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We are almost over with 8th jump tournament (one game for 11-18th places left) and it is the right time to sum up and estimate everything.
Positive things:
1. There were 36 signed players for tournament. This is still awesome amount of players because the q2 scene is simply dying.
2. Many high skilled jumpers signed aswell. Even not all of them are active.
3. 2-3 jump servers for tournament.
4. Many admins around who controlled the games.
5. Positive communication between players and admins.
Negative things:
1. Players still keep not showing up without a reason
2. Slow download servers.
3. Different maplist on each server
4. Conflicts in map versions on each server
5. Servers getting down before/during tournament.
The conclusion
Since I am the head-admin and a regular player I will summarize the things according to that fact. It was 8th jump tournament and so far the worst. And here is the answer why. Group stage was pretty smooth. Only one group stressed me, as an admin. Playoffs stage was more stressed. I had problems with finding a proper time for all the players. The problem started with the 1st jump tournament and this season it was really huge. Plus again, problems with jump tournament servers. The main reason the 8th jump tournament was the worst, is the worst final ever. No, it is not because I got only 5th place (to be honest, it is really high place if you look who played), no it is not because KroPP or santher got in top3. It was all about the servers we played and the maps we got. Most of final players would agree. And they would agree about the fact that the best jump server was , is, and will be former Wireplay jump server. Why? In epic jumping times, when server had admins like Rambler, Crom, of course Neur0, the maplist was really smooth, most likely unfriendly for jump starters. All the maps were filtrated, accepting only smooth maps (yes, there are like 200 maps which should not be on the server but they appeared later, not in 2004-2008). However, we couldnt use wireplay tournament server because of 2 reasons: server is very unstable with many players and we didnt have admins there. The servers we played had bad settings: wrong maplist, with like 1000 maps who should not be accepted, slow and strange downloadings. I am not against the maps I have never played before. But those maps are bad choice because they are not seriously tested. Lets be honest: half maps we played in finals were not suitable for it. It ruined the fun, the joy we could take from such a beautiful event with so many top players.
Despite the negative things happened to us I would still want to say huge thanks to server owners, UniBG, Neur0, quadz. Huge thanks to admins draxi, santher, KroPP, Teioch. And huge thanks to those who enjoyed the tournament, enjoyed the way it went, didnt get angry with my decisions. And thanks to all players who played and thanks to those who deserved to be thanked.
Next season, if we are going to have it, will be different. I will run it only if I have a server on my own or the owner of the server will be an active player who are online every day. Now we have none of them.
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Congratz to winners. Looking forward to the next one! 
