PLAYOFFS

[ogron]

Here's an updated list of the initial tiebreaks (Head-to-Head record, indicated by green checkmarks for wins, and red x's for losses) as we head into Week 5. This is the final week of the regular season.

The top four teams will advance to the Semi-Finals two weeks from today.

I've copy pasta'd the Playoff section from the TWDT Rules page in case anyone needs a refresher. Please remember that if you're in North America, you lose one hour this Sunday before Week 5. Also, the Semi-Finals and Finals start ONE HOUR EARLIER than usual since it's Best-of-3 to finish at a reasonable time.

Good luck to everyone on Sunday!



Playoffs


-4 of 6 teams qualify for the playoffs.
-#1 takes on #4, while #2 takes on #3 in the Semi-Finals.
-Standings are based on your cumulative win total across all three leagues -- you either make the playoffs in all three leagues, or none.
-Once in the playoffs, however, advancement is per individual league.
-Tiebreaks: Head-to-head record, then most wins in your worst league (5-5-5 beats 7-7-1), then best plus-minus across all three leagues (with minutes in basing countings as kills/deaths.)
-Star Cap Limits remain in place for the playoffs
-Borrowing is now allowed (preferably from eliminated teams.) Borrowed players who play a full game in the Semis or Finals earn a medal starting this season for their contributions.
-Playoffs Format is is a Best of 3 in TWDT-D, TWDT-J, and TWDT-B. All warbird and javelin games are to 50, and all basing games are to 15 minutes.


Playoff Schedule

The playoff schedule will likely be different and follow the TWL schedule adopted to accommodate best-of-3 series, meaning TWDT-D games will start one hour early, and TWDT-J games 30 minutes early.

TWDT-D -- 2:00PM EST
TWDT-J -- 3:30PM EST
TWDT-B -- 5:00PM EST

I understand this will be slightly frustrating and take some effort to get the message out the final week of regular season play, telling your players used to logging in at 3pm EST that games now start 2pm EST, we'll try to zoner and actively get captains to let their players know the change, or else the finals can drag on a bit late, especially for Europeans.

[ogron]

Week 5

[Attacks]

Earlier starts will mess me up I won't lie, can we not start games later instead? As the game has a healthy population hours after twdt finishes with our current times. Food for thought, I will plan accordingly either way

[Tiny]

Yes we agree to your terms attacks

[Tiny]

Now I change my mind, we do not agree. Sorry not sorry.

[Fork]

I agree with attacks, earlier times will mess me up too. As powers 5th sub, it's gonna cause a lot of problems

[raizin]

I agree with attacks, earlier times will mess me up too. As powers 5th sub, it's gonna cause a lot of problems

lol.

[Major Crisis]

Earlier starts will mess me up I won't lie, can we not start games later instead? As the game has a healthy population hours after twdt finishes with our current times. Food for thought, I will plan accordingly either way

Yea lets start an hour later... This will mean 6 pm est, aka 1 am for finnish people. If games go in 3 rounds, it will be around 3 am before it ends.

[Pressure]

Earlier starts will mess me up I won't lie, can we not start games later instead? As the game has a healthy population hours after twdt finishes with our current times. Food for thought, I will plan accordingly either way

Respectfully disagree. I'm already wasting an entire Sunday on here. Would rather not start games even later than they are, as they already start unnecessarily late (TWL used to run stating at 1:00pm EST, which was reasonable).

[Rab]

Earlier the better imo (UK)

[Attacks]

Yea lets start an hour later... This will mean 6 pm est, aka 1 am for finnish people. If games go in 3 rounds, it will be around 3 am before it ends.

Fair enough, and to all other opinions, I owe it to my teammates who will struggle to get on early enough for the games to at least ask the question, and at least ask what other options have been explored before we do this. If majority of people want it earlier then I will "respect that" and still do the best I can with that.

[zidane]

LOL tiny

also i tried trading fork but no one wanted him : (

[Weak]

Either way.. not everyone will be happy. It'd be nice if we had weekend games overall instead of just Sundays.. but that's more of a stretch than anything

[Weak]

Lol zid

I heard sporks are more valuable nowadays.

[ogron]

I prefer later games, if the majority of captains who represent you prefer sticking to 3/4/5 and just pushing back any series that go to a 3rd game, that's fine with me. i'm trying to be helpful/proactive.

also sidenote, Civilization 6 is out and civ vi > hot or not, so might be a few days late.