Elim Season 9

[Jessup]

By the way.. while we are at it. Can we make an award for most elim wins?? I think an award for the player with most elim wins should definitely get a prize too. After all .. elimination is about winning and being the last to survive.. right?

[Grasps]

REMOVE KILLRACES!!!! That shit is retarded and doesn't belong in elim at all. The fact it gives you a boost in "confidence" ratings is laughable. I was wondering why some of the top elim players kept voting for a killrace, makes sense now because it's essentially a ratings exploit. Hilarious. It needs to go, not just for being a form of exploit but for the fact the quality in which it asks players to play is lowered substantially ie. forgo using skill to kill, simply suicide rush/vulch/stray.

Can we please seperate jav from wb in elim? Give jav's their own elim please. I hate it when I am just warming up in wb to have the arena stolen by people who want to jav. Am sure they feel the same way when it happens to them going to wb.

Lastly, FIX THE FUCKING WARBIRD MAP! What is up with people adding multiple boxes on top of boxes, on top of boxes? We have what 3? 4? It's ugly, it removes the ability to use your radar and ultimately is fucking unnecessary! I can understand 2 arena's for elim. 1 normal sized map akin to that of twdd arena's and extra large map for when we have 20+ players. THAT's IT. We don't need a tiny map, people know to meed in mid if they have to. Ask anyone though, they will agree that warbirds map in elim is dogshit.

Thanks though for all the work that was put in place for elim however. It's been a blast for the most part and I really appreciate you all who revitalized it for our enjoyment. Keep up the good work! You guys rock!

-ixa

[Jessup]

ya ogron for sure did this.. lol .. guy hardly even played last elim and was 2nd.. looked at his stats and saw a crap load of killraces. def seemed like an exploit.

[Ricko]

killrace should be removed - I've heard that playing in a killrace increases your 'confidence' rating but is not counted towards your elim stats directly, meaning if you play enough killraces intentionally, when you do play a normal elim round your rating will be 'boosted' more than others due to the inflated confidence obtained via killrace rounds.

It's not illegal, but very lame and manipulating the stats essentially.

[Jessup]

Could we see how killrace figures into ladder placement verses regular elim rounds to 5 or 10 deaths. I suspect something is lopsided when it comes to rating changes when killrace to 20 is taking place and it should be looked at.

Congrats Lasenza! Congrats Cirno!

[qan]

First, congratulations to last season's winners. It was a hard-fought season that signified yet another rebirth of Elim. Placing top 3 represents a substantial accomplishment.


Season 8 Winners

Warbird

1st - LaSenza
2nd - Ogron
3rd - RaCka*
*(My sincere apologies to RaCka. I had incorrectly listed FatRolls as the 3rd place winner for S8. FatRolls won 3rd in S7.)

Javelin

1st - Cirno
2nd - Tiny
3rd - Aprix



Elim Season 9 Details

Season: Feb 16th through the end of April 15th (EST).

Changes:

• The 7 day inactivity timer has been removed. Any rating you make in the season will hold for the full season.
• Rating formula tweaked slightly in an attempt to further reward skillful performances:
  • Increased % bonus to rating given for each KO from 3% to 5%. (e.g., 4 KOs = 20% bonus to rating.)
  • Increased win bonus from 2% to 3% per player active at the start of the round to further reward the difficult accomplishment of winning a large elim, and to incentivize play in large games. (If elim starts with 10 players, you receive a 30% bonus to rating for winning. If it starts with 20 and you win, you receive a 60% bonus.)
  • Increased streak bonus from 3% to 4% per kill in streak over 2. (A streak of 3 earns 4%, a streak of 4 earns 8%, 5 is 12%, and so on.)
  • Ratings details found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

Rewards

Rewards have been increased for this season and all subsequent seasons to reflect the increasingly competitive nature of Elim:

1st Place: $2,500,000
2nd Place: $1,500,000
3rd Place: $1,000,000

The top 3 in each division will also be awarded a medal, and will have their name immortalized on the Elim map.



Elim World Championship

Your performance in this season and the following 3 seasons will all factor into Elim World Championship, to be played later this year.

Full details can be found here: https://forums.trenchwars.com/forum/...d-championship