Advertising Teams

They really need to do this!

 

I totally agree, it would be great to have a more active community, and get more players involved.

 

I completely agree! Coming from experience I would've never continued playing ctf unless I was introduced to teams by 5ive and svg people. I really do believe it would be a grat thing for our community to show those that play ctf the competitive aspect and gain some player base for competitive ctf. +1

 

I went a year without knowing about ctf teams xD

 

agreed, why this hasn't been done already is beyond me

 

I've been playing ctf since 2013, yet was only made aware of teams in late October. That might be because I'm not as skilled as other players idk but I agree 100% with this post xD

 

We've been seeing a rather large outbreak in new teams lately, a number of them not having more than 12 active players. It seems like we want more teams, but the pool of players who actually care is rather small. Heck, most players don't know when freeday ends, so how could they possibly know what teams are?

This is the case for every aspect of ctf. New players are shoved into a world that is complex and not well explained (or the information just isn't easy to get to). On top of this, our community is like a bubble, if that bubble was steel plated with titanium spikes and surrounded by a minefield. Regulars are, generally, very toxic to new players, not willing to make new friends.

All in all, advertising teams is a good idea to expand, the problem is if our community will be able to accept "brawl noobs" into a bubble that superman himself would take one look at and say "**** that"

 

Yeah and then take over the world!!!!! For real though, yes I agree with the pretty much all of that ^

Also how much superman have you been watching @ACE_BLUE2

 

I played mcctf for 2 years without knowing about teams and brawl for like 5 months, that's about 2 and a half years without knowing about teams (although I will admit I'm not the smartest and I was like 10-12? But still )

Advertising teams is a good idea except it could annoy regs like @ACE_BLUE2 said

 

I'm not saying that this is a bad idea, in fact, I do agree that awareness should be raised, but we should check our own team system before plunging other new players in.

Our team system right now is completely uninviting to new players. Most "new" teams are made up of 'recycled' players (sorry had to steal that term @Quarrelt) from other teams with a few new players involved. It's also important to note that nearly half the teams now are inactive and dying. Do we really want to introduce new players into a dying team scene? And I agree with @ACE_BLUE2 on the point that the current CTF Community must be able to accept new players onto their teams in order to "revive" CTF Teams, which most probably won't.

Let's say out of the entire Brawl CTF Playerbase (which barely peaks over 100 on CTF), 20 people decide to go through the entire process of making a forums account and reading about CTF Teams. Let's say that they're all really excited and all still want to join a team. Now let's look at the current Teams. Not gonna say which (because it's pretty obvious if you ask me) but ~7 teams are inactive or on the brink of inactivity (no hard feelings intended). That's a little over a third of all the teams on CTF. Now let's observe the rest of the teams. Which of the remaining teams has enough space for a newbie to join? Or the more important question, which of the remaining teams would allow a newbie to join? Sorry, but I can't see many teams welcoming a complete noob with open arms. We're competitive for a reason, and that reason is to win (all the while having fun). Why would we purposefully give our team a weak link? Sorry for being so harsh, but why do think teams spend so much time focused on recruitment and applications? WHY do we even have applications? To see how much experience the player has for the team to judge their usefullness! Are teams ready to give up their chances of winning just to play a few more matches before the entire system dies?

Let's say they apply to one of the inactive teams (who are probably searching for members). Is that what we want to welcome them into instead? Do we want to give a huge opening on this amazing team scene only for them to finally be accepted into their very first CTF Team, (with him / her brimming with happiness and excitement), and have that team be a total bore? What if that team never has a match, or if the rest of their players are, well, inactive. What if the team disbands in a month? What happens to the new player then? Are they still gonna be excited about teams?

However, people still apply to teams, and some get accepted and some get denied. What happens when the player gets denied? Will they still be excited to try again? Or will they give up?

Or maybe, one of them reads the team thread a little closer and decides to make a team! Yeah great right?! Wrong. Let's get a team full of CTF noobs and have them play matches! Ok so now we just have a match against an active team. Hmm, well DF is active? So is TT, and RR, and Genetic. Do we want to send them out to get demolished? What active teams here are able to match with the lack of skill new teams have? We'd need an entire new batch of new teams to fight each other so they don't get discouraged from constantly losing. And I know discouragement. I've been on The Crusaders for over 2 years now, and as some of you know very well that in the beginning, we lost every damn match we played, no questions asked. That was probably the hardest part to stay on TC during our losing streak.

How many players will be left after all of that? How many players will stick with CTF compared to other servers?

Don't get the wrong idea from me; I think raising awareness is crucial, but we can't just assume people will be fine and dandy with our team system right now. I know the CTF Team Scene is dying, and that just makes me sadder than words can describe, but our system right now is not at all suited for newbies.

 

Yup on my old acc i played for 1 year and never even heard of this team... until... a whole 2 months ago? O_O

Yup on my old acc i played for 1 year and never even heard of this team... until... a whole 2 months ago? O_O

and kev thats a really good point you got there i guess some one or just the community itself could make different teams for different time zones and then like have part time members in it (people that are mercs or official members of a team) then we could sort out the newbies and tell how to do this and that. Then late on hopefully people will start making more teams

 

I was in a team when I was 10 , @vezenite made df when he was 10

 

@NomNuggetNom could reintroduce the Team/clan tag from Mcpvp (You had your team's acronym right next to your name.) It's subtle enough to not be annoying, and all it would take is for one person to ask "Whats do those letters on your name mean?" to get the word out. Only issue I see is that @NomNuggetNom has stated his reluctance (For lack of a better word) to the idea before. https://www.brawl.com/threads/56481/#post-713290

 

I see what you mean BUT :3 how about only ONE team may have that initial :3 AND it must be given out by the leader AND :3 your team initials E.G TT would be in green for official, TT would be in red for inactive and TT would be in grey or black or what ever xd for a pending team or something? :3 But i do still see problems in this idea and suggestion if its for the better lets not?

 

Yes they should reintroduce this! I don't see problems with this idea if it gets done correctly. Another way to make the teamscene more active is having more 'forced' matches like leagues or tourneys and advertise them on brawl.

 

Ikr :3 and if people can come with more ideas for the server and then it could boost up money? But main points then we can have more... RIVALRY! :3 plus i really needa team ;-;

 

Bringing back the clantags would be real useful but also the idea of having a constant broadcast would help the cause, like this we could also attract players from the other games on Brawl and try to keep them here. All for the survival of ctf!