Aaron

Hey
Many of you are aware of it already but this is the public post to make it official.
After taking a long time to come to this decision, I have decided to step down from Head-Admin and being part of staff. It took so long to finally decide as for a while I felt that I couldn't step down in a sense, but I feel like the timing is right and I didn't want to continue in a role which I was struggling to find the will to work in.
There are a multitude of reasons for it being now and people can feel free to message me if they want to talk further, but I'd rather talk about my time as staff rather than focusing on the leaving.
Outbreak has put countless obstacles, challenges and environments in my path for me to deal with and given me a depth of experience that not many people can say they've taken from an online role. From running events to dealing with people on a more personal level, I have been able to grasp an understanding of people from so many different backgrounds.
Unlike back when I was moderator on CSS, there was a level of emotion to it this time that I never had before and I can only say I'm grateful for being able to work on this community in that way. It might just be an online gaming community but it means a lot to me. Outbreak became something that putting time into was more valuable to me than a lot of things which other people might have thought should have taken priority, but I'm glad that it did.
One of my few regrets is that during my time we weren't able to establish expansion on a server level for a prolonged period of time. We grew as a core community and, in my opinion, became far more unified than we were before I entered the position but it appears the task of further game server expansion is on the shoulders of those who I will leave.
I'd like to thank everyone who has ever put or will put voluntary work into this community, as staff or otherwise. I will still be around as a member (though busy due to exams for the near future) and if I ever decide to return to staff I'll work my way up, the way any ex staff member should.
My only request is that as a community we try show our appreciation for those who put effort in a bit more. I'm aware many of you do appreciate people's efforts and you do mean well, but showing that bit of acknowledgement and perhaps turning the whining or picking into doing or constructing would go a long way towards progressing this community further.
For anyone who is confused: Kwaheri means Goodbye in Swahili.
Thank you Outbreak
Mathew

Because the kids at school wedgie you?
 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10E5YoFz9NeRzSIiW955eMd3ZMF6KAp2glsJ30rbixNA/edit?usp=sharing

Here are the stats, dont a bit more than last time, particularly around the team-based statistics. Left out F.E.D as it takes ages to calculate for not much to show. Also left out HLTV and instead put in K.D as it's probably more understandable for most of you. HLTV is largely a reflection of K.D anyway.

As always, let me know if you notice anything wrong. Thanks all for participating, looking forward to the big boy summer one which will be streamed. Enjoy le numbers.
 

Also - all 14 maps laid out for you:
Groups
T4 (16) V T2 (11) - https://popflash.site/match/113618
T8 (16) V T7 (14) - https://popflash.site/match/113624
T2 (16) V T7 (11) - https://popflash.site/match/113667
T8 (16) V T4 (6) - https://popflash.site/match/113668
T3 (16) V T1 (8) - https://popflash.site/match/113764
T5 (16) V T6 (6) - https://popflash.site/match/113768
T5 (16) V T1 (11) - https://popflash.site/match/113838
T3 (16)  V T6 (9) - https://popflash.site/match/113849
T3 (16) V T5 (9) - https://popflash.site/match/114182
T1 (16) V T6 (8) - https://popflash.site/match/114189
T2 (16) V T8 (12) - https://popflash.site/match/114192
T4 (16) V T7 (14) - https://popflash.site/match/114188
Semi Finals
T5 (19) V T8 (17) - https://popflash.site/match/114235
T3 (16) V T2 (12) - https://popflash.site/match/114236
Final
T3 (16) V T5 (5) - https://popflash.site/match/114836
T3 (16) V T5 (8) - https://popflash.site/match/114871
 

Winners: Team 3 / Team Tree - Nick, Sovman, lkgddr, Cereal & Wurdy
You will each be invited to OB Champ and awarded the OB ESL Spring 2017 Trophy on the forums. 
Runners Up: Team 5 / The Vengays - Extinct, Veng3nce, Joji, Designated Retard, Quake
  The Finals Bracket. Results in the final consisted of 16-5 on Nuke and 16-8 on Mirage.
 
 
Group Stage results should anyone have missed them.
 
Thanks to all who took part and a special thanks to @Lewis for giving up the time to help me run it. Hope to run a larger scale production summer tournament which will include stream and more hype.

Lewis is right, you'll all be complaining our team is stacked when we win today 

Considering how sore and petty OB's losers can be (as we've already seen), I'm not sure that's the best idea 

unseen after every game 

holy shit
 

I'm so angry at this garbage normie level meme that I'm posting twice to express my disapproval.

Hi guys 
For the people who are interested (there maybe some) I am going to leave a link to my dissertation here so people can read it if they want. If you were involved with the project, are interesting in video gaming and it's affects it could have on you or are maybe going to be writing a dissertation of your own soon and this could be a handy template.
 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1qo6P7M_VQjRTQzRWlUdG5xRE0/view

Happy birthday to the biggest fag/SJW in OB

Seriously? I mean a lot of people hate Tammashay and I myself am not on good terms with him myself (even if he doesn't know) I still think its a bit rude to straight-up quit and make Tammashay feel extremely unwelcome. Like I said I'm not particularly fond of him but I see no reason to stop him trying to integrate with the community. DM anyway if we lose a round I still have the aimware software I used last tourney. All's guud 

can't hear u over my sizzling bacon

Good luck to all the teams. 
It's not the first time I have seen someone quit because of team mates. Of course you might have a lot of reasons to do so if you really don't get on with someone, however, sometimes you just gotta be the bigger man and deal with it. You will inevitably be in situations like this in the future, whether it's as part of a team online or work colleagues/neighbours, but running away from it is not the solution. Being in a team with people you don't get on with is a good opportunity to improve yourself for similar situations like those. I am not targeting you specifically Strogg, but to everyone in general. People who have experienced this before will know what I am talking about.
Anyway, this thread is about ESL, so let's get back on topic. I am gonna root for Team 7 because it would be nice to see unseen finally get out of group stage and not get sprayed down through smoke for one tournament.

Monthly Awards
-These could be removed after a month from the persons profile, or stay with a date reminder - e.g June 2016. Depends how clustered you think it'd get. If you only decided to institute one of the below, it'd only be 12 awards a year, ideally spread out over several people. If you didn't want to keep these awards visible each year they could either be removed from immediate visibility and placed on the players profile - possible? Or change them to a half yearly thing.
Member of the month - Speaks for itself Moderator of the month - " " Forumer of the month - Hopefully would encourage enlightening threads and increased activity. Could be due to a popular thread, a good suggestion or just purely a mad amount of helpful forum activity. Prison Breaker of the month - Doesn't have to be most hours, can be taken many ways. A new member fitting in, exceptional rebelling, good mod decisions, helping new players, innovative wardening. Newbie of the month - Something for new players to strive for once entering the community, or after acceptance to membership.   
Unspecific Awards Subject to Opinion
Lifetime Service - Given to recognise long term commitment to the community. Event Exceptionale v1 - An award to recognise event hosting contribution. Certain amount of events hosted, or other determinants.  Event Exceptionale v2 - An award to recognise an individuals commitment to events. May have attended 10+ in a row, may be recognised by admins as always on time, always following commands, helping things consistently run smoothly over multiple events. Event of the year - Individual was part of a team who hosted the community-chosen event of the year Moderator of the year - Conor+Unseen short list to 3 people they think deserve the title. Community then votes for their preference. Initial phase allows for the legitimate candidates to have their deserved chance, not just the older, more community-popular ones. Best CS Frag movie of the year - We get a lot of these posted, perhaps another community vote after shortlisted by a non-biased, experienced bunch for the best youtube movie made by a community member.  
Other Awards
1 Year Membership - For 365 days of consistent membership, without dissenting into regular status. Could possibly do for 2-3 years.  1 Year Moderatorship - Same concept as above Donning Donator - Indicates a user who has donated a certain amount you deem worthy of recognition. Perhaps beyond the VIP usergroup quantity, as that already exists. Also easier to see as an immediate badge. Jailbreak King - An award for the most hours spent on Jailbreak over a (3 month OR 6 month OR 1 year period) 5+ 10+ 15+ Events Won - Up to you how far back you'd want to go to start counting winners, and would obviously continue, would be willing to help here. No sleep - Award given to the user who's spent the most minutes in a day on jailbreak. Easily done by gametracker, but maybe you can't distinguish between the idlespec hours and the actual active hours :/ I Gather I - Award given to the user with the most OB gathers on popflash in the last 31 days. Award doesn't change each month, stays until record is broken. Oldest Member - Individual is the oldest member in the community (age wise - not time spent in the community) Individual Event Winner - When an event is purely an individual one, that gets recognised as a badge. 'Individual won April 2018 Deathrun'. No recognition for team events, but they can contribute to the number of events won badge.

Vac'd 17 days ago bro :((((
 
Not a very laddish thing to be doing now is it. 

Happy Bday bro continue sending me your gay snaps pls they still make me hard xoxo 
 

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