WalterToro wrote:

1. Takes a lot of time
2. Download speeds for some people makes this even longer
3. Teams should be already be warmed up and some warmups does the opposite
4. Some of the warmups are plain awful memes that are borderline inappropriate

There are other reasons but this was the main discussion.

1. we can limit the warmups duration to be under 3 minutes or 2:30 max, if a team's warmups is over than that, the team can't play the warmup
2. team must tell what they gonna play as the warmups to the referee/opponent team 12 hour or 1 day before the match, over than that the team can't play the warmup, also if there's some players that don't have the map, the warmups will still be played/forced start
3. this is true, and I'm pretty sure every team already warmed up before the match
4. because the warmups will be submitted 12 hour or 1 day before the match, i think the staff can filter the inappropriate/awful memes/explicit maps, so you can decide which warmups that can be played

Crowley wrote:

im gonna try and spark the discussion here but is there any reason why warmups were removed?

1. A lot of time wasted being ready, specially from teams with awful download speed trying to download warmups
2. People pick BIG files for warmups to waste even more time
3. Client sometimes has issues loading files, restarting the client takes time too
4. Matches start so late after warmups that ends going over the designated schedule missing other teams warmups.
5. Inappropriate warmups, some of those takes time to get why is inappropriate because of source, hitsounds, long mp3, bg, different language, etc.
6. Warmups are uploaded close to the match so people have even less time to DL > more delays

Kasumi-sama wrote:

you guys really are trying to make a discussion to get them back when they've actively been removed for two world cups already?
you're too late for any sort of change at this point, and for warmups to come back lol

bring back warmups

Arctaroll wrote:

Is there absolutely no way to discuss anything and maybe work out bringing them back but with some restrictions so that "time won't be wasted", or is it just a solid "no"?

WalterToro wrote:

Arctaroll wrote:

Is there absolutely no way to discuss anything and maybe work out bringing them back but with some restrictions so that "time won't be wasted", or is it just a solid "no"?

It is a solid no for now, they had restrictions before and didnt work so it will keep like that for World Cups.

WalterToro wrote:

Arctaroll wrote:

Is there absolutely no way to discuss anything and maybe work out bringing them back but with some restrictions so that "time won't be wasted", or is it just a solid "no"?

It is a solid no for now, they had restrictions before and didnt work so it will keep like that for World Cups.

Game Brain wrote:

I honestly don't care too much for warm-ups, but legitimate question, the game is community driven, and because one set of internal restrictions failed you just straight up ban one entire aspect of the match/viewing experience? That seems a bit extreme. Could at least test out other restrictions or be open to suggestions from the community instead of instantly just being absolute about the matter.

Allow me to bring a compromise: