EPTNational StarLeague: The Battle of North America - Page 12
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hampsters
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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
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CanucksJC
Canada1241 Posts
On December 25 2011 10:22 goswser wrote: The team house rule needs to be amended or something. Only fielding 3 players isn't a handicap in the slightest in a bo7. The states with RGN and EG in them will dominate if these teams elect to participate, unless some change is made that disallows pro houses from competing. I will try to be as transparent as possible when we made this decision. The team houses obviously make this situation more complicated. I am very aware that some regions are weaker than another and some are obviously too stacked. Let's say that BC was playing against Arizona, for comparison's sake. Arizona decides to field 3 EG players (PuMa, iNcontroL, Machine) and 4 other mid-high masters players. BC decides to field Stalife, Optikzero, Chance and 4 other GMs. I picked an extreme case in picking BC as an opponent, but at the same time, BC doesn't have a pro team house, and I would call this match even, if not favored towards BC. Our goal was to somehow limit one pro team's overwhelming presence in a team, not to completely shut it down. Also, we wanted to respect that these players from the team houses are still a part of the local community as well. CSL has successfully bonded players from the same school and created rivalries between neighbouring schools, and we hope to achieve the same. One change we can consider again is to change the number of 3 maximum players to 2 players, and increase this number back to 3 in the playoffs when the format becomes BO9. | ||
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arcane1129
United States271 Posts
Granted, there was no online for that game, so traveling was very important for tournies. However, pitting a state like New Hampshire vs California seems pretty one sided considering the potential talent pool, no? | ||
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unit
United States2621 Posts
edit:from maryland if that makes a difference in the info i would need | ||
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CanucksJC
Canada1241 Posts
On December 25 2011 16:35 unit wrote: so is anything even confirmed yet, such as how the league will be broken up (when i showed up it was by region but now it appears to be by state?) that and i still have no clue how to get in on this as a potential player TT edit:from maryland if that makes a difference in the info i would need It has always been State by State, some people were apparently confused by the random map of NA that I chose to display at the top. I will release a list of confirmed regions with managers shortly after the holidays, and I can PM you the info of the Maryland manager for now. | ||
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jsemmens
United States439 Posts
On December 25 2011 15:26 CanucksJC wrote: I will try to be as transparent as possible when we made this decision. The team houses obviously make this situation more complicated. I am very aware that some regions are weaker than another and some are obviously too stacked. Let's say that BC was playing against Arizona, for comparison's sake. Arizona decides to field 3 EG players (PuMa, iNcontroL, Machine) and 4 other mid-high masters players. BC decides to field Stalife, Optikzero, Chance and 4 other GMs. I picked an extreme case in picking BC as an opponent, but at the same time, BC doesn't have a pro team house, and I would call this match even, if not favored towards BC. Our goal was to somehow limit one pro team's overwhelming presence in a team, not to completely shut it down. Also, we wanted to respect that these players from the team houses are still a part of the local community as well. CSL has successfully bonded players from the same school and created rivalries between neighbouring schools, and we hope to achieve the same. One change we can consider again is to change the number of 3 maximum players to 2 players, and increase this number back to 3 in the playoffs when the format becomes BO9. I wouldn't worry about this too much. EG members rarely come to local LANs (not more than one at any given event, I think), and the team probably would not be very interested in investing time in the event unless you are planning on putting on significant prize money. For example, IPL wasn't even able to get them into the Team Arena Challenge tournament, and that was only a couple week commitment with a well known organization for a decent amount of prize money. | ||
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Neoattitude
Guam172 Posts
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ePLocust
United States587 Posts
On December 25 2011 14:01 chadissilent wrote: Possible amendments: - You MUST have lived in your current state for 12 months otherwise you play for the state you come from. OR - 1 player from a Pro house is permitted to compete. The rest may compete for their home states. This screws with college kids so idt it's such a good idea. | ||
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theBOOCH
United States832 Posts
I do think that it should be considered that if a state or province cannot form a functional team (not necessarily a good team, I think that's too subjective- regions that can't organize the minimum number of fairly high-level players to be competitive) within some allotted period of time, players may be absorbed into an adjacent state/province that does have a functioning team (possibly including Puerto Rico, Guam, other territories that are municipalities or the U.S. or Canada). This would be a little simpler than just combining regions (as no new managers would need to be found, or new teams created). This could be double-checked for fairness by ensuring that no absorbed region plus the absorbing region out-populates California (the most populous single state/province by far). The combined region would then play under the name of the absorbing region to keep things easy and avoid having confusing proprietary regional names. The ultimate benefit of this would not be more teams (as would be the case if small regions combined to create new competitive regions), but slightly more even teams by representative population which could, at least in theory, result in somewhat more competitive play within the whole league. And it would have the huge benefit that any good player in the U.S. and Canada would at least have a chance to play. | ||
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fenix404
United States305 Posts
there is a big group in LSU area, but i'm around NO. wouldn't mind helpin out though. | ||
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goswser
United States3548 Posts
On December 25 2011 15:26 CanucksJC wrote: I will try to be as transparent as possible when we made this decision. The team houses obviously make this situation more complicated. I am very aware that some regions are weaker than another and some are obviously too stacked. Let's say that BC was playing against Arizona, for comparison's sake. Arizona decides to field 3 EG players (PuMa, iNcontroL, Machine) and 4 other mid-high masters players. BC decides to field Stalife, Optikzero, Chance and 4 other GMs. I picked an extreme case in picking BC as an opponent, but at the same time, BC doesn't have a pro team house, and I would call this match even, if not favored towards BC. Our goal was to somehow limit one pro team's overwhelming presence in a team, not to completely shut it down. Also, we wanted to respect that these players from the team houses are still a part of the local community as well. CSL has successfully bonded players from the same school and created rivalries between neighbouring schools, and we hope to achieve the same. One change we can consider again is to change the number of 3 maximum players to 2 players, and increase this number back to 3 in the playoffs when the format becomes BO9. With that change I think it would be much more fair, I doubt EG will field 3 players every week anyways, if any team were to do that it would probably be RGN. | ||
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neo_sporin
United States516 Posts
On December 25 2011 14:47 EtherealDeath wrote: Some regions are really stacked T.T (i.e. California). Would be nice if North Carolina and South Carolina could combine to form a Carolinas team, as I know the good players around here and it'd be much better of a showing if that were done as opposed to either state standing alone. NC fighting!...and by fighting i mean getting rocked. | ||
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Oreo7
United States1647 Posts
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IntoTheBush
United States552 Posts
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dhe95
United States1213 Posts
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CanucksJC
Canada1241 Posts
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jsemmens
United States439 Posts
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Resonance
Canada113 Posts
i just think that way there can be some variety in the people that play each week... | ||
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Senros
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