FREE AGENCY DRAFT & Week 1 rapid-fire warmup matches / Help us with testing TSL MMR!

[Dwopple]

Week 1 matches start at 2pm EST Sunday, June 19th.

The first Free Agency draft will be taking place as well starting at 1pm EST. Once this has concluded, we will be testing out single-round matches with varying (shortened) match-lengths for the purpose of gathering information for qan's development efforts on TSL MMR.

When / Where?

Starting around 1pm EST (maybe earlier if zone is active) there will be Matchbots setup in each of the tw(d/j/b)d2 arenas running modified TWD matches

How quick / short are we talking?

Wb / jav matches can be set for players to have anywhere from 3-6 deaths and base matches races to 3-8 minutes. We ran 2 wb test matches last week with 5 & 6 deaths, and the average match time was a little over 6 minutes.

What's different about these and what are we testing out?

Other than the reduced deaths & time race limit, these "twd" test matches are ran much like wbduel / javduel / base where captains are manually picked and can freely add players from any squad.

As for what are we testing... we are essentially trying to do real-world testing to determine what the shortest game possible while still getting predictable results based on team composition for future TSL MMR qualification matches.

If you're not familiar with MMR or qualification matches...

MMR stands for matchmaking ranking (think DOTA, LoL, CoD, CS:GO, etc.) where each player is individually rated based on their ongoing performance. This is different than the static star ratings assigned currently for TSL & TWDT. These MMR ratings will be used to automatically create "balanced" teams for TSL and one day hopefully replace star ratings for TWDT.

Qualification matches are the matches "new" players play through to determine their initial ranking, which will change rapidly based on their performance each match.

tl;dr

Log in at 1pm EST tomorrow for FA draft and some quick warmup for TWDT matches which start at 2pm EST and get fkin HYPED

[Vehicle]

Dwopple qan BIET This is awesome and a great idea to give people to chance to warm up for DT through TSL. Thank you all for your killer work! Synergy hype!

[Turban]

how about changing the official format to something like first to 50 kills, but you get eliminated after reaching 13 deaths. it should in theory lead to more close matches when you can't as easily hunt players out for a numbers advantage.

this could be scaled down (first to 40, eliminated at 10 deaths as an example) for faster matches.

food for thought.

[Dreamwin]

This sounds great.

how about changing the official format to something like first to 50 kills, but you get eliminated after reaching 13 deaths. it should in theory lead to more close matches when you can't as easily hunt players out for a numbers advantage.

this could be scaled down (first to 40, eliminated at 10 deaths as an example) for faster matches.

food for thought.

Perhaps more close but I fear that the matches would drag out to be annoyingly long as population were to play overly conservative. Willing to test it out anyway.

[Rab]

how about changing the official format to something like first to 50 kills, but you get eliminated after reaching 13 deaths. it should in theory lead to more close matches when you can't as easily hunt players out for a numbers advantage.

Interesting idea. I quite often get into a 1v1 at the end of games vs someone much better. If I could get those kills off the shitter players instead that'd make life easier.

Also wouldn't have to finish off Jessup lol

[Dwopple]

Bumping for awareness. Updated original post w/ FA Draft & subsequent MMR warmup match info. GET HYPED FOR WEEK 1