FFA Masters League

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 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:
Market Square

Round 2 Map:
Death Rose

Round 3 Map:
Death’s Bayou

Round 4 Map:
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

As always, you can catch live streams and shoutcasts of our games at Twitch.TV/FFAMastersLeague, follow us on Facebook for all the latest news, and subscribe to our YouTube Channel for exclusive first peeks at new trailers and other FML media items!

Week 1 Matches are as follows:

P1
WeAkUD
Seksi
FML|Pinballmap
/ Kodos_Forsaken

P2
FML|Persuade
DarknessCalls
Elessar
Hurry

P3
toy0ta
FML|Mage
tS.Enex.
PrattCity-B-tch

P4
Nline
j33
Meeds
FML|Worpex

P5
NoMercy2
PLZLEAVEDUCK
aT_om
Jey_s_TeArS

P6
SheepCanFly (Target)
KenoStrikesBack
/ svedirko
Lightweight

P7
Mr.Sparkle
Qwest/BMImba666
A-r-m-a
Kpect

P8
Dovekie
Audigy
Infifan
Mog[Skynet]

P9
Eshan
Humans7ar
Ashalar
DarkFlameMaster

P10
lomar ( Reflekkt)
Ludix
brodo
l3f

P11
sH0Wt1Me.
7hp.Lai-Lai
Ado125
/ Uniden

P12
Rellik1
Krav
FiRel)rAgOn
Krichok

P13
XoZ_Magadansky
Steppinrazor
yAwS
FML|Renaud

P14
BeastModeyz
PwNu.Wan
y.zenchenko
Ente
 

i miss onemillion... :D
btw very nice map choice ;-)

lets do this shit!

"lets"? i dont see your name in the list lol!

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

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.

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 ;)

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

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?