This is a continuation from Scrim Tactics 101.

 

Morale

Morale is the basic feeling of the troops as a whole. One of the worst possible combinations for a clan match is low moral + anything else. Low moral leads to people blowing thier tops, losing control, generally being very very angry. Anger leads to hate, hate leads to greed, greed leads to the dark side (or something like that).

 

Basically, you have to take everything on the chin in a clan match. Dont let small things annoy you to the point where you get angry. If you're angry, your body releases a lot of chemicals into your blood stream, mainly adrenaline, and has a huge effect on your playing ability. Adrenaline can cause shaking of hands and for your body to go onto auto-pilot, possibly the worst thing possible for a clan match where you need to think.

 

When moral gets low, your playing ability decreases, which in turns lowers your moral again in a viscous circuit. Some tips to ensure your moral stays high are;

 

• Never underestimate your enemy
  Accept that there may be some people better than you
  Odd things can and will happen
  Dont be too cocky, the taller they are, the harder they fall
  Be realistic about a situation
  Try to keep negative comments to yourself. Demoralisation is contagious
  Crack open a beer or other beverage of choice and relax before the match
  Congratulate your team-mates on any achievement ie, "Good work capping that flag XYZ"
  Be confident within yourself
  

Harden the f*ck up Australia

I cant stress enough about keeping negative comments to yourself. It will produce one of two things, either your team will be whipped into a frenzy and play unbelievably or the thoughts will spread to the other people on your team, causing a dip in thier performance. 99.9% of the time, it will be the latter. Overall its better to have one person angry and bitter than the whole team.

 

Sportsmanship

We all know what sportsmanship is so this will be a relativly short one, mainly laying down ethics, not so much rules but more accepted practices within a scrim.

 

Generally, the safe way to remain a good sportsman is to respect your opponent. So basically, this means no tea-bagging, no gloating over kills, no smack talk, no accusations of any sort ect. ect. You get the point. This means that, in the warm-up period, if the enemy asks you too leave them alone, you leave them alone. No half arsed efforts, go all out when respecting an opponent. You're representing your team, not just yourself so dont be an ar$e

 

Sportsmanship has a direct relation on moral as well. For example, if you were just killed by the enemy team and then accuse them of some hack or what-not, it lowers your team's moral too see such an accusation and raises that of the enemy by boosting thier confidence in thier abilities, whether they are cheating or not.

 

Generally, it is considered good conduct to stick around until the end of a round, even if you are/have been capped out. Furthermore, it is general practice to stay after the end of the match and into the final round and then congratulate the enemy team, regardless of the outcome. During this after-match debrief, you may learn that you nearly had the enemy on the ropes or that you completely surprised them which lead to your victory. Furthermore, by sticking around and talking to the opposite team, you may learn how certain tactics could've worked better or how to overcome a ceratin tactic.

 

Class Dismissed, if I think of anything else, I'll post it later

 

**About the sportsmanship section, it is NOT directed at the BigD guys specifically but as a lot of people in this community have never played in a clan match or scrim, I thought it best to lay down some general guidelines.**

keep em coming Chickenhawk

 

thanks for all the info.

 

I will start to paste together bits and pieces from the various threads and but them into a draft rules and regulations post as well as an "idiots guide to scrimming" post.

 

appreciated

Do we all think sportsmanship is the same thing...it there a line

to be drawn.

 

I think some light banter and stirring is fine...and generally help with

team morale, specially during warm up and countdown to "live"

 

For some clans where a rivalry has developed over a few years and a couple of games, this banter/stirring can be alot of fun.

 

However some teams want nothing to do with it, and this should always be "mostly" respected depending on there status.

 

The whole team IMO should be in the same TS/vent channel

as this helps the team as a whole with situational awareness.

I think a little back and fourth banter before or between rounds is fine, but when your live I'd lean against any global chat.