The Grand Finals Countdown

En_Ki, on Apr 25 2015 - 16:26, said:   Hi All,   I just used VariaVespa's quote as probably the most representative of the responses I want to provide;   To militant83 and Moguai - thanks for your reasoned response - I voted you up because you responded without insulting me or my opinion, because that's all it is - an opinion.    To the others -  let me just clear up a few things;  I think WoT is a great game and for the most part has excellent graphics, poses reasonable challenges to players of all colors and levels.  It has also allowed me to share leadership skills, communication skills, the value of drills, practice and rehearsal BUT it's greatest value is in teaching the younger ones how to deal with failure and that life is intrinsically not fair.  They also have a huge opportunity within a clan to learn, feel and experience teamwork and unselfish play.  They (the younger players) have equal opportunity to provide feedback [ to me: " AIM " ] and to get and deal with real feedback ( no [edited]) from their peers and their callers.     Then; the sense of 'entitlement' or 'immediate gratification' may be misunderstood.  The sense of entitlement that some players may have is one that may come from the politically correct trend of not counting goals, and everyone gets a trophy for merely turning up, (we are all winners) - that simply does not exist in my family, or that of the other family in our clan.  My children do their chores, keep their room clean and tidy and do their own laundry and no-one picks up their trash for them.  And 'immediate gratification' of wants may not be what I was referring to - these kids WORKED for their results and whatever prize they are to get.  They practiced on the maps over the weekend in a training room, with an OpFor and had heated debates about configurations, routes and alternatives.  Their suggestions were mostly accepted after they were tested out in the training room.  They crewed their tanks as best they could, they readjusted their ammo loads and accessories and consumables to allow the caller the widest array of options to work with, then logged in an hour before the start every day, went to the training room and ran their plan through again... and then sat in front of their PCs and fought their way through two hours of losses and hard fights, had a quick immediate debrief after the close of each round and went to bed.  This all AFTER their homework and extramural activities were complete.   And no, neither of them know about this thread either.   As for the WG team being in Poland,  we all know how long it should take to create an algorithm, validate it and run it against the database from the results...  and the writing and testing of the program could have been written before the tourney was even run, couldn't it?  So my reasonable expectation would be a couple of hours to ensure all the data is in, deal with any complaints or claims and resolve them and publish the results within 12 hours.  ( 30 minutes for the program, 60 minutes for review and ten and a half hours for time zone issues with fat executives to get out of bed wherever they are to sign off on the download...)   As for status quo - 'it's always been this way' - that is, and has never been a reason to continue to do it this way, especially with the capability and pace of today's younger society, is it?   If that were the case we'd all still be living in caves and eating one another.   I'm not even going to bother with the personal insults.   But, back to Varia's point about paychecks - you do know that the business only reaps its profits that the employee created for them weeks and in most cases MONTHS AFTER they have paid their employees?  So the employee actually gets paid before the business does?  WG gets their dollars ($450 million plus at last counting) within 24 hours of your credit card being processed FOR A VIRTUAL PRODUCT.  It is common knowledge that businesses pay their bills as late as possible - its called cash flow management, but in this case WGs product is a VIRTUAL product, their is no benefit to them WHATSOEVER in delaying or deferring the publishing of the results or the transfer of the prizes.  But we're not even employee's - WE ARE THE CUSTOMER.   So why am I taking the time to write this post?  Because I believe it is crucial that a developing player with talent in this eSport, should be able to see the published output of their efforts directly after the tournament.  A week later is ancient history for them.  It is key for a motivator (aka Dad) to be able to link the recent effort to the visible, public outcome while the sweat is still drying on their faces.  That is when it is most effective and not another meaningless monologue.   Name one other sport where final results of a tournament, as large as this one is supposed to have been, "may be posted up to seven days" after the final match?  


Emperor_Brian, on Apr 25 2015 - 16:46, said: Battle Schedule Does anyone know why my teams battle schedule today (Saturday) shows a list of teams to play with no date and time when the tourny ended Friday?  


TheBorg291, on Apr 25 2015 - 19:22, said: Since there were a lot of team participating will the wait for the prizes still be the normal 2 to 3 days?


Amberpaw, on Apr 25 2015 - 20:59, said:   same here. =) WG does tend to delay it (not surprising as tourny ends on friday, and they dont work till monday) but they will get the payout to you within 7 days      starting on monday they should start payouts   because of the 1k teams. i'd say payouts will be monday through saterday due to the large volume of em