Intergalactic Supremacy League

[Pope_Melvin]

Announcing the Intergalactic Supremacy League!

The hope is to create a tiered multi-league system (such as with football) where at the end of each 'season', the top players from each league will move to a higher ranked league, and the bottom players will move into a lower league (see pic below). The top league could have a play off in the form of a knock out tournament with the four highest players to decide who is the overall winner.

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Within each league, each player will play against one other player from the same league every week, with players being ranked by wins/points in each league.

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To begin with, I would like to host a small league to trial how easy it will be to run a league style tournament, if this is successful, and there is enough support from the community (in the form of keen players) this will be rolled out into a multi-league system. I will post the details of this below this post.

The purpose of this thread is to see what the community thinks about such a league system. If the response is positive, I will start another topic where people can sign up for the trial league with finalised league rules.

So yeah, comment away with any feedback/suggestions!

[Pope_Melvin]

Intergalactic Supremacy Trial League

Aims:
Experiment with a long-term league style tournament
Generate a continuing stream of possibly cast-able games (I'd like to have a go at a weekly 'League Highlights' cast)
Have fun!

LEAGUE RULES

>The tournament will be a league style tournament with a league table updated weekly by the TD.
>Each player will play one match per week.
>A match will consist of three games: one map chosen by each player, and one map which will be announced at the start of each week. All of the maps must be from the map-pool (see below).
>Disputes will be decided by the TD.
>Pairings for matches will be announced on this thread around Sunday 7pm GMT +1.
>Matches should be organised by the players themselves.
>Results should be reported by posting in this thread or by PMing the TD.
>Results should be reported by (the following) Sunday 5pm GMT + 1. Players are encouraged to post exciting/close replays.
>Points will be awarded (for each game) as follows:

Win: 4 Points
Draw: 2 Points
Loss: 0 Points

Winning Bonus – TBD (suggestions welcome): 1 Point
Losing Bonus – loosing with your opponent’s ACU having less than 2000 hp at the end of the game: 1 Point

(i.e. a maximum of 15 points are a available each match)

The tournament will end when every player has played every other player in the league.

PLAYER REQUIREMENTS

Looking for 8-12 players who are:
>Between 1600 and 1900 global rating
>Keen enough to play for the duration (7 – 11 weeks) of the tournament.
>Motivated enough to be able to organise their matches without the TD having to encourage them.

MAP POOL

TBD

PRIZES

TBD

[Mr-Smith]

isnt that more or les exactly the point of the 1v1 ladder ?
winning gives you points and losing will reduce them. and than you get in a higher league.

[Mephi]

seems the same for me, but with teams(2 players should be best imo) could it be quite fun. maybe call it teamladder then.

[Cuddles]

this sounds just like ladder?

[Pope_Melvin]

The idea is that you are playing against a smaller pool of players, with one BO3 match a week. Hopefully this will increase the competitiveness. Also with the addition of winning/loosing bonus points.

I think I mainly wanted to see how a league style tourney would do, with the possibility of expanding it to a multi league system if it is successful.

[PsychoBoB]

I had a similar idea, but with teams/clans. But i have no time to manage such a league because of RL.

Each team has as many players as they want but on the matchday there have to be at least 3 of them.
Every player from one team has to play against every player from the other team. So there are 9 1vs1s.
And there will be 2 2vs2s where every team send in their best two guys.
For the 2vs2 games you will get 3 points for a win and for the 1vs1s 1 point.

So this would be completely independent from the ladder. It's more like a clan league...

Maps and details can be discussed...

What do you think?