8th Official FFR Tournament - Final Round!

[HalfStep]

Originally Posted by psychoangel691

I can't release it if it's only good during the day and down at night considering timezones and people's schedules. Unless everyone agrees they want to play with the site like that.

That's why I said until tonight. I don't mind playing with the site constantly dying, but I still agree with your decision of postponing until we're sure it's fixed.

[igotrhythm]

Originally Posted by psychoangel691

I can't release it if it's only good during the day and down at night considering timezones and people's schedules. Unless everyone agrees they want to play with the site like that.

Everyone left, you mean.

At least now getting everyone's opinion won't be so hard now that we're into the prize rounds.

[psychoangel691]

Originally Posted by igotrhythm

Everyone left, you mean.

At least now getting everyone's opinion won't be so hard now that we're into the prize rounds.

It's 104 people, that's still a lot. We have the top 8 that's going to be playing for the week. Then the 9 - 16 group that's going to be competing for a chance at vROFL. Then I have to worry about the tiebreaker that's only going to be 24hours.

[ryuyasha]

Originally Posted by RagedBerserker

Poop.. tourney during the school year = no bueno. Heres to hoping there will still be one in the summer.

Originally Posted by popsicle_3000

Well, I was going to play for a bit tonight, but site just went down... so no go for me anymore. Med school taking up too much time! 10th place is pretty awesome, although i'd have liked the badge

Ugh, yeah. Tuesday night I was literally choosing between studying for an exam in discrete mathematics the next morning or improving my tournament score. I am so glad the 9-16 second chance contest for vROFL is going to happen.

Originally Posted by psychoangel691

I've played the nice game while people are being rude and guess what? It makes no difference. I'm just at a point where I don't care to sit there and sugar coat it to someone who thinks it's okay to talk to people that way. He's also had a constant attitude the majority of the tournament. This is part of why I've left staff and am leaving the site once this is over. After so long of people talking down to me I eventually get fed up with it.

Thank you to the others as well that actually supported the decision and understood. (I know I saw a few other posts)

Originally Posted by Micah_

I am sorry that this has caused you so much grief and you feel that you have to leave. I do commend you for sticking around and dealing with everyone's complaints/bad attitudes and what not. For what it's worth, I think you are doing a great job and dealing with the situation as best as anyone else could and I for one will be sad to see you go.

This, so much. I feel you made the best decision how to handle the issues with the site affecting the tournament.

I will be sad to see you go, for sure. You always hosted lots of cool events and helped me love FFR as much more than just a DDR/SM clone. I have long wished I could match the time, creativity, and effort you put into this site. Sadly, in any leader position it is going to be almost universally impossible to please everyone. Further, it is the ones who speak the rudest and most ignorantly who also speak the loudest and tend to drown out the ones who appreciate and have positive things to say.

I speak for myself and others I know who appreciate what you do, as well as those who may be unknown either for being naturally quiet or simply concerned how those who speak out against you would feel about it. I would urge you to continue contributing to the site in every way you can.

And hey, perhaps we should enforce a policy of being respectful to admins, mods, and everyone on the site. I think that would really help the community.
'Oh, you mouthed off to someone about a chart/song choice/moderator decision/et cetera using rude language? First offense? 1-week forum ban. Second offense? 1-month forum ban. Third offense? permaban and scorewipe because you obviously do not care and refuse to learn or change.'
Granted, that is a specific example that is just what I thought off the top of my head, which could probably be much improved. But if we enforced things like that then I think people would be a lot more respectful, which would make it a lot easier for people to feel like contributing, which would in turn lead more people to contribute, further taking some of the load off of those who already contribute.
/rant

tl;dr: Kayla is awesome and you all need to show respect for the effort she puts into this site and comunity, even when you may disagree with her decisions.

Edit: People can think what they want about that, but it is my opinion and I am not ashamed to share it. And if you have any complaits about it, feel free to take them to the Garbage Bin, where they will be burned in a heap.

[RB_Spirit]

Originally Posted by psychoangel691

It's 104 people, that's still a lot. We have the top 8 that's going to be playing for the week. Then the 9 - 16 group that's going to be competing for a chance at vROFL. Then I have to worry about the tiebreaker that's only going to be 24hours.

Can you tell me more about this 9-16 group, i don't remember hearing of this, and by 9-16 do you mean everyone in divisions 1-7 that placed between 9-16 have a chance at vROFL? :O geez if that's true i'm not so dissapointed at where i placed now inb4 i look like an idiot and misread that somehow... XDDD. As far as the decisions you've made, i see no flaw. Trolls will be trolls, sad to say their are quite a few of them here, even worse they're 20 y/o+ which is just down right hilarious if you ask me >.> some people never grow up stay strong though, you have a fam to worry about. Eff the haters, i'm not too involved with FFR, but it will be sad to see you go. Understandable, though.

[psychoangel691]

Originally Posted by RB_Spirit

Can you tell me more about this 9-16 group, i don't remember hearing of this, and by 9-16 do you mean everyone in divisions 1-7 that placed between 9-16 have a chance at vROFL? :O geez if that's true i'm not so dissapointed at where i placed now inb4 i look like an idiot and misread that somehow... XDDD. As far as the decisions you've made, i see no flaw. Trolls will be trolls, sad to say their are quite a few of them here, even worse they're 20 y/o+ which is just down right hilarious if you ask me >.> some people never grow up stay strong though, you have a fam to worry about. Eff the haters, i'm not too involved with FFR, but it will be sad to see you go. Understandable, though.

I haven't really given any details on it yet because I wasn't even going to announce it until it was time. I ended up mentioning it because someone said something to the exact effect in the thread and I was like fffffff now I have to say something. Everyone will get the details once we can start running again.

Originally Posted by ryuyasha

And hey, perhaps we should enforce a policy of being respectful to admins, mods, and everyone on the site. I think that would really help the community.
'Oh, you mouthed off to someone about a chart/song choice/moderator decision/et cetera using rude language? First offense? 1-week forum ban. Second offense? 1-month forum ban. Third offense? permaban and scorewipe because you obviously do not care and refuse to learn or change.'

There's been rules against disrespecting staff and when people get banned for that it turns into staff abusing things blah blah blah. Either way though my leaving is a combination of things not just things in the community.

[TC_Halogen]

Originally Posted by psychoangel691

I haven't really given any details on it yet because I wasn't even going to announce it until it was time. I ended up mentioning it because someone said something to the exact effect in the thread and I was like fffffff now I have to say something. Everyone will get the details once we can start running again.

in laymen's terms: Xiz is a stalker/psychic and ruined everything.

[Bluearrowll]

Could have gone politician style and not say anything ;D ##

[hi19hi19]

You should put a front page post up explaining why it is postponed. People deserve to know and be able to plan ahead as best they can.

[psychoangel691]

Originally Posted by hi19hi19

You should put a front page post up explaining why it is postponed. People deserve to know and be able to plan ahead as best they can.

Hard to plan ahead when we don't even know if/when things are going to be fixed. It's been seeming good all day like yesterday but I have no idea what will happen by the evening.

Edit: Well we're getting into the evening hours now so lets see how it goes. I think by this time yesterday it was starting to go in and out.

[EtienneSM]

So if the site has no flaws in terms of the site going down and such, will the round start at midnight server time?

[psychoangel691]

Yes

[hi19hi19]

Just be like "The next round of the tournament is postponed due to server instability. We are not sure when it will be fixed. Check ____ thread for more info."

Simple as that. There are still people in D1 who haven't posted and might be wondering wtf is going on.

It never hurts to communicate what's going on, and it always does seem to hurt you in the opposite case.

[psychoangel691]

Originally Posted by hi19hi19

Just be like "The next round of the tournament is postponed due to server instability. We are not sure when it will be fixed. Check ____ thread for more info."

Simple as that. There are still people in D1 who haven't posted and might be wondering wtf is going on.

It never hurts to communicate what's going on, and it always does seem to hurt you in the opposite case.

Just because they don't post doesn't mean they don't check the thread. I can't even say server instability because I don't know that's the case for sure. I was told the server was being relocated to try to resolve the issue, that's the best I know. If anyone's going to announce what's going on with the site it should be one of the admins not me. (Which I did ask Zag to say something to those who were speculating DDoS and he never posted anything)

[popsicle_3000]

still, saying site is being weird, we're delaying...
always better to be clear

[psychoangel691]

I think it's funny that people are still going on about a FPP when one's been up for like an hour. Shows how many actually notice it, which was something that came up not all that long ago in a thread about how no one really uses the front page anymore. Most people go straight to whatever it is they're doing.

[sayuncle990]

It's a very nice front page post. I enjoyed it.

[psychoangel691]

Well it's looking good for tonight. AJ said that his file was okayed so that will be D6's tiebreaker and also become the top 16 token as well. Lets hope that the issue's resolved and that we're in for a good week.

[HalfStep]

In that case... 6 hours hype!

[TC_Halogen]

Frame fixes are done for D6's tiebreaking file.