Season 11 News

[pascone]

If the situation presents itself, it will be investigated. Until that happens, don't worry about it.

[Mantra-Slider]

will twlb playoffs be best of 3 rounds?
if not, make it happen please

[Evul Fly]

Why do these rules are still there?

10.06

... Players who are substituted are strongly encouraged to stay in the arena until the end of the game or else their score may not be reported accurately.

We have bots to count the score.

10.13

Hiding in an arena or refusing to fight, will not be tolerated. If a player is found to be hiding or refusing to fight, that player will be warned. If the player does not comply within 60 seconds, the player will be specced and given a score of 0 points and may be substituted if one is available.

Its timerace not pointrace(how can hiding in arena be rewarding?)

[PH]

10.13 applies more to LD and LJ now that LB is time race.

10.06 is kind of odd, though. You'd think after all these tests Pure_Suck and/or one of his underlings would have fixed that by now.

[Dabram]

From pascone's post in some thread not long ago I remember he said 12 squads will be invited to each league. I think this is a bad idea but also on the twl site it says: "The exact number of squads that are invited to participate depends on the amount of competition and demand in a specific division".

Well the demand this year is very low, definately not 12. Especially for TWLB, right now any squad who can play 15 twbd games will qualify for twlb. Letting in any squad who meets the qualification norm, will obviously make the regular season an absolute bore, not only the good squads but even the slightly average ones will be able to qualify for the playoffs no matter what..

Imo the demand isn't higher than 8 or 10 squads at most. With less squads you could also change the format. Let the top 4 of those 8 or 10 go to a second round in which they play against each other one more time (thats 3 more weeks). The best two then go to the final, which should be a best out of 3. This way we'll see who the real champions are, because the finalists have played each other in 4(5) games in a season. Aswell does it only take 11 to 13 weeks, without having the 5-6 weeks that tires down everyones motivation for TWL. At least for twlb this would be a better setup then letting in 12 squads of which half is unable to compete (no offense to anyone). But also for LJ I'd advise a few less squads, 10 seems to be a better number. Only LD seems suitable for 12 squads since there's always been more small competitive squads in LD than in the other leagues...

[eelam <tw>]

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make LB top 8 teams, because cmon the only thing people want to see is dice vs pandora anyways, and this also allows for best out of 3 within playoffs. But keep lj/ld at 12 squads, because alot more competition there.

[Evul Fly]

Dabram has a point but too bad its already in the rules, and these rules NEVER change!

2.02

...  Twelve squads will be chosen with requirements based on both TWD standings, including but not limited to, both Rating and Average Opponent Rating.  ...

[pascone]

Why not give more people an opportunity to play TWL?


And the bots have been sited as going down mid game as the game continued manually, thus, the scores are needed so they can accurately be put into the TWL site.

[NewbOfTW]

Please dont change the # of teams for twl, giving more people the chance to play will increase competition and let people enjoy the fun of twl! I dont think giving people more chances has any downfalls. Its true that LJ and LB has some squads that completely dosnt stand a chance in twl or dosnt even have anyone that focuses on that league. Yet, it dosnt hurt for the top squads to play these squads

[bicycle]

just like fistula in the Trench Wars Javelin Division

Um thanks for beating the dead horse. Of course that's what I'm worried about you dumb bastard why else would I ask about it?

[Jeenyuss]

bram has a pretty decent point there with the lb squads.

[Scoop]

The more squads the better. If newbie squads can put 8 people every sunday then they can only get better.

Pascone is right in my opinion.

[pascone]

Um thanks for beating the dead horse. Of course that's what I'm worried about you dumb bastard why else would I ask about it?

Well if you are concerned about it I guess you should probably play some harder teams. You'll have to in TWL anyway, which is why I don't get the point to playing bad teams to get a bunch of points anyway.

Just realize that it could happen. No point to risking it, just play better teams.

[Mantra-Slider]

Why not give more people an opportunity to play TWL?

cos we dont want a bunch of 15:0-2 results and no shows? it wont be good for the leagues.

[Dabram]

Having a regular season in which we already beforehand can point out the squads that are going to qualify for the playoffs isn't boring at all and will guarantee a great competitive regular season!