Question considering NAQL
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:16 am
First of all, lets state that this topic is not ment to flame the NAQL nor the admins, but merely an attempt for a fair treatment.
Exactly a week ago we had to play 3 NAQL matches, after winning our cw vs RAW the week before. We had to play vs iN at 19:00, vs j at 20:00 and at 21:00 vs allbad.clan. Because of irl issues we are all kinda busy on Monday evenings, so we were already happy we could play the first cw vs iN, which we luckily won with 16-13.
After our game against iN both zard0x and nazu had to leave, so we were only three players this time at 20:00. Because there was no way we could get a fourth player j won this game on w.o.
The third match of the day, and last one of the group stage, was at 21:00 against allbad.clan. Zard0x left his football praccy earlier so he could be there on time. Unfortunately he noticed his computer failed to start up anymore, so he had to play on his brothers’ computer, which is Fre^ak or however his nick is. After whining his brother for a while he could play there but his aq2 didn’t have the map Cemal. Anyway, this meant he was delayed for some minutes, while we (3 players of [e], 4 of allbad.clan and Arild as admin) were waiting on the server. At 21:10 zard0x still wasn’t on the server so Arild decided to leave and give allbad.clan the w.o. One minute later zard0x joined the server, but there was no way Arild was gonna come back and admin the match.
Looking at this Arild did everything fine, maybe a bit harsh, but hey... He followed the rules correctly which means we had 2 w.o’s and according to the rules this means we are kicked out of the league, even though we finished third in our group with these 2 wo’s.
On the other hand, there are some questions coming up tho… Messaging the head admins didn’t really seem to work (ignore), so we’ll try it this way then…
1) Was it really such a big problem to start 21:10? For other matches like for example iN vs j (http://www.clanbase.com/news_league.php ... 9&lid=1707) it was suddenly no problem. Let me quote the report “So after waiting for iN for like 20-30 minutes we whined about 15 mins on poor [NAQL]Zonic and then we managed to get a server and we were on our way!”. Both all.badclan and us were waiting on the server ready and willing to play… only Arild left the server.
2) I can imagine Arild had to admin some match at 21:30 for example, but why couldn’t we play without admin then? For example, c vs D (http://www.clanbase.com/news_league.php ... 8&lid=1707) was also played without any admin around. Saying aka (a NAQL admin) was there is no reason, cuz Da^JuaN was playing for allbad.clan. Also there were three Boomtown servers (2 reserved for NAQL, 1 free) so there was no problem to play there.
3) Why weren’t we allowed to play in the NAQL with Dizzy? Because we got a small team and we had a hard time playing on Mondays we recruited a new player. After a million invitations in our team on the CB page, he still didn’t get his email. Also after consulting the admins they said it was his own problem and that the mail was probably in his spam box. The result? Dizzy couldn’t be on our playerlist so he was excluded of the NAQL. But why was iN for example allowed to play their matches with Frede and raiden?
4) Why is RAW still in while they also had 2 wo’s? The didn’t show up against both j and iN. They weren’t even around the whole day. For them it’s suddenly no problem to have 2 wo’s, but we are kicked out immediately.
5) And the last and maybe most important point. What’s actually the intention of the whole “2 wo’s = kick” rule. It’s about a league with pre-determined dates / times, where the clans got nothing to do with. What does it matter if we reach the next round with 2 wo’s. I can imagine the whole idea of this rule is to get rid of the inactive clans who don’t care about the whole league, while we did everything we could to play in it. And we aren’t really inactive either…
Anyway, we just want to know why others did get another treatment and we didn’t. Are you just following the rules when it’s about someone u don’t like or is there another logical explanation. We became third in our group and deserve to go on to the next round…
Exactly a week ago we had to play 3 NAQL matches, after winning our cw vs RAW the week before. We had to play vs iN at 19:00, vs j at 20:00 and at 21:00 vs allbad.clan. Because of irl issues we are all kinda busy on Monday evenings, so we were already happy we could play the first cw vs iN, which we luckily won with 16-13.
After our game against iN both zard0x and nazu had to leave, so we were only three players this time at 20:00. Because there was no way we could get a fourth player j won this game on w.o.
The third match of the day, and last one of the group stage, was at 21:00 against allbad.clan. Zard0x left his football praccy earlier so he could be there on time. Unfortunately he noticed his computer failed to start up anymore, so he had to play on his brothers’ computer, which is Fre^ak or however his nick is. After whining his brother for a while he could play there but his aq2 didn’t have the map Cemal. Anyway, this meant he was delayed for some minutes, while we (3 players of [e], 4 of allbad.clan and Arild as admin) were waiting on the server. At 21:10 zard0x still wasn’t on the server so Arild decided to leave and give allbad.clan the w.o. One minute later zard0x joined the server, but there was no way Arild was gonna come back and admin the match.
Looking at this Arild did everything fine, maybe a bit harsh, but hey... He followed the rules correctly which means we had 2 w.o’s and according to the rules this means we are kicked out of the league, even though we finished third in our group with these 2 wo’s.
On the other hand, there are some questions coming up tho… Messaging the head admins didn’t really seem to work (ignore), so we’ll try it this way then…
1) Was it really such a big problem to start 21:10? For other matches like for example iN vs j (http://www.clanbase.com/news_league.php ... 9&lid=1707) it was suddenly no problem. Let me quote the report “So after waiting for iN for like 20-30 minutes we whined about 15 mins on poor [NAQL]Zonic and then we managed to get a server and we were on our way!”. Both all.badclan and us were waiting on the server ready and willing to play… only Arild left the server.
2) I can imagine Arild had to admin some match at 21:30 for example, but why couldn’t we play without admin then? For example, c vs D (http://www.clanbase.com/news_league.php ... 8&lid=1707) was also played without any admin around. Saying aka (a NAQL admin) was there is no reason, cuz Da^JuaN was playing for allbad.clan. Also there were three Boomtown servers (2 reserved for NAQL, 1 free) so there was no problem to play there.
3) Why weren’t we allowed to play in the NAQL with Dizzy? Because we got a small team and we had a hard time playing on Mondays we recruited a new player. After a million invitations in our team on the CB page, he still didn’t get his email. Also after consulting the admins they said it was his own problem and that the mail was probably in his spam box. The result? Dizzy couldn’t be on our playerlist so he was excluded of the NAQL. But why was iN for example allowed to play their matches with Frede and raiden?
4) Why is RAW still in while they also had 2 wo’s? The didn’t show up against both j and iN. They weren’t even around the whole day. For them it’s suddenly no problem to have 2 wo’s, but we are kicked out immediately.
5) And the last and maybe most important point. What’s actually the intention of the whole “2 wo’s = kick” rule. It’s about a league with pre-determined dates / times, where the clans got nothing to do with. What does it matter if we reach the next round with 2 wo’s. I can imagine the whole idea of this rule is to get rid of the inactive clans who don’t care about the whole league, while we did everything we could to play in it. And we aren’t really inactive either…
Anyway, we just want to know why others did get another treatment and we didn’t. Are you just following the rules when it’s about someone u don’t like or is there another logical explanation. We became third in our group and deserve to go on to the next round…