Major+ 2009 Spring Doubles League [Winners: See 1st Post]
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:17 pm
Congratulations to Velvecarrots - TheBro as winners of out tournament
Continue my Major+ Series of the Doubles tournament.
Please note that this tournament is going to have very heavy workload (around 100 games per team) and 7 new games will be started every week. Do not join unless you want to commit to the heavy game load
This one will start first week of March. Similar to my previous, Winter League.
The games settings will be as follow:
4 players doubles
CHAINED Reinforcement only
Alternating spoils (ESCALATING and NO SPOILS)
Alternating fog (NO FOG and FOG)
There will be 52 teams. They will be placed into 1 huge League, and paired up using Swiss Tournament System
There will be 14 rounds. In each round each team will play 7 games with different opponents. Each win gives you 1 point. Most points wins the tournament.
Starting from round 3, the bottom 4 teams will be eliminated from the tournament.
Entry Requirements and Sign-up procedures:
Games Settings:
Scoring and avoiding stalemates:
No shows, forfeiting and substitutions
[spoiler=Maps And Settings]Maps will be assigned from the following pool of maps:
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[spoiler=Questions and answers]Q. I have another player on the ignore list.
A. If you happen to be in the same group as he is, then you would need to take him off the ignore list, so they can join the games. After that you can put them back on the ignore list right after they join the game.
Q. Also how are maps assigned - is there a strict rotation?
A. We will have one single map per set of games, which will be randomly selected from the pool of maps. So not every map from the pool will be played. But everyone in a group will play the same set of maps.
Q. I am away for that week - should I get my account sitter to join the games for that week or wait until I get back?
A. Yes, you would need an account sitter to join those games. This is just because we have very busy schedule going, 5+ new games each week. If we delay the joining for a week, the schedule will be skewed and it will be a pain for me.
Q. since it's a captain+ tourney i was curious why are there teams with less than 4000 points? i have nothing against this but since i see captains or majors on the waiting list i wonder how come those weren't chosen
A. Those people had 2200 points when they signed up. Between their sign up and the time when tournament has started their rating went down.
There is no way I can expect everyone to be above 2200 for the whole duration of the tournament, otherwise i would need to disqualify half of the players.
Think about 2200+ more like entry requirement, which kind of shows your ability. The reason why 2200+ rule is in place is to provide the strong competition. And not to limit your potential rating loses.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Updates]Feb 13: Registration Open
Mar 1: Round 1 Started
Mar 9: Round 2 Started
Mar 18: Round 3 Started
Apr 2: Round 4 Started
Apr 17: Round 5 Started
Apr 29: Round 6 Started
May 14: Round 7 Started
May 29: Round 8 Started
Jun 10: Round 9 Started
Jun 24: Round 10 Started
Jul 8: Round 11 Started
Jul 28: Round 12 Started
Aug 12: Round 13 Started
Sep 8: Final Round 14 Started
Sep 22: Tournament is Completed[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Denied entry]pascalleke
thinktank
gp24176281
Spartica
Sir Kick-some
spaceghst44
CAPK81
fishydance
Madmom
AeroMate
Chuuuuck
FATHARRY
Blobby
duckers
kenwhite1973
darcogoal
cowboyz[/spoiler]
Continue my Major+ Series of the Doubles tournament.
Please note that this tournament is going to have very heavy workload (around 100 games per team) and 7 new games will be started every week. Do not join unless you want to commit to the heavy game load
This one will start first week of March. Similar to my previous, Winter League.
The games settings will be as follow:
4 players doubles
CHAINED Reinforcement only
Alternating spoils (ESCALATING and NO SPOILS)
Alternating fog (NO FOG and FOG)
There will be 52 teams. They will be placed into 1 huge League, and paired up using Swiss Tournament System
There will be 14 rounds. In each round each team will play 7 games with different opponents. Each win gives you 1 point. Most points wins the tournament.
Starting from round 3, the bottom 4 teams will be eliminated from the tournament.
Entry Requirements and Sign-up procedures:
- 2200+ points for each team member.
- Players must play together at least 25 doubles games before joining this tournament. If you don't qualify because of this rule, please let me know, and I will use my own discretion.
- I can deny or allow entrance of the particular team at my own discretion.
- To sign up post your team members here. Your partner must confirm the participation by posting here too.
- Premium membership is required for the whole duration of the tournament.
- Once you are signed up, you don't have to maintain 2200+ rating.
- 52 teams places in one huge bracket.
- For the first round teams will be paired up randomly.
- Each round each team will play 7 4-players double games.
- After each round teams will be re-paired using Swiss System. (strongest will play with strongest).
- I will try to avoid the duplicate opponents, but it will not be possible every turn.
- There will be 14 rounds in total. (maximum 98 games per team in total )
- Every week we will start a new round.
- Starting from round 3, in every round the bottom 4 pairs will be eliminated from the tournament.
- In the final round, there will be 8 teams left (52;52;52;48;44;40;36;32;28;24;20;16;12;8 teams per round)
Games Settings:
- Every game will be 4 players doubles, sequential, casual.
- CHAINED Reinforcement only
- Alternating spoils (ESCALATING and NO SPOILS)
- Alternating fog (NO FOG and FOG)
Scoring and avoiding stalemates:
- Winner gets +1 match point (MP).
- Most Points wins tournament.
- If you missed a game not because of your fault then 0.5MP will be awarded
- Every game must finish by the end of round 35.
- If a game is not finished by beginning round 36 then every team remaining will get -1 (minus one) MP.
- Those rules will be applied regardless of how many armies/countries you have left.
No shows, forfeiting and substitutions
- Every team must join its games within 2 day period, since they were posted, unless advanced warning was provided. Upon expire of this period the team will receive a 0.1MP penalty and team might need to provide a substitution. If substitution is not provided, then the team will forfeit their games and will be excluded from the tournament.
- If team is excluded from the tournament when I will try to provide a substitution team, which will inherit all the MP from the excluded team.
[spoiler=Maps And Settings]Maps will be assigned from the following pool of maps:
Code: Select all
France
Space
Luxembourg
USA Rockies
Battle For Iraq!
World 2.1
Triple Alliance
Iberia
Halloween Hollows
Siege!
Dust Bowl
Malta
Doodle Earth
Hong Kong
Italy
Age Of Merchants
Puget Sound
Duck And Cover
WWII Australia
Africa
USA Southeast
BeNeLux
Europa
Asia
8 Thoughts
WWI Ottoman Empire
Conquer 4
Conquer Man
Bamboo Jack
USA Great Lakes
Alexander's Empire
Greater China
Egypt: Lower
Portugal
Iceland
Egypt: Nubia
Egypt: Upper
USA New England
South America
Classic Art
Centerscape
USApocalypse
Rail Europe
Germany
Egypt: Valley Of The Kings
Circus Maximus
Rail USA
Madagascar
High Seas
Australia
Arms Race!
USA West
American Civil War
WWII Eastern Front
CCU
Berlin 1961
Middle East
Sydney Metro
Draknor - Level 1
King Of The Mountains
Holy Roman Empire
Mongol Empire
Texan Wars
WWII Western Front
Caribbean Islands
WWII Europe
Brazil
Indochina
Ancient Greece
U.S. Senate
Prohibition Chicago
WWII Gazala
Haiti
Extreme Global Warming
Soviet Union
USA
Canada
Imperium Romanum
San Francisco
Cairns Metro
Scotland
Classic Shapes
WWII Iwo Jima
Madness
Europe 1914
NYC
Operation Drug War
Ireland
France 1789
Archipelago
Discworld
USA Southwest
Waterloo
Forbidden City
Netherlands
Midkemdil
British Isles 2
[spoiler=Questions and answers]Q. I have another player on the ignore list.
A. If you happen to be in the same group as he is, then you would need to take him off the ignore list, so they can join the games. After that you can put them back on the ignore list right after they join the game.
Q. Also how are maps assigned - is there a strict rotation?
A. We will have one single map per set of games, which will be randomly selected from the pool of maps. So not every map from the pool will be played. But everyone in a group will play the same set of maps.
Q. I am away for that week - should I get my account sitter to join the games for that week or wait until I get back?
A. Yes, you would need an account sitter to join those games. This is just because we have very busy schedule going, 5+ new games each week. If we delay the joining for a week, the schedule will be skewed and it will be a pain for me.
Q. since it's a captain+ tourney i was curious why are there teams with less than 4000 points? i have nothing against this but since i see captains or majors on the waiting list i wonder how come those weren't chosen
A. Those people had 2200 points when they signed up. Between their sign up and the time when tournament has started their rating went down.
There is no way I can expect everyone to be above 2200 for the whole duration of the tournament, otherwise i would need to disqualify half of the players.
Think about 2200+ more like entry requirement, which kind of shows your ability. The reason why 2200+ rule is in place is to provide the strong competition. And not to limit your potential rating loses.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Updates]Feb 13: Registration Open
Mar 1: Round 1 Started
Mar 9: Round 2 Started
Mar 18: Round 3 Started
Apr 2: Round 4 Started
Apr 17: Round 5 Started
Apr 29: Round 6 Started
May 14: Round 7 Started
May 29: Round 8 Started
Jun 10: Round 9 Started
Jun 24: Round 10 Started
Jul 8: Round 11 Started
Jul 28: Round 12 Started
Aug 12: Round 13 Started
Sep 8: Final Round 14 Started
Sep 22: Tournament is Completed[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Denied entry]pascalleke
thinktank
gp24176281
Spartica
Sir Kick-some
spaceghst44
CAPK81
fishydance
Madmom
AeroMate
Chuuuuck
FATHARRY
Blobby
duckers
kenwhite1973
darcogoal
cowboyz[/spoiler]
go thota 