PICK-UPS!

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int*icenine
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I'm not sure everyone knows what a game pick-up is so I'll explain briefly.
BUT if it's been done before here, than just F1 this topic to the garbage can/ don't read/hate.
Pickup - Fun war/ Scrim with teams made by random people. 
Why do it?
A. Allot of clanless people would want to have some fw, it can be allot better than public sometimes.
B. People get to know eachother better [ if they're using Teamspeak as they should ( there should be 2 pick up rooms in the community's TS - red/blue a/b ) ] = Makes the people 'bond'
C. Simply lifts moral/activity/the community ( from my experience atleast )

How you do it? Basically you need a server with admin access + appoint an admin or two to control the pick ups ( when people want to make one they should contact these admins and request map/pass/cfg )
- To get the players there are 2 ways .
1. Simply go around servers and ask if anyone's interested in a pick-up / just like fw/cw are offered here.
2. Better way - Have a steady Day/Time/Thread where people can register for pick-ups.  ( every mondey at 20:00 CET , or every other day at XX:XX CET )

E.G. -
Thread Topic - Pick-Up Date ##.##.## Time XX:XX
Post -
Map - over kill
Cfg - FTag
Game - 5v5
bla bla

after that people just post their name and ask to be registered at the main post, teams can be random or as requested .

Any positive thoughts?

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[MR.]KAKTUS
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Re: PICK-UPS!

Well. we had pickups before. We did it via #excessive_pickup channekl in mIRC. But it was pretty unpopular so it just stopped existing. sometimes there is osmehitng like pickupos when 1  c;lan cannot find an opponent - so it makes 'mixed fw' Happy well im not against reactivating it. But bet it would be not that easy.
PS: sorry for many many mistakes in my text but this forum lags like hell for me. so when im typing a message ti see text cappearing on my screen with 1 chjar oper secong. i type faster - so i do not see what im typing. only in the end and as u can understand fixing these mistakes will take ages xddd

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int*icenine
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Re: PICK-UPS!

Ah, well I thought I'd offer it since everyone I asked about pickups had no idea what it was Confused thought it'll be good.  

Maybe someone with a bit more authority than me can create a poll on site, maybe people will be up for it, if not everyday than weekly or even once every two weeks, its not much of an effort I think .

Anyways np about the typos, thanks for being the only one who replied  Big grin

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Re: PICK-UPS!

u don't need authority, u need enthusiasm. 4 people before u failed already. In beginning all is good and fine, and popular, than after day 1, dead...

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Re: PICK-UPS!

well on ctf servers like ed pickups where allways very popular because teams can be very difficult to balance and players know best how to do it.. 

such "in the situation"-pickups work the best.. but if a pickup-thread will do good i can not imagine

int*icenine
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Re: PICK-UPS!

lol

Well first we can open a poll and see how popular it is ( not just how many F1s but also how many even participated ) if it goes well we can still try like I said through a big topic on forum, we could use "publicity" in servers if we'll really want .
I think it's worth a shot and if someone gives me the proper "tools" I'll be glad to organize it.

But basically it comes down to the poll reply.

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