TWDT 2012 Rules

[Aura]

2012 League Rules

Head TWDT Operator: Aura
Assistant Head TWDT Operator: Fis, Pinkstar
Assisting TWDT Operators: The Paul, A I, Best, Reckful, Willby, 24, Stark, Vaped
Advising TWDT Operators: M_M God & Demonic
Website Head: SpookedOne
Draft Day: July 29, 2012
Pre-Season practice/tests: August 5, 2012
Season Start: August 12, 2012

We are only allowing TWD registered names to prevent aliasing!

Teams

• There are eight teams; each team will have no limit in size upwards but will have a minimum of 30 people. The upward limit will be governed by the *cap(140*)
• Each team has one captain and two assistants.
• If a captain fails to perform his duties, I reserve the right to assign the captainship to an assistant or someone who will fulfill the captain duties.
• Players who are not chosen are placed on the Waiver List.
• Players cannot quit their team to join the Waiver List; they must be dropped by their captain. A captain, after the Free Agency lock will be allowed to replace a player on his/her roster who is deemed inactive (not even showing up to any matches) for 2 or more weeks for someone of equal or lesser * value, the rating will be determined by Head TWDT op.
• The draft will be done much like a fantasy sports draft. One team will have the first player pick in the first round and the last in the second. Ex: 1st rd: Team A, Team B, Team C, Team D, Team E 2nd rd: Team E, Team D, Team C, Team B, Team A 3rd rd: repeat 1st etc. etc.
• The draft will last until all players have been picked. Captains who are over the *cap will have until the Friday before the first round of SEASON GAMES(Friday August 10, 2012) to get under the *cap.
• Teams are to have a minimum of 30 players on their roster.

Trading

• Trading during the TWDT regular season will be legal.
• Trades may only be done by the captains of the two teams.
• Trades may only take place Monday through Friday. As well as Waivers.
• Both captains must contact the head TWDT operator and receive approval in order for the trade to be legitimate. (I will make sure there is no swindling).
• Trades will be locked at the same time that free agency is: Friday at 11:59pm before the 2nd week of competition.
• Any player who plays for a team they are not rostered for will receive a suspension from the league and the team said player played for receives a forfeit for the game said player played.
• A player found to be on multiple TWDT squads will be subject to the same punishment as if the player was double-squadding in TWD.

Bidding

• In the event of a tie for bidding on the site, the player who is higher on the initial draft order will win. If a tie is won, you will be dropped to the bottom of the list. Ex: Skatarius and Infrared bid on player Aura for 4*. Skatarius wins since he was the #1 in the draft order and Infrared was #2. Now, Infrared will be #1 on the draft order, and skatarius will be #8. Every time you win a bid, you will be dropped to the end of the list.
• The minimum bid for a player is 1*.
• The only bids that will be taken are through the TWDT website.
• You cannot drop a player, and then re-bid on the player to lower his * rating.
• Free waiver acceptance will stop on Wednesday of every week that free waivers is open. This is to allow captains to have time to bid on players.

Season

• Competitions will be held on Sundays for a 3 hour period, with games beginning on the hour at 2pm EST. The leagues will rotate time slots, as is indicated in the schedule, in an attempt to be more available to more players.
• A match may be played on a different day with approval from the Head TWDT Op with 2 days prior notice from BOTH captains. So when Team A and Team B have a TWDT-D on Sunday and want it on Saturday after, they have to inform the head op on the Saturday before. If one of the captains doesn't agree the game will be played on the standard times.
• TWDT will run 7 weeks of Regular season where you will play each opposing team in each league. After week 7 the teams will be organized into 3 standard 6 team tournament brackets, one for each league, based upon their composite standings. The first and second ranked team receive a first round bye. The teams will play until a champion in each league is declared as well as an overall champion. Teams will receive the same rank, which they earned from their composite regular season score, in each of the separate league tournaments.
• Team captains will be rewarded for starting players at or under 4*. The requirements for "starting" follow the same guide lines as current TWL medal requirments. TWDT-D/TWDT-J: You must have at least 5 deaths or play a total of 10 minutes to qualify as starting. TWDT-B: You must have played at least 8 minutes to qualify as starting. A player at 4* and under will not only be free, but will subtract * from your weekly spending. A 4* player will give you a -1* star usage. A 3* player will give you a -2* usage. A 2* player will give you a -3* usage. A 1* player will give you a -4* star usage.
• You may use 60* worth of players every week. Players only count once when they are added into a game. EX: Megaman89 is worth 10*. If he plays DT-D/DT-J/DT-B, you only spend 10* on him.
• If a player is subbed out, the player with the higher * count will be counted. EX: Aura(4*) is subbed by Flared(8*). You will be charged 8* for subbing in Flared. If you sub in Poutine(3*) for Aura(4*), you will be charged 4* for the sub.

Gameplay

• Gameplay will be the same as TWL with the minor exceptions listed below.
• During basing, a maximum of 4 spiders per team will be implemented, and it will be time race to 15 minutes.
• TWDT-J and TWDT-D games will only be one round.
• TWDT-B games will be a race to 15 minutes.
• Maps for all arenas will have slight variations that will change every TWDT to create a similar yet ever-changing arena each season to test players' true skills.
• In the playoffs, TWDT-J and TWDT-D will be 3 rounds and TWDT-B will be a time race to 20 minutes.

Rating System

• Each player will be ranked based upon skill and performance in the past TWDT as well as in the past TWL's. They will be given a ranking (1-10*'s) in each category (Javs, Dueling, and Basing) meaning they will have a range of cost from 1* as the absolute worst to 10*s being the absolute best. The rankings are a composition of applicants rankings submitted to me and averaged/adjusted by me and a few select members of a committee.
• Ratings for individual leagues are broken down as follows:
  10*Top 3-5 player in your league 9*Top 10 player in your league 8*Impact TWL starter 7*Consistent TWL starter 6*Impact TWD player/ Started 1-2 TWL matches 5*Average to above Average TWD player/ TWL Sub 4*Low Average to Poor TWD player 3*First time TWD'er 2*Pubber 1*
• Composite score is simply your 3 league scores averaged together, totaling your overall cost.
• There is some gray area in terms of ratings. If your level in skill is deemed disproportionate with the rating you were given, then one's skill can be raised or lowered.
• There are to be no complaints about the Rating you are given. You cannot complain about yourself. This is being done not only by me but by a committee of 3 or more people so that it is not biased.
• Appealing your rating: You cannot appeal your own rating. However, you can appeal other people's rating. If I receive an appeal I deem valid or multiple appeals on a player's rating they will be reconsidered and re-evaluated by the committee.
• Each team will have a cap of 140*'s and you cannot exceed this number ever after the regular season starts. If you exceed this cap you will be penalized. On the first day over the cap limit, the captain of the team is suspended from playing during that week. For every day after you will lose your upper tier players in the order they were drafted.
• Before the draft, players will be broken into their * categories and posted on the forums so that the caps may pick more easily.
• If a lower rated player makes it through our alias checking and gets rated as a very low ranked player when they should be a higher ranked player, I reserve the right to edit their ranking.

Free Agency

• After the draft, all players that signed up after Friday 27 July, 2012 will fall into free agency. Free agency will only last up until the start of the 4th week, then it will be locked.
• Admission into TWDT will be locked on the Friday prior to the draft. Ample time and the in-game adverts for the draft will have been supplied to players in order to register.
• Captains can bid via the twdt website (www.trenchwars.org/twdt/) by sigining into their names and accessing the bidding panel. You may input a bid on people on the waivers/free agency list, then submit it. You will not see the bids of the other captains, only I will be able to see all of the bids. However, you can edit your bid at any point during the week if you feel it is insufficient or if you have more to spend. I will announce who has won what bids and move people to their respective teams.
• Bidding begins on Monday and ends Friday at 11:59PM EST.
• In the event of someone withdrawing themselves from the league, a captain will be allowed to select a player of equal or lesser * value to replace the person who quit.

Penalties

• Each team will have a cap of *'s and you cannot exceed this number ever. If you exceed this cap for 24 hours or more you will be penalized(Starting on the Friday before the actual season starts: August 10, 2012). On the first day over the cap limit, the captain of the team and the highest value player will be suspended from playing during that week. For every day after you will lose 2 upper tier players in the order of value.
• Above also applies for being under the roster limit.
• Any player who plays for another team will receive a suspension from the league and the team said player played for receives a forfeit for the game said player played.
• A player found to be on multiple TWDT squads will be subject to the same punishment as if the player was double-squadding in TWD. (Alias checking will occur)
• I reserve the right to ban anyone from the league or deny any entrance into free agency if there are any problems.
• If a captain does not play a 5* or lower player in one league match a week, they will forfeit said matches.
• You will be penalized if you drop players 4* and below. You have 2 free drops of players at or under 4*, after that, you will receive an overall star reduction from your roster. Every player dropped under 4* will give you a 2* overall deduction from your overall star count. EX: Captain Zidane drops players Mummy(2*) and Whinegum(3*) from his roster. Those are his free drops. Zidane now drops player Aura(4*), he will now have an overall * cap of 138*.
• You cannot re-bid on a player that you have dropped.

Extraneous Circumstances

• Competing down a player counts as playing a 0* player, and thus qualifies you as playing a 5* or lower player for said match.
• In the event that teams have the same records at the end of the regular season, they will be differentiated in rank for the playoffs by +/-. Since this league stresses all around excellence, the with the team having the better +/- in 2 or all 3 leagues advancing. Ex: Team A: +5 in DT-D, -57 in DT-J, +4:50 in DTB; while Team B is -10 in DT-D, +1 in DT-J, and +0:57 in DT-B. Thus Team A will advance.
• Filing appeals: Upon an event occurring that may have been the result of excessive lag, cheating, or a bot issue; please contact your host right away so that he/she can make note of it. If it is not reported in an expedient manner (i.e. before the match is over barring it is not the last death) then it will be rendered a mute point. The TWDT op will then review the case and decide whether a replay should be rewarded. If one is rewarded the TWDT op will contact the two captains and schedule a time when it can be replayed within the next week.
• If any appeals concern the TWDT Op or the team he/she plays for, they must defer to the secondary Op to make a ruling.
• The resolution in TWDT is assigned to the maximum available currently for Continuum, I believe it is 1980x1220.