4 spid limit and 3 rounds-thoughts?

[MirrorriM]

It's been a while, but I have a small update:

We are getting a new TWL site! woo! It is a long and laborious task, but hopefully you all will like the new and improved version. One of the main improvements over the other site will be an eligibility check. Instead of skimming through forums and trying to make sure none of your players are ineligible, the site will do this for you. Hopefully we will also be able to work this into the TWL bots (as you all may have noticed the bots have not been very cooperative the past few days) also so that it will not allow an ineligible player to be added and thus avoid the forfeit mess from past TWL seasons.

Now, on to business. I ran across a thread a long time ago where it seemed many players would like TWLJ and TWLD games to be 3 rounds instead of 1. What does everyone think?

Also, the 4 spid limit has been brought up. It was used in BWC and now TWDT, should it be implemented in TWL?

One additional point: Cram blocks wont be in TWL, just like how it is now in TWD

[eelam <tw>]

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3 rounds

no spider limit

More games were skill will prevail over luck .

[pascone]

save 3 rounds for playoffs. games take long enough as it is. getting hosts for games is also hard enough already (you know this from previous twls, and twdt currently)

upsets can and should occur. makes things more interesting. then they might have to actually try to make the playoffs

[PureOwnage]

As I just told Mirror in game I figured I'd post this here. Games in LD and LJ would take too long for 3 rounds at the current setup. 3, 20 minute rounds would end up taking one and a half hours, if you add in the host setuptime and team add time.

The game time limit would have to be lowered to 15 minutes max, or the timeslots for the rounds would have to be made to be longer.

[MirrorriM]

If it was 3 rounds, the host would sign up for the 1 game, not the 3 rounds each.

[sarger]

I agree with the 3 rounds, although I really hate the jav/wb/lanc factor. Doesnt improve it, just makes it more chaotic (repped wb shots, laggy javs and so on).
To me it would basically be like giving football players jetpacks...

[Shan]

You should change it to 3 rounds, you wait a week then you get to play 1 round blah.

[H.M.S. Stargazer]

I agree with the 3 rounds, although I really hate the jav/wb/lanc factor. Doesnt improve it, just makes it more chaotic (repped wb shots, laggy javs and so on).
To me it would basically be like giving football players jetpacks...

That sounds like a blast! NFL team versus some science nerd camp football!

[pascone]

If it was 3 rounds, the host would sign up for the 1 game, not the 3 rounds each.

then who would host the other games...

[MirrorriM]

The same way it's always worked; hopefully even better now with the new ER system.

[HateTheFake]

yes 3 rounds

[Voth]

3 rounds- no, pascone is right

4 spid limit- yes

[Izor]

teams should have to bring their best for that one round every week

[Dreamwin]

ABSOLUTELY NO FOR 4-SPIDERLIMIT. K.

And the other thing, 3 rounds yes. Let me remind u: this twl there is less teams, which makes it more competetive. we've hired many new <ER>'s.

So I think we got enough staff to host all games. In playoffs there should be 15 or 20 deaths.

[PaulOakenfold]

4 spider limit - yes
3 Round TWLJ/LD matches - yes