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Sky League Group Assignment & Update (3/22 & 3/29 @ 4pm EDT / 8pm UTC)
Mr. Ace Rimmer:
I'm not so confident considering we ended up with 3 teams in D and if I'm not mistaken, 5 in E? That being said, what is done is done and Overwatch as a team will still be participating in the Sky league.
Puppy Fur:
--- Quote from: Urz on March 31, 2014, 04:41:50 am ---Mothers Against Gaming and Clockwork Cavalry, consisting of new players who had a misunderstanding about what constitutes a full team, showed up with seven players between the two of them ready to play. Muse, who had missed the signup deadline while traveling for GDC, showed up with eight players ready to play. So the choices were to either disqualify the two new teams and not allow Muse late entry, denying the 23 players who had set aside their Saturday afternoon any matches, or work it out in a way that everyone gets to play (which will also have a negligible effect on future rounds due to the composition of the group). I'm confident in my decision.
Sorry to hear you'll no longer be participating, PuppyFur.
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Taking into consideration what you said I'll see about continuing with Sky League though I don't fully agree with it.
Thomas:
My only issue with what happened is how the rules were bent for these teams in particular.
Every other team had to sign up by the deadline. If there was a possibility for teams to show up late and still have a chance of getting in, this should have been mentioned somewhere. Along with signing up after the tournament had already started (and getting a pretty easy group because of it).
As for MAG/CC fusing, that was technically already allowed under the rules, with teams only being bound to a team after playing for them. This way there still would have been two no-shows, allowing everyone who signed up on time and showed up to play.
And while MAG/CC didn't have a full 'team', there was nothing in the rules saying you needed a full 8 players. The 'team' actually isn't defined anywhere in the ruleset, which probably lead to a lot of misunderstandings from the newer teams; especially when combined with talk about randomly pairing teams in the group stage. ((It was later discussed in the thread, but never put into the official ruleset))
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Overall it was more to watch, but compromised the rules put in place
((I'm not that upset, just love this meme. xD ))
Skrimskraw:
the biggest problem that I can see is that Muse had a free pass into the playoffs.
a bit unfair to some of the teams that signed up on time.
other than that, so far the tournament have been a Little chaotic, the changes to single elimination and the substitution rules which are more fair to teams that play in week 1, because teams in week 0 play on the 5th, and subs are free to play for whomever after the 6th.
N-Sunderland:
--- Quote from: Skrimskraw on March 31, 2014, 01:46:10 pm ---the changes to single elimination and the substitution rules which are more fair to teams that play in week 1, because teams in week 0 play on the 5th, and subs are free to play for whomever after the 6th.
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All the teams that play in week 0 are subject to the same rule, and when they play in week 1 nobody's (effectively) subject to it. I don't see the problem.
EDIT: In case I wasn't clear enough, what I mean is that in week 0 all the teams that play have restricted subs, so it's all fair, and then when they play in week 1 everybody's subs are basically unrestricted, so once again it's a level playing field.
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