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Strydxr

Hey everyone, the Personal Trainer team had another meeting to discuss some important changes that will be coming soon, particularly to the FAF Wiki! Please read them below if you're interested in what those proposed changes are:


Aim:

- make wiki formatting consistent and modernised, including the FAF Home Page
- Sera suggests 4 big rectangles (1v1 2v2 3v3 and teamgames), helps clarify and make it more clear, hence reformatting the whole page
- keep getting feedback from people who have no idea about FAF.
- Video guides will take priority to showcase a more proactive approach to new players, with text guides being written in the background to ensure future proofing.
- Increased promotions of the wiki
- Put some ‘alternative’ training resources onto the wiki (Dojo, Strydxr Tournament Discord)
- Razana suggests a quickstart guide to help new players when they read the wiki, allowing for an easier learning period when they first start FAF, Dwarf Fortress quick start guide for reference, merge with willow’s video idea to create a good written guide and a good video guide, covering both basis)
- All welcome lobbies are less prevalent, could Trainer utilise this? 



Proposed Format for the Learning Supcom wiki webpage:

1. Essential Beginner Information (openers, Basic decision-making and APM. Unit Orders. FAF Guide – in depth explanations of basic faf concepts) (Willow suggests making this into a video, probably with chapters to help new players remain attentive and willing to move onto the next categories) 
2. In-Game Basics (Economy Management, Hotkey Guide, UI Mods Guide)
3. 1v1 Guides
4. Trainer Resources | Replay Reviews, Training Chat, The Dojo
5. Popular Maps | Setons, Dualgap, Astro Crater
6. Self-Improvement (Integrating reclaim, transport rush, replay self analysis) 



1v1 Guides (Option One)
Beginner (0-500) | General 1v1 Guide
Intermediate (500-1000) | General 1v1 Guide

1v1 Guides (Option Two)
Beginner Concepts to a new 1v1 player
Com Micro?
Map concepts | 5x5, 10x10, 20x20
Map Breakdowns (Like Petric used to make)
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Part 2


Game Modes (Option 1)
1v1 (branch off to a 1v1 guide list)
2v2 (same with 1v1)
3v3 (same with 1v1)
4v4 (same with 1v1)
5v5+ (same with 1v1)

Game Modes (Option 2)
1v1
Small Teamgames (2v2 / 3v3)
Big Teamgames (4v4+)

Attendees:
Strydxr 
Seraphim-Noob
Razana 
WillowWisppsi
Judoka

If you have any feedback or suggestions, regardless of player rank or contribution bias, please do post it here. It means a lot to us in the Trainer Team!

Brutus5000

The API can return the list, the client just needs to show it.

Jip

@Phoenix_NZ What is the spec, both CPU and GPU of the user with issues?

Brutus5000

There is no way to do this now in the client. There is a pending feature request https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/issues/3168

Jip

Do you run the campaign with any mods enabled? If so, try turning those off. In other cases, please try and see if you can make a recording of the behavior. Also observe your task manager. Is the resource usage spiking, as an example?

Brutus5000

I can verify that the person responsible behind the DDoS claimed to target individual player ips to.

We are working on measures to mitigate this issue, but it will take time.

Until then tell your ISP that they need to protect you from DDoS not the other way round. It's 2025 and every bad actor can pull this off as soon as they get your ip...

Strydxr

Tournament: u1100 1v1 Tournament III
Tournament Dates: 14/3 at 15:00UTC
Tournament Director: Strydxr

Challonge: https://challonge.com/a6n105xq
IRC: #u1100
Coverage: TBA

Rewards:
which will be held by the winner until the next u1100 tournament.

Tournament Format:
Following the trend of u1100 tournaments, this will be a Single Elimination Best of 3 style tournament.

Rules:
Disconnects may result in a rehost <5 mins, but afterwards the Tournment Director has the last say.
Players will replay the same map if they draw.
If the incorrect map is host, the correct map will be hosted and the incorrect map will not count towards score
Players who no show without valid reasoning may be temporarily suspended from tournaments.
If a player doesn't show up in R1 they may be replaced, Otherwise after R1 it will be treated as a forfeit and they will be eliminated and not replaced.
The Tournament Director's decison is final.

Map Pool:
tbd

Players Signed up:
PatientOwl
Ktosiek
Nyx
Aeternis
ZYKLON

Strydxr

Yooo, this guy is ripping off the Trainer Team!!

hybrid_

Hey everyone, as you might have noticed there's been some recent changes to the Tournament Team, which includes Tournament Directors, Senior TD's and the Team Lead. This post is here to give everyone an idea what's been going on behind the scenes.

As you may know, NOC stepped down from the Team Lead role after the LOTS 2024 tournament and I was elected as the new Team Lead. I'll take this chance to introduce myself to those that don’t know me; I started playing FAF when I was 11 after seeing some Gyle casts. Very quickly into my FAF experience, I started participating in tournaments and joined the GB clan in 2014 where I made a lot of my early FAF memories. As the years went by, I saw myself joining plenty of tournaments, albeit not with a lot of success. Regardless, I very much enjoyed participating in the competitive circuit. As time went on, I improved quite a bit and even ended up competing in some of the bigger tournaments with players I never imagined I could compete with. At some point, I joined the tournament team, hosting various blitz tournaments, including my favourite kind: 2v2s! After a few years of inactivity I came back and re-joined the team near the end of 2024.

The first thing I did as lead was to go on a recruiting spree. I looked for people that I knew had the best intentions and wanted FAF to thrive. Those people are: Nuggets, Strydxr, Vindex, Sainse and Paradox_Of_War - what about other people on the team?. All of them had various different experiences with FAF, which I firmly believe are important for the community. Recently I announced my senior TD’s - Rhaelya and Strydxr, who also happen to be Team Leads on their own (Balance and Trainer).

We've had multiple very productive team meetings, with the goal of improving tournaments and the competitive circuit that, we feel, were not up to par in recent times.

In our first meeting, we definitely had a lot to discuss. The topics covered were;

The reviewing of the current ruleset
Outlining the budget for the year
Tournament ban and warning system
Re-organising the forum
Reflection on tournaments so far
Substitute prize rights
Planned tournaments for the year

After a long-winded meeting, we discussed the path going forward, and so the second meeting looked like;

Discussing transparency of the team
Avatars and custom avatars
Collaboration with the other teams
What makes a tournament a FAF official tournament
A mid-year LOTS equivalent importance 2v2 tournament (Potentially a trophy included)
1v1 circuit and Invitationals
Other future tournament plans
The creation of tournament guides
Standardising and rewriting important tournament forum information

For the past 3 months the Tournament Team had been working hard to give back to the community that we love. We have made a lot of progress and hope to continue to do so in the future.

Before I became Team Lead, I had always dreamt of hosting a prominent annual tournament in FAF. I’m pleased to inform you all that there will be a big 2v2 tournament coming at the end of May and start of June. I’m planning on having a large prize pool and even including some sort of physical trophy. Hope to see you all there!

G	Giebmasse
B	Brutus5000
R	Rhaelya
F	Fichom
H	hybrid_
S	Strydxr
B	BlackYps
S	StormLantern
S	Sladow-Noob
S	Swkoll
T	Tagada
B	Balthazar
J	Jip

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