Counter Strike Confederation

Candidate: @Splatmonkey 🏆 Backer: @GAS | Gindeht 🏆 "I think Splat is a good candidate due to his history as both a co-founder of CSC, a former admin, former TM head, as well as a long-standing member in Rules Committee as the lead in there. I trust in Splat's ability to lead the league and it is evident in how reliant the admin/tm committees are on his advice in dicey situations" Why do you want to become an Admin? "I want to be admin because the league is in a period of change and transition and I believe that a person with previous admin experience and a voice that people listen to will be essential to the success of the new admin team. As the creator of the league, I care deeply for its success. With such rumored turnover in the staff and GM positions, I believe I can help the league create a new foundation by training and assisting the new staff/GMs. To keep this part short, whether it be unhealthy or not, this league is a huge part of my life and I want to help drive it towards continued success." What prior experience do you have that you believe will help you as an Admin? (edited)

3:32 PM

"some dates may be wrong but close in the general timeline of the league, but here is my resume of league activities and why I will be a good admin Before Season 1- creation of the discord, creation of the original CSC rulebook with help from Geherpaderp, creation of the initial staff structure taking inspiration from RSC, implementation of our formula, creation of al the google sheets used in the background (either taken from RSC and edited to fit what we needed or new sheets), creation of the GM onboarding doc which is a breakdown of all the responsibilities of GMs and definitions/rules that they should be aware of, I'm sure there is more but those are what I can pull off the top of my head. Season 1- I was the only admin running the league, I grew the league from nothing to 6 teams our first season. While the skill-gap was massive, as anyone can tell you if they are still around, one of the most fun seasons to date. With the grassroots feel of the league a lot of the decisions and rulings were not set with precedent because we had none. This is where I truly learned to think and act on the fly as the ""authority"" of the league. I will be the first to say I didn't always make the correct decision however every decision I made was, in my opinion, for the betterment of the league.

3:32 PM

Season 2- After season 1 it was a priority for the league and me that we have a separation of tiers, as well as some help with admin activities. The second season was delayed until we fixed those two issues. DraxxS stepped in and assisted me with admin activities. Season 2 is when I learned to rely on others. With DraxxS's help as well as many others in the league we doubled the size of the player base and completed our goal of 2 tiers. Season 2 was the start of the FreeAgent pool issues. We vastly underestimated the turnover from draft-postseason which put (if I remember correctly) both tiers in dire need of players. Season 2 set the league up for getting to where it is today. This is also where we created the rules committee. Season 3- This season was hard for me as an admin, Veral was added to the admin team which is now size of 3. However, DraxxS got burnt out and was more interested in RSC and Veral being new he didn't feel like he had a voice (partly my fault). This set me up to be on my own managing the league. While I tried my best many things fell through the cracks which has continued to be an issue. This experience, as well as seeing the current admin team struggle with this to the point people are suggesting a community manager role, has enabled me to step back and learn my limits as an admin and member of the league. This knowledge will be essential in my tenor if elected.

3:32 PM

Season 4 -6 - Now as a member of staff I was able to take a step back from the responsibility that comes with the admin role. Heading the TM committee allowed me to continue to be in the know of league issues while I advised the admin teams on many occasions. While I never made the final decision I have been used many times by the admin team to give advice and counsel. I also continued to be a huge part of the numbers team implementing a formula that took previous season stats and adjusted MMR based off performance which was used up until the new committee was formed (I do not have knowledge of whether they continue to use my formula or not). I also lead Rules committee meetings and help drive discussions during our most productive season yet. As the RC member selected to ""run"" the meetings, I selected the topics to be discussed put time limits on discussion to keep the meetings and votings moving. These are just highlights as it is impossible for me to recount every single thing I have done in this league. I hope you take the time to read it and understand the countless hours and effort I have put in to make this league what it is today"

3:32 PM

What things do you hope to implement, reinforce, or remove as an Admin. As stated in my why do I want to become an admin answer, my main focus will be reinforcing the staff/GMs as well as building up the new admin as they come into their roles. I am not running on any specific platform, but will answer any question you throw out at me to the best of my ability. I want to push the committees to be the best they can be while also pushing for innovation on every front. As a member of staff I sometimes felt like a certain committee or group of people were completely forgotten about when it came to implementation of a new idea. It is my goal to decrease the frequency this happens to hopefully zero. As someone who has worn every hat in CSC I feel like I have a unique perspective and wish to drive the league with that lens.

AVI | Fuffy 🏆 pinned a message to this channel. 4/19/2022 3:37 PM

I just want to say that I'm really happy to see splat running again, I haven't always agreed with him but he's a stand up guy who has done so much for the league

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Can you elaborate on new ideas and innovations you've seen fall through that you want to push for?

"As a member of staff I sometimes felt like a certain committee or group of people were completely forgotten about when it came to implementation of a new idea." Can you say a specific time, or an example of this occurring so I can better understand what you mean by this?

TFR | 42Firehawk

"As a member of staff I sometimes felt like a certain committee or group of people were completely forgotten about when it came to implementation of a new idea." Can you say a specific time, or an example of this occurring so I can better understand what you mean by this?

Absolutely, the first thing that comes to mind was the implementation of the new draft structure this last season. The TMs and what we/they did during the draft. Completely forgotten about when a new project was rushed

King Willy

Can you elaborate on new ideas and innovations you've seen fall through that you want to push for?

I think something that has continued to be asked for are community nights like the Pokémon show match night or other custom matches. It’s something that I pushed for as an admin early on in the history of the league. Another thing that is constantly asked for are town halls. These are just two that have popped into my head. I want to help bridge the gap between the admins and the rest of the league

Would you agree, that committees should be fully autonomous, in terms of members and what they aim to do, so long as aimed towards bettering their function?

They are already are they not?

Asking as a numbers person not arbiter for the record.

Can you be more specific then? If you are asking for a specific reason

Splatmonkey 🏆

They are already are they not?

they are, was wondering if thats also your personal thoughts and if you would want to change that.

what will you do to make csc be less toxic? We have seen the general chats and all of the other channels garner a bit of toxicity and witch hunting lately and I can say without a doubt that it has been swept under the rug. What will and can you do to make it so that we can be a more welcoming environment where we don't witch hunt every 2nd day of the week?

Oh yeah totally that was a huge aspect of it when I created the original committees

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Glad to hear that splat

Thoughts on public numbers

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FA | kowalskey 🏆🏆

what will you do to make csc be less toxic? We have seen the general chats and all of the other channels garner a bit of toxicity and witch hunting lately and I can say without a doubt that it has been swept under the rug. What will and can you do to make it so that we can be a more welcoming environment where we don't witch hunt every 2nd day of the week?

This might be less popular but I believe the moderators should strike every under the definition of each behavior rule. Leniency and guessing context should not up to whatever moderator sees the message. A more robust action from moderators need to happen

PFA | yeti2

Thoughts on public numbers

Being 100% upfront I’m against public numbers, but I’m also not dumb and can see that the community wants it. Therefore I will work with the numbers committee to create the best way for it to work protecting our formulas as much as possible

9:34 PM

Give the community what it wants so to speak

Splatmonkey 🏆

This might be less popular but I believe the moderators should strike every under the definition of each behavior rule. Leniency and guessing context should not up to whatever moderator sees the message. A more robust action from moderators need to happen

can you give a recent example where this change would have been beneficial?

Splatmonkey 🏆

This might be less popular but I believe the moderators should strike every under the definition of each behavior rule. Leniency and guessing context should not up to whatever moderator sees the message. A more robust action from moderators need to happen

So, so to speak, you would want to somewaht follow RSC in how we moderate it?

As I am not a member of the moderation committee I do not have specific examples, just have seen an overall disapproval with how it has been handled

Porkchop

So, so to speak, you would want to somewaht follow RSC in how we moderate it?

Closer to what they do absolutely would be a goal of mine

Splatmonkey 🏆

Closer to what they do absolutely would be a goal of mine

Honestly, glad to hear that chief

What would you do as an admin to ensure that all the committees and their many members’ ideas are being heard and acted on

Splat do you feel you still have your metaphorical finger on the pulse of CSC? I know you significantly reduced your activity and involvement with your now delayed plans. Do you feel like you still have a good feel for the community wants and needs?

As I would have access to the chats I think it would be very easy to reach out to CH’s if I feel like people are not being heard. I also rely heavily on serious suggestions to see what the community wants. And pushing committees for that

UPS | Raasck

Splat do you feel you still have your metaphorical finger on the pulse of CSC? I know you significantly reduced your activity and involvement with your now delayed plans. Do you feel like you still have a good feel for the community wants and needs?

Absolutely without question, while I don’t always speak in discussion I have been active in reading the discord. As I said in my essay I’ve been brought in by the admins on countless occasions to give advice and assist which has helped

9:42 PM

I’m cooking dinner will be back later

dinner pics when?

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What do you think was the biggest failing of the admins this season and what would you have done differently? No hate on existing admins btw we can all work on improving

Which of the other 2 candidates do you feel you’d work best with?

how will you bring csc back to its glory days

10:05 PM

make csc great again if you will

are you interested in investing in the community with (This is just an example) a game night every Saturday or say jackbox, hide and seek, ect. mainly free ways to get the community interacting with each other

PFA | the|Supreme 🏆🏆

What do you think was the biggest failing of the admins this season and what would you have done differently? No hate on existing admins btw we can all work on improving

I think the biggest issue was falling behind early, idk if everyone knows or remembers but very early on the admins fell behind on signups. This early “failure” started the seed of mistrust with the community. Always working from behind caused stress and caused some admins to shut down. My goal would be to get on top of and head early to help relieve stress down the road

UPS | Raasck

Which of the other 2 candidates do you feel you’d work best with?

I obviously have friends running along with me, but I think it is vital to be able to work well with everyone. Whether we have had issues in the past should not and will not alter how I try to work with them now

Splatmonkey 🏆

I obviously have friends running along with me, but I think it is vital to be able to work well with everyone. Whether we have had issues in the past should not and will not alter how I try to work with them now

Who have you had issues with in the past?

PFA | in7ac7 🏆🏆

how will you bring csc back to its glory days

No one running to my knowledge, was just speaking generally

10:49 PM

Whoops wrong reply sorry

PFA | in7ac7 🏆🏆

how will you bring csc back to its glory days

Real reply now, I know this is more of a meme but “glory days” is relative. Everyone has a favorite season for one reason or another but my goal would be to help ensure the new players find that season

ATO | Assass1n

are you interested in investing in the community with (This is just an example) a game night every Saturday or say jackbox, hide and seek, ect. mainly free ways to get the community interacting with each other

As a GM early on I had community nights every Friday where we played games just like you suggested. I think it helps create a sense of community. While I think it would work better for individual franchise to hold these nights, I have seen a lot of interest in nights like these. As long as the interest is there I will put energy into seeing it through

10:56 PM

I’m also not reading the other discussions so if a question comes up in one of those please feel free to ask it in here

how long do you see yourself stay as admin?

As long as I am able to, I do have a trip looming which I have been very open about. It has been pushed back until at least December which would be after the two season tenure. But my goal as stated in my essay thing is to build up the structure of the league to where it doesn’t matter who is admin the league will continue to move forward

11:01 PM

@ATO | Assass1n

11:03 PM

Basically all to say is that there would be nothing preventing me from serving the entirety of what is asked from admins

Before I begin, I want to say I respect your long tenure and involvement in the league. I can genuinely say that without your consistent hand in the league, it wouldn't be where it is today. First, in your platform you talked a lot about your prior experiences and positions that you've held in the past here. But, what do you want to in concrete terms. For example, in the last election a lot of the admins said they wanted to implement public MMR and ran that as their platform. Do you have a similar defining agenda or project? Second, you mentioned that you will be going for a long period and only plan on staying for your term of two seasons. But, what specific structures/plans do you have on making sure that things don't fall apart when you leave? Finally, where do you think the league is (trajectory wise) and where do you want to leave it (when you are admin and leaving on your year long vacation).

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pecan50 🏆🏆

Before I begin, I want to say I respect your long tenure and involvement in the league. I can genuinely say that without your consistent hand in the league, it wouldn't be where it is today. First, in your platform you talked a lot about your prior experiences and positions that you've held in the past here. But, what do you want to in concrete terms. For example, in the last election a lot of the admins said they wanted to implement public MMR and ran that as their platform. Do you have a similar defining agenda or project? Second, you mentioned that you will be going for a long period and only plan on staying for your term of two seasons. But, what specific structures/plans do you have on making sure that things don't fall apart when you leave? Finally, where do you think the league is (trajectory wise) and where do you want to leave it (when you are admin and leaving on your year long vacation).

I want you to know I’ve seen this and will respond tomorrow to give it the time it deserves

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pecan50 🏆🏆

Before I begin, I want to say I respect your long tenure and involvement in the league. I can genuinely say that without your consistent hand in the league, it wouldn't be where it is today. First, in your platform you talked a lot about your prior experiences and positions that you've held in the past here. But, what do you want to in concrete terms. For example, in the last election a lot of the admins said they wanted to implement public MMR and ran that as their platform. Do you have a similar defining agenda or project? Second, you mentioned that you will be going for a long period and only plan on staying for your term of two seasons. But, what specific structures/plans do you have on making sure that things don't fall apart when you leave? Finally, where do you think the league is (trajectory wise) and where do you want to leave it (when you are admin and leaving on your year long vacation).

What things do you hope to implement, reinforce, or remove as an Admin. As stated in my why do I want to become an admin answer, my main focus will be reinforcing the staff/GMs as well as building up the new admin as they come into their roles. I am not running on any specific platform, but will answer any question you throw out at me to the best of my ability. I want to push the committees to be the best they can be while also pushing for innovation on every front. As a member of staff I sometimes felt like a certain committee or group of people were completely forgotten about when it came to implementation of a new idea. It is my goal to decrease the frequency this happens to hopefully zero. As someone who has worn every hat in CSC I feel like I have a unique perspective and wish to drive the league with that lens.

he sorta addressed part of your first point already

what are your thoughts and feelings on when and how to poll the community for decisions?

I stated above I would actually like to be doing town halls. Ideally once a month at the beginning of the month. I think this would be a good way to gauge league pulse other than things already in place

12:17 AM

@TFR | Dibes 🏆🏅

12:24 AM

In general I think the players are already good about vocalizing what they want, reducing the disconnect would be a huge priority for me

12:24 AM

@TFR | Dibes 🏆🏅

How do you see yourself synthesizes all 300+ people's voices to a coherent decision or action?

It’s impossible as the 300+ voices will be saying and wanting different things. I think to first realize that is important. Being more available as admins and open to discussion and criticisms will only benefit the admins and league

12:28 AM

I think it’s impractical to pole the league on every topic, but having an open line of communication through town halls, serious suggestions, etc. will only improve the relationship between admins and players

Splatmonkey 🏆

It’s impossible as the 300+ voices will be saying and wanting different things. I think to first realize that is important. Being more available as admins and open to discussion and criticisms will only benefit the admins and league

this imo Is the best thing you can say and what many admins have failed to do.

12:29 AM

you are elected to make choices and decisions for the league but that doesnt mean you completely ignore them and get out of the loop

Hey splat, I don't think we've had much interaction. I'm curious about your previous tenure as admin. What was the league like then? How much do you believe it has changed since? Do you think that your prior experience will be vital to the league with the growing pangs that it's had? Do you believe yourself to be at all responsible for some of the issues seen in the past, even if you weren't directly involved?

I think the league has change quite a bit in many ways but the core roles and responsibilities of the admins has not changed. I am 100% responsible for some issues that have come up in the past especially before you joined the league. As I stated above I was alone season 3 with 180 active players. I was alone and struggling to keep the league afloat. There are always decisions you wish you can take back as an admin and how I reacted to some things were not the best and the league spoke and voted me out. Since then I have only further pushed the league more and more to where it is today. I think my past admin experience will easily put me ready to take on whatever challenge is given maybe that it naivety to say but I truly believe it. While I haven’t been actively chatting I have been working tirelessly in the background for the league since the day I was voted out

12:35 AM

It has only wanted me to pursue it again

12:36 AM

The change away from me as an admin was in my opinion the correct decision for the league at the time and I did my best to support the new admins through their tenure as all of them can say. However I am reinvigorated and so ready to help this league continue to succeed

12:38 AM

I have continued to push the admins to be the best they can be as you do publicly @willyflynn and I truly believe that I am the right answer this time around, if I didn’t I would not be running

12:38 AM

I hope I answered your question well enough

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raasck asked tnoodle this so i wanna get the rest of the candidates' positions on this: do you think admins should continue to be allowed to be GMs?

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It was started as a necessity in the first season, a GM backed out a day before the draft and I had to step in and be both admin and GM so that kinda set the precedent going forward, at this point in the league I don’t think it’s a necessity anymore we have people who want to be admins and we have people who want to GM, I think it would be definitely more ethical and less bias for admins to not be GMs but I also think someone like Spence could be “grandfathered” in. As he has been a GM since season 2 I believe. Moving forward I would like to start to separate the two but I don’t believe Spence should be stripped of either role as that is not fair to him, but in the future if we set the expectation that you can only be one or the other I think it will help cause less ethical problems like with transaction channels

1:24 AM

@Homer 🏆🏆

thanks for the answer

pecan50 🏆🏆

Before I begin, I want to say I respect your long tenure and involvement in the league. I can genuinely say that without your consistent hand in the league, it wouldn't be where it is today. First, in your platform you talked a lot about your prior experiences and positions that you've held in the past here. But, what do you want to in concrete terms. For example, in the last election a lot of the admins said they wanted to implement public MMR and ran that as their platform. Do you have a similar defining agenda or project? Second, you mentioned that you will be going for a long period and only plan on staying for your term of two seasons. But, what specific structures/plans do you have on making sure that things don't fall apart when you leave? Finally, where do you think the league is (trajectory wise) and where do you want to leave it (when you are admin and leaving on your year long vacation).

1. I am not running on a specific issue as I think that creates a issue of what do you do once you either succeed or fail at that one singular thing you wanted to do. I am much more interested in building up the existing structures in the committees as well as pushing them to innovate. We have a lot of smart and dedicated staff members who will have better ideas than me. There are many smart and dedicated players who will have better ideas than me. I think inherently when admins join only wanting to accomplish one to two things they will start to back off a little bit or be overwhelmed by all the other work they need to do. I am in no way saying that will happen with anyone running now. Just a trend Ive seen through RSC and early CSC. It is much more important to run on ideas than tangible things in my opinion

10:19 AM

2. There is no set time for my trip, we have the money saved and are ready to go but with the world how it is right now with war and covid it is extremely hard to travel. There is not some set date that is looming over my tenure. If I have the ability to run again and the league wants me to run again I will absolutely do that.

10:24 AM

3. I think all the doomsday that come from staff (and I have been one of them) very much overshadow a very positive player experience the past couple seasons. I think the league is at a tipping point though, we need to revitalize the staff that remain and find that fire that we as a league and staff had during the first couple seasons to push the league to new hights. There are many people who care about the league and tapping more into that will only help improve the league. Ideally at the end of my tenure whenever that is, I will be able to look back and say that I was able to bring the community closer together, enable the committees to push further than they ever have, and improve the player experience in any way that I can

Splatmonkey 🏆

1. I am not running on a specific issue as I think that creates a issue of what do you do once you either succeed or fail at that one singular thing you wanted to do. I am much more interested in building up the existing structures in the committees as well as pushing them to innovate. We have a lot of smart and dedicated staff members who will have better ideas than me. There are many smart and dedicated players who will have better ideas than me. I think inherently when admins join only wanting to accomplish one to two things they will start to back off a little bit or be overwhelmed by all the other work they need to do. I am in no way saying that will happen with anyone running now. Just a trend Ive seen through RSC and early CSC. It is much more important to run on ideas than tangible things in my opinion

more on 1 - This is something I had an extensive conversation with Spence about before I backed him last season. Its something I have believed for a long time and I think Spence can speak more on it but I think he has been a exceptional admin during his first season

I would ask you a question but it wouldn’t really matter anyway, I’ve seen your work since season 1 and will be voting you #1 +++++++++++++rep splat

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I've been trying to find something to grill you on, but nothing I can think of would change my opinion on you. I have no doubts you're the most qualified person for the job. Despite our differences over the 2 and a half years we have both been here, I trust nobody more than you in an Admin position. The advice and other help you provided in my time as an admin has been invaluable to the successes we had. Continue to do what you do

I have a huge amount of respect for you as a person, everything we have butt heads about we have never made it personal and I think thats a huge aspect of what made you effective as an admin during your time

Splatmonkey 🏆

I obviously have friends running along with me, but I think it is vital to be able to work well with everyone. Whether we have had issues in the past should not and will not alter how I try to work with them now

If those friends were to be elected would you be able to stay in a non biased position if one of them breaks a rule or makes a mistake? I think that can be a issue with any admin team is that friends will choose to protect themselves. What might you do if that situation occurs?

I think a huge answer for that would be for me to point to how ive acted during the whole nolan situation, I truly consider nolan as a friend in CSC. But the relationship with the community and trust the community has in the admins has something I have always pushed for, when an anyone especially an admin threatens that I will not stand by. This league whether it is good or bad is my baby and has been a huge part of my life for 3+ years now. and the success of the league is much more important to me than protecting a friendship

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1:09 PM

@Stumpi

+1, Splat wasn’t afraid to call anyone out or air dirty laundry for the good of the league

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is there anything (mainly the mod team, but all committees) you would be looking to strip away or make more transparent for the rest of the community?

ATO | Assass1n

is there anything (mainly the mod team, but all committees) you would be looking to strip away or make more transparent for the rest of the community?

Can you be more specific on what you mean strip away

taking away a certain privilege or set of rules surrounding those in the committee

Splat in the past you’ve seemingly shown a rather “traditionalist” mindset around CSC making large changes (wanting things to remain closer to your original vision for the league as a founder). Do you think this is an accurate perception of your views and past statements? If so, what changes have you not agreed with? If not, how would you dispel people from seeing you this way?

I would definitely say im a traditionalist in that aspect, however being traditional does not mean i dont want the league to grow. I want to keep the grassroots feel of the league so sponsors and things like that seem very foreign to my idea of what the league should be. But also Im not hardstuck in my ways (at least anymore) I have seen that change can be good for the league and am 100% open to hearing about all the opportunities that come with the growing numbers of the league. @UPS | Raasck

ATO | Assass1n

taking away a certain privilege or set of rules surrounding those in the committee

being 100% upfront, speaking specifically about the Mod committee, I think they need to be more strict not have abilities taken away from them. to be honest Im not sure Im understanding your question completely. I dont want to tear down committees I want to build them up

Splatmonkey 🏆

I would definitely say im a traditionalist in that aspect, however being traditional does not mean i dont want the league to grow. I want to keep the grassroots feel of the league so sponsors and things like that seem very foreign to my idea of what the league should be. But also Im not hardstuck in my ways (at least anymore) I have seen that change can be good for the league and am 100% open to hearing about all the opportunities that come with the growing numbers of the league. @UPS | Raasck

Are there any major changes made that you disagreed with at the time that you still disagree with?

Thats a really interesting question and a hard one to think back to. specific decisions that i disagreed with at the time (most of these will be recent because fresher on the mind) were the new bot ( I have been very against change in that aspect) but seeing what it is now I will 100% admit that I was wrong and very much see the potential there. I have been against moving away from google sheets as the previous admin team has been working towards (this one is still ongoing and I am very interested to see what the alternative options are moving away from google drive). I was against the new draft structure even posted about it in serious suggestions because I thought it was rushed. I really hope this season will prove my doubt wrong because I know media comittee has worked their asses off. I hope this answered your question. If you have a specific time or decision and want to know what I thought about it I am more than happy to answer about specific things

3:48 PM

@UPS | Raasck

Could you better explain your opposition to public numbers?

3:50 PM

Regardless of wether you’d vote for or against

3:50 PM

If it’s been asked already lmk and I’ll scroll

yeah absolutely, its a made up number of an approximation how how we think you compare to the other people in the league. It holds no value and can cause some people to feel bad about themselves because we placed them at X instead of Y, I think it takes away from the jobs of the GMs a little bit and can cause some people to "argue or fight back" with their GM because their friend technically fits in the team but the GM wants the current 5. Those are two examples that I want to post now and will create a more robust answer if it is wanted

3:53 PM

@UPS | Raasck

Splatmonkey 🏆

yeah absolutely, its a made up number of an approximation how how we think you compare to the other people in the league. It holds no value and can cause some people to feel bad about themselves because we placed them at X instead of Y, I think it takes away from the jobs of the GMs a little bit and can cause some people to "argue or fight back" with their GM because their friend technically fits in the team but the GM wants the current 5. Those are two examples that I want to post now and will create a more robust answer if it is wanted

so about that. Ideally if numbers are public. they would only know the numbers themselves and not the caps

you can approximate the caps if you really wanted to

Eh, they would functionally know caps

that is very true (edited)

What do you mean by holds no value?

I mean that it holds no value outside of the league, there is no reason for someone to look at some made up number and apply their worth to it

Splatmonkey 🏆

I mean that it holds no value outside of the league, there is no reason for someone to look at some made up number and apply their worth to it

People do the same for fsceit elo

3:57 PM

I mean it’s a bit different obv

3:58 PM

But people will always attribute their value as a csgo player based on numbers they see even if it’s not accurate

100% so in my opinion why add to it, however if it is truly a change the people want we can make that change and see how it works

Public numbers do help with helping gms scout and draft, it helps to avoid situations of leaking numbers

Splatmonkey 🏆

I mean that it holds no value outside of the league, there is no reason for someone to look at some made up number and apply their worth to it

Well I think that would also describe some already public information of CSC too, like stats right? I feel that stats is very similar to MMR in terms of the possible issues with toxicity

Stats significantly more so tbh

toxicity is and always will be an issue whether numbers are public or not. Im speaking more towards self worth and self image. you know how you played in a game so the rating should not surprise people, but where someone is placed in a tier could surprise people and it doesnt always line up with performance

Splatmonkey 🏆

toxicity is and always will be an issue whether numbers are public or not. Im speaking more towards self worth and self image. you know how you played in a game so the rating should not surprise people, but where someone is placed in a tier could surprise people and it doesnt always line up with performance

Tbf tho stats doesn’t always line up with performance either

in generalities I would say they do

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If i have a good game in my head I can expect to have a +1 rating

Like for example someone could have a low rating cuz they don’t get as many kills but because they’re able to hold key areas of the map their actual impact is way higher

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Even for me for example most games I’ll have around a 1 rating but many games my impact will be more significant if i IGL or if I’m holding map control for example

im not disagreeing with you, I just think there is a larger disparity between mmr and rating than performance and rating

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if that makes sense

Yeah I can agree with that

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I think that’s usually due to a lack of information tho

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Like with bronzey we didn’t have much info on him before the season

Stats have a much more likelihood for toxicity and we very rarely see stats related toxicity

Now his mmr will be way more accurate

its sometimes first season players but its also 2+ season players a lot of the time

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you can have a few BAD games and ruin your mmr for the season

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which throws off the adjustment

Splatmonkey 🏆

its sometimes first season players but its also 2+ season players a lot of the time

Yeah usually it’s cuz we see either a string of bad games or serious improvement

What do you feel caused and how do you stop the massive turnover we saw in elevated staff positions this season?

I think it was because of the struggle that the admins had I talked a little about it before but getting behind early caused a lot of stress on the admin team so much so in fact that admins were shutting down at points. This caused a lot of mistrust within the staff and kinda kicked the beginning of the season off on the wrong foot. Preventing getting behind early would be my best idea on how to prevent burnout and turnover

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@UPS | Raasck

If you become admin, what are your thoughts on how we should handle the behind the scenes areas of CSC such as what admins do behind the scenes, numbers committee, TMs, etc? Would you be more open to transparency or would you prefer little change? Also I love u and I'm glad ur running :)

There needs to be more communication period. If there is something that is deemed to be sensitive you can say something like hey x happened we do not wish to share all info right now as some of it is important to us for x reason. I think even little things like that could bring more communication and understanding from the community. Share what you can and ideally they will respect the times you can’t share everything

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For example, the punk situation I discussed earlier. Definitely important that the GMs know a transaction that didn’t follow the rules went through and it was determined that the player would be allowed to leave the team as that is what is best for the player involved even though it was against the specific rule. Then even being more broad or just as specific in a little notice saying hey league this happened and we are sorry this is what we decided to do to fix it

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@VIPVeral 🏆🏆

Posting another question since I already asked Scraps: What do you intend to do about the situation with multiple committee heads resigning (and numerous complaints) due to not having authority (or not being heard) over the things that their committee is supposed to be responsible for? (edited)

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Any questions have already been answered just reply with already answered Question 1: We will be losing one of the more technical and hour-intensive admins this election time. How do you feel you can fill in their shoes/ fill the responsibilities left behind

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Question 2: I would like to hear a general number of hours each week you will be available to work on csc related topics. If possible please back this number up. (edited)

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Question 3: One of the questions on everyone’s mind constantly who isn’t an admin/mod is “why was x muted”, “what was the situation with y”, “why can’t z play a match” are you for or against public striking and how would you propose to your fellow admins/ mods how to implement this change?

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Question 4: As stated in some of your previous questions as I’m combing through, many times it’s been pointed out the lack of communication during the season between the admin team and the players. It has also been established that fuffy has been the main admin point of contact as shown in notices. Are you for having logging of admin talks/ potentially adding a secretary position tacked on to one of the admins or creating the position where a member sits in on an admin meeting, takes notes, and posts them somewhere public for people to see? This would omit any sensitive information.

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Question 5: Public mmr is a great example. By all accounts of the platforms, we saw last season's admin election public mmr should have passed given everyone’s stance on it. However, a person changed their mind and when the statement came out no public mmr the public had to pry from the admin team who flipped their vote. Are you in favor of making the voting lines public for admin deductions IE saying who voted in what way? Another add-on to this I will give is if you want to give all admins the option to give a small paragraph on why they voted the way they did may help too.

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Question 6: We have a wide variety of skills here in CSC and that has become apparent as we reach a 4th tier being added to the top of CSC. One thing that some high-level players have said in the past is that there isn’t much representation of elite/premier players who are admins or even numbers. All 5 of the candidates this time around are all challengers and in the event of noodles, not players. With this feeling of disconnect from the players, how do you hope to deal with some of the concerns brought up?

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Questions 7: Do you think that premier was a success or failure this season as a new tier? If you don’t want the premier to be taken away what steps do you think need to be done to improve premier?

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Question 8: Scheduling: one of the things that have been depressing me and some of my players personally was the playoff schedule. We were all hoping to be on the stream for a playoff game to be able to show our friends and family our game (don’t worry it was a blowout shouldn’t have tuned in anyway). On that day in particular there were 5 full games being played in 3 different tiers one of which being a final. This puts a massive strain on media to try to get as many games streamed while also making the players not streamed sad. What ideas do you have for playoffs scheduling to alleviate this?

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Question 9: We are seeing record numbers come in and play CSC. There are so many new faces in here that it’s hard to keep track of sometimes. As we reach this record number the problem of retention is something that always comes up. The off-season is boring and for many, it’s seen as a lack of games to play. 10 men are great and open up a lot of fun but aren’t as fun as say season matches. On top of this combines roll around and for many players who just signed a 2 season contract with their gm they may be put at the bottom of the queue to even be allowed to play combines (many admins would literally come down to queues and force signed agents in the back of the line to basically not be allowed to play). What ways do you see could be done to fix this and give signed players more to do during combines?

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Question 10: Do you think this league needs another round of recruitment at the magnitude of last season? Do you find the player base to be a good size or do you think more expansion is needed/wanted? Do you think with our current staff capacities we have enough resources to support a league double the size of our current one?

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Question 11: Follow up on the above. With a mass influx of people comes a mass influx of attention from potential hackers, cheaters, and trolls. We saw some players this season getting scammer messages from these people. Do you have any ideas on how to mitigate this issue?

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Question 12: Servers: many players reported that the servers this season had a variety of issues from ping to high loss/ lagging. How will you work with the technical committee to try to improve the servers for next season?

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Question 13: Matchday: many times the hour leading to matches/during matches is a stressful time for transaction managers, technical committee members, and gms/team captains scrambling to get their teams together. As a first season gm, I didn’t know how hard it was going to be to sometimes find a sub, deal with server issues, and on one occasion contact an admin because my transaction didn’t go through. What ideas might you have on helping lessen the game-day stress on these people?

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Question 14: Scenario: Public mmr is passed(shocker) and information is surfaced that a gm the previous season leaked mmr to a player on their team. This leak was minor in the sense that they didn’t have access to the entire sheet but something to the effect of “this is your mmr” or “we have this much mmr here’s who we can sign”. Would punishments be in order for these?

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Personal questions: Splat: going off discord analytics pre-admin candidacy you had talked minimally through any public means in this discord. We have reached a point in CSC where people feel they want more public outreach from the admin team and communication should be on the top of the docket for everyone. What steps in terms of communication/ commitment will you take to try to give the public more interactions?

Writing this question for all the candidates involved with a franchise. I have been very open about my opinion that any admin should be in no way tied to a franchise (GM, AGM, Player, whatever). There's been people I've talked to that share this opinion and people that disagree with it. Even though you most likely will not be abusing your admin status to benefit your franchise over others in any way, the concern is still absolutely there and a valid one (I mean, just look at a particular incident this past season...). So my question is, 1) how will you ensure that you are not actively or accidently doing this and 2) what do you think is the best way to offer transparency and assurance to the people in this matter? The point with question 2 being, ultimately you can't control what people think and they'll say things regardless of what you do or don't do, but the best assurance we've had so far about rumors and accusations of possible admin misconduct basically amounts to other admins/mods saying 'source: trust me bro' and I feel like that just fosters even more distance between us.

i would never vouch for someone in admin elections

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that being said, im vouching for splat, he's about the best candidate csc could ask for

Is vouching but would never vouch Susge

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@NAN | JermzPC First I want to say that I am upset that this amount of questions were posted so late in this part of the process. In terms of answers I can give some answers. In terms of filling voids in committees and voids in the admin team I would say I am the most qualified as I have been an admin before and know what it takes. In terms of the technical committee we have a lot of very talented people who have been working very hard, it has not only been raptor for seasons, I also was the person who created the servers and did all the "technical" work in the early seasons before there was a raptor. As any admin will tell you there is not a set amount of time you put in every week it varies from week to week hell even day to day. I understand that and am willing to put in the needed time. I have already answered questions about transparency as well as communication. I have no problem telling people how i voted and why i voted on decisions. while I am not a high level player it takes high level players joining staff roles, promoting and pushing committees to these people and getting them more invested in the league could be a way to mitigate that. I can not speak on the success or failure on premier but I can speak on the background support that was needed. Staff was not prepared for what the admins decided with premier scheduling, we did not have procedures in place and next season can only improve. With wanting to fit 3 seasons every year staggering playoffs to ensure that every playoff team gets streamed is impossible. With the league growing its going to become harder and harder to show every game. As far as growth, I am willing to take in however many players want to join. I want to welcome all to the league. Game day stress will never disappear, if its not one thing its another. last minute things happen everytime and there isnt much we can do about it to be honest. lastly the personal question, I may not be typing but I am always around observing. I always know whats going on and have tended to DM people instead of posting in the discord. I find 1:1 conversations much easier. I dont think anyone will say that I do not have a commitment to this league and all I have talked about was reducing the gap between the admins and players by more communication.

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@NAN | GREG0ROVITCH 🏆 noticing bias is something I am very good at. As admins there are processes in place that do not allow two admins to be on the same franchise as well as recusing oneself when its a friend or franchise member. Leaning more on that and being more open

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whooops didnt finish sorry

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give me a minute and I will finish

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leaning more on that and being more open when such occurances happen will go a long way to gain the trust of the community again.

Splatmonkey 🏆

@NAN | JermzPC First I want to say that I am upset that this amount of questions were posted so late in this part of the process. In terms of answers I can give some answers. In terms of filling voids in committees and voids in the admin team I would say I am the most qualified as I have been an admin before and know what it takes. In terms of the technical committee we have a lot of very talented people who have been working very hard, it has not only been raptor for seasons, I also was the person who created the servers and did all the "technical" work in the early seasons before there was a raptor. As any admin will tell you there is not a set amount of time you put in every week it varies from week to week hell even day to day. I understand that and am willing to put in the needed time. I have already answered questions about transparency as well as communication. I have no problem telling people how i voted and why i voted on decisions. while I am not a high level player it takes high level players joining staff roles, promoting and pushing committees to these people and getting them more invested in the league could be a way to mitigate that. I can not speak on the success or failure on premier but I can speak on the background support that was needed. Staff was not prepared for what the admins decided with premier scheduling, we did not have procedures in place and next season can only improve. With wanting to fit 3 seasons every year staggering playoffs to ensure that every playoff team gets streamed is impossible. With the league growing its going to become harder and harder to show every game. As far as growth, I am willing to take in however many players want to join. I want to welcome all to the league. Game day stress will never disappear, if its not one thing its another. last minute things happen everytime and there isnt much we can do about it to be honest. lastly the personal question, I may not be typing but I am always around observing. I always know whats going on and have tended to DM people instead of posting in the discord. I find 1:1 conversations much easier. I dont think anyone will say that I do not have a commitment to this league and all I have talked about was reducing the gap between the admins and players by more communication.

In fairness. And he told me this privately. He was waiting to see if the community asked his questions for him