SwitchViewz

Round #2 of Matches beings today! You have 3 days from today to complete your second match.. If you are having trouble scheduling a time please do not hesitate to contact me. All players that failed to do there match or contact me within the past 4 days have been disqualified and their opponent moved up to the next match. The only match to still be played is zburdsal vs Four_Down and they have both been talking to me about it and difficulty in scheduling their match.

I have extended the first round by one day due to the amount of people unable to fullfil the 3 day timeframe. Today is the last day to get your matches in or to contact me if your partner has not been responding to you. If you are having trouble contacting your opponent I suggest sending them a PM here on the forums, in game, or on reddit. Any matches not completed by today will result in a forfeit for the players that did not show.

I have updated the main post with current scheduled match times and the staff member spectating the match.

I take back what I said above, as server info can be found here: https://nerd.nu/forums/topic/3636-counter-strike-global-offensive/

Server info will be posted later tonight when the announcement post for the server goes up. As for contacting your opponent, you will have to figure out how your going to do that. One way is to send them a PM here on the forums, as everyone that signed up replied to the forum post.

The Tournament starts at 8PM EDT / 5PM PST today with the opening of the server. Tournament Status: First set of matches to being at 8PM EDT today. How it all works: - This is a casual gamemode with no spectating allowed. This means there is a pistol only round followed by rounds where you can buy weapons. All weapons are allowed except for the AWP. The AWP is not allowed to be used. Using this weapon will grant a win point to your opponent. - A total of 3 rounds will be played - A round consists of winning 8 points on one team, and then teams are swapped, starting the next round - First person to reach 2 round wins will win that match and advance in the bracket - Players have 3 days to complete the match they have been assigned. If the players fail to do the match in 3 days and do not contact me within that time, both will be disqualified - All matches must be played on the Nerd.Nu Server with a staff member spectating. The staff member that spectates does not matter who it is - You are responsible for contacting your opponent and setting up the match. If you are unable to contact them please contact me. - When the match has been finished and a player has won, please notify me and tell me who one and the staff member that observed. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me here or PM me. I will be available to spectate matches most of today and tomorrow, and hopefully the following week as well. Come find me in Mumble, IRC, or send me a PM here if you would like me to spectate your match. If you would like another staff member to watch you will need to contact that staff member. Tournament Bracket (Live): http://challonge.com/NerdNuCSGO Current Scheduled Matches: None Match History: (Outdated) Round 1: Lt.Worf vs OleToothless - Winner: Lt.Worf 2-0 d3north vs SwitchViewz - Winner: SwitchViewz 2-0 Noahyoda vs smellykid50 - Winner: Noahyoda 2-1 slide vs Alex - Winner: Alex 2-1 (This was close! 7-7 in the last round!)

A bit late as I wasn't home last night, sorry about that. Sign up's are officially closed and brackets have been shuffled. You can view the live tournament bracket HERE and all listed matches are accurate and correct! For more information visit this thread.

Today is the last day to sign up for the tournament. To keep the brackets clean and require no bye-ins, we have room for one more person.

Alright time for an update everyone. At this time, the head admins and I have decided that we are not going to be launching E as it's own server. We want to take a different approach and host any events involving building to take place on Creative to encourage more players playing there. We will be keeping E up and open to staff members to work on the "major" events, such as Fundraisers and as a building ground. We will still be using this spawn however! This spawn that everyone has been working on we will be using as the next Fundraiser spawn and we will be adding the minigames to islands surrounding it. We will also be using the parkour and SkrapssparkS scavenger hunt as minigames for the next fundraiser.

SkrapssparkS has joined the Event Admin Team alongside me. Please give him a warm welcome! :) The CS:GO Tournament sign up's have started.

Hey there everyone, with the launch of our CS:GO Server we will be celebrating by hosting a Tournament for you guys to compete for prizes. Info This is a standard 1v1 bracket tournament in a best 2-out-of-3 rounds format. Players will play a total of 3 rounds and the person that wins 2 rounds first wins that slot. All matches will be played on the map de_dust2. Once the tournament starts players will be given 3 days to complete the match they are assigned. Matches will need to be observed by a staff member and must be played on our server. Once the first set of matches is complete then next round of matches will start and players will again have 3 days to complete their second match. It will continue on like this until we have our winners. The tournament starts on August 1st alongside our server launch. Signups will close on July 31st. Prizes: 1st: 50$ Steam Gift Card + Subreddit Flair 2nd: 25$ Steam Gift Card + Subreddit Flair 3rd: 25$ Steam Gift Card + Subreddit Flair Note: Subreddit Flair will be assigned once our new CSS theme has been completed. All prizes were generously donated by LadyRavenOwl. A live view of the tournament bracket can be viewed here: http://challonge.com/NerdNuCSGO Note: Ignore any current matches as they are temporary. Everyone will be shuffled once sign ups are finished. Current people signed up: SwitchViewz Barlimore zburdsal TornadoHorse tactical_spork slide Torteela Cutter_Will Django_Fett Four_Down Alxe1851011 lousiscool123 TokenChineseGuy Grapes Bardidley Unce smellykid50 ForeignPigeonHD Noahyoda pancake267 Lt.Worf Flumper Oletoothless butterywaffle23 SorryNotSorry Shoobox11 EeHee2000 d3north HarlockCZ KRwisTy96 dizney07

I have gone and made a void square around the entire thing so that we can beging world on the underside of the floating island. Anyone that is good and making floating islands please feel free to come lend a hand!

Good points, I wasn't trying to just single out mumble as the entire community as that is by no means true. I was simply trying to point out that more activity there would be good. I don't agree with it taking a backseat to the other things you listed. To me, interacting personably is just as important as those other things. You guys are the leaders of the community, it wouldn't be fair for you to not communicate personably and then go and write policy for the community your not interacting with. Part of your job as a community leader is to interact with the community and gather feedback. I would think that that would actually take priority over the other things you mentioned because you can't do the other things without interacting with the community first. I wouldn't want to kick someone to the curb for not coming in mumble all the time. I just think it would be a good idea to enourage some usage of mumble/other-services for all the heads and have more consistent use. My original post was trying to lead somewhat to this. If we have descriptions of staff members duties then we know how to better view and address activity. Glad to hear you plan to start working on a thread for it! :)

I have been talking to Barlimore in IRC and he brought to my attention that I sounded a little harsh and unrealistic. That was not my intention and I apologize if I have come off that way. The purpose of my post is I want to see consistency amoung the head admins. It is great that Mrloud and Barlimore are playing Civ and interacting with the community, but other head admins are not. Cyotie has been inactive a long time and scherer was out of town for awhile. I am simply wanting something to be introduced to the policy that can add consistency amoung the head admins, and other admins activity levels.

I'm not asking for all of you to sit in mumble for 3 hours a day and talk to people, but making absolutely no appearance is a problem. If my PC is on then I am in mumble and I rarely ever see any of the heads talking with people. Are you guys aware there is a group of people that play CSGO together every so often? Or perhaps that another group plays Civ regularly? The only heads I've seen within the past month in mumble just chatting are Mrloud15 and Barlimore. That is the problem I have. You guys are not making the time to interact with the community outside of minecraft or other channels, in some cases not even minecraft. You are leaders of this community, how can you not make time to hang out in mumble or play a CSGO match or two? I understand you guys are busy and your time is limited. I'm not asking for you guys to preform miracles but I want to see something. Some effort to interact with the community outside of minecraft. That's why I gave just an example of a policy I'd write. To hold you guys accountable at least somewhat.

Same thing as players do now, such as spleef or deathmatches. The goal is just to give them more visibility and tools to make there event even better. The only additional thing would players would be able to use E to host large events, such as hide n seek in a castle they made in WE. EasySigns has a ton of features and it would be up to each server admin group what features a player could use. Such as on C, they could use the gear and announce feature, but on PvE they could only use the announce feature. Broadcast would be to announce the event beforehand as well as doing one occasionally during an event. Such as /broadcast Round 3 Start! Teleportation: I'm on the fence with this. It wouldn't really be a issue on C but as you said we don't allow it for S or P. We'd either have to adjust the policy for events or not allow it. This was merely an idea I had.

Bumping! I would like to get this pushed through and have it be approved/denied by server admins for implementation. This would go live along side E within the next few weeks. Current proposal: Players approach either server admins or eadmins saying they would like to use the event tools for an event they are hosting The event tools that would be provided would be carried out by a staff member are: - Easy Signs: Depending on the server, players can have a mod use certain features of EasySigns for there event (such as colored text). The signs would be removed once the event is completed - Broadcasting & Alerts: We would add they player event to the [server] alert list. We would use /o or /broadcast to announce there event 1 hour in advance and at the time it starts. Players can then request to have various things announced throughout the event. - Teleportation?: Been debating whether or not we should do this. We would allow a mod to teleport players around the area that the event is being hosted. Players can also host an event on E, such as if they want to do a larger event.

That is essentially what this is except that it's not "temporary." It would be a permanent team of players can can come and go and help on more then just one event. I wouldn't want them granted any permissions on any other servers except for E. Good points. I would like them to be acknowledged in someway however, perhaps just having a forum group called "Event Team" would be enough?

I have the CSGO Tournament ready to rock and roll. I would like to request that I can see a draft of the announcement post so that I may include a section about the tournament.

I think that there is a important part that is being left out of this policy: in-game and mumble activity. This doesn't really apply to techs, but it does to the head admins. They are the leaders of this community and should be regularly involved. They should be active in-game and mumble, communicating with the community and being involved very often. I don't think that is really the case at the moment. In-game activity is good for most of the heads except for a few (Cyotie911...) but I rarely see heads hanging out in mumble just chatting or even idiling. We are expanding to other games now, simply playing minecraft isn't going to cut it. You need to interact with the other players of the community that don't play minecraft. In my mind this is how I would lay out a policy for head admin activity: Make a appearance in mumble regularly to hang out with community members Have a fair amount of playtime across all servers, not just minecraft Active and communicating in IRC and the forums Other head-adminy-things I may not know about If they can not meet the majority of those points above then they should not be leading the community. We can not have people sitting in a position, especially a community leadership position, and not interacting with the community.

This is just my view, but it wouldn't be a "rank", just a group of people, that anyone can join, to help build events. Man power is always a limiting factor and enabling the community to help would help solve this I think.

Sorry for the late posting everyone I was unusually busy this past weekend. The next fireside chat will be this friday. Friday July 24th at 8PM EDT / 5PM PST. Potential staff attending but not confirmed: SwitchViewz, c45y, Silversunset01, JudgeDread, Barlimore We will also be introducing a minor ruleset for the fireside chats in addition to universal rules. Those are: - No trolling or purposeful derailing of topics - No constantly harassing of staff for a reply - Be polite and respectful to other members and staff

I welcome anyone in the community, staff or non staff. Sorry if this wasn't clear in the main post, they would not have perms on any other servers besides E.

Hey there everyone, I've been thinking about this idea for awhile and spoken to a few of you about it. With E currently being restructured I'd also like to expand the EAdmin role. Right now there is just a single EAdmin with a second one coming soon and various people on staff helping. I would like to start up a "Event Team" that is made up of staff and community members. There would be 1-2 EAdmins that coordinate and run the team and then any number of members on the team. Everyone on the team would be listed on nerd.nu/staff in there own area under "Event Team" and on the forums, and would be in there own perm group on E called "eteam", but listed in regular groups on P, S, C. A new forum board would also be introduced under "Staff Discussions" above PMC titled "Event Discussion & Planning" that everyone in the Event Team would have access to. All staff would also have access to this board but the public would not. Community members would be able to apply for the team by PMing an EAdmin stating that they are interested and how they think they could contribute. Depending on the need for members and the skills a person applying has we would decided if we want to add them or not. As an example, if this were put into action today, this would be the team I would start out with: SwitchViewz, Skraps, zburdsal, JudgeDread, kittypuppet Thoughts?

Bit of a status update: We are currently working on finishing the tree leaves and doing minor touchups inside the tree. We are doing a lot of work on the outside of the tree and around it making it look very naturey. If you love working with nature or tree's come on and lend a hand, we'd love to have ya!