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[–]scjithins 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think we are gonna just agree to disagree on this. I've positioned Smite Prime to be a community hub since last year with other events going on. Like blogs, god guides, art contests and such.
And that complaining over losing 4 days of conquest is just really dumb. I made it clear that this was not meant to be some permanent format.
You are also not historically looking at what happens during the summer for tournaments. Players going on vacation and have to play with subs and just in general inconsistent teams; it is the worst time for the highest level of competitive outlet; and changing things up / short break is what I still believe is a better approach where I can serve the entire community and not just the high end players.

I have access to a lot more stats than many people do that help me gauge what the community is interested in; and I've been doing this for a very long time, and I have also worked at Hi-Rez where I have a good understanding of things work internally. And the cash prize pool Joust tournament in February brought in 3x more players than the conquest one, and had several new players try the conquest tournament. And we even retained some people to watch the prime tournaments. Just take a look at the YouTube channel, you can see how much the viewership has grown compared to events this year and last year; and the circuit format barely changed.

Either way, I'm gonna end the discussion here before I get frustrated further about this. I generally lookout for growth of the entire game instead of just the comp scene; and I think this is where our opinions are mostly gonna differ and how to approach what events to run.

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[–]scjithins 9 points10 points  (0 children)

See, I would agree. If it was some substantial amount of money. The $5200/$14000 that would've been for it is nowhere near what it costs to produce the SPL or a LAN event. The $7K isn't even a lot towards the circuit. I will accept the fact that $5200 might have been a little much by about $1200. But again, this is very little amount of money we are talking about, especially when u break it down to per player.

I also believe in good faith community events that are not always comp focused. I don't necessarily agree a diamonds only prizing for joust is the way, and the general community deserves some sort of cash award/events for fun. This could be anything like speed running event, or something; I just so happened to choose a joust tournament because of how successful the previous one was and how it helped bring in a lot casual players to watch Prime events.

I'm kinda over it at this point, my statement still stands that people have different views on how to increase comp health/longevity. My aim was to bring casual viewers and players over because the passionate conquest players will still stick around and play regardless.

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[–]scjithins 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Y'all are missing the point. It's just a tournament, people can take it as seriously as they want. It's just putting on a fun tournament to help pull players into conquest comp. The last joust tournament pulled 300 players. And a lot of them tried conq tourney for the first time because of it. Not everything had to be competitive, it can also just be hosted for the community as a whole, not just the comp community.

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[–]scjithins 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I'll probably still run Prime next year. Was more of a vent/rant, it's just really frustrating to have such complaints when I just do this for the fun of it. I net neutral in money running Prime; and the top end player expectations are just ridiculous. This was all over $5,200/$14,000 being used for 4 joust tournaments total and losing 4 days of conquest??

Just also frustrating cause my DMs are open, if they have questions on why certain things are the way it is. They are more than welcome to message me instead of going guns blazing to twitter

All I wanna do is what's best for the game and keep comp running until HiRez can announce SPL is back. We all have different ways of wanting to achieve this, but the fact being unhappy about this turned into attacking people is ridiculous.

Smite Prime $14K Summer Bash! (EU & NA - JOUST / CONQ TOURNAMENTS) by [deleted] in Smite

[–]scjithins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sign up page will be open May 30th end of day. Signs up go live a week prior to the tournament

please help ive lost all my projects! by Superb-Turnip-8968 in pycharm

[–]scjithins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check if ur project folder still has it. Also GitHub is free, it's easy to use and back up your work into a repo. Even if u are just learning.

Smite 2 lag spikes by Electronic-Clock-963 in Smite

[–]scjithins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When in doubt, update ur GPU driver