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CANCELLED

Bad news everyone...
The lead developer has left eSource due to work related issues.

This basically means I am now all by myself with no coding skills... So unless we find a warm hearted person out there willing to co-own & code eSource for free... it's over.

UPDATE:
We have found a new programmer, however we are still very open to any help.

Very good idea!

This was meant for the official eSource tournaments. But honestly, this has to be rethought.

Good idea, we'll consider that

I take back what i said lol

I honestly think this is a bad idea.

I'd also like to mention that we will probably need more time to develop such system. Thus, we may add more days to the countdown (http://eSrc.tv)

My sincere apologies

Oh right, I forgot to mention that. eSource Points (ePoints) will allow you to buy sponsor gear, games and in-game items.
There is a slight chance that they could be converted to some higher currency which can then be cashed out via PayPal, but that's very undecided.

We've decided to fully go for the automation system.
How it will work:

- A user with enough karma points (name subject to change) will be able to start a tournament. This is to prevent as many trolls from making fake tournaments.
- Upon creating the tournament you will set the prize pool, and if you want people to contribute to it. You will also set the category (BBall, Surf, Jump, 6v6, HL, etc). Prize Pools are made with eSource Points. eSource Points are the main currency. You earn them by playing on our training servers, doing tournaments, trading up weapons or you can simply buy them with your favourite payment provider.
- Players can navigate to an "open tournaments" list, click on yours and click "Join Tournament" (Teams are set up on your profile. More about the Team Creation will be said later)
- Once the tournament application date runs out, dates will automatically be set by the system. The tournament creator can, of course, change these. Once a date is locked in, players will be assigned a specific server that will be set up just for their game. If players fail to show up after numerous warnings a (temporary) global tournament ban will be put onto their account for wasting server resources and time.
- Brackets will be generated automatically with Challonge API.
- After the tournament is over the points will be distributed equally to winners and losers will, of course, also get the "Thanks for Playing" points.
- Completing a tournament, having won or lost, will give you karma points.

Keep in mind we will still host large tournaments from time to time. The automated tournaments are a service we want to provide all year round. No seasons to keep up with, just make a team and compete any time you want.

We are not yet sure if this will be a monthly subscription based service or if we will subtract a certain percentage of eSource Points from the prize pool.
This is one of the only ways we can pay for servers and such.

Thanks for your support so far and Happy New Year

We're thinking of quite a unique function.
After gaining enough karma (or something along those lines), a player will be able to plan his own tournament. Servers will be provided by us, basically everything will be automated.
We don't have much info on how we want to go ahead and do this, but prizes will be points with which you can purchase stuff from the store. Like sponsor items, games, etc.

So in the end, while eSource will be planning the big tournaments, players throughout the year can plan their own smaller tournaments.

What are your thoughts?

The shop item descriptions & inventory item descriptions seem to be on an opacity level of 20%
Could you fix that?

Thanks for all the suggestiongs! Ill take a closer look at them later today.

We intended on using Hudas Iscariote, but maybe you can customize it a little? If you're interested, drop me a PM :)

The new whitelist can now always be found here: http://whitelist.tf/esource_6v6_s1

Thanks to Whitelist.tf for putting us on the menu!

And a new Tournament league.