FANTASY DRAFT TOURNEY - CCN Hosted (ARAB inspired)

[CCN]

Arab:

FANTASY DRAFT TOURNEY

Tourney's are fun, but we just got over a mammoth one! If we start another tourney, it'll just be the same thing over again. Let's do something different!

instructions:

-Admins take collections of interested pilots and interested captains. Judging on the amount of participants, they can choose the number of required captains and teammates. 5 v 5 is always preferable, but 4 v 4 with more teams participating would be fun too.

-Admins choose team captains from a pool of volunteers.

-A fantasy draft is held, where captains choose participating players.

-If teams have issues with schedules, time zones, or just want to mix things up, let there be trades! Captains can trade players (hopefully player willing) up until a trade deadline a few days after the first week of games.

-Don't know how long the tourney would be, but preferably 3 weeks with 3 or 4 games a week. Playoffs could be the same system currently used.
Have a drawing or volunteer thingy for team captains.

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PROS:

-less skilled players can fly along side of veterans.

-skill gaps between teams will be lessened.

-this would be really cool and something different
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CONS:

-fantasy draft might be somewhat hard to organize

-Admins may have to choose captains they know will be reliable

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CCN:

As it stands I have the time to host this, so I am going to try.
I would like help but is cool if no one has time. I would need help on a site if evil would agree to show me something simple (or just put up the scores)




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Timetable:

17th - 27st August Volunteer For League, Volunteer for Captaincy - in this thread
27th August I choose Captains based on server criteria (i.e. lead a team in the last league)
29th Saturday, 1pm EST captains meet and teams are chosen from pool (who goes first chosen by random draw by me beforehand)
29th Saturday 2pm EST Matches get started - BO1's, double elimination tournament



Also please give your opinions on whether we should limit the number of whales to 1.


Volunteered for League:
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Volunteered for Captaincy:

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[as red as black]

hahaha

let's wait a bit and hear about the other one first. It'd be better to see and judge people's thoughts/reactions/willingness to play.

[wolf'j'max]

Lolz i also started a new tourney format is 4 v 4 and there are 4 teams competing atm 3 slots are open -.-

[Kuja900]

While I personally disagree with the idea there is some logic in limiting the number of whales to two, however only one is just silly.

[thatdarnedbob]

Limiting whales right now is silly. The state of the game isn't nearly evolved enough to start imposing arbitrary restrictions in tournaments.

[DiogenesDog]

in fact, there was some game on Middleground where L* decided to be silly and field 5 Explos...

...uh, it wasn't a very good idea, let's just say that.

[AtomikPi]

I remember in the very first match of [TS] vs. ITW (I think?) they tried to use a bunch of explos on core and failed. No reason to be limiting whales; they're not imbalanced and using whales means there's an opportunity cost of having less fast planes to drop bombs and do other stuff.

[CCN]

tourney on hold till other tourney finishes