How many languages are required from Mayo IT support staff to handle the answering machine ?

If a man is alone in the woods speaking with himself, and no woman is around to hear him, is he still wrong ?

Looking back on all your years here @ CC, what - if anything - brought you close to leaving ...

Yeps. Congrats TOFU. Impressive showing in the finals.

And thanks again.

Thanks all. This came as a bit of a surprise last night ...

The only people, who will be hurt by this, are the ones starting 10+ games on unpopular maps/settings, that only ever filled in the past by dropping all the way to page 1 of the *Join a Game* page, then got filled by unsuspecting/clueless *noobs*.

If you are truly interested in playing an ...

It´s done. The last game finished.

Thanks everybody for a fun challenge in friendly atmosphere, with some memorable games in the mix.

We really pulled away there in the end. The final score does not reflect, how close this was for a long time.

Cheers Bruce !

And good luck Leehar !

Yes, that is correct. But there are limits to that kind of practice. Because the formula also takes into account the score difference between two clans: The greater the difference, the greater the win margin needs to be for the higher ranked clan to gain any points at all.

If you go back 2-3 pages ...

2ndly, as a somewhat interested in math person, I am curious as to why in would be impossible, this is just to satisfy my curiosity as to the inner workings of this calculator.
As far as I know, the calculator (which means both the formula & the script running the calculations) were done by ...

Since I got a PM alerting me to this thread & poll, I´ll post my opinion:

I can think of a dozen other suggestions, that would seem more important to me than a new rank system. In the Submitted Suggestions forum we have several ideas, that at their time had 80+ % support in their respective polls ...

Seeing, that this thread was started & is supported by some clan mates of mine, I´d like to state, that I did not initiate this.

Whilst I appreciate the gesture & their support, I wouldn´t feel comfortable *politicking* my way to the top of the scoreboard.

Is that a formal application ? I´m sure, we can find some real cookies for you, if that´s, what it takes ...

Well. I told loki, our recruitment might be more successful, if we´d offer pics of her legs instead, but she never listens to me ...

Seriously though: With the CCup about to start, we in IA could do with a bit of fresh blood to fill our ranks & share in the game load.

We are a pretty relaxed ...

HardAttack wrote:Swifte asked me to come vote here, I voted for fantasy.

+1

I am beginning to feel slightly optimistic here.

Couple more games looking good for us, but it´s a still a way to the 31 wins we need ...

@ crispybits:

I am not part of the CDF group, so I don´t know, what Bruce or anyone else has posted there. I am referring to my own statements in this here thread, and that was what Armandolas was referring to as well, I believe.

If you want to turn this into a debate about bad form: I am hearing ...

Ok. I decided to post one more time, mostly in response to Armandolas, who addressed me personally, and - I feel - grossly misrepresented my statements. So much so, that I´m not even sure, he read all my posts in this thread.

Calling me out to be more compromising ?

I was the one asking for a ...

Oh well. Since crispybits addressed me directly, I will respond once more:

I am pretty tired too, but I think, your argument is false. If you are looking at any seeding system in official sports events, they always give an easier draw to the top players. It´s the nature of the beast.

Looking at ...

I'm finding this very amusing, the top 16 clans organize a closed cup competition, the benefit being for those seeded 16,15,14,13 ... being?
Fun fact: Participation is voluntary. If the idea of competing with the best does not appeal to you, don´t sign up. Pretty easy.

For those, who are debating ...

I've asked this in CDF aswell, but does the seeding argument boil down to either or both of these, and am I missing something? (just trying to crystallise the exact points in a concise way rather than the long posts where it can be difficult to distill the exact point being mande)

1) Tradition ...

Well, the flaws of the random draw should be obvious to anyone:

a) We risk getting totally one-sided brackets. Clan A having to beat 4 Top 10 clans to get to the finals, Clan B having to face not a single Top 10 clan to get to the same finals.

b) Under the old seeding system, opposition ...

I posted this in the vote thread but it's better off here.

I also agree with ViperOverLords suggestion that option 2 could be split into two options.

2a) Random draw every round

2b) Random draw for the play in and round of 32 that will determine the bracket for the rest of the tourney.

If 2 ...

Ahunda makes some good points, but one theme runs throughout his post: this is a cup for the top clans.

So why not restrict entry to CC4 to just the top 16 clans, after all they're the only ones who really count.
This strikes me as a rather unfair response to a post, that put a lot of emphasis on ...

I would agree with Vid_FISO, that there seems to be a divide here, but to me it largely seems a divide between high ranked clans & low ranked clans. And I have to admit, I am a bit disappointed, that quite a few people seem to put their own selfish interests first, instead of taking a step back ...

I understand, that not getting a card when running out of time adds to the skill & tension in Speed/FS games, but it serves no purpose at all in casual games.

I want to quote an analogy someone used in an older thread concerning this issue:

Imagine a couple of people sitting at a table, playing ...