RockYou aka Leroy, Sbaffo, Latios, Adnan & Me.

This is a very good alternative guys, the real deal. It looks good, it feels good, and it's just overall smooth.

I highly recommend it!

Yes We know there is a few Skype groups, but Telegram is just better.

Hey!

I'd like the permssion for a ZaR Roper challenge-

Thank you.

Happy belated Birthday Masta! I hope you had a good day.

Looks better than their previous efforts.

SiD has taken over for MarianRV! Have fun SiD!

MarianRV has agreed to be replaced by someone else.  So if anyone else wants to join, just post here.

Good play so far people, keep up the good job!

Happy Birthday TuS! Thanks MonkeyIsland for this Wonderful existence!

Senator, you should be wise to take this advice: If you want to play with your friends, make it private, and don't differentiate people by their rank, it's wrong.

While I appreciate your approach for solution it wouldn't justify anything. It would only remove players that wanted to partake in an open cup. 
Your thuughts & desires came more apparent as the thread expanded, which again wasn't included in the limited requirements to join this specific cup.
You could reconcile and have this cup open again and let those who were wrongly tossed away get a new chance to come back.
IF you really wanted a cup for the high and mighty, you could have arranged it differently.

Quote from: Senator on October 12, 2015, 07:55 AM
@Kradie

I had no idea how experienced u are. Tus stats are pretty much the only source out there and u hadn't any stats. That indicates u haven't played the tus scheme version much.

A prize is involved because obviously not many would be interested in pure scheme testing. At the same time I wanted a high level competition, which wouldn't be possible without a prize.

I thought about closed signups and at first I had "players will be chosen based on T17 ratings" written in the cup details. But then I realized we might not get enough players that way

@spleen17

Imo it's totally fine to have signups open for some days and then choose players based on objective measures (rating/played games). It would be stupid to just give the spots to those who surf on TUS sites several times per day. This arrangement indeed was fair because it gave everyone a chance, not just for the most active members. I could have selected players by random instead but obviously I didn't want to exclude the best t17 players.

So it's just better to exclude people who haven't got a rating on tus and who might not have played that particular version of the same? This is something that you should have mentioned, You could have taken the liberty to send a private message to those who are in the danger zone and ask about their commitment instead of striking them out.

Listen to what you said here

QuoteThis is "experimental cup" so I wanted players who have a lot of experience of T17 to participate, that's why it was appropriate to choose players based on T17 experience/rating.

and now this

QuoteA prize is involved because obviously not many would be interested in pure scheme testing. At the same time I wanted a high level competition, which wouldn't be possible without a prize.

First this was an experimental cup, then later on in this thread you revealed it's a high level competition, which again you failed to leave in the cup details.

Senator, we had plenty of players, we were close to 20, we only lacked 1 more player. Instead you favored the aristocracy aka the elitists. You rather deal with what you know instead of the unknown with no tittles. 

This whole cup is unfair and Senator swings back and fort of what he wants and what he doesn't. Because of this, no one was really given a chance. I find this situation distasteful.

Quote from: Senator on October 11, 2015, 08:52 PM

Quote from: Kradie on October 11, 2015, 08:06 PM
So in other words, I am not deemed worthy to participate in this cup because I have no official rating?  Because I when I first signed up for this cup I failed to see a minimum requirement to partake. Besides I was way before 16 too.

I'm just a player of this community along with those who got removed, that only wanted to play. Where is the equality in all of this, Senator? Why couldn't the rest play? Because we lacked points and status?

The groups that are paired are obviously paired by clans and it feels very bias.

I wanted 4 players groups (16 players) and we got 19 players so I had to cut off some players. This is "experimental cup" so I wanted players who have a lot of experience of T17 to participate, that's why it was appropriate to choose players based on T17 experience/rating. This is just one cup among others.. you have chance to participate in many upcoming cups

If the groups were paired by clans, then Sbaffo, Free and Chelsea should be in the same group, right? Afaik I clicked pair by totally random

So I am not ''experienced'' because I am not ranked on tus? While I don't have my ranks documented here, I am experienced with Team17, and that is why I decided to sign up for this cup.

You say that this is ''Experimental cup'' and only ''experienced'' players may partake, why would a price be involved in an experiment?  Besides, look how you promote your cup ''T17 cup with a new scheme and $30 prize''

You could have left your desired cup details in the cup.  Instead of leading people on.
Or have it closed and then browse for players with ''Experience'' and invite them.

So in other words, I am not deemed worthy to participate in this cup because I have no official rating?  Because I when I first signed up for this cup I failed to see a minimum requirement to partake. Besides I was way before 16 too.

I'm just a player of this community along with those who got removed, that only wanted to play. Where is the equality in all of this, Senator? Why couldn't the rest play? Because we lacked points and status?

The groups that are paired are obviously paired by clans and it feels very bias.

This is unfair, I was looking forward to participate.

One more and we're set!