Before the next season starts, we want to try and squeeze in an All-Star-Game.

This thread is for discussing the general tone and concept of it. Everything is open for discussion, of course. However decisions need to be made in the next few days, as the time for organisations is running out, quickly.

First off: I imagine the All-Star game as a fun-event, it is not about winning any titles or such. It is for celebrating the amusing things in NS2. It’s main purpose is to entertain its players and audience. I imagine friendly trash-talk, pre-game-silliness, crazy-strats, jeopardizing a win for mere style, even some uncommon maps or (experimental) mods and much more...

As winning is secondary, I’d love to see each division being represented in the event. The All-Star-Game is for concluding season 5 and kicking off season 6 at the same time.

Usually in All-Star games it’s participants are somewhat voted and there is more than a complete set of players in a each team. I think it is a good idea to follow that spirit. And here is the part, where I need to go into details: How to vote players into the All-Star teams.

As said before I imagine a nice representation of each division. Ideally there would be an equal amount of players of each division on each team. However, I don’t want to bother you guys with browsing through all the teams of Season 5, figuring out which player was on each team and division, until you find 2 of each division.

Here is my proposal on a voting system, feel free to give your feedback on this. It is far from being set in stone:

In a first stage you just pick 12 players from anywhere, 6 into each team. Remember, that we are not asking for the best players, but for the players, you think are entertaining and well placed in an All-Star game. There is no need to care about divisions. Just pick some players, which had been playing in Season 5 or before - you don’t even have to pick players which are in a current team. As long as we can find them on ensl.org, it’s fine.

The votes for this first stage will run about 5 days or so.

Then we check back on the guys, who got the most votes and determine the 24 most voted guys, who are available on game-night.

These go into a second ballot. The top 14 of these second ballots make it into the All-Star teams, the two guys, who got the most votes of all are determined team captains and be eponymous to their teams (team “Bitey” vs. team “Reddog” for example). The others are distributed roughly by skill and lifeforms to ensure a good battle.

For determining the maps: to keep the spirit of having something new and entertaining it would be nice to see these impromptu-teams compete on custom/uncommon maps, they might not even be suited for competitive at all. So I’d create a pool of maps from your commendations of this thread and make another poll to pick 2 of these, before the All-Star game.

About mods: I think it is best to keep it on the core-gameplay of NS2. But I could imagine experimental CompMod and all sorts of cosmetic mods. I hope for some suggestions from your side :)

To accommodate EU and NA times (sorry AUSies), the All-Star game will be placed somewhere on the weekend of 27th Feb. to 1st of March in EU evenings.

I’ll be happy to hear feedback from you, especially about the voting-process.

Sounds good :)

For the mods:
I think this one is mandatory.
And this mod
works realy well with this one .

\vote PASCOW

Great idea !

goldenmode vs swalkmode

I think we need to reduce the numbers a bit in the voting system, otherwise the organisational overhead will be too large. I'd reduce it to 24 players get into the second ballot and of those 14 are voted. So we would have exactly two teams plus a player each to compensate a no-show in one of the teams - if they all show up, they can switch players between each round instead (the team-captain and the com would play each round still).

I edited the OP correspondingly.

LyDDa says

goldenmode vs swalkmode

No, both teams have to use goldenmode AND swalkmode.

Manly Mustache mod MANDATORY

I vote for mega! :D

Yaluzan says

LyDDa says

goldenmode vs swalkmode

No, both teams have to use goldenmode AND swalkmode.

the players whos gonna be mad as last wins ^^

crowbar says

I vote for mega! :D

+1
and add tudy aswell :)


AND. I want Warforce as co-caster. His skill to make the worst jokes of the world is a need for this hilarious event.

Mega vs Kella The Final Battle

- The most laid back people vs the people who sound the most funny when they are pissed off.
- The least patient commanders in each chair with total rookies in the field.
- Commanders with no field experience in the field and field-players with no commanding experience in the chairs.
- Play the whole event in Build 200 (or something from a long time ago.)
- Casters only.
- Staff only.
- Skulks vs pistol-marines.
- Onos vs exos.
- Floor-lerks vs axe-marines.
- Monkeys vs donkeys.
- Ask some celebs to play.

Robby says

- The most laid back people vs the people who sound the most funny when they are pissed off.
- The least patient commanders in each chair with total rookies in the field.
- Commanders with no field experience in the field and field-players with no commanding experience in the chairs.

If you want a bad ambiance yes...

Robby says

- Play the whole event in Build 200 (or something from a long time ago.)
- Casters only.
- Staff only.
- Skulks vs pistol-marines.
- Onos vs exos.
- Floor-lerks vs axe-marines.
- Ask some celebs to play.

Sounds fun, i love the pistol only. About lerks vs marine axe => Only spikes then right ?

Robby says

- Monkeys vs donkeys.

??

Thanks for your feedback guys :)

Robby says

- Monkeys vs donkeys.

I see some are eager to see the All-Star game happening ^^

After some feedback and spending more thoughts into it, we decided for a voting system.

Please read carefully before filling out the form - you will only be able to vote once!

First Ballot (16th to 19th of February)

You can pick any 6 players, from any division.
There is no use of voting one guy several times! It will still count as only 1 vote for that person.
You can only vote once.
To make our lives easier - and also to make sure, that none of your votes got wasted: type the names, as they are written on ensl.org.

Vote here!

We collect the votes on 20th of February and contact the persons, who got the most votes.

22nd to 24th of February:

After we have contacted the people with the most votes and found out about their availability we present you up to 24 available persons with the most votes. Again you have 6 votes to pick your All-Star team, now focused on the players of this second ballot.

25th to 26th of February:

We present you the All-Star-Teams and further ask you about the maps to be played. Instead of maps, which always get played, we'll move instead to more uncommon and custom maps.

There will be a pool of maps for you to pick from. The top-2 will be played.

This is how the map-pool looks so far, I'm open for suggestions on it:
Mineshaft,
Refinery,
Mineral,
Caged,
Nothing,
Docking2,
Hydra,
Nyx.

So, here is what you can do, now:

* Follow this link to vote in the first ballot
* Spread the word about the All-Star game. Distribute the link to your friends and teammates!


The All-Star game itself will take place either 27th or 28th of February, depending on the availablity of players.

Robby says

- Play the whole event in Build 200 (or something from a long time ago.)
- Casters only.
- Staff only.
- Skulks vs pistol-marines.
- Onos vs exos.
- Floor-lerks vs axe-marines.

:D some nice ideas. Maybe we can get some pre-game-fun going, with them.

Armor 3 catpacks axe only vs skulks.
OR
pistol marines no meds no armor, vs adrenalin skulks parasite only

MV says

Armor 3 catpacks axe only vs skulks.
OR
pistol marines no meds no armor, vs adrenalin skulks parasite only

lol... prepare for 8 hours game as Skulks try to parasite down a chair, or marines killing a Hive with pistols xD

But some 1v1 could be nice :P

Maybe we make 6 pre-match-"disciplines" and each team needs to provide one for each and we will have a look, which team decides more of those for itself...

Would be nice, actually, if we can get an experimental next iteration of the CompMod running in the All-Star game. Would be a good opportunity to introduce the new changes and since winning is secondary we might see some of the less used features - maybe revealing some surprises even.

tudy says

MV says

Armor 3 catpacks axe only vs skulks.
OR
pistol marines no meds no armor, vs adrenalin skulks parasite only

lol... prepare for 8 hours game as Skulks try to parasite down a chair, or marines killing a Hive with pistols xD

But some 1v1 could be nice :P

Maybe we make 6 pre-match-"disciplines" and each team needs to provide one for each and we will have a look, which team decides more of those for itself...

Yeah I was talking about engagements. :D

Live interviews with the players at the most inappropriate times, The casters could even do some form of mini pub quiz and award the winning team, or player in a head to head, round some P res :]

What about a "girls vs boys". Idk if there is 6 girls in NS2 comp world but I know there is some : ranto, hadesia, drifter girl, wizzfizz for example

Has voted ! :

Sounds like fun, looking forward to it.

In case someone wonders, why the second ballot has not started, yet: There are still some people I wait for an answer, if they can play on Saturday or not.

The second ballot will be on its way tomorrow latest. We will make it in parallel with the map-vote to recap some lost time.

Alright the second ballot is here, eventually.

The first ballot had been performed on polljunkie, mainly for the reason, that it didn't need people to sign-up to anything to make a vote. Also from those pages, which don't require a log-in it was the only I could find, which allows a free-form entry, obviously needed, as I can not list out every NSL-Player in history.

However, some people took advantage of its rather poor ways, of blocking off multiple entries. I informed the creator of polljunkie, but he is not responsive. As there is no time however, to repeat the first ballot, I sorted out the multiple entries as good as I could. At least 99% of the multiples had been very obvious. But, I might have missed an invalid vote here or there.

After contacting as many of the candidates I was able to and sorting out the people, which did not respond or had no time on Saturday we are left with this list of 17 people:

* ADHD
* Golden
* Herakles
* Hypie
* Ixian
* KeLLa
* Mendasp
* Neoken
* Rantology
* schu
* Skyice
* Simba
* swalk
* tudy
* Vindaloo
* Virsoul (might be not available)
* Wob

For the second ballot we will use a Google-Form instead. It hopefully offers more protection against multiple entries. The downside is: you need to log-in with your Google-Account.

Notice that you need to vote exactly 6 persons.

Note also, that Virsoul might not be available in the end on Saturday.

Follow this to take your vote.

Voting closes 26th CET-Midnight.

You can vote for the maps being played on ensl.org (on the front page, you know..., not here in the thread ^^)

We had at least Pelargir having issues with the poll on ensl.org. So, if you find yourself not able to vote there, send me which map you want to see. If there are too many people having issues with it, we will destroy that poll, though, and redo it somewhere else :/

Golden & Herakles opposite team banter
Mendasp for more banter
Kella for chaos factor
Swalk for controversy
Skyice for trolling

I can only pick one map? :(

I want to vote for the old docking, the one where the middle of the map had a res node.

Wob says

Golden & Herakles opposite team banter
Mendasp for more banter
Kella for chaos factor
Swalk for controversy
Skyice for trolling

lol that's actually pretty exactly what i voted