I want to say thank you to everyone that has posted so far with your thoughts and comments. I wanted to give a bit of an update on the time table of things and see if we could focus discussion on that.

My thoughts on a season of ACW is that it would start September 1st. 3 weeks from now and end the entire season AND playoffs by December 15.

I was tentatively thinking based on how many clans/people signed up of doing matches I would LOVE to do matches EVERY week. That's 16 weeks straight of StarCraft. Would it be best to hold games on Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays? OR give people a week to play games at their leisure with a hard date to turn in replays?

If once a week is too hardcore, we can discuss every other week options.

Poll will decide. The Poll will CLOSE in 1 week. The POLL for which format bo1 or Bo3 will close in 1 week as well. 12pm Friday the 18th. I've updated the OP with the new Poll.

Demurity

United States424 Posts

August 11 2017 15:25 GMT

#85

September through December is an entire quarter, uh wow...

It gets disorganized when people have an entire week to setup their matches imo. Should have to play on like Friday and/or Saturday.

Psyonic_Reaver

United States4342 Posts

August 11 2017 15:32 GMT

#86

I was thinking 3 months of matches round robin style with everyone hopefully playing each other at least twice and then 3 weeks for play offs.

If that seems absurdly long, let's discuss!

Edit: to give context most ProLeagues ran around 3 to 4 months at a time.

Jealous

10314 Posts

August 11 2017 16:32 GMT

#87

From my experience with CPL, that should be an acceptable duration and requirement for games played per week. Having flexible game times (play during this week whenever you two decide if one of you can't make it to the set game time) and of course a set game time worked pretty well for CPL. As with all amateur foreign leagues, even with that freedom included, there will still be absenteeism and there is nothing you can do about it besides make strict and unchanging rules about what happens when someone doesn't play/show up.

In other words, I think that poll is poorly designed. There should be one poll for whether there should be a week of freedom to set a personal time with your opponent, and then another poll to determine what should be the "official" game time.

Psyonic_Reaver

United States4342 Posts

August 11 2017 17:03 GMT

#88

I'm not opposed to that. More freedom is better.

So to clarify to everyone. What is being suggested is that clans will have the option to play anytime during the week but are REQUIRED to play no later than Friday/Sat/Sun during the official play time.

And it looks like Sunday is becoming the fan favorite thus far.
Once we've locked down a date. I'll discuss official play times.

Demurity

United States424 Posts

August 11 2017 17:24 GMT

#89

On August 12 2017 02:03 Psyonic_Reaver wrote:
I'm not opposed to that. More freedom is better.

So to clarify to everyone. What is being suggested is that clans will have the option to play anytime during the week but are REQUIRED to play no later than Friday/Sat/Sun during the official play time.

And it looks like Sunday is becoming the fan favorite thus far.
Once we've locked down a date. I'll discuss official play times.

Feck I accidentally voted for Sunday instead of Saturday. Plz adjust at the end for this. Sunday is no bueno

SCC-Faust

United States3736 Posts

August 11 2017 21:09 GMT

#90

Ya'll sup boys, PM me to get in on this SCC team. We have a pretty solid line-up so far. We are in it to win it.

HerbMon

United States469 Posts

August 11 2017 21:18 GMT

#91

Please keep me in mind for any casting down the road. I know it's kinda of a ways out but i'll be available in 7 weeks. This is a great idea and people need to get in on this.

TelecoM

United States10710 Posts

August 11 2017 22:17 GMT

#92

On August 12 2017 06:09 SCC-Faust wrote:
Ya'll sup boys, PM me to get in on this SCC team. We have a pretty solid line-up so far. We are in it to win it.

I think we can agree that we need to make a Looking for Clan thread, so we don't spam for members in here --

iPlaY.NettleS

Australia4411 Posts

August 12 2017 13:18 GMT

#93

On August 10 2017 23:22 Salv wrote:
Actually, on second thought - personally I don't understand the appeal of having any 2v2 matches. In my experience with any type of team match - the 2v2s are almost always two teammates partnering up for the sake of the match without prior 2v2 practice or strategy.

In the case of dM- this is not true, they run very strong 2v2 teams.
I say keep the 2v2 but have it on the same footing as the 1v1s, not double.
Also BO3 for me in the poll.