Post by Crespo on Jul 30, 2004 16:56:15 GMT
I really don't know where to start. This should be a big text... Well here it goes!
CWT 2004 was for me, Luís Crespo, your thankfull host, the year where the little tournament of the unknown portuguese made the big jump. It is impossible to say after this year that CWT 2004 was worse than CWT 2003. For me, the biggest improvement was related to schemes. The home/away system for the group stage allowed us to play the double amount of games (instead of 3 we got to play 6) and erased the issues with schemes surrounding CWT 2003. Also, it introduces scheme versatility to our tournament instead of playing on one only scheme. We played 143 games in the group stage, the great majority of those games being made with Intermediate (114). It's a fact that it is the most played scheme but the tournament wouldn't be the same if it hadn't those 29 games with the other schemes (9 games in Pro, 6 in Blast Zone, 5 in Elite, 4 in Tournament, 3 in The Darkside and 2 games using Classic), of which all were played.
As for the timekeeping issues CWT 2004 was almost a success. As you all know the timkeeping 10 days penaltys were a new thing and the reaction to it from the wormers was good. In fact, the speed of the early group stage was unbelievable to be true, everyone was making everything on schedule, unlike the past year. It would be perfect if some things didn't happen in the late group stage and in the playoff stage. But I do believe that almost every situations that slowed down CWT this year were due to real life complications from the players. I didn't realized of any situation where anyone didn't want to play. Shit happens sometimes. It's because of that thought that I don't see with so bad eyes the delays that hapenned this year. As host I had to control things and again I say that I didn't noticed wormers who didn't want to play their games.
For the statistics record during the course of CWT (159 days) the average of playing rate was 1 game/day! (Amazing!! Exact calculations really, we played 159 games!!)
We can go faster but it was a good improvement this year...
Just to finish on stats you may as well know that the average duration of a CWT 2004 playoff game was 01:28 with the longest battle being both the final and fury 3-2 Voodoo semi final, with 2 hours of game play.
In group stage the average time for a cwt game was 43 min and the longest group battle was the last one Tixas 0-2 Darasek with 01:25. Btw, the shortest whiping this year was the game Konrad 2-0 monk with 17 min only.
I will also have to say that I trully agree with MrTPenguin about his theory of the bucket full of stones. If you shake the bucket the lighter stones will gradually be at the top and the heavier ones at the bottom. The quality of play increased at everyone's sight and it will certainly continue to increase in the future due to the waves of addicted-wwp-newcomers.
The closeness of the tournament can be observed by looking at some groups final scores. In almost every group there was excitement for one reason or the other.
And now the personal thanks:
I would like to thank the following wormers for entering and making CWT 2004 what it was (order by ranking):
Jigsaw, Xaositect, MrTPenguin, mielu, Voodoo, Bytor, fury, Teletubbies, Darasek, Javito, Konrad, Tixas, NormalPro, MajesticJara, Pipinasso, MBonheur, 13, Chicken23, Raven, DustedTrooper, Manolo, Semaphore, Dario, Trixsk8, PaRaNoIcO, Hallq, BetongAsna, RatoonSoft, Automatico and Ashmallum.
I will like to give special thanks to (in no particular order):
Semaphore for letting me play my eight-quarter-final game at his place.
For the same reason I would like to thank Pitbacardi (a qualifier) for letting me play my quarter-final match at his place.
Jigsaw for being the best CWT-champ ever. Everyone knows he's leaving (I won't talk about that no more) so this is my special thanks to him.
I also would like to thank in advance all the doners for the CWT award t-shirts coming up very soon (I'm working on the design for them in the next days) for their thankfull donations.
A special thanks to MrTPenguin for (once more) being my right-hand man in planning CWT, with whom I have lots of interesting chats (either typo-chats or voice ones).
Also my apreciation for Teletubbies, such an experienced person still plays with us youngsters and is still holding on top!
And now here's Crespo the wormer (not the host) talking:
It was a good year for me in the overall, specially because of that super-intense group stage with Voodoo and MajesticJara (special thanks to you guys too), from who I managed to rise in first place of my group. I think I could have gone further than the quarters but that was discussed earlier somewhere else so no need to beat that issue again. It would be nice to face Jiggy in the semis, specially cuz' I do very good against him (5 complete friendlies 3 wins and 2 losses for me) but my feathered kryptonite of worms stopped me (6 complete games with Penguin in my life, 2 wins and 4 losses)... And I really should have done better than taking 0-3 in 50 min... eheh
Oh well, better luck next time right?
I think that is all for now.
Thanks to you all again and I hope to see most of you again in CWT 2005 for some more great games of wwp.
I will make and post the t-shirts for those of you who earned them so wait a while and you ll have an extra t-shirt soon (don't use them a lot though, the design can get damaged, treat them more like a trophy than a piece of clothing).
CWT 2004 was for me, Luís Crespo, your thankfull host, the year where the little tournament of the unknown portuguese made the big jump. It is impossible to say after this year that CWT 2004 was worse than CWT 2003. For me, the biggest improvement was related to schemes. The home/away system for the group stage allowed us to play the double amount of games (instead of 3 we got to play 6) and erased the issues with schemes surrounding CWT 2003. Also, it introduces scheme versatility to our tournament instead of playing on one only scheme. We played 143 games in the group stage, the great majority of those games being made with Intermediate (114). It's a fact that it is the most played scheme but the tournament wouldn't be the same if it hadn't those 29 games with the other schemes (9 games in Pro, 6 in Blast Zone, 5 in Elite, 4 in Tournament, 3 in The Darkside and 2 games using Classic), of which all were played.
As for the timekeeping issues CWT 2004 was almost a success. As you all know the timkeeping 10 days penaltys were a new thing and the reaction to it from the wormers was good. In fact, the speed of the early group stage was unbelievable to be true, everyone was making everything on schedule, unlike the past year. It would be perfect if some things didn't happen in the late group stage and in the playoff stage. But I do believe that almost every situations that slowed down CWT this year were due to real life complications from the players. I didn't realized of any situation where anyone didn't want to play. Shit happens sometimes. It's because of that thought that I don't see with so bad eyes the delays that hapenned this year. As host I had to control things and again I say that I didn't noticed wormers who didn't want to play their games.
For the statistics record during the course of CWT (159 days) the average of playing rate was 1 game/day! (Amazing!! Exact calculations really, we played 159 games!!)
We can go faster but it was a good improvement this year...
Just to finish on stats you may as well know that the average duration of a CWT 2004 playoff game was 01:28 with the longest battle being both the final and fury 3-2 Voodoo semi final, with 2 hours of game play.
In group stage the average time for a cwt game was 43 min and the longest group battle was the last one Tixas 0-2 Darasek with 01:25. Btw, the shortest whiping this year was the game Konrad 2-0 monk with 17 min only.
I will also have to say that I trully agree with MrTPenguin about his theory of the bucket full of stones. If you shake the bucket the lighter stones will gradually be at the top and the heavier ones at the bottom. The quality of play increased at everyone's sight and it will certainly continue to increase in the future due to the waves of addicted-wwp-newcomers.
The closeness of the tournament can be observed by looking at some groups final scores. In almost every group there was excitement for one reason or the other.
And now the personal thanks:
I would like to thank the following wormers for entering and making CWT 2004 what it was (order by ranking):
Jigsaw, Xaositect, MrTPenguin, mielu, Voodoo, Bytor, fury, Teletubbies, Darasek, Javito, Konrad, Tixas, NormalPro, MajesticJara, Pipinasso, MBonheur, 13, Chicken23, Raven, DustedTrooper, Manolo, Semaphore, Dario, Trixsk8, PaRaNoIcO, Hallq, BetongAsna, RatoonSoft, Automatico and Ashmallum.
I will like to give special thanks to (in no particular order):
Semaphore for letting me play my eight-quarter-final game at his place.
For the same reason I would like to thank Pitbacardi (a qualifier) for letting me play my quarter-final match at his place.
Jigsaw for being the best CWT-champ ever. Everyone knows he's leaving (I won't talk about that no more) so this is my special thanks to him.
I also would like to thank in advance all the doners for the CWT award t-shirts coming up very soon (I'm working on the design for them in the next days) for their thankfull donations.
A special thanks to MrTPenguin for (once more) being my right-hand man in planning CWT, with whom I have lots of interesting chats (either typo-chats or voice ones).
Also my apreciation for Teletubbies, such an experienced person still plays with us youngsters and is still holding on top!
And now here's Crespo the wormer (not the host) talking:
It was a good year for me in the overall, specially because of that super-intense group stage with Voodoo and MajesticJara (special thanks to you guys too), from who I managed to rise in first place of my group. I think I could have gone further than the quarters but that was discussed earlier somewhere else so no need to beat that issue again. It would be nice to face Jiggy in the semis, specially cuz' I do very good against him (5 complete friendlies 3 wins and 2 losses for me) but my feathered kryptonite of worms stopped me (6 complete games with Penguin in my life, 2 wins and 4 losses)... And I really should have done better than taking 0-3 in 50 min... eheh
Oh well, better luck next time right?
I think that is all for now.
Thanks to you all again and I hope to see most of you again in CWT 2005 for some more great games of wwp.
I will make and post the t-shirts for those of you who earned them so wait a while and you ll have an extra t-shirt soon (don't use them a lot though, the design can get damaged, treat them more like a trophy than a piece of clothing).