League of Legends team moving on and upwards?

[Kermit]

I haven't been in the community for long, but I've been around competitive gaming for a very long time.

Basically right now, we, the League team have no 'benefit' to using the Aim To Kill name for our League team.

It's something that is becoming serious, we plan on competing at i-Series, we're entering multiple tournaments a week and spending hours improving and practicing every week, almost every night. Outside of playing together as a team we're spending hours upon hours playing solo Q to improve.

Right now, there's no incentive for us to use the Aim To Kill name. It's not that we don't want to, it's just that, to put it bluntly, why should we? Something such as a performance based incentive would be something that from a business point of view in your end would be beneficial and from our point of view would be an incentive to improve furthermore.

The League team, amongst other members of the community from what I've gathered in my limited time here feel that all the power lies in the wrong people. All the people with the power are the ones that don't have a true grasp or understanding of what to do with it. You have a plethora of people that have that understanding of how to make things happen but they simply sit there smashing their heads on TS night after night because nothing gets done from the leadership point of view when it is brought up.

My understanding is also that this whole situation is a recurring thing with people expressing their disinterest to continue a community that has no drive from a leadership point of view and the leaderships response is always "Ok, great ideas, lets get the ball rolling on them" but the ball never leaves the starting pen, because again no-one with power has the understanding to start things rolling.

I hope people value my opinions because as little as I've been around the Aim To Kill community, I've been around e-Sports for 10+ years and I know exactly what people desire and how to get it, since I've already done it in several other games. The core issue is, nothing will work unless you have leadership that has the motivation to do it and make things happen. Right now, people think, and I agree, that the leadership doesn't seem to care.

I mean right now you have a community member paying for your Team Speak server, a community member trying to make contacts to get your name out there and reputable through the League of Legends team. Personally, I think the leadership seriously need to step up and relate to the community a lot more, or move on and give it to someone that is willing to do so.

[Excoundrel]

I've been here say, since november time? I don't often post on here and communicate mainly through team speak but I will throw in my opinion:

Being on the league team I have no reason to see why we should be attached or affiliated with ATK at this moment in time. We gain nothing from it. ATK as a gaming community has one competitive team, us. Without us you're just a bunch of friends who play some games now and again and to have any real standing as a gaming community you need to organise and recruit for competitive teams. Send those teams to I-series etc and get your name out there. If you get a number of competitive teams out there you can then approach sponsors who, for a little bit of sponsorship, can get their names on ATK t shirts at tournaments etc. With that money you can PAY FOR YOUR OWN teamspeak server and provide t-shirts. I don't understand why no one is making the effort to do it? Surely it benefits everyone.

Personally I also feel on the topic of leadership, not that i really give a shit, that you run this more like a dictatorship and less like a democracy. It reminds me of a very old school wow guild where guild leader = god and his members are simply there because they get the benefit of a good raiding guild and don't want to leave; i wish i could say the same for ATK - at the moment what benefit do any of ATKs members get? Why would they listen to the leadership team when they could probably just go join another gaming community all together (so losing no friendly contact with anyone) and get better benefits. It's not like we would stop talking to each other because Joe owns the teamspeak server.

Thats my impartial opinion anyway.

[Joe]

Thank you for actually responding. This is all we wanted, some kind of written repsonse from you about the situation and how it could change it wasn't intended to escalate like it has.

If this is true about us simply needing to write up a request about things we would like (within reason) that it could happen then I'd be happy to chat about it with everyone else and write up ideas.

Maybe the first idea could be a forum section where we can post said ideas?

[Chalex4]

No problem man. It's not like any of us actually want to see ATK unhappy! Here's the suggestions forum:

http://www.atkcommunity.com/forumdis...19-Suggestions

(it's existed for a while )

[Joe]

Wow I'm clearly blind for not seeing that lol

[Vicious Horizon]

I'm not MEANT to have access to the TF2 servers if I remember correctly? Either that or someone who isn't meant to have access gave me access because I needed it to run the server while the team was active (I'm working on getting it active again by the way, for those interested).

I dunno, it just seems like everyone is totally shut out from the management of the website.

I mean I don't wanna cause offence, but Katakuna is never fucking online in the community, and neither is a majority of the management team.

None of the active members of the community actually have any sort of power in the community and have no way of making any difference IN the community or changing the way it operates. Right now, and the it's always been is fuck the management because they don't do shit, it's not the website, nor the teams, nor the fancy widgets on the home page that's kept ATKCommunity.com alive, it's been the tight-knit friends group who sit on teamspeak all fucken day and play games together.

There's my thoughts.

[Target]

I just don't want us in the situation where we have a great idea that we want to get on, but we have to wait 3 weeks for something to happen about it because the active manager has no access to the right tools.
And we have wasted huge opportunities in the past, like lochtech which could have really prompted the community and maybe got us some free shit xD. We had the means but just didn't follow it up and the people that could have done it, didn't have any access to it. I think we need to just be able to do things and then change them to suit, not try and build it perfectly to start with. I understand chalex doesn't want to have things spoiled such as the site because its really good, but we need to take some risks with other projects!

[Chalex4]

Meeting tonight was awesome guys, thanks for spending the time to go through stuff with me and others.

Can't wait for future ATK .

[Target]

Yeh was good shit got sorted and we found things out and think the community will actually move forward, now we just need to carry out some of this stuff XD

[CILLIT BANG]

+ my sig is awesome

[CILLIT BANG]

<---- cant do shit while at uni especialy when you switched to TS from Mumble so dont see how my role can be forfilled when i need to talk in voice as im shit at writing things so dont get me involved in the argument when i cant fully be involved with the community in term time (next year get a house so will be all fine)

[Target]

YES FRED!!!