Very poorly ran, very poorly done.

This week and the past few months they have not given out prizes due to not turning in the proper paper work.

My team and quite a few others tried to check in but the website was down, after talking to several admins they told us there was nothing they could do.

After hopping into their IRC channel with several other teams, they told us "you should have checked in 30 minutes prior, and we knew nothing about the crash on our website until it was too late"

Their response about not giving out the prizes for winners previously ..... "no comment"

Here is proof about the prize give aways, feel free to talk to the teams about it and they will tell you the same.

http://www.z33k.com/groups/lol-weekly

1) You didn't provide any proof behind this.
2) You linked to something general and not even the direct tournament
3) You can't even address the site properly in your title
4) The admins were asking for people to report issues before the tournament started
5) It states that you must be checked in before the brackets go live, if you don't you won't be able to get in. You tried to get in after brackets went live.
6) You contacted a caster instead of an admin, that's your fault.

z33k tournaments might not be the best but they are by no means the worst, you are just mad that you messed up and are acting insanely childish.

As the rules state you need to be online and checked-in, check-in was open until the start time, which has been posted a week in advance. We had 2 admins IRC and the in-game channel answering questions 30 min before the event.

The website did lag when the tournament was starting because I had to manually reset the bracket, but that was explained on both the chats. 36 teams who came prepared did make it in and are playing right now: http://www.z33k.com/games/league-of-...v5-23/brackets

There was no mention of a prize complaint, or any attempt to contact an official admin until after the start time. I think one of the players in the tournament who overheard your complaining summarized this best: "So you're mad because you chose the last second to try to get in on a tournament instead of checking in within the first 45 minutes, makes sense."

I am sorry that you had a bad experience. If you are interested in helping improve competitive gaming in a very direct way in league of legends please consider applying to become a tournament administrator: jobs@z33k.com

We tried to contact a admin, none responded. We tried to get in previously before the brackets went live, your website went down 10 minutes before the check in so how are we supposed to check in?
You want proof I will talk to other teams and ask them to post here about your website going down as well, I am sure even the teams who did manage to get in will post about it as well as I know a few of them.

1) The proof is me talking about it and others as well. With also the link showing that at the bottom you guys have not given out the prizes as well.
2) The link is directly linked to the tournament showing how inconsistent you guys are about running your tournament.
3) I do not care about addressing your **** site correctly lol
4) No, several of you even posted in chat about how you did not even know about the website being down until after the brackets were up.
5) We tried to get in before the brackets went live, but was not able to since your website was down.
6) Of course I contacted a caster since, the admins would not respond in game..

Z33ks is by far the worse, I can see why the tournament has fallen off since you guys are seriously lack luster in doing it right. Also calling names is always real mature as well lol, just because you do not like the truth does not mean it isn't true.

There is no way in hell I would ever try to help a place that refuses to help and listen to the people who tried to play in it. You guys make lame excuses and lie about it afterwards. LOL I am also putting in a support ticket to make sure Riot knows about this as well to make sure Z33ks does not get anything in the future from them as well.

Get a grip, this was all logged on IRC. Note the time stamps, and that 11:00 was the start time.

[11:12] <@Z33K|Lux> Bracket is up, GL HF EVERYONE and sorry for the delay http://www.z33k.com/games/league-of-...v5-23/brackets
[11:13] <@Z33K|Lux> please find your opponents and being your match
[11:14] * Kcr_ (webchat@c-50-135-5-92.hsd1.wa.comcast.net) has joined #z33k
[11:14] <Kcr_> hey website has been down since like 1048
[11:15] <Kcr_> i had another 2 miniutes to join and now i cant...wtf is thedeal?
[11:15] <@Z33K|Lux> brackets are here: http://www.z33k.com/games/league-of-...v5-23/brackets
[11:15] <Kcr_> i dont give a flying **** about the brackets
[11:15] <@Z33K|Lux> Kcr_: registration and check-in are done, please be sure to check-in at least 30 min before the event starts
[11:15] <Kcr_> the fact is i wanted to check in and i couldnt
[11:16] <Kcr_> i have until 1050 to check in
[11:16] <Kcr_> and i couldnt
[11:16] <@Z33K|Lux> You were not asking for help in this channel, or in-game
[11:16] <Kcr_> the website has been down
[11:16] <@Z33K|Lux> Don't wait until the last second

1) You didn't provide any proof behind this.

I checked in via zeeks chat (or tried to get my team checked in but was ignored) I was on Kcrash's team subbing this week. If you'd like the chat log where I say "My team is here can I check in?" I was unable to check in on the website when I was logged in to the account on our teams roster I told the admins this and nothing happened even though I asked to be checked in.

2) You linked to something general and not even the direct tournament

His point was that the prizing was super inconsistent.

3) You can't even address the site properly in your title

So you want him to say "z33ks" instead of zeek? which is how you actually say the name? Own3d.tv, do you say "(Own) - (three-D)?" (On this one I actually do, but its supposed to be owned tv but its not a point of criticism.

4) The admins were asking for people to report issues before the tournament started

I did, I was on his team and they did nothing on the matter.

5) It states that you must be checked in before the brackets go live, if you don't you won't be able to get in. You tried to get in after brackets went live.

Again, I tried to ask them how I could check in for my team because our leader wasn't there. I couldn't check in as just a member, they didn't help me and basically told me "Please check in." to which I responded "I can't, how do I check in if I'm not the leader of my team?" That got ignored.

6) You contacted a caster instead of an admin, that's your fault.

I contacted admins, when they didn't do anything we contacted a caster of the tournament that we knew. The admins doing nothing was why we contacted the caster, they were comfortable ignoring me but they may have been a little less able to ignore the caster.

At the end of the day here is what we're saying... There was a major problem with one persons net, he was here before the brackets were up, you guys are acting incredibly defensive and suggesting there was major fault on our end. Our leader was back before the brackets were even up / official and we wern't able to check in even though I said "Our leader will be back before the tournament is up." Nobody helped me out in chat. In a perfect world I would have been able to check our team in even though our leader was gone, but that didn't happen. Admins didn't care about the problem really...

We arn't trying to say "**** you zeeks." This is just a form of accountability, we think that admins should have been watching chat and dealing with problems when people brought them up. In the end I dont think there was any real motivation for zeeks admins to actually care about the problems just because they had back-up teams so "who really cares if the team whos been signed up for a while isn't playing, we'll still have enough teams to fill the brackets."

Its 100% fair on a larger scale and for an organization to ignore a group of players because it probably isn't time efficient to spend even 5 minutes helping one team when you have 12 more that want to take their spot. I disagree with kcrash on one point, you don't have to avoid this tournament... So long as you go in understanding that there is inconsistent prizing, and the admins aren't going to try to help you out or work with you, i'm sure you'll have a great time.

Thanx for giving me a reason to report you asdFletcher as that is against the TOS to post chat without summoners permission wether it be in game or out. But I do like how you edited some of the text lol...so much fail