Increase teams to 14/16 plz

[Dreamwin]

I think there should be 14 or 16 teams at least in every league. I know its pretty decided alrdy but i hope it would still change. I mean there is so many squads in LD + LJ who can compete very well in their league/division. Cutting of squads you maybe better teams and more tighter league, but this will also decrease number of squads + players. TWL is main point for many squads and i think they should get a chance if they show up in their games.

Who`s with me? :fear:

[Voth]

i think 16 for lj/ld and 14 for lb

[Jrahen]

no

dont wanna play shit squads and waste my precious time

[PaulOakenfold]

I do not want Plade in TWLB, and if this allows them to be, then keep the league sizes as they are.

[Voth]

not plade.. it would allow (most likely) the following squads to all qualify for twlb, instead of two of them missing the cut:

mambo
ancients
penetrate
virtuosus
thunder
teks


all stable and competitive enough for twlb.. on top of the 8 re-invited thats 14...

[Kim]

Ancients' activity is doubtable, they forfeited numerous times last season.

[Jeenyuss]

they've been pretty busy so far, with recruits like spikey (probably go to dice or somethin gay along those lines, though) and zizu.

[Voth]

Ancients' activity is doubtable, they forfeited numerous times last season.

they're actually playing a lot.. they are mostly fins though and therefore not on in great numbers when most BD squads are.


edit: and they're way better in basing than past seasons

[MetalHeadz]

No no and no. 12 for twlj/twlb+twld let's make this tournament proper, for fuck sake.

[genocidal]

Who cares? I'll bet out of those 5-6 squads at least 2 will dissolve even if they do make TWLB and their players will join better squads. Even if they don't dissolve their good players will hop to better squads and competition won't be any good.

[PaulOakenfold]

You should write inspirational novels gen

[Miku19]

The fact that now everybody will get a chance to play against eachother at least once during the regular season is already worth dropping 4 squads out.

[Salubrious]

I prefer 12 teams per TWL. Even though there are 6 teams that are more than worthy of making it into TW, there really is no need to expand TWLB to 14. In pre-TWL 7 years, there have always been plenty of squads that were TWL potential, but TWL was never expanded to greater than 16 just to fit in the extra squads. It has always stuck at 16 to increase competition, and there have always been squads that did not make it.

Now, with the declining TW population, the same situation should be held. The decrease in the number of teams accepted is needed to increase competition. Whether or not every squad gets in shouldn't be an issue. Even if they deserve a spot, if they're only able to make it into TWL seeded 14th, their presence won't make much of an impact.

My only complaint is that there are too many squads who are automatically invited back. Squads like Anti-Scrub and Basingcrew obviously deserve to be in TWL, but are so inactive that it seems like they'd get killed come TWL. Most likely they'll wake up around TWL, but it's still an "I hope so" situation. If you limited the invites to only Semi-finalist and Finalist squads, that would increase the number of spots open from 4 to 8, as well as hopefully waking up some of the more inactive but stable squads to get them into shape.

[Spikester]

they've been pretty busy so far, with recruits like spikey (probably go to dice or somethin gay along those lines, though) and zizu.

Nah, not joining dice

the word on the TW streets is that i'm joining plade, though.

[Joe_]

I prefer 12 teams per TWL. Even though there are 6 teams that are more than worthy of making it into TW, there really is no need to expand TWLB to 14. In pre-TWL 7 years, there have always been plenty of squads that were TWL potential, but TWL was never expanded to greater than 16 just to fit in the extra squads. It has always stuck at 16 to increase competition, and there have always been squads that did not make it.

Now, with the declining TW population, the same situation should be held. The decrease in the number of teams accepted is needed to increase competition. Whether or not every squad gets in shouldn't be an issue. Even if they deserve a spot, if they're only able to make it into TWL seeded 14th, their presence won't make much of an impact.

My only complaint is that there are too many squads who are automatically invited back. Squads like Anti-Scrub and Basingcrew obviously deserve to be in TWL, but are so inactive that it seems like they'd get killed come TWL. Most likely they'll wake up around TWL, but it's still an "I hope so" situation. If you limited the invites to only Semi-finalist and Finalist squads, that would increase the number of spots open from 4 to 8, as well as hopefully waking up some of the more inactive but stable squads to get them into shape.

I agree on limiting the number of teams invited because that will also increase the competition instead of having squads go inactive during the off season just because they know they will get back in next year. But of course we probably couldn't do it this season because the teams were already told they're in, so maybe next season depending on the situation.