Fall 2023 Wrap Up and Giving Report February 20, 2024 Despite continued layoffs throughout this past autumn season and start of this year, the CEA has continued to be a community overflowing with love and support between teams. Moving into 2024, we hope to continuing being a place where players are able to build connections…
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Spring 2023 Wrap Up and Giving Report
Spring 2023 Wrap Up and Giving Report July 30, 2023 This past spring saw hardship and triumph. With layoffs across the tech industry impacting many of our players, we were overwhelmed with the compassion and generosity shown between teams. We hope this spirit that reaches beyond competition continues to be a light that guides us…
Fall 2022 Wrap up and Giving Report
Fall 2022 Wrap up and Giving Report February 04, 2023 Thanks to everyone who played, watched, and cheered us along this Fall 2022 season! This season was our largest ever, and featured the largest donation set we’ve ever made. Here’s where the money went: Rocket League From Microsoft, Ninjacats donate $4,608 to Child’s PlayFrom General…
Spring 2022 Wrap Up and Giving Report
Spring 2022 Wrap Up and Giving Report June 28, 2022 Thanks to everyone who played, watched, and cheered us along this Spring 2022 season. This season was our largest ever, and featured the largest donation set we’ve ever made. Here’s where the money went: Rocket League From Meta, the Professional Tractors donate $3528 to Doctors Without…
Fall 2021 Wrap Up and Giving Report
Fall 2021 Wrap Up and Giving Report December 20, 2021 Thanks to everyone who played, watched, and cheered us along this Fall 2021 season. This season was our largest ever, and featured the largest donation set we’ve ever made. Here’s where the money went: Rocket LeagueFrom Microsoft, the Ninjacats donate $3,600.00 to Child’s PlayFrom Microsoft, The…
Spring 2021 Wrap Up and Giving Report
Spring 2021 Wrap Up and Giving Report May 18, 2021 Thanks to everyone who played, watched, and cheered us along this Spring 2021 Season. This season was our largest ever, and featured the largest donation set we’ve ever made. Here’s where the money went: Starcraft 2:1st Place – Byte / dance giving 2000 to CARE2nd Place…
Winning on 28%
Winning on 28% April 15, 2021 Last week in our blog we told you about MMR, victory, and how those are two very different things. We told you that 28% of success in the CEA is not your game skills, but your people skills. Today, we will answer the invariable follow up question: Great, what ladder…
MMR and Who Actually Wins
MMR and Who Actually Wins April 08, 2021 Here’s something we see a lot in CEA. It makes sense. As humans, we have a perpensity to make metrics out of things with numbers, and hand-wave the rest as details. Compare the numbers, find the winner. Sports are a solved problem. Right? First, let’s define some…
Tournament Integrity and Empathy
Tournament Integrity and Empathy March 31, 2021 Someone has been cheating in our tournaments. This wasn’t completely unexpected. Online chess is riddled with people who think they’re clever by using existing chess programs to give them their next moves. The anti-cheat system we employ caught this player within hours of their first infraction and gave…
Fall 2020 Wrap Up and Giving Report
Fall 2020 Wrap Up and Giving Report December 26, 2020 Thanks to everyone who played, watched, and cheered us along this Fall 2020 season. This season was our largest ever, and featured the largest donation set we’ve ever made. Here’s where the money went: Rocket League 1st: Microsoft Ninjacats donating $3,300 to Child’s Play2nd: Facebook Professional Tractors donating $1,500 to Doctors…