TheChrisD - Rant Central

Let sleeping domains die

Sometimes, when a site dies off, it’s owner would do whatever they could to bring it back to life. That’s wasn’t what I did with H3L ages ago, at some point last year. However, Craig, Penny and others decided to take the challenge of running the site.

Needless to say, I wouldn’t be bringing it up if it hadn’t had died again! I had a little chat with Craig earlier, and he did mention that maybe they were overestimated popularity.

(23:04) .:: Craig ::.
That’s good thinking. The big problem with H3L was that Penny and them wanted to start making huge leagues and expecting 16 teams to register for each.

Even when I was running it at it’s prime, we didn’t have anywhere near 16 teams! And given all the competition there is out there for tournaments, 16 teams was stretching it a little bit…

Anyway, onto more relevant stuff. After putting Halo 3 into my 360 for the first time in a long while (Vegas 2 had me VERY occupied, but now I’ve 1k’d the game…), my liking of making really crazy custom games reminded me of the time when we used to have 16 people playing some really good utter garbage in the Rumble Pit league. It’s that which is making me want to try and rekindle some sort of Rumble Pit league. But this time, I think it’s best to not try and run it as H3L or under some other weird name. It’d simple be leagues run by me.

None of this is going to happen immediately. It’ll be a while before I even get the chance to devote time to this, and plus I have to set up a few things beforehand. But, with enough time and effort then there will be a nice little section on my site devoted to the "Rumble Pit World Series".

And just to whet your appetite (or bore you to death, depending on who you are), here are a few very rough ideas I already have for it:

• Season lasting 8 weeks, each week 3 games taking place on a particular map, map to change each week.
• Maps: Construct, Epitaph, Foundry, Guardian, Isolation, Narrows, Snowbound, The Pit
  (Blackout may be considered - but then that would restrict to Legendary-owners only)
• 3 games per week - a default Slayer game, a default Objective (Ball, KotH, Jugg.), and a custom gametype.
  Custom gametype could have any settings, any forms of scoring, any sort of randomness
• Players score points based on what they score in the game and a position bonus from 50 points for the winners to 10 for 11th-16th.
  Winner will always receive 100 points, even if they don’t score 50 points in the game.

If it seems interesting to you, stay tuned. I do plan on at the very least attempting to start one up, unlike most of my big ideas…

PS: I got an e-mail from some guy called Jhon Smith asking me about adding paid text link ads on my site. Just to let all of you know, I’m not interested in making money from this venture. I don’t need to earn money to pay for running it. Heck, I pay a pittance as it is for hosting levels that far exceed my requirements. So don’t e-mail me asking to add paid links on my site, it won’t happen.