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10 March 2015 - 16:30 EDT
Splitting up the divisions into division groups by sorting regional teams instead of sorting by skill is a terrible idea. It should be equally hard to come out on top in both groups, if you split a division into groups.
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10 March 2015 - 18:40 EDT
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@nitseee If you want to split a division into two groups, you can't just split them on regards to location. You need to split them in regards to skill of the teams, the groups should be about equally strong.

Bad idea imo, sorry.

SHUT YOUR FACE OR WE WILL DO IT FOR YOU.

If you really want regional games, then split the leagues again. Not that half-assed bullshit that imbalances the groups.

But if you do that, the skill difference in the division groups will be bigger. I would like it to stay international because of this. More even and better games, a high ping sucks sure but more even games makes up for it.
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10 March 2015 - 18:42 EDT
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Combine Premier and Div1 or just scrap Premier all together. There's no point in playing a season 6 with 3 teams in premier. Divs should have 6 - 10 teams in them so you get a good distribution of games and don't play the same team every other week. Just adding 1-2 teams to premier isn't the best solution because the teams will probably just fold like in season 5.

I'm not sure what's wrong with having a large div1 and just allowing everyone to play one match? Sure, most of the div1 teams are likely to lose to Titus/DIY, but the challenge then becomes simply taking games from them. Winning even 1 or 2 of the rounds could put a team at a big advantage over the other teams. And if you really have a problem with potentially losing a match, then guess what -- you only play that team once!


I'm not sure this "challenge" argument makes any sens. Where is the challenge for TG/2ez to stay together, play with the best players and stomp everyone?

If you only want to play with the best players on a game with 300 avg players don't expect a prem div with 7 teams.
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10 March 2015 - 19:04 EDT
Tinki says
GORGEous says
Combine Premier and Div1 or just scrap Premier all together. There's no point in playing a season 6 with 3 teams in premier. Divs should have 6 - 10 teams in them so you get a good distribution of games and don't play the same team every other week. Just adding 1-2 teams to premier isn't the best solution because the teams will probably just fold like in season 5.

I'm not sure what's wrong with having a large div1 and just allowing everyone to play one match? Sure, most of the div1 teams are likely to lose to Titus/DIY, but the challenge then becomes simply taking games from them. Winning even 1 or 2 of the rounds could put a team at a big advantage over the other teams. And if you really have a problem with potentially losing a match, then guess what -- you only play that team once!


I'm not sure this "challenge" argument makes any sens. Where is the challenge for TG/2ez to stay together, play with the best players and stomp everyone?

If you only want to play with the best players on a game with 300 avg players don't expect a prem div with 7 teams.

If you look at my suggestion, solution #2 at the buttom:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wWe7q_CNXUYpBTLYzT8LOdd4CzpV_ZvKpoGjjIB6Ktw/edit#gid=0

While the top teams in the groups might beat every single other team, the other teams still have a chance of getting rounds and potentially screw the favor. I think every team in those groups should desire getting the chance to try and take rounds from these teams in officials, or at least they should if they have a somewhat competetive mindset. I don't know what DoctorsWithGorges are whining about, they are in my opinion one of the teams that have the highest chances against them. Believe in yourselves god damnit.
I think it would be great to have the top two teams split up and have some up-and-coming teams going against them, and eachother at the same time. Who can get to the semifinals and maybe to the finals? That could still be an intense season, but quickly over. If week 1 is this coming sunday, we would have finals April 26th.
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10 March 2015 - 19:27 EDT
swalk says
While the top teams in the groups might beat every single other team, the other teams still have a chance of getting rounds and potentially screw the favor. I think every team in those groups should desire getting the chance to try and take rounds from these teams in officials, or at least they should if they have a somewhat competetive mindset. I don't know what DoctorsWithGorges are whining about, they are in my opinion one of the teams that have the highest chances against them. Believe in yourselves god damnit.


Again stop saying "competitive mindset". Where is this all praise competitive mindset in TG or 2ez? This is the dumbest argument ever cause it's works for both side. And i'm not even playing with doctorwithoutgorge.
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10 March 2015 - 20:10 EDT
We want better teams to play, but they won't get better if they only play at or below their level. Every single team that I have practiced against on Titus (or previously when it went by Nexzil) who were "weaker" made huge strides in improving their game and eventually taking rounds off of us.

If there were an entire division above us, you could bet that I would be trying to push my team and myself to be able to participate in the group.

I have played and practiced against better opponents every time I have had the chance and don't take it hard when losing. If anyone remembers when Archaea was around they were usually ahead of the game. I didn't mind losing practices or matches to them because if we did win it made it that much better. Hell I flew overseas to get dominated publicly on twitch front page by them (R.I.P. Nexzil).

I want to have more teams trying to improve themselves and take rounds from us. Not being defeatist and upset because they're worried there isn't much chance. Take the risk. It's 1-2 games and being a season division winner doesn't come with a trophy or prizes.
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10 March 2015 - 20:11 EDT
If only we had tried a ladder system....
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10 March 2015 - 21:31 EDT
Tico says
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uLE-vJUSLqhOqQD8bkJqNZ6VoBqfoQ70UHr8F6da1HI/edit#gid=1018901383

ok everyone how about this

You have some teams that do not play other teams in the same division group and it seems you are favoritizing the low seeds by only having them play only one of the top two teams. That is inheritly unfair and given that you put your own team in there I would even call for sketchy persuit of giving your own team better chances to reach the semifinals. Sorry if that is not the case, but it sure seems like something along those lines. We beat Handwashers some days ago with reletive ease and I honestly think Eclipsed fits into that group as well. So basicly I am arguing that you should not give you or me or anyone else an upper hand. You should not make division groups where everyone do not play against everyone, that destroys the equality of the point system, in a division group everyone must play everyone.

I get the vibe that you aim to get the "div 1 teams" to play the top two teams, but some dont want to but could handle playing a single one of them, right? What about splitting the top division into two groups, one with DIY and one with Titus? alá my solution #2?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wWe7q_CNXUYpBTLYzT8LOdd4CzpV_ZvKpoGjjIB6Ktw/edit#gid=0
It achieves the same thing, but also makes the season shorter(from 10 to 7 weeks total including playoffs, which means less disbands). The up and coming teams mostly play against eachother in the top division, but they also get that one chance to see how they fare against the best teams and can then try to make it to a second time in the semifinal and there if they beat them, they would reach the final against, likely against the other top two team. They could also beat them on points in the group and force them to play the other top team in the semifinals, eliminating one of them from the final. Imagine the incentive some teams will put into getting rounds from these teams and the other teams to pursue those goals.
Sure Titus and DIY will not meet until the playoffs (unless someone else beats the odds), they might not like that. Most of their season will be matches against up-and-coming teams, but who knows, some of these teams might even believe in themselves and actually beat them and the top teams will do everything in their power to retain their position. Would likely end up with a clash of the titans in the finals, imagine such suspence and intrigue for a final. "They haven't played eachother all season and now first in the final they meet." - and the other (even if the odds are against it) scenario where one or even both of them have been defeated and other teams have reached the finals.

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Again stop saying "competitive mindset". Where is this all praise competitive mindset in TG or 2ez? This is the dumbest argument ever cause it's works for both side. And i'm not even playing with doctorwithoutgorge.

Well, I know they praise that mindset, it is that mindset that brought them to where they are, they are not naturally that much better than everyone else ranked below them. Stop being a fool.
The argument only works one way, if you play-to-win, you will want to do your very best to beat the best. Else you're just playing to have fun and most people connect fun with winning and boring/annoying with losing. When in fact, you should be having fun by simply doing the best you can. THAT is what you have fun with if you like to play games competetively with no real prizes, winning is not the point, unless it's about money. Play-for-fun is not the ideology a competetive league should go in for, play-to-win is on the other hand. Play-for-fun is an exact opposite of competetive.
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This is what I received during this night : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uLE-vJUSLqhOqQD8bkJqNZ6VoBqfoQ70UHr8F6da1HI/edit#gid=1018901383

This is my answer :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oOccFLzPHNTyUAp51tFsV1mZrt7XXJ6f4igZxMMdOrc/edit?usp=sharing

pewpew

Double bracket on playoffs (double elimination). This is just an example of what could happen. If you lose in playoff, you go to the loser bracket, if you lose in the loser bracket, then you are out of the playoffs.

What happen ?
* EU/NA groupstage
* Merge in playoffs :
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd of each EU and NA groups go to what I called "prem playoffs"
- 4th, 5th and 6th go to what I called "D1 Playoffs".

Advantage :
* Groupstage are EU/NA. Since EU players (at least a lot of them) want to play less match against NA players cuz this is crappy to schedule and high ping (myb you guys in NA are used to it, but we arent and we cry, yell and whine a lot when we die around corners).


I know some NA teams are saying "we gonna disband if it's EU/NA group cuz the skill gap is too big in NA group". This is bullshit, we, EU players, could threat ppl with the same argument : we gonna disband if it's not EU/NA groups. It's like saying "if it's not how we want it to be, we gonna disband"
Why merge in playoffs (instead of Sephy solution #2), cuz there is no "good" argument to play the playoffs with EU/NA separated.
So why should we play with EU/NA groups ? Cuz the less high ping matches EU players have to play, the happier they will be. Moreover, with the last seeding sheet I've seen, NA teams complaining about skill gap in US group gonna be stomp in a lot of matches too (Sephy got another sheet explaining that I think)

Why double bracket ? Cuz it's fun. It is simple to read : 1st place NA plays 3rd place EU, 2nd place NAplays 2nd place EU and 3rd plays 1st. Exactly the same on d1 playoffs. If you lose one match you go down to the loser bracket and got another chance to get to the final. The biggest disadvantage is that there should be 2 teams which will play against each other twice.



Why should we do this ?
People wants to play good matches at good time and with good pings. Split EU/NA on group allow to play good pings and good time with some (not all) good matches. Playoffs allow to play with only teams of your supposed skill even if it can't always be low pings and best time schedules. But why this, everyone will play less high ping matches cuz we gonna merge in playoffs only. With the current seeding, we should play high pings during groupstage AND playoffs.
About the double bracket, this delay the end of the season for 1 or 2 weeks. While "normal playoffs" in winner bracket are playing, looser bracket play its matches too. But the winner of the winner bracket, need to wait the winner of the loser bracket. Moreover, on the seeding I received, there is 8 weeks for groupstage, on mine there is 6 on EU, 5 on NA.
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swalk says
We beat Handwashers some days ago with reletive ease


No we didn't, it was 2-2, marine wins on Mineral, alien wins on Jambi.
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Vindaloo says
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We beat Handwashers some days ago with reletive ease


No we didn't, it was 2-2, marine wins on Mineral, alien wins on Jambi.

Oh really? My bad, apologies goes out to Handwashers. My memory seems to be broken. It still felt like we we're doing a better job than they.
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11 March 2015 - 06:00 EDT
Everyone can become an astronaut, can win a nobel prize, can become a millionaire, can be the next US-president or whatever if he is believing in his skills an continue to improve them?

Well, NO

The argument that the best players starts as rookies too is true, but only 1 of maybe 100 players has the talent to become prem div level.
Lets call this natural selection.

If a div4 team would nonstop playing against titus, they would improve there game in some aspects for sure but they would never reach the same level.

"Play against better teams to improve" is true but please stop telling people "Every team can play on prem div level if they practice enough"

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dePARA says
Everyone can become an astronaut, can win a nobel prize, can become a millionaire, can be the next US-president or whatever if he is believing in his skills an continue to improve them?

Well, NO

The argument that the best players starts as rookies too is true, but only 1 of maybe 100 players has the talent to become prem div level.
Lets call this natural selection.

If a div4 team would nonstop playing against titus, they would improve there game in some aspects for sure but they would never reach the same level.

"Play against better teams to improve" is true but please stop telling people "Every team can play on prem div level if they practice enough"


No one is arguing that the "div 1 teams" are at the level of the top two teams at this point. But those teams are still able to take rounds from the top teams. Teams like Quaxy took rounds from Archaea in officials before. It's pretty much the same situation, with different teams. I believe HBZ also took a round from Inversion once and played 2-2 with Saunamen. The point being; while none of the other teams are at the level, they can still take points from these teams, if they try their best. It should be a fun challenge for up-and-coming teams to see how you can perform when on the spot against the best teams and with my suggestion, you only have to play against one of them. It IS possible for other teams to practice and get better than these teams, but it pretty much requires that you play against them often. They are not untouchable.
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11 March 2015 - 07:22 EDT
Alright, since you people just keep going with this. Could Ygg and Doctors disband so we can start the season, thanks.
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Iots says
Alright, since you people just keep going with this. Could Ygg and Doctors disband so we can start the season, thanks.


If we disband is el'pheer gonna play HBZ and DIY every evening ? It'll be a sad EU comp scene on pcw plan without us unfortunately, but i'm pretty sure the most active players, aka el'pheer, gonna seed it.

And btw we're waiting on Tudy to come back. So discussion or not, whiners or not, nothing gonna start until seeding aren't out, nothing gonna start until Tudy takes the decision.
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11 March 2015 - 07:59 EDT
Disband the whole seeding and create a ladder, problem solved, everybody happy,we all celebrate easter,get our own lives,some may turn into gay, some may get children, some may live in the mountains and raising sheeps, cause mayhem, you never walk alone
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11 March 2015 - 08:58 EDT
@Narkoweed, no of course we would stop playing right after you do m8. Viva la revolution!

But in all seriousness, if it were up to me i would go with NA/EU split, add YGG to NA div since they have the most toxic people. That would be my 'perfect season'. But that's not really fair, and it's not nice being unfair.

Fundamentally, everything you discuss here, should be confronted by the sheer opinion of those NA teams that would be the last seeds in a NA Div, you can discuss about this as much as you want. But i don't see their opinion on the spreadsheets, so if you want this to move forward. You go from there, not by preaching about the benefits of your setup, as they are obvious to anyone with half a brain.



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Virsoul says
We want better teams to play, but they won't get better if they only play at or below their level. Every single team that I have practiced against on Titus (or previously when it went by Nexzil) who were "weaker" made huge strides in improving their game and eventually taking rounds off of us.

If there were an entire division above us, you could bet that I would be trying to push my team and myself to be able to participate in the group.

I have played and practiced against better opponents every time I have had the chance and don't take it hard when losing. If anyone remembers when Archaea was around they were usually ahead of the game. I didn't mind losing practices or matches to them because if we did win it made it that much better. Hell I flew overseas to get dominated publicly on twitch front page by them (R.I.P. Nexzil).

I want to have more teams trying to improve themselves and take rounds from us. Not being defeatist and upset because they're worried there isn't much chance. Take the risk. It's 1-2 games and being a season division winner doesn't come with a trophy or prizes.


Your team forfeited the playoff final for this exact reason : " they're worried there isn't much chance"
I'm not calling you out in particular, maybe you wanted to play the final (even if no one in the team said so) but there is some hypocrisy here.
When you forfeit the final because you think you are going to lose and then ask for more team to stomp there is an issue.

Just be honest, just say you still want to play easy pcw once a week against different teams since you don't play the game often. I understand this, but don't give the bs excuse of "competitive mindset".
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11 March 2015 - 09:16 EDT
Tinki says

Your team forfeited the playoff final for this exact reason


Awkward...

IMO yggdrasil could beat titus in a semi final play off, and they might be able to draw in a season match.

They're playing DIY frequently and they're improving quickly with the potential to take rounds easily. I'd say they're the next godar; keep trying and they'll be one of the top 2 teams to challenge.
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Yeah, Yggdrasil is the new tryhard team :)
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Iots says
But in all seriousness, if it were up to me i would go with NA/EU split, add YGG to NA div since they have the most toxic people. That would be my 'perfect season'. But that's not really fair, and it's not nice being unfair.

kk, go back playing with your pogs buddy.

Iots says
Fundamentally, everything you discuss here, should be confronted by the sheer opinion of those NA teams that would be the last seeds in a NA Div, you can discuss about this as much as you want. But i don't see their opinion on the spreadsheets, so if you want this to move forward. You go from there, not by preaching about the benefits of your setup, as they are obvious to anyone with half a brain.

Hm... So why did I posted this here ? To let tardz like you write some bullshit here ? I don't think so.. We don't need opinion of kiddo flamer, as I said, your pogs are waiting you ;)
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11 March 2015 - 10:28 EDT
Wob says
Tinki says

Your team forfeited the playoff final for this exact reason


Awkward...

IMO yggdrasil could beat titus in a semi final play off, and they might be able to draw in a season match.

They're playing DIY frequently and they're improving quickly with the potential to take rounds easily. I'd say they're the next godar; keep trying and they'll be one of the top 2 teams to challenge.


That's true about Ygg taking Titus in the semi-final, cause atm that's the only team that we've played who are the hardest of the hardest, who actually evolving all the time and improving. Since Narko and Carnage started it's a total different team.. too bad they lost Zero cause of the effin numbers of high ping games.....


What happened with Haamut btw? Why didnt they get into Prem div last season? Who decided that they werent fit for that division?

Great way of taking out a team in Prem, and then bitching about not having enough teams in the next season.. Too bad the head-admin decided to step down 1 freaking year too late.. Even though he made "so much work in the background who nobody really appriciated and yada yada yada.. and even more yada yada"

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11 March 2015 - 10:46 EDT
Ryssk says
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Tinki says

Your team forfeited the playoff final for this exact reason


Awkward...

IMO yggdrasil could beat titus in a semi final play off, and they might be able to draw in a season match.

They're playing DIY frequently and they're improving quickly with the potential to take rounds easily. I'd say they're the next godar; keep trying and they'll be one of the top 2 teams to challenge.


That's true about Ygg taking Titus in the semi-final, cause atm that's the only team that we've played who are the hardest of the hardest, who actually evolving all the time and improving. Since Narko and Carnage started it's a total different team.. too bad they lost Zero cause of the effin numbers of high ping games.....


What happened with Haamut btw? Why didnt they get into Prem div last season? Who decided that they werent fit for that division?

Great way of taking out a team in Prem, and then bitching about not having enough teams in the next season.. Too bad the head-admin decided to step down 1 freaking year too late.. Even though he made "so much work in the background who nobody really appriciated and yada yada yada.. and even more yada yada"


Haamut tried to get into prem in S4 (which didn't have a problem in regards to team numbers, it was post-NS2WC), not last season. I remember because I was still playing for Godar, and in fact they asked us for their seeding match, and we beat them 4-0, and then the next thing we heard is that they disbanded, not sure what happened in between.
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11 March 2015 - 10:56 EDT
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[...]some may turn into gay[...]some may live in the mountains and raising sheeps[...]

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11 March 2015 - 10:58 EDT
Tinki says
Your team forfeited the playoff final for this exact reason : " they're worried there isn't much chance"
I'm not calling you out in particular, maybe you wanted to play the final (even if no one in the team said so) but there is some hypocrisy here.
When you forfeit the final because you think you are going to lose and then ask for more team to stomp there is an issue.


Despite what anyone may have told you, this is not the reason at all for us forfeiting. If anyone feels like talking about it you can message me on steam since the forums are not a place for this (Wob, you included since you seem to be under this impression).
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11 March 2015 - 11:27 EDT
I think ppl think YGG skill is better than it currently is :x Please stop saying we gonna beat titus or whatever, we prefer to not play them and play between EU :D (even el'pheer with their retarded mate lots)
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11 March 2015 - 11:43 EDT
Okey guys this is vital stuff here, is my new fan refering to these ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogs

Never seen these things before and i dont know if hes typoing or if this is the joke!! :( HELP ME !!
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11 March 2015 - 11:45 EDT
Vindaloo says
swalk says
We beat Handwashers some days ago with reletive ease


No we didn't, it was 2-2, marine wins on Mineral, alien wins on Jambi.


Embarrassing... Swalk ;) Or more like Awkward :D
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