Another inter-server tournament

[hexzerg]

Ratemyserver.net had an inter-server tournament for 2009 but what about 2010? We should have another one to bring in the 2010 year. Anyone agreeing with me? I hope they do! 

[yC]

We are passive here.  I think I answered this before. 

Organizers can approach us with a well planned proposal and we will decide if we can help with the publicity.  Preferably the proposal can focus on the event itself rather than for the publicity of a specific server.  That is usually the reason we reject a proposal or without a proposal.  Feedback from the last event told us the coverage includes "Feel RO" was unfair to other servers.  We too understand organizing the event is a huge project and not taking some advantage is kind of hard for anybody.  So we'll see what / who approach us.

I am sorry the current resource of RMS does not have access to scripters, planners, helpers etc that will organize the event alone.

[adhelle]

I moved Lumina from hosts recently and I have my last host as a spare dedicated server that is on my hands until november 14th which is when it dues and will be canceled. I could offer that to host the event if it's enough to handle such an influx of interserver players and offer a client that connects to it and it would even have bot and wpe protection from harmony for the event. I just need to ask sirius if he allows me doing that.
Unfortunately I don't have time to organize the whole event and script the necessary stuff for it. All I could do at most is to setup a temporary flux panel for the registering, since that's pretty quick.
I'm not sure if this is helpful at all and I'm also not sure if it's viable organizing, preparing and advertising such an event so quickly since I'll have the host for this short time. But if someone thinks this can help and he/she can organize a team I don't see why not making a proposal to yC.

[Warock]

Managing Event need a great amount of Skilled and experienced persons I think RMs had conducted one past from the feedbacks they would correct and move onto this year events I think RMs can tie up with some Ragnarok hosting company or companys  and some representatives from top ros make a panel or team then excute the event I think RMS can do it Its just taking about intiative but on the other side it has its own risk of performing the event in fair manner As far as i see some ROs have really good professional staff ,I support adhelle in this case adhele has been matured in the comments and fair all time TOp ro are ranked top because they are indeed fair and have good staffs   

[jTynne]

Perhaps this could work in the following way..

There's multiple hosting providers using RMS as a free method of providing publicity for their companies. Thus, they are using RMS as a podium to sell their product, without having to give to RMS in return. I propose one of these hosts provides a dedicated machine for such a tournament, this would act as the event sponsor.

RMS then selects a panel of the most experienced administrators from its community who apply to be part of an overall panel to develop and/or administrate the event. Naturally, all logs should be public so that there's no foul play.

Said panel in conjunction with aforementioned hosting sponsor create a window so that participants have time to register, spread the word about the event, publicize the details of the event, et cetera.

If nothing else, I'd propose various RO communities pitch in together (monetarily) to create an inter server tournament, and a representative from each server that pitches in X-amount of money or resources to the project is put in an administrative position for the setup/duration of the event, with a similar setup to that of FeelRO's event. This would (hopefully) prevent the same issues from occurring that did during the FeelRO inter-server tournament.

This could work, or it could turn into the biggest lolfail of 2010, depending on which hands are involved. If there's anyone with the resources who wish to seriously contemplate setting up a tournament for December or in the new year, I'd be more than happy to assist in any way that I can.

A few additional things that would really set such an event apart from the rest would be additional prizes (not just bragging rights, because in all honesty, I don't even remember who won the FeelRO event, nor did I give a crap about it), whether they be t-shirts for winning brackets (would need serious sponsorship for such a thing, though), prize money for communities who place, et cetera. The possibilities are virtually endless, and it could turn into something truly amazing, again, if the right people get involved and it gets enough publicity.

[Warock]

like the idea of hosting company sponsoring

[Judgement]

I just want an inter-server WoE.  Missed the last one, so really hope another WoE pops up so I can join in.

[Warock]

I think we all do miss

[Scribbles]

I'd be glad to join in If we did it this year... although, I wouldn't be able to gather my own guild, I'll probably have to join someone else's

[yC]

I think getting the experts to setup the event is the hard part.

Wish I got a copy of what feel ro was running back a year or so ago

[jTynne]

I think getting the experts to setup the event is the hard part.

Wish I got a copy of what feel ro was running back a year or so ago

From what I recall, it wasn't anything spectacular to be honest as far as coding was concerned. Just unload all the NPCs other than the WoE script for a certain castle, add in a few NPCs that instantly level your character to 99/70, and another NPC that dishes out the available items per player, set the items to non-tradable, etc. In truth, such a setup would only take an hour tops to fully install a fresh eAthena and make the changes listed above. Diffing a game client (unless Sirius provided Harmony specifically for the event) wouldn't take long either, and there'd be no need to setup a patcher, et cetera.

The only problem I foresee is the hardware not being able to handle a ton of players. There'd definitely need to be a 100mbps connection up/down on the machine if it broke 500-1,000 players, and there'd (ideally) need to be quad-core (minimum). Depending on whether or not someone provides the hosting for the event, or people rally together to fund it, will determine the quality of game play, really.

To be perfectly honest, a VPS would be sufficient for 200-300 participants, if the budget remains non-existent, or no one offers to host the event.

If there's anyone with prior eAthena experience who want to undertake this project, hit me up. We could definitely put something together before the end of the month and hold the event in December. The sooner the better, naturally.

[Warock]

Yes according to me hosting companies do have bunch of scripters which can be used either ways they use RMS for their paid services they can give back a little to RMS in this way

[adhelle]

how many participated on 2009 edition?

[Pano]

I could potentially work out the script if I wasn't 20 days away from opening my server. It would be all that hard, I'd pull off the scripting in a week or so (considering my server is nearly a inter-server setup in the first place, few tweaks and it would be good). After my server launch, if it's running smoothly and I have spare time to invest in such a project, I'll propose something.

[Judgement]

Ahhhhh yeah.