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title: First Foray into Big Projects
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date: 2018-06-25
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# Quake Champions Academy Back from the Dead
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Finally after nearly a year I've started working on my Quake Chamions Academy project again but this time I have some specific goals in mind besides just, run lots of community events.
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## Some Background First
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Quake Champions Academy is a discord server/community that I set up about a year ago when QC(Quake Champions) went into the open beta with the initial inention of using the server to host 2v2 tournaments every weekend.
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Of course this was a massive time sink and couldn't really do it every weekend, so eventually had to stop.
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In the meantime I managed to acrue around 100 or so members to the channel so I figured I would need more reasonable method of keeping people around.
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This is where I came up with the idea of creating an "Academy" Server where people can come learn about the game and maybe meet some new people in the process.
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Ultimately the server died down quite a bit with the game as well but since it went free-to-play for 2 weeks it means that tons of new playesr have been coming in.
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Since there were so many new players, and people seemed to be actually actually enjoying *playing* the game I saw it as a perfect time to get the old website idea into reality.
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There was one main problem... the people who can help me is not plentiful and don't know how to use tools like git/HTML/CSS/JS etc etc.
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So I eventually settled, (*very unwillingly*) on hosting the site on a google site.
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## Hoo boy into the lion's den
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I'm aware of how closed down of a platform sites.google.com really is but honestly I'm also aware of the danger of keeping barrier to enty for contribution unrealistically high for other people.
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I won't be able to get to open sourcing the site just yet but at some point I will be getting to that, right now it's a matter of turning into a kind of wiki for new players to use as a guide so that they aren't so lost when playing.
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At least for now the site is up, and it's getting useful information uploaded to it, philosophy aside it provides a practical use which I beleive to be of higher precedence at this time than making it free.
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For now if you want to check out the site you can look for it here: \
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https://sites.google.com/view/qcacademy/home
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