Hello again all! I know things have been quiet the last two weeks or so. The S26 Finals should be just around the corner but the admin team has been hard at work in the backgrounds gearing up for the upcoming year. I wanted to give everyone a heads-up as to what you can expect in the near future...
Admin Team Changes
Junkerzam has decided to step down from his role as an admin. We will always remember the extremely memorable role he played during season 25 with the randomization videos! Futhermore, we have also decided to part ways with Pinballmap. His extensive backlog of FFA Replay archives has been clutch with saving the history of the league over the last decade.
We want to thank both of them for all of the hardwork and dedication they have brought to the league since they have joined us! If any of you see them around, please give them a big thank you for everything they have done!
Now, with their departure, we want to welcome HighTac to the FML admin team! HighTac has been instrumental in the last season as well as Battle Royale 2 in creating standings and spreadsheets to keep our league running smoothly. We are extremely excited to work with him for upcoming events!
We also have room for one more admin (though there are no promises that we will fill this spot right away). If anyone is interested in joining the FML admin team, please send me (WorpeX) a Private Message here on FML or Discord about why you wish to join the team and also tell us why you would be an asset to the admin team.
Whats next?
Well, for starters, there is going to be big changes to the FML bot in the near future. I don't have a lot to say currently on this undertaking, but the long term goal is to have a new bot which can auto-host games, have a ladder and be cross-realm. More information on that in the weeks to come.
While we patiently wait for the Finals to be scheduled though, there is a Post Season 26 chat thread which can be found here. Please feel free to weigh in on your thoughts from last season and future seasons!
Lastly, there will be an update to the FML Player Statistics page coming before the next season and also a mini-event in a whole other game..... stay tuned!
Well, its that time again... S26 is nearly over now but many of you have been dying for the opportunity to give the admins some feedback on this season. We know its been a very controversial season, but I am extremely pleased that everyone gave it a chance and we got through the season without much drama.
So heres your chance... let us know what you liked from S26, what you think we should have done better and what you want to see next!
Worpex is a gaybag of dicks and wouldnt let me pick Harvest of Sorrows 1.0 so I will be proesting this game and playing mass catapult / great hall suicide sorry in advance.
Thats the format we used in Season 23, so it was done before. It's Swiss-style pairings. Was a fun season although I remember there being some drama about some players having an easier path to the play-offs then others because of the way the seeding worked. You could game the system a little bit.
@ZsSuperCumulo S23 was a Red7z7 season, not a magadansky one.
Anon is certainly possible in theory, I just don't think its worth it. It creates far more problems and I don't think it fixes any. It isn't that difficult to figure out who you're playing against in matches and the final match of any round you'll always know who is playing who by simple deduction. Half the time just by chatting with someone to figure out a time you'll know who you're against.
Wrecks idea wont work since, again, you can see availability of players and know who it is. Plus, you'll get matched against the same players consistently. If you're in the same timezone as someone, you're more likely to have schedules that fit.
Then there is the issue with viewership. You can't advertise matches as anything more then just "FML match @ 12:00". Not exactly a very appealing match to want to show up to and watch. In TBR it was a bit different since you always knew who your teammate was so guessing the other 3 was pretty fun. I don't think a match where you have no ties to any of the players and no idea who they are would be as fun to spectate. Casting it is also annoying if you don't know who is who.
Also, who does anon really benefit? On paper its supposed to benefit the players who are known to be big names like noexxx, trucks, etc. However, we saw in TBR that players still get teamed. You might not know a players name but you can clearly see in a match who is the strongest micro player. In this season, the best players rose to the top regardless of their names being revealed. Trunks ended up with 3 wins, Wrecktify [who has won 4 season already] ended with the highest score. Looking back through the standings, the only big name player who didn't make the post-season is Noexxx and thats partially cause he didnt show up for M21.
So, in conclusion, I guess I just don't think that the hassle of going Anon is really worth it. I don't buy the arguments that some players make about being 'teamed for name' and I don't think an anon system in league can truly ever be anonymous. I also don't think that it holds much spectator value.
Ya like I heard worpex say before the top teams focussed maps more. It's why they had success.
Not everyone had a liberal Nazi named fetta who took his number 1 choice every week. Just to get what 5 4th place finishes? Some people don't belong in fml.
But the team aspect was fun. The only change I would make is have the admins pick the top 8 players in their opinion. Then have those 8 do a draft to pick teams. Hopefully more balanced then.
Also I wanna say wreck was laid bad with his picks and got shit maps. But he got some easy match up from it, so his start worked. Lol. :)
I really liked watching how the teams all interacted. Bad Manneroths and Zig Zag both had different strategies for how they decided their players on their maps but both I think were very viable.
Wreck took whatever map that his teammates didn't want each week. Since he felt like he was the strongest player overall, he felt like even though he might get a map he wasn't familiar with or very strong on, he could still have a strong chance of winning. His teammates on the other hand all were on maps they were great on.
Zig Zag Zigguraut was very fluid with their map choices. They would take a guess each week as to what players they expected to see on each map and then decide where best to play their team. The first few weeks they were off but somewhere around week 3 or 4 they started to hit on almost all their guesses. Allowed them to have the optimal player for each opponent rather then each map!
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Junkerzam has decided to step down from his role as an admin. We will always remember the extremely memorable role he played during season 25 with the randomization videos! Futhermore, we have also decided to part ways with 
Pinballmap. His extensive backlog of FFA Replay archives has been clutch with saving the history of the league over the last decade. 
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