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Community Funded Tournaments
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Greetings - i'm a long time follower of TF2, and a massive Esports enthusiast! i love TF2, mainly the competitive side more than anything - but it makes me sad to not see frequent tournaments (even online ones) and even just decent games to inspire me to play.

My question is, Is there any tournaments that are directly community funded? like through a kickstarter straight to the prize pool? i'm aware that We funded teams to go to Iseries from america, but other than the large donations to the iseries prizepools, why can't WE put the money towards it if we want? or can we?

As far as i've seen there really isn't any tournaments like this, which i think TF2 is missing, I recently set up something like this in Bloodline champions (a tiny community MOBA game on steam) and for the first we managed to raise about $700, which for a game that averages 60 players a day is great! we had player icons, etc as rewards for different tiers of donation, we got someone to stream it aswell and it really felt like the community and pro scene had come together. I'm wondering if anyone would want something like this in TF2? we could have skin raffles, names on stream, other giveaways etc as prizes for the tiers of donations, aswell as being able to watch the game we love being played by the best! (if there is already a tournament that does this, please point me in the direction as i would love to do my part!) Sorry for long post, but hey, let me know if you think this would be possible in this scene!

TLDR; Is there a community funded tournament, if so post details below, if not should we get one? to help this scene carry on untill valve finally helps us!

Greetings - i'm a long time follower of TF2, and a massive Esports enthusiast! i love TF2, mainly the competitive side more than anything - but it makes me sad to not see frequent tournaments (even online ones) and even just decent games to inspire me to play.

My question is, Is there any tournaments that are directly community funded? like through a kickstarter straight to the prize pool? i'm aware that We funded teams to go to Iseries from america, but other than the large donations to the iseries prizepools, why can't WE put the money towards it if we want? or can we?

As far as i've seen there really isn't any tournaments like this, which i think TF2 is missing, I recently set up something like this in Bloodline champions (a tiny community MOBA game on steam) and for the first we managed to raise about $700, which for a game that averages 60 players a day is great! we had player icons, etc as rewards for different tiers of donation, we got someone to stream it aswell and it really felt like the community and pro scene had come together. I'm wondering if anyone would want something like this in TF2? we could have skin raffles, names on stream, other giveaways etc as prizes for the tiers of donations, aswell as being able to watch the game we love being played by the best! (if there is already a tournament that does this, please point me in the direction as i would love to do my part!) Sorry for long post, but hey, let me know if you think this would be possible in this scene!

TLDR; Is there a community funded tournament, if so post details below, if not should we get one? to help this scene carry on untill valve finally helps us!
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I don't see why we should have community funded ones when razer are giving us tournaments for free

I don't see why we should have community funded ones when razer are giving us tournaments for free
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UGC tried this for hl but infinite ran the fundraiser and they used a service that did not accept PayPal.

UGC tried this for hl but infinite ran the fundraiser and they used a service that did not accept PayPal.
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I think if somebody does do something community funded it's important to accept keys in some way because there are a lot of people without a credit card or disposable income of any kind that have a key or two lying around that would like to support the community

I think if somebody does do something community funded it's important to accept keys in some way because there are a lot of people without a credit card or disposable income of any kind that have a key or two lying around that would like to support the community
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Are razer tournaments that big though? all i can see is an $100 one? sure its weekly but it won't gather the same hype as a bigger one less often.

Are razer tournaments that big though? all i can see is an $100 one? sure its weekly but it won't gather the same hype as a bigger one less often.
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#7
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Razer has plans for larger tournaments but without decent participation in smaller weekly events it won't happen.

Basically sign-up for the FREE weekly tournaments unless you want to prove that comp TF2 can't even fill a 16 team bracket. Rosters restrictions are relaxed (ie you can add players at almost anytime to your roster) and entry is free. I don't even actively play anymore but I still signed up for the dates I could play.

Razer has run 10 tournaments so far for TF2 and done so for both EU and NA.
$100 x 10 tournaments x 2 regions = $2000

Sign-up a pug team or get ringers and fill up the tournaments. If the bracket is full you're less likely to run into the 2-3 im/invite pug teams.

Razer Arena has good server quality, esea style server plugins, and excellent admin support (Dillusive owns). Matches start fairly quickly and there's less downtime between matches.

Razer has plans for larger tournaments but without decent participation in smaller weekly events it won't happen.

Basically sign-up for the FREE weekly tournaments unless you want to prove that comp TF2 can't even fill a 16 team bracket. Rosters restrictions are relaxed (ie you can add players at almost anytime to your roster) and entry is free. I don't even actively play anymore but I still signed up for the dates I could play.

Razer has run 10 tournaments so far for TF2 and done so for both EU and NA.
$100 x 10 tournaments x 2 regions = $2000

Sign-up a pug team or get ringers and fill up the tournaments. If the bracket is full you're less likely to run into the 2-3 im/invite pug teams.

Razer Arena has good server quality, esea style server plugins, and excellent admin support (Dillusive owns). Matches start fairly quickly and there's less downtime between matches.
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Cheers for the info!

Cheers for the info!
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#9
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savricMy question is, Is there any tournaments that are directly community funded? like through a kickstarter straight to the prize pool?

FLAN2016 will be crowd funded to help with prizepool, venue, special guests, and prizes

[quote=savric]
My question is, Is there any tournaments that are directly community funded? like through a kickstarter straight to the prize pool?[/quote]
FLAN2016 will be crowd funded to help with prizepool, venue, special guests, and prizes
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DoctorMiggysavricMy question is, Is there any tournaments that are directly community funded? like through a kickstarter straight to the prize pool?FLAN2016 will be crowd funded to help with prizepool, venue, special guests, and prizes

Thanks for the info! i'll keep my eyes peeled for that

[quote=DoctorMiggy][quote=savric]
My question is, Is there any tournaments that are directly community funded? like through a kickstarter straight to the prize pool?[/quote]
FLAN2016 will be crowd funded to help with prizepool, venue, special guests, and prizes[/quote]

Thanks for the info! i'll keep my eyes peeled for that
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In europe we're about to have our first primarily highlander LAN. It was funded partly by community contributions and partly from a sponsorship by a TF2 website.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/deutschlan-tf2-fundraiser#/story

In europe we're about to have our first primarily highlander LAN. It was funded partly by community contributions and partly from a sponsorship by a TF2 website.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/deutschlan-tf2-fundraiser#/story
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#12
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REM_TF2In europe we're about to have our first primarily highlander LAN. It was funded partly by community contributions and partly from a sponsorship by a TF2 website.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/deutschlan-tf2-fundraiser#/story

Yes, TF2Pickup.net is contributing 1000€ to the community funded prizepool

Checkout blog.tf2pickup.net to read about our next big plan for the site :3

[quote=REM_TF2]In europe we're about to have our first primarily highlander LAN. It was funded partly by community contributions and partly from a sponsorship by a TF2 website.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/deutschlan-tf2-fundraiser#/story[/quote]

Yes, TF2Pickup.net is contributing 1000€ to the community funded prizepool

Checkout blog.tf2pickup.net to read about our next big plan for the site :3
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