Season 3 signups are open!

2012-12-21 16:46 by ParadokS

It seems people are anxious about getting some information about the next season already. We did announce we wanted to start it very soon, but of course there will be a natural break with the holidays coming up. How ever the signups for season 3 are officially open. Read on for rule changes and more.

Signups

The signups have officially opened and you can signup here with your QuakeWorld.nu login.
The signup period will end on Saturday the 5th. of Janurary 2013.

We no longer require you to give notice if you wan't to be a captain or not.
Please be adviced to put in your location of where you are playing from, not your nationality.
Activity field can be a nice indicator for captains when picking teams as well, so if possible fill that out.

If for some reason you wish to change your signup form after, contact an admin in #draft.qw on IRC and we'll try to get it sorted as quickly as possible.


Live draft

As it looks now we will stick with the same routine from last season. It has been really hard to come up with a good system that includes division 2 captains and merge this with the live draft show. However I am confident that based on last seasons results, div 1 captains will be better equipped to pick players.

Eventhough we don't have dedicated div2 captains it showed that leadership was lacking last season. Div2 players were looking to the div1 captain to take charge, but they don't have time for that. This season the div2 teams will promote one player internally to be their manager, after the teams have been formed. He will be responsible for making sure his team are onboard, willing to play, showing up for games etc. If there are players in your team missing or idling, talk to your team about it and confer with the div1 captain and admins to try and get that player replaced.

Swapping players or taking in free agents has to be approved by the corresponding div1 captain and the admins.


Tournament system

Just like last season, we have to wait to see how many signups we get, before we can decide on the tournament system, mainly playoffs.
We predict, and hope, to get at least players for 20 teams (10 each division). This will negate wildcard games and send 8 teams from each division straight to playoffs and QuarterFinals.

Our experiment regarding games on weekdays failed miserably and we will stick to Sunday games. There might be exceptions for rescheduled or catchup games.


Rules

We have given the rules section a once-over and some notable changes are as follows:

Third place decider: This is now mandatory to help seed players for next season. But based on last season it finally looks like the QuakeWorld scene is no longer afraid of this part of the tournament :)

Seperating teams with equal points: This rule now follows individual results first then map wins, and so forth.

Server and minping: Ping rules has been revamped as well. It's based on the old ping rules where any ping above 51ms is counted as 51, except we changed this value to 65. But we now have a slight buffer so avg. ping difference below 15ms is considered fair. We urge teams to show fairplay in generel on this issue and for highpingers to accept the playing conditions they are used to compete with on a daily basis.

I urge you to read the rules section through before signing up and notify admins if you find errors or have oppinions on rule changes. We appreciate all constructive feedback. But above all we hope players can excert common sense, fairplay and sportsman ship - which is something we are happy to say, seems to be the norm in Salvation draft thus far.


Schedule

The schedule isn't set in stone yet, but the preliminary schedule is as follows:

Timeline

Signups start: Friday. Dec. 21th
Signups end: Saturday. Jan. 5th.

Live Draft Pick Sunday, Jan. 6th.

Groupgames 1st. round Sunday, Jan. 13th.
Groupgames 2nd. round Sunday, Jan. 20th.

Quarter Finals Sunday, Jan. 27th.
Semifinals Sunday, Feb. 3rd.
Grand Finals Sunday, Feb. 10th.

Depending on how many sign up, we might adjust the schedule accordingly.

I guess there is nothing more to say than SIGNUP, merry christmas and a happy new year :)

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