Agreed in principle, however this is a short "quasi-competitive" mini-pilot league. For ease of facilitation and practicing for newer players maps will remain as is.

Rest assured if this goes reasonably well and a full length league is held one map for all matchups will not be the modus operandi for that league.

I really don't think ease of facilitation and practicing for new players weighs up to the downsides of having one set map for each round. I request that you poll this, if necessary just with the newer players because I personally feel that having one map per round will be very detrimental to the enjoyment, both in terms of strategy as well as watching casts or casting.

chrisolo

Germany2610 Posts

November 21 2014 11:36 GMT

#247

I agree with Artanis. Having one map per week is simply dull. You cannot really have a team strategy by setting up players on different maps etc etc.

I loved the differentiation of maps, since some people were exclussively seeded on some maps, so you could try to snipe the player with one of your own players, which trained specifically for that player. Sometimes the opposing player wasnt seeded or was seeded on a different map, so it was kind of a tactical maneuver.

So please start a poll for it. And since I know you, you might see this too late, so I ll just create one for you. If you do not want to use it, just make another one.

Poll: Do you want to have different maps in a week or not?

Yes (9)

45%

No (7)

35%

I do not mind (4)

20%

20 total votes

Your vote: Do you want to have different maps in a week or not?

(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No
(Vote): I do not mind

Ilikestarcraft

Korea (South)17743 Posts

November 21 2014 12:05 GMT

#248

I agree that having different maps provides more variety but it makes it harder to match players against similar ranked players. With different maps you have situations where one team fields a c- player on fs while the other team fields a d player. When its the same map for everyone you can just match the players with their ranks.

I think a way if people want different maps is to have maps different but have them designated with a rank for the week. Like for one week fs is for d players, circuit breaker and sniper ridge for d+ players and the rest for c- players.

DarkNetHunter

1224 Posts

November 21 2014 15:18 GMT

#249

On November 21 2014 21:05 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
I agree that having different maps provides more variety but it makes it harder to match players against similar ranked players. With different maps you have situations where one team fields a c- player on fs while the other team fields a d player. When its the same map for everyone you can just match the players with their ranks.

I think a way if people want different maps is to have maps different but have them designated with a rank for the week. Like for one week fs is for d players, circuit breaker and sniper ridge for d+ players and the rest for c- players.

This, if the vote turns to a Yes, favours No atm

Cpt.beefy

Ireland799 Posts

November 21 2014 18:17 GMT

#250

I've voted. I don't mind. Playing LESS of the normal maps is better for improvement imo. Which I still think these leagues are about, self-improvement.

Qikz

United Kingdom12055 Posts

November 21 2014 21:21 GMT

#251

I've voted for yes as playing on purely one map as a whole team each week is silly. To become better you need to learn more maps and adapt to them. Sure you could field yourself on FS every week, but then another team will just snipe you.

GeckoXp

Germany2016 Posts

November 21 2014 22:32 GMT

#252

You guys do realize that everyone and anyone can vote multiple times in TL.net polls, right?

Besides the point, I don't see how maps are that difficult nowadays. It's not like there's island maps or stuff like Troy around anymore, where suddenly nothing makes sense.

L_Master

United States8017 Posts

November 21 2014 23:02 GMT

#253

C-: Sentenal, EchOne, rlentless, snipinpanda
D+: ils, ryuhou
D: kazehydra

Chrisolo

C- (1)
Biolunar:

D Rand and Tell
Artanis

C- (2)
JXN

D+ PP (1)
aztec

C- (3)
traceurling

D+ (2)
scriv

C- (4)

Sabas C-
psionicrevaer C-
[sam]gohan C-
rulzboom C-
evileye D?
xkcd D?
pebble D?

TAKK

Open D
Falling D+
Hollerado D+
Dazed Spy C-
Stardom C-
Shiriashi C-
IceDraco C-

Sorry, don't have time to format since I'm on vacation. For pairing off matchs go by listed order/numbers. I.e. first listed C- pairs with first listed C-

Little unsure on a few ranks of Khan

L_Master

United States8017 Posts

November 21 2014 23:07 GMT

#254

As a double check reference, tour will start 19 hours from time of this post.

ICCup Channel: DRTL

LightningStrike

United States14277 Posts

November 21 2014 23:07 GMT

#255

Psyonic Reaver we playing each other again since DRTL 2 but I need postpone or play 1 hour earlier I playing at a Yugioh tournament around 12:30 and want to play my best without time problems :|