[WTL 2021] Winter - Week 11 - Page 5

On December 22 2021 23:50 Moonerz wrote:
However, realistically is there any incentive for a team to agree to play a game ahead of time when by simply declining that request they can force one of their opponents best players out of the match? Once it gets towards the end of the season and the stakes feel/are higher I couldn't blame a team for not shifting their games around to suit their opponent.

On December 23 2021 01:32 lepricon1992 wrote:


Admin did confirm that “3 rep chance for no reason” rule exists, and yes TL has ran out of their chance before this round. Admin said considerung this might be the most important match for two teams in regular season, he wanted to deal with it in a humanized way, by not forbidding TL to send clem. So he agreed to help TL to negotiate. Therefore, TL should take the risk (and they did accept): either GP agree TL's timetable to play against Clem(which obviously benifits TL), or GP agree TL to change player and take a little bit advantage (but not as big as a 1-0 start, in this case it's that GP can choose a player to play against, plus 1 more round server advantage).

Admin emphasized that both two teams were satisfied with the result, there was no dispute at all. What wardi said in stream yesterday was nothing more than a misinterpretation.

On December 23 2021 01:29 WardiTV wrote:


I think the idea is that you can't refuse to play ahead of time, if the other team still has uses of their "playing ahead" counter or however it is. The league even tried to reschedule the Liquid game, when they heard Ryung couldn't play when told, but then Clem was away for holidays so he just wasn't back in any time to play it. So it's not really about declining, if your opponent requests it you have to go by it, there was just no solution here with this final week being so close to the holidays etc / roster released close to the play day.

On December 23 2021 02:06 Nakajin wrote:


The 3 "reschedule" allowed feels like a bad idea to me, it's just asking to lead into problems (it's unclear what would have happened here, I guess GP loses Ryung and has to field someone else/forfeit?)

I think it should just be: The WTL (SCBoy) set the schedule. If a team want to reschedule, they need the accord of the opposite team and off the WTL. If either refuse, the team has to field someone else or forfeit, if the other team accept to reschedule but then can't make it to the agreed time, they have to field someone else or forfeit.

The WTL can change the schedule unilateraly with or without consultation of the teams. (For exemple if there is a tournament overlap they want to avoid)

Honestly I don't think it would change much, most people are pretty chill with rescheduling, but it would solve the problem.

On December 23 2021 02:18 WardiTV wrote:


It would change a lot - why would you accept reschedules if you don't have to and you could force your opponents teams to be missing players? At a guess I would say ~50% of matches this season have included some maps from replays, so it's a pretty huge chunk to just say "get on with it"

And I don't think they would lose Ryung, I think it's an issue with it being the end of the season, WTL were willing to change the match schedule to help. Mostly it's not a problem as when players are told they need to play early with enough time to do so, everybody can, because pro players availability is very high.

On December 23 2021 19:26 swarminfestor wrote:


Qlash needs to add Terran and Protoss players in their team roster. Are they any remaining player who haven't sign up yet for a team?