Aus / NZ / Asia ranked (attempted revival)

(Borganism) #1

G’day all,

If we as a community want to get the Au / NZ / Asia ranked servers going we need to get proactive and get together at the same time. I propose that we vote on a single night of the week to play and all try to play on that night. Currently everyone is either trying on random nights, or have given up on trying to find a match. If we all vote on a common night, and then try to play on a single night of the week we can maybe get this thing off the ground.

I’d create a poll on the forums but I dont have enough points so a strawpoll it is! Follow the link, vote and then we all give it a shot next week.

strawpoll.me/11127798

(The_N00Ba) #2

I think that is an excellent idea Borganism. Organize… organize…

(doxjq) #3

Keen, but I’d just prefer any night of the week rather than once a week. I play every night from like 7.30pm (NZ) onwards until 1am haha.

I really don’t know how to reach out to the community though. Most of them don’t use the forums so they aren’t really going to see this.

(Cletus_VanDamme) #4

+1, great idea.

(doxjq) #5

You should add an any night option (for people like me) if you can dude!

I’ll spam this thread to the Aussie DB’ers I know.

On a side note, do you have 4 other people you can play with Borg? I currently have a TO5 that we can run scrims with if you’re keen. We’re all on almost every night.

(Borganism) #6

I understand why you want that Dox, but until we get people involved in playing some matches I think we will have better luck to attempt for one or two nights a week. Once people get into the swing of things then more people will show up and hopefully the ranked scene comes alive and everynight is then an option. People are more likely to try if they feel they have a high chance of getting a game, hence the ‘everyone try on one specific night’ idea.

Most of the PiT people dont play anymore, so its just random people that Ive met in game. We’ll see if we can tee something up though.

(also, I dont know how to edit a straw poll to add an option once its done. I guess just vote for a night you like. I know a lot of people wont particularly care which night, its more about getting people into ranked to get some amtches going and revive the scene so we can hopefully have ranked every night in the long run)

(The_N00Ba) #7

Sadly I am not from any of the areas you guys are hoping to get more people in but…
from an outsiders perspective…
I think Borganism has a point. keeping things small at first can help you guys lay a good foundation for anything else you want to do. Basically by creating something that is dependable at first you can raise trust level and interest at the same time. in theory it should work.
Just my two cents though.
I still think it is the start of something good though. Something that has been needed. :slight_smile:

(BlackboltLW) #8

Yeah this is a good idea, I hope my connection is uninterrupted during playtime though!

(doxjq) #9

Me personally I just have no interest in ranked or competitive with randoms, but I’d rather play that than 7v7 pub, that crap is cancer.

I’d rather scrims with my team, or 5 people to play against our team, but whatever really. Can’t ask for everything xD

(IAmYourDad) #10

It would be mighty useful if we had some dbnation servers in the Aus/Asia region. Stomping noobs doesn’t help anyone. If a Higher skilled player in Asia wants to face a challenge, currently he has to hop in a pub and hope for some decent competition. Which is sadly very uncommon.

(doxjq) #11

We do have one each that I know of. I know the password for the Aus one, but I’m unsure about the Asia one.

(The_N00Ba) #12

Just wanted to check in on this because I think it is important. Rise minion…

(doxjq) #13

Spoke to duke and got it sorted. At least for the one private server. But again, we would like to attempt to play ranked rather than customs, but it’s just so cancerous on 200 ping.

But yeah, I told shoe about the ranked server problems and he got Toomic to look into it, so that should be sorted too.

(Tanker_Ray) #14

This is Asia server dweller THUNDA.

I have my own team but no way to play Ranked with 5 of mine.

Please contact me if any Scrim/Ranked is available.

I voted for Friday, but any day is ok tbh.

(The_N00Ba) #15

Well at least you guys got some where. That’s good news. Keep it up. :slight_smile: With more people Friday is even looking to be an option as well. I do hope those ranked servers are addressed soon but at least you guys have a foot in the door on what i think you have been missing.

(doxjq) #16

The ranked servers are fixed.

Unfortunately I’m not around this weekend, I’m going away for racing this evening and I’m not back until late Sunday evening, but hope it all goes well for you this weekend Borgy.

(Borganism) #17

I have a big event on saturday night so I will try ranked tonight (friday). Now that we know servers are fixed lets give it a shot tonight and tomorrow!

(The_N00Ba) #18

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Since it appears Dox can not make it why don’t you guys dedicate one of the first bloods to him…

(stealthyGasoline) #19

Hey guys FC Clan has started trying sunday nights around 8pm. Hope to see you guys then

(Tanker_Ray) #20

AUS time?