The rule about minimum 2 games was to ensure any active players would get to play at least a couple games rather than being put on the bench. The rule didn't cover the situation where players quit the team or became inactive. For those cases we allowed replacements or having an extra player play 3 games. No team abused this, and everything worked out, thankfully!
The Ravenclaw team name will be added to our Hall of Fame to commemorate their victory.
Ravenclaw showed a strong performance throughout the tournament, often trailing just behind Ponty Saint Germain, but they were able to push into first place during the last week of team games. Ponty Saint Germain also showed great performances, shocking everyone with a huge lead in points in the first two weeks. Mozarts of FFA were able to get only a few wins during the 4-way games, but came back fiercely with many impressive wins in the team games, ending with 10 points--as many points as Ponty Saint Germain. Not to forget Team Blatant Manip Flava (Team Maybe Next Time), they came close to winning in many games but fortune was not on their side as they ended the event with clean-slate of 0 wins, an achievement in its own right.
This marks the conclusion of our first Team Battle Royale event. In retrospect, it hardly seems like this event was a mere 4 weeks since we were able to pack so many games into such a short time period. Based on the feedback so far, it seems to have been a success overall, so hopefully there will be more TBR to come in the future, as we revisit the concept and make tweaks to the format. It was FML's first ever team-based event and I think there were definitely some lessons learned and things we would change for next time. More than anything, it was great to see our community compete and interact in an entirely new way with emphasis on collaboration and fighting for your team rather than just for yourself.
So thank you all for participating and making this event a fun one! Stay tuned for new information as we begin to gear up for the next iteration of FML, the milestone 25th season and Silver Anniversary!
Players: Renaud (potassium_32) - Blatant Manip Flava Qwest (lead_19) - House of Ravenclaw Rain (radium_86) - Mozarts of FFA Junkerzam (gold_05) - Ponty Saint Germain
Winner:
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1. Qwest (lead_19) +1 point for House of Ravenclaw 2. Rain (radium_86) - Mozarts of FFA 3. Junkerzam (gold_05) - Ponty Saint Germain 4. Renaud (potassium_32) - Blatant Manip Flava
While the final week of individual matches is well underway, we want to announce the details and schedule for the final week of Team Battle Royle: the team matches!
There will be 4 scheduled team matches.
A player can play a maximum of 2 team matches.
Each match will be a 2v2v2v2 by default, HOWEVER...
If 3 players from each team are present and willing, it will become a 3v3v3v3!
There will be a maximum of one 3v3v3v3 match.
2 points awarded to the winner of each 2v2v2v2
3 points awarded to the winner of 3v3v3v3
Sunday March 12th 10 EST / 16 CET: Twilight Ruins 15 EST / 21 CET: Friends
Saturday March 18th 10 EST / 16 CET: Spider Falls 15 EST / 21 CET:Market Square (fixed spawns)
If any match is upgraded to a 3v3v3v3, it will be played on Divide and Conquer (with taverns)
Players: Alien (titanium) - Blatant Manip Flava Qwest (helium) - House of Ravenclaw b100death (platinum) - Mozarts of FFA mrsweets (silver) - Ponty Saint Germain
Winner:
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1. mrsweets (silver) +1 point for Ponty Saint Germain 2. Qwest (helium) - House of Ravenclaw 3. b100death (platinum) - Mozarts of FFA 4. Alien (titanium) - Blatant Manip Flava
Players: Nick (metalknight) - Anub'araks Chosen Mog (link) - House of Ravenclaw aarnikratti (bayonetta) - Mozarts of FFA AJIKAIII (dedede) - Ponty Saint Germain
Winner:
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1. Mog (link) +1 point for House of Ravenclaw 2. Nick (metalknight) 3. AJIKAIII (dedede) 4. aarnikratti (bayonetta)
Players: WorpeX (donkeykong) - Blatant Manip Flava QQs (bowser) - House of Ravenclaw SweeT (palutena) - Mozarts of FFA AJIKAIII (kirby) - Ponty Saint Germain
Winner:
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1. SweeT (palutena) +1 point for Mozarts of FFA 2. QQs (bowser) - House of Ravenclaw 3. AJIKAIII (kirby) - Ponty Saint Germain 4. WorpeX (donkeykong) - Blatant Manip Flava
Players: DV- (diddykong_571) - Blatant Manip Flava ena1337 (pikachu_437) - House of Ravenclaw weakud (pacman_510) - Mozarts of FFA Shave (yoshi_259) - Ponty Saint Germain
Winner:
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Shave (yoshi_259) +1 point for Ponty Saint Germain weakud (pacman_510) - Mozarts of FFA ena1337 (pikachu_437) - House of Ravenclaw DV- (diddykong_571) - Blatant Manip Flava
Here we go again! Next week will be the final week of 4-way games. The week after will be the team games. Captains, please submit your lineups by Saturday 21 EST!
Sunday March 5th 10 EST / 16 CET: Regular on Poison Well
Sunday March 5th 15 EST / 21 CET: Banned heroes** (updated) on Twisted Meadows
Monday March 6th 16 EST / 22 CET: Regular on Freezing Fields
Tuesday March 7th 15 EST / 21 CET: No air* on Market Square
Wednesday March 8th 19 EST / 01 CET (9th): Regular on Meson de la Taberna
Thursday March 9th 12 EST / 18 CET: No chat* on Silverpine Forest
Friday March 10th 15 EST / 21 CET: Regular on Boomtown
Saturday March 11th 10 EST / 16 CET: Random heroes on Twilight
Saturday March 11th 15 EST / 21 CET: Non-anonymous* on Purity
Definitions -Banned heroes: The following heroes are not allowed: Archmage, Paladin, Blademaster, Tauren Chieftain, Demon Hunter, Keeper of the Grove, Death Knight, Lich, and Panda. - No chat: No chat will be permitted other than 'p' or 'pause', and 'rdy', 'g', or 'go' while paused. - No air: no flying units at all including owl, zeppelin, phoenix, etc. - Non-anonymous: use the account you registered the event with.
- Some people seem to believe pausing to manip is some kind of overpowered strategy and some huge advantage for certain players. I really doubt this is the case. If this thread is any indication, then the guy who pauses to manip will be immediately 3v1d right after. I think it is another tool to use, but one that can't be used effectively very often and requires some finesse in the right situation.
- The abuse clause of the rule still applies. If someone pauses to sit there for 3 minutes or more just spamming chat and testing everyone patience, then I think you would be hard-pressed to find an admin that doesn't think that is abusing the system.
Here's a couple scenarios and how I personally would apply the ruling:
1) Bob gets attacked by Jack. Bob pauses for 1 minute to rationalize to Jack why he should instead attack Tony. Verdict: this is okay.
2) Bob gets attacked by Jack. Bob pauses to flame Jack for attacking him. Jack flames him back and other players ask him to unpause. Bob unpauses. Verdict: this is okay, but it will surely hurt Bob's reputation for poor sportsmanship and probably work against him in the end.
3) Bob gets attacked by Jack. Bob pauses to say why he shouldn't be attacked. Everyone tells him to unpause. Bob doesn't unpause for 5 minutes despite not having a valid reason to do so. Verdict: this is abuse. Bob will probably get a warning on the first incident and penalty points if he repeats it.
4) Bob pauses the game during fights multiple times. Verdict: this is abuse. Bob probably gets either a warning or penalty points depending on how many times he did it and the impact it had on the game.
Hope that gives you a sense of the intention of the rules around pausing. But actually there's a better unwritten rule that will always keep you out of trouble: don't be an asshole.
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