FFA Masters League
General => News => Topic started by: FML|Mage on September 11, 2013, 09:20:11 am
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:FMLN:
Welcome back everyone! We’ve managed to have one of our quickest turnarounds between seasons and are ready to kick of Season 17! Before we go any further, let’s give a big round of applause to :USA: :ne: DarkFlameMaster for his win of Season 16. After a brilliant performance in the Season 15 finals, most knew that it was just a matter of time before he managed to capture a championship. Most would not have guessed that it would happen this quickly though.
While the past is all well and good though, it is just that; the past. That’s also the opinion that the FML team has taken on the regular season format that has been used for FML recently. It’s tried and true, but we want to spice it up a bit. So, we’re happy to tell you that FML Season 17 will be an entirely new format!
There will not be any players forced to play in qualifiers this season, instead we will be playing an elimination style season. I’ll break down how the season will work below, and if you have any comments feel free to put them in the comments section!
Round 1 - Everyone plays, no one eliminated. (56 Total)
Round 2 - Everyone plays, bottom 16 players eliminated (40 Total)
Round 3 - Remaining 40 play, no one eliminated (40 Total)
Round 4 - Remaining 40 play, bottom 20 players eliminated (20 total)
Round 5 - Remaining 20 play, no one eliminated (20 total)
Round 6 - Remaining 20 play, bottom 10 eliminated (10 total)
Semi Finals - 3-10 play, 1&2 auto qualify for the finals.
Finals.
When we say that the bottom however many players are eliminated, this is based off of score. The scoring will remain the same with 25-10-10-5. The first round ties will be broken based off of the total rank (in the Season 17 standings) of players. EG Two players have 20 points. Player one played the rank 1, 5, 7, 10, 25, 40, 55 players. Player 2 played the rank 4, 5, 8, 10, 23, 25, 27 players.
Player 1 = 143
Player 2 = 102
Player 2 had the harder schedule, and as such will advance to the next round by winning the tiebreaker. In the very rare case that this does not solve the tiebreaker, then the next determining factor will be the ladder rank on the playFFA bot.
We have a tentative map schedule for our first for maps, while there is a slim possibility this will change we certainly don’t plan on having that happen. The last two maps will be announced as the season progresses.
Round 1 Map: :MS:
Market Square
Round 2 Map: :DR:
Death Rose
Round 3 Map: :Bayou:
Death’s Bayou
Round 4 Map: :DL:
Deadlock
A full list of players will be put into the first comment of this post, we pretty much accepted everyone though! For those players who have not played before, or need a refresher, please read this guide on How to Schedule (http://ffamasters.net/index.php?topic=22.0)
As always, you can catch live streams and shoutcasts of our games at Twitch.TV/FFAMastersLeague, follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ffamasters) for all the latest news, and subscribe to our YouTube Channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/FFAMasters) for exclusive first peeks at new trailers and other FML media items!
Week 1 Matches are as follows:
P1
:Germany: :ud: WeAkUD
:USA: :ra: Seksi
:Germany: :orc: FML|Pinballmap
:USA: :orc: / :hu: Kodos_Forsaken
P2
:Latvia: :ra: FML|Persuade
:USA: :orc: DarknessCalls
:Australia: :orc: Elessar
:Russia: :ud: Hurry
P3
:Russia: :ra: toy0ta
:USA: :ne: FML|Mage
:Germany: :ud: tS.Enex.
:USA: :hu: PrattCity-B-tch
P4
:Ukraine: :orc: Nline
:Finland: :ne: j33
:France: :ne: Meeds
:USA: :ud: FML|Worpex
P5
:Peru: :ud: NoMercy2
:USA: :ud: PLZLEAVEDUCK
:Russia: :ud: aT_om
:France: :hu: Jey_s_TeArS
P6
:Sweden: :ra: SheepCanFly (Target)
:Croatia: :ud: KenoStrikesBack
:Serbia: :ne: / :ud: svedirko
:Germany: :hu: Lightweight
P7
:Canada: :hu: Mr.Sparkle
:Russia: :ud: Qwest/BMImba666
:Kazakhstan: :orc: A-r-m-a
:Russia: :ud: Kpect
P8
:USA: :ne: Dovekie
:USA: :ud: Audigy
:China: :hu: Infifan
:USA: :ne: Mog[Skynet]
P9
:USA: :ra: Eshan
:Germany: :hu: Humans7ar
:USA: :orc: Ashalar
:USA: :ne: DarkFlameMaster
P10
:USA: :orc: lomar ( Reflekkt)
:Russia: :orc: Ludix
:USA: :ra: brodo
:Greece: :ne: l3f
P11
:Germany: :ne: sH0Wt1Me.
:Russia: :ud: 7hp.Lai-Lai
:Slovakia: :hu: Ado125
:Germany: / :Switzerland: :ra: Uniden
P12
:Belarus: :ne: Rellik1
:France: :ud: Krav
:USA: :ra: FiRel)rAgOn
:Belarus: :ne: Krichok
P13
:Bulgaria: :ud: XoZ_Magadansky
:USA: :ra: Steppinrazor
:Germany: :hu: yAwS
:Canada: :hu: FML|Renaud
P14
:USA: :ne: BeastModeyz
:Germany: :ud: PwNu.Wan
:Russia: :orc: y.zenchenko
:Germany: :ud: Ente
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Full Player List
:Bulgaria: :ud: XoZ_Magadansky
:Germany: :ud: Ente
:Latvia: :ra: FML|Persuade
:Germany: :ud: PwNu.Wan
:Germany: :hu: Lightweight
:France: :ne: Meeds
:Germany: :orc: FML|Pinballmap
:USA: :ra: FiRel)rAgOn
:Russia: :orc: Ludix
:USA: :ra: Steppinrazor
:Germany: :ud: tS.Enex.
:USA: :orc: Ashalar
:Greece: :ne: l3f
:Russia: :ud: Kpect
:USA: :ud: Audigy
:France: :ud: Krav
:USA: :ne: FML|Mage
:Canada: :hu: FML|Renaud
:USA: :orc: DarknessCalls
:USA: :ud: PLZLEAVEDUCK
:USA: :ne: Dovekie
:USA: :ne: Mog[Skynet]
:USA: :ra: Seksi
:Ukraine: :orc: Nline
:Russia: :ud: Hurry
:Russia: :ud: Qwest/BMImba666
:Germany: :hu: Humans7ar
:Germany: / :Switzerland: :ra: Uniden
:Germany: :ne: sH0Wt1Me.
:France: :hu: Jey_s_TeArS
:Belarus: :ne: Krichok
:USA: :hu: PrattCity-B-tch
:Australia: :orc: Elessar
:Russia: :ud: aT_om
:Belarus: :ne: Rellik1
:Slovakia: :hu: Ado125
:USA: :ne: BeastModeyz
:USA: :ra: brodo
:Russia: :ra: toy0ta
:Germany: :hu: yAwS
:USA: :ra: Eshan
:Croatia: :ud: KenoStrikesBack
:Peru: :ud: NoMercy2
:Russia: :ud: 7hp.Lai-Lai
:Kazakhstan: :orc: A-r-m-a
:Serbia: :ne: / :ud: svedirko
:Canada: :hu: Mr.Sparkle
:USA: :orc: lomar ( Reflekkt)
:Russia: :orc: y.zenchenko
:USA: :ne: DarkFlameMaster
:Finland: :ne: j33
:China: :hu: Infifan
:Sweden: :ra: SheepCanFly (Target)
:Germany: :ud: WeAkUD
:USA: :orc: / :hu: Kodos_Forsaken
:USA: :ud: FML|Worpex
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i miss onemillion... :D
btw very nice map choice ;-)
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lets do this shit!
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lets do this shit!
"lets"? i dont see your name in the list lol!
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when tournament time date?
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We created topic for each match, and the players will find a time where they can all play (within 2 weeks)
We will try to update the calendar as soon as the game times are confirmed
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is it the "real" yaws?
if it is it would be awesome if you could cast that match^^ would love to him battle maga with some insight i probably dont have *cough* mage *cough*
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It's Yaws, we have a couple previous matches including one that was shoutcasted. It was not a good match for him though.
He plays under the account skyblue or something like that.
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Wait, you mean Yaws is someone I should watch out for? I have no clue what happens outside the ffa world, how good are we talking?
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Yaws is famous in germany, he played 1vs1 on the highest level ( EPS) and beat some famous players like Sky. Also i do not know how good he his in FFA. but lets see ;)
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i guess pbm explained it, so yeah.. and i already watched the one where he was in and i cringed :> but i liked it!
I don't actually have wc3 anymore so i only watch shoutcasts nowadays and that match looks insanely interesting
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yaws is very good, far better than I was, but he is rusty now. He is playing on yy client so I predict by the time his ffa match comes he will outmicro every1 but 4 specific players in the league
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yaws is very good, far better than I was, but he is rusty now. He is playing on yy client so I predict by the time his ffa match comes he will outmicro every1 but 4 specific players in the league
Mage, practice_mage, FML|Mage and FML-Mage right?
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yaws is very good, far better than I was, but he is rusty now. He is playing on yy client so I predict by the time his ffa match comes he will outmicro every1 but 4 specific players in the league
I can only count 3, who's the last?
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lol I also don't know who sky is T_T
but stream ftw!
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lol I also don't know who sky is T_T
but stream ftw!
Sky was a legend, along with grubby/tod/moon type doods :>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Xiaofeng_%28professional_gamer%29
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guys , when will be 4 players final , only 1 game ? can it be 2-4 games with points and best points player is champion , its sad when 2 mounts of games and only 1 random game do the champion .
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1 game, 1 champion
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not ideal variant :icon_rolleyes:
when solo leagues/tours final bo3
why ffa cant be bo3 final ????? same system 25 15 10 5 points - 3 games and see who got points
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p.s2 maybe creat vote topic to know what think ffa players, will be coll to know
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It's an interesting idea, but this season is set. We're always interested in hearing new ideas though. What happens when two players tie in score though?
Also current scoring system is 25-10-10-5 fyi
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We've thought about that idea many times to t0yota and it just wont work out logistically. There are far too many out of game factors which prevent this from happening. Typically it takes about a week to schedule a FFA game with full open schedules for all 4. For a grand final which has multiple games, it could take over a month to get all of the games scheduled... that simply is far to time consuming for the league to handle.
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why ffa cant be bo3 final ????? same system 25 15 10 5 points - 3 games and see who got points
We have 4 Players, A B C D
Game 1: Player A wins
Game 2: Player A gets teamed from the start to make sure he doesn't get 50 points, which would make him unbeatable; Player B wins
Game 3: Points are now 35-30-20-15,
-Player with 15 points can't win he will just do what ever he wants... probably kill whoever pissed him off the most
-Player with 20 points can only win if player with 35 points gets last place
-Player with 35 points wins as long as he gets 3rd and player with 30 points doesn't win, just needs to rush player with 30 points and leave, GG
AKA: Game 1 will be fun, game Game 2 will be bullshit and Game 3 will be even worst
If we are to do a bo3, we will need a better system
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to simplify what my astute colleagues are saying.
There is no possible way to make it balanced and fair, whoever wins the first game literally has 0 chance of winning the whole thing making any series past game 1 pointless.
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ffa sure is a weird gametype ! I'm pretty sure many solo players stared in disbelief when they first saw this league. there is no actual non-gaming sport that resembles it ( though I would be interested in some ffa rugby :icon_eek: ). as for gaming, well quake tourneys were always 1v1.
even on popular sport, there are two schools of thought. a good example is my favourite one, basketball. nba uses a loong season, long bo7 playoffs, and a bo7 final. winner is usually the best team. but, in europe they play their long season, do some bo5 playoffs, but the semis and finals are one game - the final 4 -, which is intense and very interesting, with surprises being commonplace. Ten years ago they tried to change it up to a bo5 and they quickly changed it back next year.
point is, a final is a final. champion's league and euroleague are no fools. ffa, as you mentioned, has extra reasons to have a single final. maybe fml could have a couple of extra games leading up to the final somehow.
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I think the only sport which is similar in structure to FML/FFA is the NFL (Handegg/American Football). It has the same principal of the grand final being just 1 game. As a spectator, I think it makes the final game more special and more interesting. You want to be there for the final game and to watch it live because there are no other games. Thats the end - the winner is the champion!!
On a player level, I can definitely see why having multiple finals games is something to be desired. Having just one bad luck game can blow the whole season. However, its just not something which is feasible.