TW CUP 2025 second week review

[LeeRomeno]

Yea thanks, i wish i could say the same, but your last league jav KPD 0.94 has gone down to 0.66. But i believe in you, i am sure by the end of the league you have gone up the leaderboards....

[LeeRomeno]

Kudos for great words. Spray and pray! Dont need better aim to notice that red though:
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[LeeRomeno]

In turbulent times, that TW is facing, zone once again for couple of hours awoke and provided us some entertaining matches, surprising performances and unfortunate circumstances. Lets see what happened:

WARBIRD:
Warbird season has moved...

[LeeRomeno]

After discussing with various parties, this trade has been approved....

[LeeRomeno]

i think this looks great, thanx!...

[LeeRomeno]

All ops vote to not allow this, as its too lopsided of a trade, key starter vs someone with very rare appearances in base.
Someone saying they show or not show is something that we dont enforce in leagues. Hence if joes plans suddenly change and he actually...

[LeeRomeno]

Last weekend and surprisingly also Monday saw first games of cup played. I can truly say its 2025 and this game still manages to surprise everyone.

WARBIRD
Cup schedule has several teams having less games played per weekend. First weekend...

[LeeRomeno]

Just throwing this here, so it will be not lost in discord messages:
Warbird:
RaCka - Prime
Iron Survivor - Avengers
Siaxis - AlieExpress
bike - Happy Hippos
Ekko - Ethereal

Javelin:
Dreamwin - Terrorist...

[LeeRomeno]

Yea, well dont know this Tim, checked twdt history back to 2019 and saw him having a few games in spider, thats it. In any case, if its someone inactive trusted really important role (reminds me of ph in prime), it could backfire. But i agree, with decent...

[LeeRomeno]

It is here, long awaited Cup tournament, to bring zone back to life again after weeks of empty arenas, ridiculous discord drama and stories of TW being dead again. With 5 teams in each division, let's see how the captains managed their drafts:

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[LeeRomeno]

Yea thats the problem. To keep mmr player rating as true as possible for matchmaking purposes, it has to follow the current logic, so if teams are rated 50/50 to win and game is won 50-49, then ratings are not suppose to change, as logically, player ratings...

[LeeRomeno]

Problem is that although current mmr system is actually doing what it is designed to do (make automated league games as fair as possible - something old system did not, especially in situations where player pool levels are quite different), it is not particulary...