pushover: RoR has always been popular, true, but not with deadman's guiroma settings that's been popping up n tourneys now. or maybe i haven't been invited to the cool kids tourneys before :(

Edited 9/26/2016 23:48:15

Ya ps. Deadman's ROR and traditional ROR are very different. We did not select Europe not because we are sick of it, but more as an attempt to try a different type of 3v3 template. Only EU is a well accepted 3v3 strategic template imo in the strategical part of WL.

Edited 9/27/2016 03:35:00

there was a popular battle islands (that larger one, don't recall the number) 3v3 setting at some point.

africa and japan were also popular for 3v3 at some point, although africa games took much longer, japan was pretty decent for 3v3, but they never really reached the popularity of europe somehow.

Edited 9/27/2016 03:42:33

Well,I for one am sick of europe...

note to captains that may or may not choose me:

things you need to know about me:

I don't really do well with Multi-Attack

I'm OKAY in 3v3 Europe


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I'm a well rounded player and can play a variety of templates and maps, games featured in my "favourite games" place on my profile show my proud achievements :)

When is this expected to start?

the draft will be completed late tomorrow night, so results will be posted upon completion, captains will create the team chats, and this will start rolling.
Stay tuned tomorrow night or Monday morning to see where you were drafted to xD

Note: please check your team chat as often as you can, as your captain will be trying to get everyone assigned into a template that they like and can compete in.
Thanks for all your participation, and good luck to all!

teams have now been made and the picking game has been posted in the original post :)

Templates will be:
1 v 1-
Rad Osil
Strategic yingangzhaou
British Raj WR
China
Sumo w/ cards

2 v 2-
Phobia
Guiroma

3v3-
Deadmans Rome

Very interesting to see how each captained ordered their votes.... I found it very odd that some captains ranked me higher than Buns a few times and once I was ranked higher than MoD, while other times I was near the bottom. Very interesting..... but I like it 😅

I'm assuming/asking that season 2 will basically be a repeat of this? Like an entirely new draft and maybe new captains?

Is it too late to sign up?

My rankings: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 17

lolwut

@Master Turtle

Yes, next season, it would be cool if we have new captains (Rocky1 and me might still be captains though as we created this event).

We'll maybe have a little bit of prerequesites too for next season (but nothing too exclusive) concerning players admissions and criterias for captains.

This season, we are lucky enough to have captains that have somewhat a similar level of gameplay but we'll have to think about some things about captains for next season. Let's say per example MOTD would be captain and all other 7 captains wouldn't be of his level... I don't think it would be fair in this case as his team would clearly have an advantage. I am not saying MOTD or someone of his level couldn't be a captain, but if we get such an elite player as captain, we would need some kind of compensation method to make sure teams remain balanced.

Other aspect for captains, I think next season (assuming this one goes well and is appreciated), we should make it clear that captains must make templates choosing and picks of the roster faster than in this season as it was a bit too slow this season in my opinion (we had to wait for some slower guys :P).

Regarding the players, I must say that almost the totality of the players of this edition are decent to great. But for next season, we would like to have all 48 guys decent to great, with 0 exceptions (I might be wrong concerning guys I don't find decent though :P). I don't know how we would restrict a bit admission but rest assured, it wouldn't be something too restrictive.

I would like to thank you all for participating in this edition of captains league and would give a special thanks to the captains that have helped bring new ideas to make this league better and the whole processes of structuring it easier!

@Jeff Sorry Jeff, teams are already made mate :(

@Pushy Where did you thought you would be picked?

Edited 10/4/2016 02:28:16

@Master Turtle

"Very interesting to see how each captained ordered their votes." Yes it is man! But if you see picks of let's say per example Mirage, he clearly tried to have a more "balanced" team compared to some other teams that yes got one of the top 3 guys (arguably MOTD/MOD Buns), but also got one of the bottom guys. Since each guy must play 2 templates in this competition, it might be more strategic to have a balanced team that will get points in all the templates rather than have 1 or 2 guys sweep a template, while others in the team are doing miserably. We'll see at the end of this edition what was the best strategy!

Protesting for missing two words from team name

wow :o like everyone in Violent Primates is cool and I will look forward to crushing them :D

@ Ox haha we'll see. Tbh, I think Semice's team is the weakest ;)

@ Glam your name was too long :P

Obviously all us captains had some biais to take some people we know already.

Edited 10/4/2016 20:36:23

HankyPinky: 6th, rocky1: 4th, Semicedevine: 29th (come on man!), Phahk Gokhn: 16th, Glamorous: 18th, Cloud Strife: 16th, Mirage: 5th (Yea man, nice pick!), and Simi the Lunatic: 14th.


Hmmm very interesting...

My picks:
30th,34th,19th,37th,37th,37th,14th(wait what?),36th.
Interesting. So most of the managers viewed me as within the weakest 10 players in the draft, which I don't inherently disagree with. Thanks for the high pick semi.