Profile of samich

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Whilst your football analogy is good and could be used to make an argument for zooming in and looking at stuff i've never heard a football commentator say "ok guys, we're going to call this goal Hectors goal and this corner flag is Looney's hotel"

Also the zooming in equivalent would be a football commentator (who magically controls the camera) focusing in on the guy with the viking helmet whilst a crucial corner is being taken that results in a goal while cutting off the colour commentator whos trying to tell us about the action.

I didn't love ami's enthusiasm (its not for me really), but I can completely appreciate that a lot of people do.
I didn't like his random stories/zooming in, but I can appreciate that a lot of people do.
But missing the action to do those things was objectively bad.

This isn't intended to hate on him though, he has a lot of good qualities and put a hell of a lot of work in for the tournament which i'm massively appreciative of but he needs to get over the whole "im going to zoom in screw the haters" thing and just stop it in the middle of the games.

I'd like to thank the organizers/moderators/referees and everyone who put time and effort into making the tournament happen, everything ran very smoothly and I definitely enjoyed watching the games.

Here are my thoughts on things that could be improved on:

Banning of commanders:
I largely agree with Antilles on this. I think banning rifles/elite armoured/partisans (after the fixes) was a huge mistake. I don't buy into the assumption that if they were allowed its all we'd see and secondly even if we saw them in 90% of the 'real' games, I don't see how this is any different from seeing the same old KV8/IS2 vs mechanized/command pz4 (i forget the commander name).
There will always be meta commanders, people will always flock to them, if you ban them they will just go to the next one on the list. I realize you're trying to increase diversity but you essentially achieved the exact opposite.

The Brits:
Again I agree with OP, I like seeing brits as much as the next guy but they're clearly in abit of an unbalanced state at the moment. They have some big flaws and they have some over performing stuff which kind of makes them workable. Without getting into it I think the second you started to cherry pick what they could and couldn't use you should have realized that involving them was a bad idea.

Exploiting:
Unfortunately Coh2 is somewhat marred with exploitable stuff and one of the most obvious ones is ghost wire/sandbags. I think at this stage its clear relic is never going to step up and fix this stuff so it falls to tournament organizers to ban players from taking advantage. This was sadly missed for OCF and did somewhat spoil a few games.

The invites:
I think invites were the biggest mistake this tournament made. Firstly, the idea of inviting to a tournament for a game with no real competitive scene is always going to be open to bias. Secondly the choice to invite Aimstrong is a pretty big kick in the teeth to active community members who have consistently pushed the game on a competitive level. No issue with the guy, he's obviously an incredibly good player but giving him an easy ride was a mistake.

Amount of games in a day:
Nothing more to add beyond what others said. The amount of games you asked players to play in a day was wayyyy over the top and it only emphasized the advantage given to invited players.


All in all non of this stopped me enjoying the games and again thank you to everyone involved, I don't think anyone could ask for any more of you guys.

wow i never noticed that at all. It really is massive.

totally disagree with this. Grenadiers are the least micro intensive line infantry and the us rifles squad grenade, whilst pretty good, is easier to dodge then grenadier rifle nade.

The one shot wiping thing can happen to any squad, on any faction. I've lost as many volks, scripts, rifles to one shot muggery as I have grens.

man that is epic