Allright, it's been some time since I've been active around here so i need to make up for it

I really want to see doobs as something more than an awesome matchmaking group with awesome people. So I've decided to suggest and apply Ideas of many other ways to have fun with you guys and try out stuff. Anyone with ideas is of course welcome to use this thread

Tavern CM:

I caught the basic idea from purge's channel seeing him having some fun like this but it only involves one team, so for those who aren't aware of what i'm mentioning: It's basically CM but you only get one 'tavern' ( back in Dota1 you picked heroes in buildings called taverns ) to ban and pick from, for example: radiant intelligence. Now having both teams doing this in separate taverns is not really fun so I want to do it with both teams picking and banning from the same tavern. However this needs to be tweaked as there aren't yet 20 heroes per tavern. So here would be the basic rules :
Radiant strengh: 2 bans of the tavern per team.
Radiant agility: 2 "
Radiant intelligence: 3 "
Dire strengh: 1 "
Dire agility: 1 "
Dire intelligence: 3"

Now if this doesn't work out we could extend it to two taverns for both teams but i'd like to try it like this first, the perspective of limited useful bans is appealing. I'd like to have feedback and of course responses to who wants to try this out, I'll try and get some games running before the weekend where it's easy to organize and stuff so anyone interested in EU timezone please tell me !

More ideas to come...

This isn't a bad idea. We did tavern CM matches a few weeks ago, with each team picking from a specific tavern, but matched Str v STR, AGI v AGI and INT v INT. It was pretty fun. I think the VOD is up on our youtube channel:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83dsNXIapYU

I was thinking about how to arrange a Tavern Tournament, but with 6 teams it is a bit tricky. A round-robin is a bit too long, elimination brackets end up having 3 teams in round 2, etc.

That is only the Int vs Int game. Unfortunately I didn't highlight that one so the game doesn't start until like 20ish minutes. I will upload the other 2 games tonight as highlights of only the game, less wasted time.

I consider every quip and rant I make between matches of equal importance.

Couple new ideas I bumped into:

No items, Buyback is ok I think but rule is: your inventory does not exist. This is pretty standard but it'd be fun to try!

Gem race: Goal is to drop a gem in the enemy fountain to score. Games would have a fixed time and players would not be allowed to attack towers. Creeps are fine and you should kill them as they are allowed to destroy the towers. A team can have as much gems as they want but only one per hero. If you score the hero that scored must die to the fountain.

I really like the idea of branching out and doing more of this kinda stuff. Tavern Matches, that random items thing, no inventory sounds fun, omg/wtf/all-mid etc.

How would we feel about setting up a weekly poll (Mon-Sat) with a list of these kinda games, and letting users vote for which one we will do on that Sunday (dedicate a in-house or two to these special game modes). After a game-mode is picked it is not included in the poll for 1-2 weeks, so we get a variety....

Not a bad idea Binary. Would be nice to have some more interesting game modes

I do have an idea to throw out that was used in the last staff cup. They had 1 person from the enemy team be a traitor. The traitor was on skype (TS for us) with his actual team and tried to find a way to screw up the enemy from the inside out. Draskyl played an excellent omni that repeled his team and gave rubick free ga and heals to steal. With rules like a death limit it made the game VERY fun to watch. Would really be fun to play something like traitor because I'm sure we have people that take it too a whole new level of evil.

Binary, you're too nice. Who needs a poll. We decide what we will do. we have the power.

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Aka...noobs gg admins rule.

I would really love to try this gametype out, here is a list of the rules that purge used in his games.

Traitormode:

Each team will send a traitor into the enemy team, thus playing against him. The traitor is allowed to stay in communication with his team, but feeding (dying more than 3 times) will result in him having to stay at the base. The draft in this mode will be Random Draft and each traitor will be granted first pick. The team that gets second pick though, will have to give the traitor a 10 second advantage before picking. Disable Help is banned. One traitor killing the other does account for the three deaths needed to be stationed in the base.

This, i approve

Yeah sounds like a great time!

This was hilarious to watch. There was a bit of confusion on if one traitor killing the other traitor counted, though, I thought they decided it did not? I think I prefer the simpler version where it does since that means you don't have to count deaths manually.

I like these ideas for getting the sunday in-houses more kinky, as a random dooblet I approve this project

I would also like to toss and idea out there. Maybe a king of the hill kind of thing? Have roshan be the hill maybe? Just a spitball.