Curse

Elrodien · Mar 27, 2007, 01:20 PM // 13:20

Our guild split up after the last CT game. I don't know if it was due to playing the CT or other underlying issues, but there was a hell of a lot of arguments and bullshit going on during the gvgs and between them.

Did anyone else have find the CT putting a strain on their guild or did it have the opposite effect?

Thomas.knbk · Mar 27, 2007, 01:34 PM // 13:34

'our guild'=?

Elrodien · Mar 27, 2007, 01:40 PM // 13:40

Ice Cold Empire [ICE] - don't worry, you ain't heard of them

The sad thing was that we had great players there, we just never seemed to gel

moko · Mar 27, 2007, 01:42 PM // 13:42

many guilds have actually disbanded cause of the CT.

some of these were actually pretty good as well - my own guild disbanded during the CT as well.

some had problems but are still around.

reading the other thread gives a slight idea of how many are gone already.

Ec]-[oMaN · Mar 27, 2007, 01:47 PM // 13:47

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Originally Posted by Elrodien

Did anyone else have find the CT putting a strain on their guild or did it have the opposite effect?

We pulled out for that very reason. Even with our ten man submitted it was a pain waiting on 1-2 players every match. When we did get our 8, people were already stressed, no to mention we'd be thinking of what to run 5-10 before match time, no prep. The tension in the air between a regular gvg and the ct were easily felt.
I'm sorry to hear you guys have disbanded, however, if you guys never really felt the "gel" it was probably for the best.

yesitsrob · Mar 27, 2007, 02:18 PM // 14:18

i stressed before every match when players weren't on with 10 minutes till start time ^^

icedwhitemocha · Mar 27, 2007, 02:38 PM // 14:38

Ugly side of competition... Personally I don't understand why a guild would take the CT seriously enough to rage over unless you have a really good shot at placing high enough for a material prize. Otherwise, just take the experience of the "tournament" and move on.

Elrodien · Mar 27, 2007, 03:13 PM // 15:13

Thats the thing, we knew we would be lucky to get 3 points (we eventually got 9 but thats beside the point) so we had nothing to lose by playing. I guess it just magnified the problems that were already present.

Divinus Stella · Mar 27, 2007, 06:18 PM // 18:18

Well my last guild split it during the tourney, i supose part of it was the stress of getting people sorted, but people leaving for other games like WoW i think is the main reason.

Legendary Shiz · Mar 27, 2007, 07:41 PM // 19:41

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Originally Posted by Divinus Stella

Well my last guild split it during the tourney, i supose part of it was the stress of getting people sorted, but people leaving for other games like WoW i think is the main reason.

Ouch, tash back to stp, feel bad for ya Warlock.

Divinus Stella · Mar 27, 2007, 10:44 PM // 22:44

I wasnt there when you got booted from StP so i dont know what the anger is about but theres no need for craptalk.

Kry Onicle · Mar 27, 2007, 10:47 PM // 22:47

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Originally Posted by Legendary Shiz

Ouch, tash back to stp, feel bad for ya Warlock.

Still bitter about being Kicked? Aww bless.

Legendary Shiz · Mar 27, 2007, 11:12 PM // 23:12

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Originally Posted by Divinus Stella

I wasnt there when you got booted from StP so i dont know what the anger is about but theres no need for craptalk.

lol, craptalk? Please, don't flatter yourself. Sorry, moving from top 50 to top 200 is a big downgrade, regardless of which guild it is. No crap talk, just pointing out the obvious.

Divinus Stella · Mar 28, 2007, 02:42 AM // 02:42

Well rank isnt that important, being on observer loses its novelty value after about 2 games and seeing other guilds like wM in the top10 just devalues the whole thing, the problem with taking the game too seriously is that you lose sight of the reason you play and end up stressed out from playing.

Unless your getting paid for playing the only thing you take away from the game is good memories.

Surena · Mar 28, 2007, 05:45 AM // 05:45

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Originally Posted by yesitsrob

i stressed before every match when players weren't on with 10 minutes till start time ^^

Like friends of old wouldn't know, Rob.

Congratulations on the "Bronze Cape". I'll RA to meet your req.

Effendi Westland · Mar 28, 2007, 07:43 AM // 07:43

A guild in our alliance had all the officers and leader split into different guilds because of the celestrial tournament.

JR · Mar 28, 2007, 11:53 AM // 11:53

A better question is how many guilds would have disbanded if Anet hadn't given us something to do while they work on the much awaited Automated Tournament.

Xenophon Ualtar · Mar 30, 2007, 03:21 PM // 15:21

I think that the tourney helped my guild. I am in Reign of Xen [XoO]. We actually had problems getting our tourney team together at times, but the tourney itself helped to highlight GvG within our guild. We went from pretty much a PvE only division of XoO to one where people are looking to do some GvG.

Monk Gsb · Mar 30, 2007, 03:28 PM // 15:28

but its not as if Xen would disband, although if u was finding it hard to get an 8 man team togeather i would consider leaving lol, u got like 500 members.

Xenophon Ualtar · Mar 30, 2007, 03:32 PM // 15:32

There maybe 500ish members of XoO, but there are also many different divisions having different types of play goals. There where in fact 3 different teams from XoO playing in the tourney, all from different XoO "guilds".