I understand, I want to clarify I never said we have it harder than other teams, but having every teams going through long days doesnt mean we should try to make the conditions better for semi or professional players, when they literally play for their career.
Sadly pressuring the TO isn't that simple, if they dont have people ready to work earlier the next day for our match then it's not possible.
3 bo3s in a single day should NOT be a thing in VRS Tournament, even more on LANs.
Starting with a Team walk at 10:00 and 1st bo3 at 13:00, 2nd bo3 at 17:20 to end the day on a THIRD bo3 vs FaZe starting at 23:10.
No matter the result of the decider playing right now, I MISS RMRs !
9 Maps a day should NOT be an option !
I would love some rules from @CounterStrike / Valve around this for players sake.
let me add some nuance, Amateur local Lans, where you play between 2k to 4k faceit elo friends have long days and always will be also because most of them have to fit in 2 or 3 days max, here this is another level of cs. Here we play to qualify for the Major, matches are way more draining, there is also match prep from every maps.
HEROIC vs FAZE as the 3rd bo3 of the day. That's not the same as esea main or advanced team playing at a local lan.
but I'm glad you agree about the match starting too late.
@zerkacsgo I said "you don't need to perform at your maximum abilities" in most jobs, this is the difference between a competitive environment and regular jobs.
I wrote lifting boxes, because obviously I will not list every tasks done in every existing Jobs in the world.
like man cmon
before braindamaged ppl come argue, I would like to state that these tweets were sent before the faze match ended, so not result oriented or being a sour loser.
And no, getting paid well is not a reason to not ask for better conditions for my and other players. You can't expect players to perform as usual after more than 2bo3s a day. So also for your own viewers enjoyment, if you want to watch proper cs, with good mechanics, smart move and not a faceit level of troll and whiffs, it would be better not to play more than 2 matches a day.
I answered on a too harsch tone, now that I read it again, some of the others replies got into my head, sorry for that.
I'm glad to hear you're providing them feedbacks and trying to improve the ecosystem and I'm both sad and not surprised to hear that Valve is not even trying.
I agree with your last sentence, it's not that easy to just dodge an event.
@zerkacsgo working a few extra hours to finish to writes mails on a computer, to prepare a meeting, lift boxes, whatever, is not the same, you don't need to perform at your maximum abilities.
I did 3+ years on a corporate job with extra hours, this is nowhere near the same.
this tournament made more sense for us with the calendar we have, with IEM Beijing, so we have enough matches to play for the Major cut off and still have time to come back home, adjust, rest and go to the IEM in good shape.
It's not my or our first draculan, we're well aware of the format, the conditions there are good overall, still I don't like the possibility of playing 9 maps if you end up in the loose bracket, and I wish there was some rules around it for players sake. Is it a bad thing to consider players sake overall ?
(ask your players how they feel about 3 bo3s or more apparently for rog, fragadelphia)
+ this has nothing to do with our result, I tweeted it before we lost, I'm not trying to use it as an excuse. Yesterday, the better team won.
We lost to fnatic, EF, Virtus Pro, 1win with doto too.
EF weren't that good at the time, and VP have been struggling all year.
Losses happen.
Sinners may be a lower ranked than us, but they made it to the previous major. Don't underestimate them.
Do I expected us to win if we performed at our current level ? Yes, but we didn't, thats it.
I can understand the comparison, 5 hours of physical competitive sport vs 10+ of gaming which is more brain demanding. tbh I don't know what is the worse, I played tennis competitively as kid myself but never for that long and not even close of a level or pressure of what my players are experiencing. so idk haha, I just know that for cs, 3 bo3s is too much.
what happened is the proof of why 3bo3s a day should not be thing, in these matches you can't expect teams to play at their usual level, it's just a shit show. Way more mistakes will happen, big whiffs. Because, again, you can't play as good after 12 hours of playing and a day that started 15-16 hours ago.