@robustness said in A plea for the Lack of Events for "2nd Rate" "Common Folk" & The Community:
The main problem of tournaments is that it is difficult to gather those who want to, I help all Russian-speaking people to organize or briefly say "barker". But for about 2 years, there are no new active, non-toxic, non-title players. The problem is that now most players are overrated-so they are proud of their image, not a good game in the tournament. I want Morax's ideas to come true!
Even putting together an entertainment tournament for Russian-speaking streamers is a very difficult process of communication with the community, after which I do not go to the faf for a couple of weeks.
It seems to me that everything will work out if you play for avatars, and not for real money. The incentive to stand out attracts players, rather than the material one. This is just my personal experience.
Now I'm more involved in interacting with ru cartographers and encouraging them. So maybe Morax is right. That some TD's are doing something else... I'm an example of that. I want to apologize in advance. But I will try to somehow find new talents for 1300+ 1600+
A good starting point would be to convert some of the bilingual people like paralon, Petrie, mozy or Suzuji into TDs. I feel like the language barrier has an unnecessarily high impact on the community and there is far less overlap between ru and rest of the world. I guess it all starts with people actively trying to bridge these communities via bi-lingual tourneys for example. Putin tried this with his awassa tourney, I feel like at this point the initiative needs to come from FTX and the English speaking guys to actively including the Russians by offering default translations of all tourney descriptions (ladder league, lots, summer invitational) in Russian. I’m sure that there are russian community members willing to translate the texts, people just need to ask. Given the inconceivably high share of Russian speakers I really wonder how that hasn’t occurred to people before.