Thanks, HighTac. As per Ping, Season 2 will run for exactly 3 months. Starting September 7th and ending December 7th.
While there isn't a ELO, the win/loss points are weighted pretty well. For example, rdmheropls had a higher score (rank 6, 43.56) with only 97 games played (67%) over Joggel (rank 7, 36.26 score) with 151 games played (49%). Obviously you get more points for a win compared to points lost in a loss, but the balance seems pretty spot on.
PlayFFA had ELO where you would lose more points vs low ELO players and lose less vs high level players, and vise versa for winning. There were pros and cons to that system; it was nice to earn more points for a tough victory, but it was also lame to lose extra points vs a new account, smurf, sniper etc.
My biggest wish is that it could host Random Hero games. Maybe some time soon in the future. For now, at least we have a very good map rotation and a good amount of activity.
I heard from htrt he was considering playing season 2. Have hopes for DV and LW, too. Ladder games are a lot of fun and I believe this season will be more competitive.
For me... I will hardly be able to play for first half of season. It will be interesting to see who is on top of the leaderboards in the coming weeks.
Although I couldn't play many games due to the time Zone, I enjoyed playing and watching the games that I caught.
I will say this was very well managed despite some controversy, scheduling issues, etc. Nice blend of games, overall structure, and reporting was top notch. wp to the admins.
The reason why you get kicked and auto disc from bnet is if you copy and paste the name directly from the website, it auto copies other characters that are not english or bnet doesn't recognize..
The fix is to copy and paste the game name into a bnet chat or discord chat, and then re type or recopy and paste. Kind of a hassle but will avoid the issue you are having
For normal maps, Battlegrounds could be added, and I like Greenville Woods also. In general, I think 6+ player maps are best because on a 4 way if one player leaves it instantly becomes 3 way.
For random hero maps, I really like Banewood Bog. I'd also like to see the best regular maps added for RH (Market RH and Twilight RH).
Lastly, I think PinballCrux could go. It fills up slow and often has imbalanced positions with only 4-5 players on it. We have Polska as a big RH epic map too.
As for Twist/Crazy TR/Gnoll Wood... I happen to like those but I know not everyone does. The one that I miss is the 12 player RH on that 1v1 map Lol, I forget the name?
The debate about RH maps has gone on since their inception. I would personally like 25% RH hero maps, or every 4th game. Not 10%, but also not 40%, 25% is a pretty good medium.
Either way, tough to complain about anything when we have a working ladder and reset coming soon. Plus 1.29 patch! Should be plenty of activity again and competition.
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