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First of all, my props to mostly Mythril, Method, Ogron and all the captains, hosts, and players etc who still put their heart into this game. Sometimes I don't login for well over a year and when I do this place seems dead, and it makes me a bit sentimental. But then there's a time again like just before this TWDT, and I see the buzz that Myth created, and it makes me feel proud there's still some awesome people who keep this game running after all these years. And I decide to waste a few more sunday evenings of my life. 
Quality wise I'm not up to much anymore, I've joined the league of true washed up vets, penalized with a playing style which is ingrained by my childhood memory. So now I unwillingly put myself into the situations I used to master, but my reflexes and subtle movements are way off, so I stumble and end up laughing at myself getting owned. Oh well at least I am here for a bit again enjoying the show!
I really like the concept of Twdt, and what Ogron made of it. However I foresee this season has become almost a bit too popular, and a lot of players will be sitting on the sidelines, and not all will be as willingly to do so.. Plus like some others already said, you can't repeat this concept throughout a year..
When I hear "a new TWL season", I like many others, think of TWL from the (g)olden days. With multiple awesome squads, challenging for each league. It isn't fair to compare it to TW's current situation, so we shouldn't compare. I'm too inactive myself, but from the bits I've seen lately, I'd say TWL in 2019 could work, but only if we allow ourselves to reinvent it. For me this means: no powerhouse stacking, because there's simply not enough good players left, and far too little activity for lesser players to have even a small chance of becoming good enough during a season. And we all know those lesser players have been lesser players for 10+ years, so they won't become challengers overnight.
My expensive 2 cents for a renewed TWL-concept (and hopefully an overall more lively TW-competion during the season with some incentive for all *levels):
Combine the best of TWL with the best of TWDT
Best of TWL = You can choose the people you want to play with. However with more restrictions than in the past, so choose wisely.
Best of TWDT = (lesser) players or players who are okay with playing on w/e team get onto a TWL squad by being drafted, (and 'might' even play on the highest level if they prove themselves worthy.)
Better TWD: During the TWL season the only TWD squads are the TWL sqauds. (borrowing for more action and also for players who miss draft + free agency).
Phase 1: Signing up. All players can sign up to participate. And (if you want to) you can register as a core/squad of max 5(?) players. This means for TWLD/TWLJ if you really want to, you can still form a powerhouse TWLD/J-team.
Phase 2: Based on amount of players + squads signed up we determine how many teams can viably enter the league. If 6, then the 6 cores with the highest ratings get in, the others get put into the draft with all others. (Can also be another system for deciding squads; like a voting system, or we trust certain veterans to pick the best squads for the league). Just make sure it's a very clear system, so there won't be any hard feelings.
Phase 3: Draft. Core with the lowest total rating gets first pick etc.
'Possible' Phase 4: (As the buzz usually comes later.. a Free Agency Draft. Squad with lowest rating out of their top 10 (?) players gets first pick (also to make sure high quality players don't deliberately wait for Free Agency to get on the strongest teams)).
Phase 5: TWL regular season: so sometimes you'll get trashed like in the olden days, sometimes we'll see the highest quality matches in years!
Phase 6: TWL Playoffs! Only for the best
Phase 7: 'Lower rank playoffs, based on TWD ranking'
Both TWL and TWDT can't tackle the problem of low* players who won't be involved at all, and some get a bit moody. And with TSL bringing all together, it gets quite dull for the better players, not being able to create quality matchups, and lesser players just get trashed; plus some people will start developing really strange egoistical styles of play in what should be a team event...
My idea: During TWL season, TWD consists of only those TWL squads. So once drafted you're automatically signed to that squad in TWD. During the season you'll still mostly prac with that team, and lesser players will play with some quality teammates from time to time. (Borrowing ofc still allowed for all those who didn't draft / and to make sure there's enough action going on, maybe games which don't count for rank or maybe just half points or w/e, figure something out..)
Then: THE incentive for lower ranked players. We create a lower-rank playoffs based on the TWD-ladder. If we get 6/8 squads, top 4 (each league) get in. only players with 7* or less can play in that, so for high ranked players there's no real reason to try hard in TWD and refuse to play with certain players. At most for bragging rights some might want to create a chance for their lower * squadies to win a medal of their own.
These lower playoffs semis+finals are in the weekend between the TWL semis and the TWL finals. Semis = 1 round, finals for D/J best of 3, basing (maybe) first to 20 min. So this should be doable in 1 Sunday. The TWD ranking ends on the Sunday let's say 1 hour before TWL playoffs?
And if signups for a TWL like this would be as crazy like this TWDT, and still too many players have nothing to gun for, maybe even a lower playoffs and mid playoffs. Lower = max 6* players. Mid = 7*&8*(?) players. Hosted on same sunday. And with a schedule so most lower rank finals are played during mid rank semis. (something like: for MID: wb semis, wb finals, jav semis, jav finals, base semis, base finals. and for LOW: wb semis, jav semis, base semis, wb finals, jav finals, base finals.)
Only the high achievers miss out that one weekend, then again they'll be the stars of TWL, and are either getting ready for their TWL final or have already crawled back into their holes after getting kicked out of TWL... And maybe some lucky 7*s can win more than 1 medal..
Ofcourse for TWL no star limit on lineups.
I've always been a fan of trying to combine TWLD/J/B in one season, however TWLB could be tricky (as always been). For me it always created more buzz to have it all going on at once. However I could see this system work much better with just TWLD/TWLJ, as squad can be a lot smaller, so more 'cores' can be formed, yet maybe less players will show up (who primarily want to base). Different squads for LD+LJ/LB is very confusing (but could be done though).
I think it'd be pretty cool to see if for instance Zidane/Ease/Tiny/Steadman/Dreamwin decide to join forces to take TWLJ by storm, maybe Mythril & Racka will do the same to conquer TWLD. Or will Ease/Turban/Zidane/Mythril/Dreamwin decide to team up and go for all 3 titles, only too fall short in all 3 finals...
It's just a system I had thought of long ago (when I found myself struggling vs powerhouses in TWL, but back then there were so many rivalries and hatred, it was hardly possible to have a TWDT). I'd say if everyone shares their thoughts, we might collectively think of something new that will work in 2019 for both the most talented players, yet hopefully with enough incentive for all active bad players at once.
Just my expensive 2 cents.
Quality wise I'm not up to much anymore, I've joined the league of true washed up vets, penalized with a playing style which is ingrained by my childhood memory. So now I unwillingly put myself into the situations I used to master, but my reflexes and subtle movements are way off, so I stumble and end up laughing at myself getting owned.
Oh well at least I am here for a bit again enjoying the show!I really like the concept of Twdt, and what Ogron made of it. However I foresee this season has become almost a bit too popular, and a lot of players will be sitting on the sidelines, and not all will be as willingly to do so.. Plus like some others already said, you can't repeat this concept throughout a year..
When I hear "a new TWL season", I like many others, think of TWL from the (g)olden days. With multiple awesome squads, challenging for each league. It isn't fair to compare it to TW's current situation, so we shouldn't compare. I'm too inactive myself, but from the bits I've seen lately, I'd say TWL in 2019 could work, but only if we allow ourselves to reinvent it. For me this means: no powerhouse stacking, because there's simply not enough good players left, and far too little activity for lesser players to have even a small chance of becoming good enough during a season. And we all know those lesser players have been lesser players for 10+ years, so they won't become challengers overnight.
My expensive 2 cents for a renewed TWL-concept (and hopefully an overall more lively TW-competion during the season with some incentive for all *levels):
Combine the best of TWL with the best of TWDT
Best of TWL = You can choose the people you want to play with. However with more restrictions than in the past, so choose wisely.
Best of TWDT = (lesser) players or players who are okay with playing on w/e team get onto a TWL squad by being drafted, (and 'might' even play on the highest level if they prove themselves worthy.)
Better TWD: During the TWL season the only TWD squads are the TWL sqauds. (borrowing for more action and also for players who miss draft + free agency).
Phase 1: Signing up. All players can sign up to participate. And (if you want to) you can register as a core/squad of max 5(?) players. This means for TWLD/TWLJ if you really want to, you can still form a powerhouse TWLD/J-team.
Phase 2: Based on amount of players + squads signed up we determine how many teams can viably enter the league. If 6, then the 6 cores with the highest ratings get in, the others get put into the draft with all others. (Can also be another system for deciding squads; like a voting system, or we trust certain veterans to pick the best squads for the league). Just make sure it's a very clear system, so there won't be any hard feelings.
Phase 3: Draft. Core with the lowest total rating gets first pick etc.
'Possible' Phase 4: (As the buzz usually comes later.. a Free Agency Draft. Squad with lowest rating out of their top 10 (?) players gets first pick (also to make sure high quality players don't deliberately wait for Free Agency to get on the strongest teams)).
Phase 5: TWL regular season: so sometimes you'll get trashed like in the olden days, sometimes we'll see the highest quality matches in years!
Phase 6: TWL Playoffs! Only for the best
Phase 7: 'Lower rank playoffs, based on TWD ranking'
Both TWL and TWDT can't tackle the problem of low* players who won't be involved at all, and some get a bit moody. And with TSL bringing all together, it gets quite dull for the better players, not being able to create quality matchups, and lesser players just get trashed; plus some people will start developing really strange egoistical styles of play in what should be a team event...
My idea: During TWL season, TWD consists of only those TWL squads. So once drafted you're automatically signed to that squad in TWD. During the season you'll still mostly prac with that team, and lesser players will play with some quality teammates from time to time. (Borrowing ofc still allowed for all those who didn't draft / and to make sure there's enough action going on, maybe games which don't count for rank or maybe just half points or w/e, figure something out..)
Then: THE incentive for lower ranked players. We create a lower-rank playoffs based on the TWD-ladder. If we get 6/8 squads, top 4 (each league) get in. only players with 7* or less can play in that, so for high ranked players there's no real reason to try hard in TWD and refuse to play with certain players. At most for bragging rights some might want to create a chance for their lower * squadies to win a medal of their own.
These lower playoffs semis+finals are in the weekend between the TWL semis and the TWL finals. Semis = 1 round, finals for D/J best of 3, basing (maybe) first to 20 min. So this should be doable in 1 Sunday. The TWD ranking ends on the Sunday let's say 1 hour before TWL playoffs?
And if signups for a TWL like this would be as crazy like this TWDT, and still too many players have nothing to gun for, maybe even a lower playoffs and mid playoffs. Lower = max 6* players. Mid = 7*&8*(?) players. Hosted on same sunday. And with a schedule so most lower rank finals are played during mid rank semis. (something like: for MID: wb semis, wb finals, jav semis, jav finals, base semis, base finals. and for LOW: wb semis, jav semis, base semis, wb finals, jav finals, base finals.)
Only the high achievers miss out that one weekend, then again they'll be the stars of TWL, and are either getting ready for their TWL final or have already crawled back into their holes after getting kicked out of TWL...
And maybe some lucky 7*s can win more than 1 medal..Ofcourse for TWL no star limit on lineups.
I've always been a fan of trying to combine TWLD/J/B in one season, however TWLB could be tricky (as always been). For me it always created more buzz to have it all going on at once. However I could see this system work much better with just TWLD/TWLJ, as squad can be a lot smaller, so more 'cores' can be formed, yet maybe less players will show up (who primarily want to base). Different squads for LD+LJ/LB is very confusing (but could be done though).
I think it'd be pretty cool to see if for instance Zidane/Ease/Tiny/Steadman/Dreamwin decide to join forces to take TWLJ by storm, maybe Mythril & Racka will do the same to conquer TWLD. Or will Ease/Turban/Zidane/Mythril/Dreamwin decide to team up and go for all 3 titles, only too fall short in all 3 finals...
It's just a system I had thought of long ago (when I found myself struggling vs powerhouses in TWL, but back then there were so many rivalries and hatred, it was hardly possible to have a TWDT). I'd say if everyone shares their thoughts, we might collectively think of something new that will work in 2019 for both the most talented players, yet hopefully with enough incentive for all active bad players at once.
Just my expensive 2 cents.
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