League has concluded. The defending champions, Courage, have taken the title again! Stealth Bunnies have taken the second place, and DeSPA have taken the third!
What is this? Welcome to the D Ranks Team League Season 3! Following the success of the first two seasons, we are now partnered with bwcl.de! They are a long-standing Broodwar league with 41 seasons played out so far and counting, and have graciously decided to provide us with their site to handle scheduling, results and standings. This is a for fun team league for players in the D ranks. The aim is to provide a team for new/lower level players to practice with. Hopefully, this will achieve two things: Interest more people in Brood War, and help you get better at it. While having fun. Hopefully Season 3 will be even better than Season 2 too!
When? The league starts on July 15 2012 8am PST and takes place on every Sunday following that. It will conclude on October 14 2012 8am PAT followed by a playoff.
Where? The tournament will be held in channel op DRTL on the iCCup server.
How to watch:
L_Master and TheShimmy are running a channel on Twitch TV dedicated to D ranks tournaments and leagues http://www.twitch.tv/drtlchannel
If you would like your stream added to this list, please PM Nikon with more information.
Format: Teams will play one bo5 with no ace match. Team captains will have until the Wednesday before the match to form their lineups and relay them to an admin. The selected players will play a bo1 to decide the outcome for that map. First to team to win three maps wins the match.
Rules: If you have an issue during match time please contact DRTL.Nikon on iCCup to resolve it.
No excessive BMing. Manner CCs, Hatcheries and Nexii, as well as pylon hearts, nukes and infested terrans however, are encouraged.
Winning team sends replays to dteamleague@gmail.com following the matches.
Winning team's captain must PM me the result of their match.
Standard ICCUP rules apply.
No excessive chatting, e.g. do not be distracting during the middle of the game.
If players are race pickers they must announce their races within 12 hours of the lineups getting posted.
Players need to identify which team they are playing with in their profile during match time.
Players must play using the ID they used to sign up.
Games must be played on the maps listed in the schedule.
Maps must come from the latest ICCUP mappack.
If a player disconnects in the first three minutes then a regame will be granted. If the same player disconnects again they will be d/q. Any disconnect after three minutes will be reviewed by DRTL.Nikon unless one of the players willingly forfeits.
Race picking will be allowed, but if you pick to play a certain race on a given day, you must continue playing that race throughout the whole day. You will only be allowed to change your race for the next week. For the purposes of this league, random will not be allowed.
You can find all the maps in the latest ICCUP map pack here. (v2.3, last updated on the 25th of July, 2012)
Who can play: This league is only for D-/D/D+ rank players who are willing to participate consistently.
How to Sign up: Since this is the third season, previous season teams will be allowed to re-enter the competition. If you didn't participate in the previous seasons, but want to form a team with your friends and enter it, it will also be allowed. If you want to sign up as a team, PM me on the forums.
If you want to sign up as a free agent reply to this thread with the following info: Rank: ICCUP account: Race:
You must also register at bwcl.de. Captains should create their teams there and give the join password to people that are on their team. Teams will be slotted into the schedule once the season begins.
Man u didnt add my epic storm against shuruken in the hype video I am a sad panda.
@Topic: I think TAKK will play again in this, but as Arya is our teamcaptain now, he will make the official application. Anyways this season is TAKK's season to win. 2 top 3 finishes in the past seasons are enough.
Maybe someone will pick me up to his team. I'am D+ terran msj[uround] Participated in DRIT #1 and #2.
Actually, all-kill is not interesting for low level, because in BO7 case there is needed only 4 best players per team, also weakest players would play less than experienced players. I think that standart system would be much more interesting, teamplay will be more important (I mean sending right player against right opponent, on right map, also preparing for your match will be possible, because you know map you are going to be sent).
I think we should have a draft over the free agents, or atleast let the organizers place them out, in order to balance out the teams as much as possible. I'm not entirely convinced by some of the maps. I'm afraid that Neo Outlier will be a bit too confusing to most, but if people wants it, then fine.
Maybe we should decide atleast some of the maps by polls? I nominate Icarus, La Mancha, Match Point and Python.
On July 01 2012 21:31 fabiano wrote: Sick! :D
Should we rebuild Airforce?!
Yes. I think we can get a total of 4 (maybe more) returning players from last season, and we can fill up the rest with drafts.
I'm signing up for Team Airforce Ace of Spades. L1ghtning Terran D rank
I'd like to participate (never been a part of this before) but what times are the matches held and on what days? I want to make certain it doesn't clash with anything else before signing up.
Team 2 is gonna participate again. I need to get in touch with some members to confirm their participation so the roster is gonna be update. We need some new players though. Current roster Eywa (P) skylinez/ouzo(T,P) massssssss (Z) LMaster (P) captain
btw nikon plz give a shoutout to stratos for the awesome hype video
I want to play, not sure if victorious Secret is regrouping or not but if not then I would want to get picked up (team Despa looks nice I like the people there ^o^).
sGs.BaBo D+ P
I think winners league -style is a great idea ^^ It's different and a lot of fun
Format: Teams will play one bo7 all-kill format. The first players to be sent out will be decided on the spot by team captains and relayed to an admin. The selected players will play a bo1 to decide the outcome for that map. Winning player stays, loser must be changed. First to team to win four maps won wins the match.
Wow. I sincerely hope this is a misquote/typo.
This is a terrible idea. There is way to much variance in skill for this to be effective and will really impact the chances for guys that are D-, D, and maybe even low D+ to play.
Format: Teams will play one bo7 all-kill format. The first players to be sent out will be decided on the spot by team captains and relayed to an admin. The selected players will play a bo1 to decide the outcome for that map. Winning player stays, loser must be changed. First to team to win four maps won wins the match.
Wow. I sincerely hope this is a misquote/typo.
This is a terrible idea. There is way to much variance in skill for this to be effective and will really impact the chances for guys that are D-, D, and maybe even low D+ to play.
Exactly... can imagine situation, where Babo rape other teams like 4-0 :D. This format is fun and entertaining, where everyone can beat everyone, like in proleague or iccup clan league. But here IMO will be more fun to play like standart thing. But i don't know what with activity of players, maybe there will not be 6 players per team.
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