joke has officially ruined it, much apologies to Rummy.  I will live the rest of my life in shame now, as the joke was epic in proportions.

[ZoSo]

make sure you read my post again, I think you read it way too early

[Surf314]

All this sort of brings up a point though, something I think we should address.  Our major allure and defining characteristic is that we are anti-competitive anti-douchecocknozzle.  So making this too formal or rigid would sort of destroy that.  I mean at our heart we are a group of people that play and joke around and are friendly and want to get away from people that are immature and are overly competitive or just plain assholes.

The point is maybe we should approach this in a different way.  Instead of forming rigid teams and tiers is there a way we can do this that fits more in line with our groups personality?

I was thinking of a couple different things and maybe someone has an idea.  One is to seperate us into skill tiers and then each match we would use a set number of each tier and pick those people at random so everyone would have a chance to play every match.  The skill tiers would have to be constantly re-assessed though.

The other idea is based around our pick-ups.  What if we had sort of a group of captains like 2-4 and these people could pick from a pool of people that were interested.  Then we could play some friendly inter-brbu matches and the top captain would be the one who would pick the team for the match with whoever.  Then we'd reset and 2-4 new people could be captains.

I like the second idea better, because it fits with us more and is less complicated.  Plus it won't create any elitism.  If anyone can think of something better though that would be cool.

[copulatingduck]

All this sort of brings up a point though, something I think we should address.  Our major allure and defining characteristic is that we are anti-competitive anti-douchecocknozzle.  So making this too formal or rigid would sort of destroy that.  I mean at our heart we are a group of people that play and joke around and are friendly and want to get away from people that are immature and are overly competitive or just plain assholes.

The point is maybe we should approach this in a different way.  Instead of forming rigid teams and tiers is there a way we can do this that fits more in line with our groups personality?

I was thinking of a couple different things and maybe someone has an idea.  One is to seperate us into skill tiers and then each match we would use a set number of each tier and pick those people at random so everyone would have a chance to play every match.  The skill tiers would have to be constantly re-assessed though.

The other idea is based around our pick-ups.  What if we had sort of a group of captains like 2-4 and these people could pick from a pool of people that were interested.  Then we could play some friendly inter-brbu matches and the top captain would be the one who would pick the team for the match with whoever.  Then we'd reset and 2-4 new people could be captains.

I like the second idea better, because it fits with us more and is less complicated.  Plus it won't create any elitism.  If anyone can think of something better though that would be cool.

tldr; gtfo  :3

[cannedpeahes]

Have we thought about what maps this'll be tested on? Because, as yeh know, not all maps are created equal.

[CaffeinePowered]

Have we thought about what maps this'll be tested on? Because, as yeh know, not all maps are created equal.

Link to List
Main League Site

Including most of the stock maps, as well as the following

CTF
0Fear
Chaos
Fishy_b4
impact2
jinxed_b3
mach4
quarry_v2
smooth_b2
turbine_v3

CP
desertfortress
floodzone2
grand_canyon_v2
horus_b3
labor
lazytown
orange_cross2_V2
science2
stag
studio_rc4
warpath

AD
castle3
castle4
junction_v2
stel_b4

[Wedge]

Whoa, where did all those maps come from?  We haven't recently or ever played almost half those.

[CaffeinePowered]

Whoa, where did all those maps come from?  We haven't recently or ever played almost half those.

Ill be adding a few on Tuesday

[rumsfald]

What does the title of this thread have to do with our clan name?

Who put "clan" in the title of the thread?

If we are naming our clan BAL-SACK I think I'm going to be competing elsewhere.
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I'm going to be first to complain about this clan name.

BAL-SACK is entirely too long.  We need to shorten this up and I feel the word choice is random. 

Anyone who isn't a first String BAL-SACKer will be relegated to the Team of Backup Amalgamation Gamers.  Zoso, would you like to volunteer to be the first TBAG?  Come on, I made this short acronym just for you.

I figure BA is a good start but the rest is just random shit to create a dick joke, I don't want my clan to revolve around a dick joke. 

Would you prefer a Bowl of Dicks? We serve that here too.

I understand this is all just for fun, but I do believe in having a tag that isn't something a 13yr old kid would make up.  

Thank you, sir, for the finest compliment.  If you read the other threads you would get the sarcasm.

[Vandamguy]

roflmao . going to have to +! again even though it pains me