Another post, but with a different topic. About my activity...
As already said in #narf-priv today, I am thinking about not participating in the cup. This has multiple reasons I will explain a little further here.
1) Experiences in the last cup (daddies cup)
While playing the last cup we could only stick to a very small team. This team was skilled enough to get into the quarter finals. In the very end, before having the match vs. quad we were like 5 players (cRiM, Matiz, Flop, Cara, me) that really tried to study tactics and prepare for the upcoming, tough match. You'll find a little resumee of the match
here. The other players were active from time to time, tried to learn the tactics, but it was pretty obvious who will play the match. This gave me (and flop as well for example, I know because we talked about it back then) a lot of pressure. I usually play pretty constant, but what in case I don't in this particular match? There ain't any alternate players that worked into the tactics! Jesus, I literally had nightmares back then. On the one hand very thrilling, on the other very very stressful. Seriously, I don't wanna have that kind of pressure again. I wanna be able to sub when I suck and have the good conscience that my substitute is solid enough concerning the tactics, so he can do the job on my position that I wasn't able to do.
I still doubt that it will be different this time. Matiz mentioned more than once that some, certain players just aren't sticking to tactics and having an eye on what's happening around them (i.e. sniper stays back while 2on1). Every player (maybe except McFail - dunno) should know the tactics and gameplay on wfall by now. For the upcoming cup we'll have to practice two more maps that are new to this team (not to the individums, but to the team as such). We'll even have to study opponent's maps, and have to quickly learn new tactics and get used to the maps. I am unsure if this team is willing to do so.
2) Whining
I feel like the biggest whiner in the past days/weeks. I actually (someone said that very precisely) whine about the whining. It annoys me so much I even thought about leaving the team.
I'll try to explain what I've recognized.
We have some players that care about their ping a lot. You can have different views on ping at all, but that's not what I wanna discuss now. Sad is, that some players whine about their ping and servers a lot but kinda are not noticing (Is there something wrong with your eyesight?) when the opponent got ping 150 as well. That happened today again for example. I hear phrases like "but they lamed us on their server, it's just fair". No it's not. Seriously. This is childish elbow-mentality. I am actually very proud of the (little) reputation I gained for being a fair opponent. Other players receive either respect or ignorance for the way they behave towards me, but never counter-laming. I am sick of doing the excuse for a teammate that misbehaved. I did that more than once in the last days (2-3 times).
Furthermore, I want every player here to ask himself a question: "Am I a sissie in real life?" Personally I assume you are not. If we are about to meet a friend, we don't tell him that he is the one to come over to our place, we don't call a taxi, we just walk the 15 minutes he live away. Do you whine about your opponent's 120Euro-football-boots when you have a match of soccer in a nearby park? No, you don't. But somehow, when it comes to ping, to server, to the own ISP, etc. most players become sissies very fast. This is....sad. Some may say that my examples are not quite the same. They are. It's about suffering things that are sub-optimal. We usually do this pretty often and we usually do it without whining in real life.
I wanna add another example on this point. Few weeks ago, Matiz, cRiM, Floppy & me played Darts in a pub near our place. You should know that I'm not a god a darts but I play more or less regularly. Floppy were playing in a place he's never been before, filled with lots of people that speak a foreign language. He was playing with my darts , which might not have suited him well (weight). He didn't whine, he just played and won four out of four games. None of us did whine (seriously, besides some laughing "bastard"-calls) at all. I miss this mentality in NARF when it comes to computer games. Hopefully you'll get my point.
Please think about it.
Well, I made a statement few days ago, that I'll simply leave the server when this whining occures again. This happened today. It's just ... a consequence I take. I don't wanna leave the server during the cup, so I am thinking about not participating at all.
Your chance to press the button.
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