TWDT Spring 2017 Announcement

[Henry Saari]

TWDT 2017 Spring Season

Trench Wars Draft Tournament is starting on Sunday, 23rd April. The signups are open immediately and the draft will take place on Sunday, 9^th April at 4pm EST.

Signups for free agency are open:

1) Forums, replying to the Signup thread here.
2) In-game, leave ?message to Henry Saari or vys.
3) In-game, messaging !signup to TWDTBOT (preferred method)

Free Agency

Schedule

Rules

Player Ratings

Captains/Hon writers

TWDT Spring 2017 brought to you by Henry Saari & vys

[Zeebu]

someone draft the best tUrRetWarZ team possible

[Dreamwin]

To determine the other contender for finals the three remaining squads will face each other in semi-finals where the winning squad of a game proceeds to face the next one and the loser is out. This will be done with the following format: number 2 of regular season vs number 4 – winner of previous game vs number 3.

What is the logic behind this? Shouldn't it be 3 seed vs 4 seed first and then the winner of that match would face 2nd seed?

[zidane]

yea weird stuff... also the turretwar/dm crap to decide playoff seeds or whether a team gets in is pretty stupid. i get that its 2017 and all but thats a bit much

[Ricko]

yeah the turretwarz/dm idea is just plain odd and shouldnt be connected to TWDT

[Vys]

The reason why it's been done is to give a twist to the end of regular season. We've had a lot of new players who have signed up, some of whom might not get a look in in some games. This added twist gives a chance for everyone to get involved and it's something different. Rather than playing the same old arenas day in, day out.
The games will still be played with the draft team. Anything is better than a bye week, surely?

It was my idea to do this event, but I also had the idea of an All-star weekend too. Feedback and ideas are great, as we are still within the sign up process.

[Foxy]

I like the idea Vys sounds like fun, dunno if it should count towards the result of the 3 different competitions though. Maybe keep it separate and have an extra bit for the team who wins overall in the arena along with TD, TJ and TB such as TE?

[Vys]

We can look into it. I just think everyone is stuck to twd, wbduel and javduel, we've kind of forgotten about these other events. I just want a big showing to this event. Maybe we can think of a different reward. What about pub Bux to the winning team? This being rewarded to the whole twdt roster and names within A1

[ogron]

Glad someone stepping up to run it, sign me up.

Looks good so far, the only thing I would say is:

Once the regular season is over the squads will have one final chance to make the play-offs during a special round hosted on May 6th. During this special day we will play the following team based events where you are expected to show with your DT squad:

I could see this creating way more problems than it solves, and being insanely controversial and ruining the season. I would probably drop this idea. A team playing a full season, making the playoffs, then getting eliminated and losing their spot in a DM event would kill all the goodwill/momentum for the league.

[Banks]

Thanks for stepping up boys! Excited in a long time to log back in again

[tomator]

Which time zone are those times in?

[Henry Saari]

Hello all. After receiving feedback and re-checking up coming holidays, we have decided to drop special round and begin TWDT on Sunday April 22nd. Draft will take place on same date as announced before.

Easter is on the previous weekend (16th) so this way we are ensuring most of you can show up without problems related to that holiday weekend.

[Jones]

Which time zone are those times in?

EST.

[Dreamwin]

What is the logic behind this? Shouldn't it be 3 seed vs 4 seed first and then the winner of that match would face 2nd seed?

Still looking for clarification on this matter

[Vys]

I'll see if I can make this simple for you my man...But you gotta cap if you get it after I explain it.

Week 1 -Regular Season - First Round
Squad 1 vs Squad 6
Squad 2 vs Squad 5
Squad 3 vs Squad 4

Squad 1 vs Squad 5
Squad 2 vs Squad 4
Squad 3 vs Squad 6

Week 2 - Regular Season - Round 2

Squad 1 vs Squad 4
Squad 2 vs Squad 3
Squad 5 vs Squad 6

Squad 1 vs Squad 3
Squad 2 vs Squad 6
Squad 4 vs Squad 5

Week 3 - Regular Season - Round 3

Squad 1 vs Squad 2
Squad 3 vs Squad 4
Squad 5 vs Squad 6

Replays to be replayed if needed.

Top 4 go through to playoffs

Week 4

Bracket A
Seed 1 vs Seed 4 - Winner of Bracket A goes to the final

Bracket B
Seed 2 vs Seed 3 - Winner of Bracket B goes to final



Week 5

Loser of Bracket A plays Loser of Bracket B for 3rd spot

FINAL
Winner of A vs Winner of B