r/PaymoneyWubby

Sometimes stream feels like this scenario on repeat to me but I'm here for it.

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Hey guys. I've wanted a community CS event for a while, Wubby's said on stream he'd like to do something like this too, so screw it, I'm trying to make it happen.

Before anything else: this is unofficial. Not hosted by Wubby, not endorsed by Wubby, I'm just some guy who likes CS. If Wubby or anyone on the team ever wants to jump in or take the whole thing over, door's wide open and I'll hand over the keys with a smile.

The pitch

One Saturday. A full community tournament, group stage to a grand final, one champion team by dinner time. Free, no prizes, winners get to be insufferable in chat forever.

And before you scroll past because you're bad at CS: being bad is not a problem here, it's a feature. Here's how...

Randomized teams, built to be fair

- Everyone who signs up gets ranked into 5 skill tiers, from "they call me (insert nationality here) donk" down to "installed CS2 this morning."

- Every team of 5 gets exactly one player from each tier. So every single team is one sweat, one solid player, one average player, one casual, and one brand new person.

-There are no premade stacks, so there's nobody to get stomped by. And lying about your skill on the survey does nothing except sabotage your own team, so the smurf problem cancels itself out.

If you've never played CS in your life: you are not just welcome, you are a required part of every roster. Nobody cares if you don't know the gun names or don't understand the economy. That's exactly what the good players on your team are there for.

A big part of why I want to do this at all is getting more people into CS2, so the whole event is built around new players actually getting to learn the game with four people helping you instead of getting slurs in 3 different languages hurled at you in matchmaking.

The day (rough plan, firms up once I see the numbers)

- Starts noon PT / 3 PM ET on a Saturday, roughly a month out.

- Group stage first: everyone plays 3 matches, about 2.5-3 hours. Nobody is out after one game.

- Top 8 teams advance. 30 min break while the bracket goes up, then quarters, semis, final. Champion crowned around 6:30 PM PT / 9:30 PM ET, so even the winners keep their Saturday night.

- Voice comms on Discord, one channel per team. A mic is required and you have to use it. That's not a rule for the sweats, it's for the new players: we want you asking questions. What do I buy? Where do I stand? Why did everyone just save? Your team wants to answer that stuff, it's half the fun. The cracked guy clutching a 1v4 while explaining his decisions to the new guy is the entire point of this event.

- NA servers for round one of this. Sorry EU, if this works there can be more.

The fine print

- Hoping for somewhere around 100 players, 20 teams, but I genuinely don't know what to expect, and that's why this post exists. The format scales up or down either way.

- Want to play with a friend or two? The survey asks about that so I can plan for it, and if the numbers make it possible we'll TRY to keep duos and trios together. That's a "try," not a promise. Nothing about team draws is guaranteed except the tier balance.

- No 5-stacks this time, that breaks the whole randomized thing. But if this event goes well, the plan is a proper serious tournament afterward: real premade teams, actually competing for a small prize. This one is the goofy proof of concept. Sweats; show up, carry your randoms, earn the bragging rights.

- We'd probably host matches on Challengermode with FACEIT as a backup (FACEIT requires kernel anticheat that is Windows-only, this would block out linux/mac users and adds another hurdle to the signup process so i'm leaning towards Challengermode). If that's a dealbreaker for enough people, we'll figure something else out. The survey asks you about this.

What I need from you right now: Two minutes of your time

https://forms.gle/yPgjMcabGK28z4TT6

No names, no commitments, no sign-up. Just stats so I know if this is real: would you actually play, your honest skill level, solo or with friends, does a Saturday afternoon work, and the online tournament hosting question.

If enough of you fill it out, the next post will have a date and real sign-ups. Let's find out if we have a tournament.

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I walked by this at Walmart and had to do a double take.
My first thought was, "Why is Children's Miracle Network fundraising for adults?”. Then about five seconds later my brain finally caught up and went, "Oh... little people are kids first." I just stood there feeling like an absolute moron.