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Posted by: kill343gs
« on: November 30, 2017, 08:12:19 PM »

We've decided, after much discussion (although, admittedly, not 2 months worth of discussion, my bad) to relax the rules on personal/display tournaments, allowing hosts to accept entries and run them the same way sanctioned tournaments are run. We feel as though at this point, any RA2 related content is a good thing for the community, and stifling the creation of said content is simply counterproductive to our goal of making the most of our time together on GTM.

That being said, display tournaments absolutely WILL NOT be enforced the way that sanctioned tournaments are. The only way that Gametechmods guarantees your tournament experience is if you are participating in regulated tournaments. You are entering any and all display tournaments at your own risk. Display tournaments could be run unfairly, take unreasonable amounts of time to update, or be completely abandoned by the host with absolutely no repercussions. The only thing hosts can get in trouble for is breaking GTM forum rules. In addition, personal/display tournaments have absolutely no bearing on anything related to competitive RA2, host score, tournament hosting awards, etc. They are nothing more than threads with videos in them.

The personal tournament section is also the hub for sharing content that relates to RA2 tournaments being run outside of GTM. Things like OrcsWars, redditbots, Banter Wars, etc, now all have a home here on GTM. Any issues that arise during the course of such tournaments are the host's problem, not ours.

Hopefully this works for everyone. We have our current official tournament system for a reason. With it in place, we can continue to guarantee you a fair and complete tournament experience, or at least create repercussions for tournaments that don't. I am going out on a limb here and hoping that this, along with host points etc. will be enough reason for official tournaments to continue to exist.