Profile of Kreatiir

Organising tournaments takes a whole lot of effort. Small, larger ones, it does not really matter cause it is a lot of work. I'll break it down for you very briefly;

• Concept
  You want the tournament to be original. 2v2, 1v1. Clans only? For which division or maybe for all? If it is for all skills, what seeding method are you going to use to make it more fair?
  
• Rules
  Looking at the state of the game - what is considered OP? What needs to be banned in order for everyone to have a fair match? Mirror matches allowed in the qualifiers? Best of 1 or 3?
  
• Artwork
  This is the ultimate time consumer. Logo's, twitch scenes, highlights, little things like paragraphe-dividers in your newspost, overlays, intro videos, and tons of artwork I am not even mentioning. Photoshop and Illustrator hours x 100000
  
• Videos
  Intro vids, background vids, VODs on YouTube, worldbuilder mapvideos, ..
  Sony Vegas x 100000
  
• Prizes
  The hunt for good prizes cause you want the players to fight for something. This can be a pain in the ass cause as organisor you are already putting so much work in a tourney where you gain absolutely nothing. And now people expect you to have money/hardware prizes? That's absurd, but the show must go on.
  
• Streaming
  As mentioned before artwork, setting up Obs (scenes, hotkeys, testing, scources,... ), buying proper mic and webcam, buying a good rig so you can stream HQ, ...
  
• Creating newspost
  Writing everything out in a well written post (which most of the players don't even read).
  
• Managing sign-ups and creating brackets + seeding
  Who's playing against who? Randomization, cointoss or the referee decides who plays against who?
  
• Tourney day
  No-shows, managing problems, timezone issues, people being late, people who has not read the rules or timetable,..
  
• Streaming live
  After setting it up, you have to cast all games. Its super time consuming.
  
• A lot more details I'm not even mentioning.
  

You should know that many of us work on all of these things said above for FREE. We put in effort after we have gone working for a whole day.

What I am trying to say is - apart from the site management itself (I do not have knowledge about that) - tournament organisation itself is a HUGE effort where you gain absolutely nothing as organizer. With both Rewind and One4One I have gained absolutely 0 money. And I believe ThightRope, Romeo, Ipkai and more also gained nothing. So it is normal that the admins of such a large community receive something after years and years of site management and organisation.
Is 50% too much? Well I leave that up to each individual. I don't think it's right to compare it to huge DOTA events though, as there is a lot more to be paid for and does not run on donations. But that said, Ami has always been transparend about 50% - 50%, so there's not much you can say about that.

Hopefully you have more of an image what it takes to make and hold tournaments.

Very well written with all the divisions between factions.
GOod job guys

It's hard indeed to counter the units, but their manouvrability is just shit. When he has to change it's target or have to move his ass so it doesn't get hit on the ass it will get lots of problems. I agree with TheMachine but I got more feeling for the argument of Looney. The maps are probably 70% of the win for these units. The only urban map the JT and Elefant was good on was Sittard and the only position to use it was the middle VP since it could only hit there. It just need open spaces. Luckely the JT doesn't have shoot through buildings anymore.

It's definitely a combo of the two arguments, but the fact alone that a certain unit bounces more than 50% of all anti-AT stuff the allies can throw at such a tank (in particular the JT) is not a great thing. With the recent change of adding different tables for different units, they can easily make medium tanks not penetrate that much while infantry AT as Zook's and PTRS penetrate more consistent so there is an actual counter to these units rather than going all in.

I agree that maps are an issue, but I think we all know that the map pool is not likely to change drastically in such a way that the JT won't be dominating half of the map pool.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that JT OP but it's the game design that's bothering me. I'm not a native speaker so I can't really express myself as good as Machine, but II really think he makes perfect sense.

Dat MG with sniper scope

No

Allies should not be able to counter axis units because krupp steel

Haha