Will NNQL step up their game for season2?
A lot of people that played in the first season of NNQL probably felt like the league had some flaws… or some of them might even go as far as to say that the above is an understament. If you check through the divisions, you will see that not even one single team managed to play all of their games. This statistic is something rather unacceptable, if the guys behind NNQL ever want their league to be considered as good and respected as leagues like NQR or EQL. Sure, the same thing happens in EQL/NQR as well - Some clans are unable to play all of their games, but please, not even one single team out of hundreds of teams that signed up? Shame on you.
So obviously there is a problem somewhere… or couple of them. One of the problems must have been the size of the divisions. The fact that teams had to play 19 games during the group stage might already be enough reason for some teams to just drop out, because it’s just way too much. It seems that NNQL admins thought that if they give the teams enough time, playing 19 games wouldn’t any problem. Well, I guess we can safely say that they were wrong.
Because exactly that, the huge timeline given to the teams, was one of the problems as well. Five months time to play some 2v2 games? Where is the excitement? Nowhere to be found. Why? Lack of organising during these five months.
The first season of NNQL was like just some tournament that was running in the background that nobody really cared about. Although in the beginning of season 1, one of the admins kept spamming his capslock in messages, this didn’t really help, it was more like an annoying nuisance. Even if it is a QuakeWorld league, you can still promote and advertise it just like it were a brand new McDonald’s burger. Just look at what NQR did last season for their finals, they were everywhere. Why? Because they promoted it right and did it big time. Just imagine if they would keep on doing such promoting and coverage for the entire season, they would be BY FAR the most popular quake tournament ever, uncontested some might say.
But having TV-coverage isn’t necessary for success, because number one on the list of who the admins should care about, are the teams and their players. The admins’ job is to make the league run smoothly and make it enjoyable for the players, even if there are a few emo’s and Swedish whiners among them. Running a succesful gaming league isn’t the easiest thing to do, but it is doable, if you just put your time and mind to it. What the NNQL guys really should do is this: gather the admins for an IRC meeting and simply discuss what they did for season 1, what went wrong, what they should improve and HOW they would go about improving it. I’m sure they all remember some angry private messages and they should bring those to the table in the meeting as well. Literally write things down, discuss and ask for help if even one cell in their collective brain says so.
But if you guys come up with another season just like your first one and think that ”I’m cool and I run a QW league! I’m the part of the QW royalty!”, you can just sod off.
though as a positive note i would like to say that NNQL was still probably the best 2on2 tourny since
way back.. (if you dont count LAN tournys)
I think i played all 2on2 tournys and they all kind of sucked.. most of them ended before playoff etc :)
NNQL at least had a playoff, and alot of fun teams.
But ye I agree it was still bad compared to the 4on4 tournys and duel.
And if the stuff you mentioned are improved then it would be better.