[SUGGESTION] Gather (GTH) Events

[Eimis]

Hello fellow players!

I was recently playing CS with and I heard about GTH events, then I thought - why don't we do this in AoS?

How does a gather event work?

First, the players who want to participate in these events go to a certain IRC channel. When a good amount of players are ready to play, they go to a private server. The teams are chosen by an admin or by two best players in the event. The event itself is like a clan match, but you don't have to be in a clan to play in one!

This is better than playing on public servers because you play against players with skill, and it's a great opportunity to improve your game! It's also a good chance to meet good players, and maybe making some friends.

It's also good because it doesn't have to be organised, it just needs some players that want to play.

If you guys like the idea, I'll make an IRC channel and try to make it more popular

[StackOverflow]

I have plans on adding something like this after seeing it in a Soldat channel. There are always a decent number of people hanging out on IRC, so it could be interesting.

[Eimis]

And another idea came to my mind - this can be a great way to get fast clan matches, it just requires a lot of clan leaders/members to be on in the channel.

If a clan leader is ready for a match he writes "cm 3x3 on" which means "Clan match 3 vs 3 is online" or something similar, and all the people in the IRC are notified of this. Any clan is free to take the challenge.

And if there are people that use this command for trolling purposes, admins can simply ban the culprit.

[TheGrandmaster]

I suggested this and even prototyped this ages back, which worked to a degree. It kinda worked, the user side of queuing etc worked fine, it was just in-game control that was lacking (and a dedicated server to use). hompy was supposedly working on a full system but he became busy.

http://www.aceofspadeswiki.com/index.ph ... AoS_Gather

[HoboHob]

We could have a new IRC, like #buildandshoot.gather and if you are on it you are there solely to be in a gather.

[TheGrandmaster]

#aos.gather was the channel.. now lost Q after a fair time of no gathers taking place; we did several manual ones when Sham's server was free.

[Eimis]

Me, my irl friends, uvs, fornax and cow did a gather and here is how it turned out: :)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/44727870/Pics% ... gather.png

We all liked this and I think I'll make an IRC channel for gathers.

[TheGrandmaster]

I used to have a little php script which took the IRC output of the match.py script and turned it into a little stats page.
Some examples from earlier gathers, infact: