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ErrantMind
Profile Joined March 2012
United States63 Posts
May 29 2012 12:12 GMT
#981
On May 29 2012 12:17 Dasende wrote:
At a quick glance I believe the playoffs teams have all been decided, and it's now seeding points.


yep, even if galaxy can't get our heads straight and lower ranked teams tie up with us our first-place tied points lead keeps us in the playoffs.

good game, good luck!
Robo-boogey
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia110 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-29 12:15:05
May 29 2012 12:14 GMT
#982
Here's my usual reminder for the week:

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howLiN
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Portugal1676 Posts
May 29 2012 15:23 GMT
#983
The King's Men need to send their lineup as soon as possible, you're not letting your players and Galaxy's play your games.
Chasian18
Profile Joined September 2011
United States38 Posts
May 29 2012 19:02 GMT
#984
I know I'm a little sore about our team not being able to get in playoffs, but first off, why only half of the league gets in? and second why do we go by match results and not single games to determine who gets in. I don't understand the point of ace match if all 3 games don't count towards the point score. I'll probably edit this later, I'm in a hurry.

PAYBACKchas
To lose is to learn.
GlintFox
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States275 Posts
May 29 2012 19:29 GMT
#985
On May 30 2012 00:23 howLiN wrote:
The King's Men need to send their lineup as soon as possible, you're not letting your players and Galaxy's play your games.


Yea TKM. And Howlin, I would of preferred you waiting to post our lineup until theirs was submitted.
"Fear. Fear attracts the fearful… the strong… the weak… the innocent… the corrupt. Fear. Fear is my ally." -Darth Maul
Ksquared
Profile Joined July 2011
United States1748 Posts
May 29 2012 19:54 GMT
#986
On May 30 2012 04:02 Chasian18 wrote:
I know I'm a little sore about our team not being able to get in playoffs, but first off, why only half of the league gets in? and second why do we go by match results and not single games to determine who gets in. I don't understand the point of ace match if all 3 games don't count towards the point score. I'll probably edit this later, I'm in a hurry.

PAYBACKchas


I wondered about that too. The ace match isn't even a real ace match. I think we should mimic the EGMC and do a series of 4 and if its tied do an ace match.
eSports for life.
Skorbnut
Profile Joined February 2012
United States20 Posts
May 29 2012 20:06 GMT
#987
I just realized Chas' point about the ace match. It counts for essentially 1 match point, and is a Bo3 instead of a Bo1. It really should count as 2 "points" with a possibility of losing a match even though you go 3-3 in "points" (2-0 the ace match, but go 1-3 in the other games.) I figured that's what it was, but I looked up the game between my team and BM. Realized we didn't get a point for fire going 2-1. Really defeats the purpose.
PAYBACKSkorb - More gg, More skill. Line 'em up.
Reedjr
Profile Joined April 2011
United States228 Posts
May 29 2012 20:07 GMT
#988
We need the ace match in this format because it's effing impossible to have all the matches played in any sort of order. Unless if you like seeing walkovers as the majority of wins. And it gives more players the opportunity to play each week; as someone who's been in a lot of ace matches, it would suck to wait around until Sunday night (if I'm even available then) only to find out that I won't have to play this week.

As far as only 4 teams in the playoffs, everyone was fine with it at the start of the season. If you're in the top 4, you're still fine with it, and if you're in the bottom 4 you're not. The way to get in the playoffs was clear, and if you wanted to get in your team should have won more.
zefreak
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States2731 Posts
May 29 2012 20:29 GMT
#989
On May 30 2012 05:06 Skorbnut wrote:
It really should count as 2 "points" with a possibility of losing a match even though you go 3-3 in "points" (2-0 the ace match, but go 1-3 in the other games.)


This doesn't make sense. It's just a bo3, and match wins are based on set score, not map score.

I don't see a problem with the ace match the way it is, all it does is allow more games to be played and slightly reduce the chance of upsets.
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Skorbnut
Profile Joined February 2012
United States20 Posts
May 29 2012 21:27 GMT
#990
On May 30 2012 05:29 zefreak wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2012 05:06 Skorbnut wrote:
It really should count as 2 "points" with a possibility of losing a match even though you go 3-3 in "points" (2-0 the ace match, but go 1-3 in the other games.)


This doesn't make sense. It's just a bo3, and match wins are based on set score, not map score.

I don't see a problem with the ace match the way it is, all it does is allow more games to be played and slightly reduce the chance of upsets.


Yes it does. The ace match allows for 2 points to be won instead of one. But the match is still based off the amount of sets won, not games.

The problem with the ace, is that the title of "ace" doesn't really belong there. It's not weighted any differently. I think a better, different way to handle the ace, is to do Bo5 (or Bo7), and if a team goes up 3-0, or 3-1, the match ends there. But if it's 2-2, each team gets to choose a player (blind of each other) to play in a Bo5/7 to decide the match.
PAYBACKSkorb - More gg, More skill. Line 'em up.
ErrantMind
Profile Joined March 2012
United States63 Posts
May 29 2012 21:30 GMT
#991
On May 30 2012 04:02 Chasian18 wrote:
I know I'm a little sore about our team not being able to get in playoffs, but first off, why only half of the league gets in? and second why do we go by match results and not single games to determine who gets in. I don't understand the point of ace match if all 3 games don't count towards the point score. I'll probably edit this later, I'm in a hurry.

PAYBACKchas


it seems like the match pts vs set wins is a to-may-to or to-mah-to situation, either one is a fine way to rank the teams, but whichever is chosen someone can complain that the other way is better. hell, if it was by match points, galaxy'd still be fighting for the top of the heap!

as for why only the top 4 teams are in the playoffs, i don't want to sound condescending but not everyone can win, tyler durden has the right idea here. We arent all unique snowflakes, no matter what my mom told me. but logistically, if every team got into the playoffs, then the regular season amounts to 7 weeks of wasting time. All it would do is set the seeding, and those teams that had a better record would have earned nothing through the season.

as for why all 3 match games dont count, i dunno, i can't answer that other than the math may not add up to a clear cut winner that way.


but heres an idea i had for the structure of the playoffs: instead of the standard 5 matches (that i assume is the plan) what about a league based all-kill? change things up a bit, maybe harder to coordinate, but give everyone on the team an opponent in thier league, and cull the winners down until theres only 1 player in each league. 3 leagues, 3 possible points, easy to call a winner.
GlintFox
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States275 Posts
May 29 2012 21:34 GMT
#992
On May 30 2012 06:27 Skorbnut wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2012 05:29 zefreak wrote:
On May 30 2012 05:06 Skorbnut wrote:
It really should count as 2 "points" with a possibility of losing a match even though you go 3-3 in "points" (2-0 the ace match, but go 1-3 in the other games.)


This doesn't make sense. It's just a bo3, and match wins are based on set score, not map score.

I don't see a problem with the ace match the way it is, all it does is allow more games to be played and slightly reduce the chance of upsets.


Yes it does. The ace match allows for 2 points to be won instead of one. But the match is still based off the amount of sets won, not games.

The problem with the ace, is that the title of "ace" doesn't really belong there. It's not weighted any differently. I think a better, different way to handle the ace, is to do Bo5 (or Bo7), and if a team goes up 3-0, or 3-1, the match ends there. But if it's 2-2, each team gets to choose a player (blind of each other) to play in a Bo5/7 to decide the match.

It used to be the last match played and thus the decider for some matches. Then we changed the setup where we can play out of order
"Fear. Fear attracts the fearful… the strong… the weak… the innocent… the corrupt. Fear. Fear is my ally." -Darth Maul
GlintFox
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States275 Posts
May 29 2012 21:49 GMT
#993
I really like the idea of an all kill, then everyone would get to play and feel part of the team playoffs on said teams
"Fear. Fear attracts the fearful… the strong… the weak… the innocent… the corrupt. Fear. Fear is my ally." -Darth Maul
zefreak
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States2731 Posts
May 29 2012 22:01 GMT
#994
All kill is a bad idea I think, I mean TKP only has 1 bronze and 2 active silvers. Standard all-kill is just a horrible format for a bronze to gold league and the one you describe is both confusing and seems like it would take much longer than the current format.
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zefreak
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States2731 Posts
May 29 2012 22:02 GMT
#995
On May 30 2012 06:30 ErrantMind wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2012 04:02 Chasian18 wrote:
I know I'm a little sore about our team not being able to get in playoffs, but first off, why only half of the league gets in? and second why do we go by match results and not single games to determine who gets in. I don't understand the point of ace match if all 3 games don't count towards the point score. I'll probably edit this later, I'm in a hurry.

PAYBACKchas


it seems like the match pts vs set wins is a to-may-to or to-mah-to situation, either one is a fine way to rank the teams, but whichever is chosen someone can complain that the other way is better. hell, if it was by match points, galaxy'd still be fighting for the top of the heap!


In any league ever, match score counts over map score.
www.gosu-sc.com - Starcraft News, Strategy and Merchandise
Reedjr
Profile Joined April 2011
United States228 Posts
May 29 2012 22:03 GMT
#996
I like the idea of all kill, but it's way too impractical as teams have differing amounts of active players at each skill level and then scheduling is made even more difficult. There is no way we'd get matches done on a weekly basis.
Ksquared
Profile Joined July 2011
United States1748 Posts
May 29 2012 22:04 GMT
#997
All kill won't work for a team league filled with different skill levels.
eSports for life.
ErrantMind
Profile Joined March 2012
United States63 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-29 22:13:33
May 29 2012 22:10 GMT
#998
On May 30 2012 07:01 zefreak wrote:
All kill is a bad idea I think, I mean TKP only has 1 bronze and 2 active silvers. Standard all-kill is just a horrible format for a bronze to gold league and the one you describe is both confusing and seems like it would take much longer than the current format.


If all my ideas were good, i wouldnt be hooked on meth and have a wooden leg. it certainly would take longer than our standard match, and may in fact be a bad idea, but i don't think its too confusing for our paltry b-s-g minds to comprehend

edit: to clarify, i meant all kill in each league. Bronzies fight to the last bronzie, silvers to the last man, and golds murder each other around until someone stands on a pile of bodies. by far the best arguement against it, imo, is that some teams don't have a full roster, and that would be unfair.
howLiN
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Portugal1676 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-29 23:08:03
May 29 2012 23:07 GMT
#999
An all-kill format is just too impractical scheduling-wise and because teams have players from different leagues. We went over this when we discussed the format before the season began.

We favor match wins over set wins because it's a team league. By favoring set wins we would be basically saying that individual results matter more than team results. It's more important to a team league when a team, as a whole, beats another team, rather than individual players beating each other.

About the ace set, the original point of the ace set was because the sets were supposed to be played in order, so the last set would have a bigger weight because it would untie the match. We really didn't find a nice way to convey the result of an ace set into the match score, I admit that. Maybe for the next season we could implement something like NASL does, where a 2-0 counts as two wins and a 2-1 counts as one win. But then again, if sets aren't to be played in order, maybe we don't actually need a ace set with different rules.

As for the playoffs format, I like where it is right now. It rewards the top teams without taking away too much competition time from the lower teams.
MaximusT
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States126 Posts
May 30 2012 00:38 GMT
#1000
I heard a rumor in the CTL chat a few days ago about an off-race tourney for shits and giggles? What's the word on that?
I like the building position. Optimized to let the other player penetrate his anal crevice as easily as possible, it's good. - Destiny
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