Rules look good to me. I'm excited to get this season underway!

Smaragor is gonna comment real soon not understanding there is no standard time.

6am saturday morning? Where are you even getting that time Arj?

(b) Scheduling a Match
(i) There are no default times for matches.
i demand arj gets banned for this season for not reading the rules

No demo recording required I guess?

No demo recording required indeed Malga.

Looks great. Well done, Zef!

If you have any complaints, please visit the complaint department/Pelargir.

eh, descent instead of eclipse. or even a custom like icarus.

I may just throw out descent and put in ns2_caged. I don't really think people will care either way.

Descent is a beautiful and really complicated map. Please keep it. It's probably the best map of them all, people just think it's summit with base rushing vents.

It's not. There's so much exciting game play you can do on it compared to summit.

If you want to remove a boring/bad map, remove biodome.

how about instead of removing maps, add some.

There's not much fun in playing a corridor map. Descent on the other hand is great imo, not played enough. Only dislike those badly placed vents (mono/launch).

Let the games begin!

what about the gorge tunnel in the vent rule is that gone?

Gorge tunnel in a vent is still prohibited. Already a gorge in a ventilation can be painful ...

Gorge tunnels in vents isn't even possible anymore?

It's not. Gorge tunnels are linked to nav mesh so you can't build one in a vent even if you want to.

Also, just in... iM; only team that enjoys Descent. gg

knowing wob he probably doesnt enjoy it but just wants to play it cuz everybody else hates it

When is docking going to be playable in comp?
And there used to be a map in early beta that was quite decent.. what was it called? (first map available I think)

Rockdown? lawl

(b) Female marine model and Shadow skinned aliens are permissible.
lol
and plz allow r_drawviewmodel 0 thx

2 mercs in lower div you kiddin' right? .....right?

this season we will have, summit 3 times, tram 2 times, veil 3 times, biodome 2 times, descent once, jambi once. (atleast for our team)

Can we please stop flooding the normal season with repeats of the same map all the time, give us caged, eclipse, fracture, anything..

no demos, no 1st person spec.
who you gonna call?

agreed herakles. Why can't we have invisible gun models!

Gorge Busters?

Yeah, what happened to first person spectate? Really, really bad idea to remove that..
I agree on the vibe that maps are repeated too much, I'd like to play on different maps during the season. Instead of removing any maps, add some. There are some really good candidates out there. I also think the maps should be played equally much during the season, playing some maps more than others during the season adds to the biases people have for certain maps.
That makes people not care for the maps and refuse to play them in practice games.
Keep descent and maybe make people play it more than once during the season, then add some of the other good candidates so we don't have to play veil and summit again and again and again. I'd suggest adding caged and eclipse.

First person spec is disabled because it's bugged and makes the spectated person warp more or less depending on the difference between the spectated player ping and the spectator's ping.

On the other hand, the map distribution varies depending on team. Every team should be playing the same maps and every map should be played roughly the same amount of times... This uneven map distribution is something that has happened in the NS2WC qualifiers already that some teams played nothing but Jambi and Biodome.

Looking at my team, it seems we got this one:

Descent x2
Veil x3
Jambi x4
Biodome x3
Summit x2
Tram x2

Referees stand no chance at all without both first person spectate and demorecording. One of them must be brought back imo.
I don't know why maps are not the same for every team, everyone should be playing the same maps in the same week imo. It seems so random and out of place the way it is now. I'd like to know if you used any form of system to place the maps or if you just randomly picked whatever you felt like. The latter is pretty bad.

Knowing Zefram, I would be willing to bet he had some system he made for assigning map rotations for each division.

Like Mendasp said, first person spec causes in-game issues that could affect engagements. The current NS2 demo system is absolutely terrible. Good luck identifying anything aside from blatant aim-botting from one of those. I would love to have some sort of anti-cheat safegaurds in the league, but at this point in time nothing is worth using.

Every team (that has a match, some have byes) in the league is playing on the same maps every single week. From Premier through Division 4. Most divisions other than Premier and Div 1, and the divisions with only 5 teams, end on Week 7.

Week 1 tram marine top, summit
Week 2 descent, veil
Week 3 jambi, biodome
Week 4 biodome, summit
Week 5 jambi, descent
Week 6 tram marine bottom, veil
Week 7 summit, veil
Week 8 jambi, biodome
Week 9 veil, summit
Week 10 tram, jambi

I was just wondering, there is no rules about Vac Ban players ?