Stratiic wrote:
Only CS:GO has a large amount of players here, LoL is pretty close but I doubt anyone is capable of playing properly, and CS:GO is much easier to manage.
You're going to need staff, a lot of staff. Event managers, Administrators, Casters, Server Providers, Donators, Possible Trainers, Graphic Designers, Video editors, etc..
I'm calling around at least 15 people will need to organise and manage it alone if we're going to create a competition this big, and I doubt letting below average players play because it just wouldn't be fun to watch a bunch of headless chickens attempting to shoot eachother.
I'm up for any staff role apart from Server Providing, Video Editing and Donations.
Goodluck man, it will take a lot of work, but it's a fun idea.
Thanks for the amazing feedback, but this isn't ESL or Dreamhack level yet.
As mentioned, this is a plan to introduce ZARP to the mediocre competitive scene. Going with around 15 staff is skipping a few steps. As for the current project plan I had in mind, it would be somewhere around 4-7 staff helping, however I had ideas of it going bigger and more professional if succeeding.
Nice to see someone having a similar idea, and about the listed staff, again, it's for more of a professional project, however I'll go into more detail about the staff you listed and see if they're needed/useful for this project or not
Event managers (Project Managers)
This is of course needed, however the role itself, aside from sounding cool, isn't really a big deal. It takes a day of effort to create a plan that would go for a week or two. I've taken a unit in a course I'm studying revolved around Project management, and I can easily make plans with risk assessments that will have the best results. So for event managers, it's pretty much covered.
Administrators
This depends on your definition of Administrators. Are they active spectators who moderate the current game between two teams, and see if anything goes wrong? If so, you are right, that would be best, however from my time participating in TF2 tournaments hosted by UGC, we don't even need an active staff member. The two teams that competed against each other, the captains can report back to match to an inactive or offline staff member in case there were problems with the match, eg. the team cheated, they did something that's not allowed, the server isn't set up properly, etc. The admin would at least have to be online in case something needs fixing immediately, though.
Casters
Now this is a wonderful idea. I didn't even think about this but having live casted matches would be wonderful. Possibly even duo casters. I wanted to take up casting a year or few back, but didn't look much into it and dropped it. Having a live stream and casters would be amazing, especially if the livestream does bring more people. The amazingness aside, however, there is the fact that not many people would watch this. Having casters would be smart if we're doing this in the future and only after it's received some success.
Server providers
Of course, we do need servers for this to work. I was thinking of getting temporary servers for each match, however depending on the scale of this thing, there might me matches overlapping. Thank you for pointing this out, and if the suggestion does get accepted, I'll put more planning in the options revolved around servers.
Donators
We need these. Same like the server, I'll figure out plans on how to invite more donators to be interested in these events. Things like small sponsors for the teams could also be an idea, like server-based sponsors (SSRP or Dark-RP Shop or gang owners)
Possible trainers (Team captain)
Correct me if I'm wrong by saying that when you say "trainers" you mean "captains". If not, sorry. If yes, then Teams will have the option to have their own captains, be it outside their team or within their team.
Graphics Designers and Video Editors
Put both of these because they both cover media involved responsibilities. I'm a self-taught graphics designer and could do some quick thumbnails, logos or banners if needed, same goes for Video Editing. I've been interested by making frag movies, highlights etc and I'm in the progress for making a frag movie project right now. All that aside, it realistically couldn't be completely dependent on me, which is why we'd need more staff willing to volunteer for these roles, that can do quite a snappy edit or two.
Again, thank you so much for the well constructed feedback, Stratiic.
-Svanzscape