Keith, thanks for the input man, but you actually don't know the full story
The mod was made with some issues, and some skins needed fixing, I didn't have the 2nd round of skins that needed fixed until the Wednesday I think, giving no time at all to prepare a server test,
the test was meant to happen the week before when I had half term break. I said after the first event it needed to be that week.
so I told (the guy) Dave I entrusted to set-up a server on Friday night, which he said he was half way through when I last spoke to him on the Friday night.
I said I was doing it now not halfway through. when I got on the server steam was trying to check its game caches which cant happen while rooms are open. ATCC was underway at the time and broadcasting so it was not an option to set it up then.
I woke up on Saturday thinking it was all good, I still checked if the server was there, PMed him - went to football, came back - PMed him again (I was only online here for 3minutes as I had to quickly get ready to go to a party which has been organised on the Tuesday so I had no idea this would happen after Round One) So to pile the blame on me is quite unfair.
I had to be in Nottingham, I didn't know until until Friday, I was supposed to leave a message to ask someone to put it up but I forgot. It was late and I was tired. i made a mistake. That's life. Since your still calling me 'this person' in the thread I assume you didn't see my previous post where I apologised, told everyone it was me, and invited anyone that wanted to discuss it further to PM me.
Also, I had given "this person" everything there was to do with the mod via PM on the Wednesday, so there was no possible way there could be a server issue, and there wasn't an issue with the server - because it was never put up. There were failings on my side I admit, but to blame me almost wholly on this doesn't seem right. As League Manager I have to apologize to the racers on the leagues behalf, but all that went wrong in preparing for this league was a lack of a server that was promised, I have said it about 10times but I don't think it's quite got through to you yet.
No-one is blaming you wholly. We're both at fault. I freely admit my wrong doings. they can't be changed now, so I have no idea why this thread continues to rumble on. I think you need to accept your part in this. If you know you play football on a Saturday, why organise a league for then? when one of the Race staff has to be away from one of their events the last thing they do before leaving is ensure they have entrusted their duties to someone who will definitely be there. since you had no response from me there was nothing stopping you contacting one of the other 20 staff we have.
The server is not 'all that went wrong' as you stated, the lack of any league staff being present in anyway is something being wrong too.
three people tried to get your mod going on the server and failed. its not like the people who tried don't do it every day either. to this day I still don't understand why you didn't just run skins. there's a reason everyone just runs skins. they do it because it's simple, It doesn't break, and they can be optional for drivers who don't want to put the extra fluff into their game installs.
All in all, this thread is solving nothing. Just everyone work out where things went wrong and learn from it. Hell I make mistakes, I do so on a regular basis. I stretch myself thin, I do to much and it breeds mistakes sometimes. But that's life, I live and I learn. So should you. don't take this as a personal attack on you as its not. there is just nothing we can do about it now. what's done is done.