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	<title>ETF2L &#8211; Latest activity in &#8220;[ETF2L] Should we restrict non-Latin names?&#8221;</title>
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    	    <title>Reply by lukepmb67</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from Clark</i>
		<blockquote>Restrict asian/african names, but don't restrict Greek and Cyrillic - Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia and some other european contries use Cyrillic on a normal basis.</blockquote>

Kwenda kuzimu wewe Bitch kidogo Clark]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 13:04:03 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by alycidon</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[I can transcribe Cyrillic fairly easily but other than that I do agree that non-Latin names need to be restricted.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 23:17:13 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by banijs3</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/league/topic-30344/page-5/?recent=513798#post=513613</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[Team names should be Latin. Everything else is okay, i guess]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:10:07 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by S@GA</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[Don´t. I hate UGC for how they do not recognize the $ and @ of my name and I end up as "GA".

I remember when I played in season 8 hl or something over there that was not the case. They must´ve had a similiar discussion and ended up banning the $w@g@licious stuff. I know that this discussion for now is not about banning those but it would be a small step from there and I don´t see a point in restricting it.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:48:33 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Spike Himself</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/league/topic-30344/page-5/?recent=513798#post=513603</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from Casino</i>
		<blockquote>we're not a super duper serious league with a $5 million prize pool...</blockquote>

You should see the drama when a questionable admin decision is made in a prem game. Heck, the div doesn't even matter. The amounts of "lol amateur league"-esque comments are everywhere. Evidently people care about the little things.

Just saying, it doesn't really matter how big tf2/etf2l is or isn't, you can still strive to go on about it professionally.

Not that restricting characters in player names is going to make or break anything, but it's a start! :D]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 05:14:04 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Jim Williams</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/league/topic-30344/page-5/?recent=513798#post=513595</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[I honestly don't see the problem. 

If you're casting a player with an unpronounceable name then just call him &#60;team&#62; &#60;class&#62; e.g. "Nice play from the RED scout."

If you're casting a team with a stupid name - that's normally not a problem and can sometimes be turned into something funny depending on the caster.

If you're just talking about some team then you would never use their name anyway normally it's "&#60;insert person here&#62;'s team" or "that &#60;country&#62; in &#60;div&#62;"

Non-latin characters make team names more interesting and gives users a lot more choice and I honestly don't get the problem with even Japanese/Chinese names. ETF2L is all about the fun, we're not a super duper serious league with a $5 million prize pool...]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 01:45:31 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Quell</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from nijoonen</i>
		<blockquote>Restrict it, just complicates things really.</blockquote>]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:52:48 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Theoz</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from Henghast</i>
		<blockquote>[...]

nice avatar m8</blockquote>

;O)]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:17:49 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Henghast</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from molko</i>
		<blockquote>Yes, only weeaboo virgin nerds use them anyway.</blockquote>

nice avatar m8]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:33:06 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by molkoback</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/league/topic-30344/page-4/?recent=513798#post=513536</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[Yes, only weeaboo virgin nerds use them anyway.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:28:23 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by sqooqa</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/league/topic-30344/page-4/?recent=513798#post=513496</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[Please keep it as it is]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:42:05 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by RaNDoMiZe</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from Fuxx</i>
		<blockquote>[...]

Casters already refer to teams with perfectly pronounceable names as "blue" and "red" so what's the difference</blockquote>

Well it would still be easier to find a player by searching for his/her team, especially if everyone in that team had their names written for example with the cyrillic alphabet.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:34:54 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Fuxx</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from RaNDoMiZe</i>
		<blockquote>Restrict team names but leave player names. Casters could just say "team XYZ's (insert class here) did this and went there" etc.
You would also be able to find players by just searching for their team and looking at the roster.</blockquote>

Casters already refer to teams with perfectly pronounceable names as "blue" and "red" so what's the difference]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:43:11 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by S1M0N</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from Spike Himself</i>
		<blockquote>Restrict is good. When you get casted it would come in handy if casters could actually pronounce your name. Restricting to understandable characters ties in nicely with the nickname rules that are in effect for Prem teams.

As for dots commas and slashes etc, they shouldn't be a big deal, so long as a name doesn't consist of only such characters. Admin discretion can deal with that I suppose.</blockquote>

slashes are necessary!

but I'm for restricting as long as normal punctuation is allowed.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:40:26 +0200</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Henghast</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[On behalf of the small yet passionate Macedonian community I would say that there ought to be consideration given to those nations using Cyrillic alphabets. Although it does not impact upon me personally it does not let us use our own words and names for things and we're as European as Germany, France or England. 

The line should be drawn at nations within European borders however. No arabic, no hebrew and no moonrunes.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 01:42:05 +0200</pubDate>
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