« Last post by FML|HighTac on August 04, 2022, 10:00:32 am »
Hi everyone,
I got convinced to organize another Team Battle Royale, before going on a parental hiatus. Historically, TBR always required a lot more admin work, compared to FML seasons. For that reason and because the general hosting environment changed since 2020, a few compromises will be necessary, especially when it comes to anon, modes and maps. You find further details below and some parts will have to be worked out in the next few weeks.
What is TBR? It's a team event, where all participating players are being drafted into their teams by four team captains. Throughout the month of September, teams seat their players for the FFA games scheduled.
When: Aug 28 - Sep 30, 2022
Please sign up by posting your name and if you would be willing to be a team captain into this thread. Feel free to add some details about your motivation and availability throughout September! Only known community members that proved to be reliable and know FFA basics will be permitted.
Remarks:
We may not be able to host via W3C due to visible ping in lobby and the map pool
I will try to reactivate our Bnet shared accounts. However, if they still require every single player to be authentificated via email code, we may not use them
Finding subs is a huge pain in TBR. Therefore, we will reject players that missed a lot of matches in the past and reserve the right to cancel matches instead of finding subs.
It's always a bit tricky to create the map pool for TBR and ensure that the correct map files are being hosted. This is even more of an issue since we got zoom triggers. Therefore, we may stick to "regular" maps for the most parts
« Last post by Voxius on July 10, 2022, 08:20:21 am »
wonderful and serious season! We saw a lot of beautiful games and positive energy. The players really played at the top level, and proved for the umpteenth time that the FML league is the best league in the world!! In which players fight for honor and glory!!! thnx to all the players and admins who invested effort and time!!! And thank you big HIGHTAC, we are lucky to have you!!!
« Last post by FML|HighTac on July 10, 2022, 07:25:11 am »
Congratulations to @qwest for finally winning a long-deserved FML trophy. With four wins in five matches, he's the first (full-time) undead player that takes the title since Tyrant did in 2015. His macro and tactical genious seemed unmatched this season and the final map pick proved to be clever.
Thanks to all the participants and the admin team. After my hiatus, I really enjoyed to see some high-level FFA again and I was positively surprised by the absence of drama. Using Discord for orga and scheduling may have led to a bit more confusion every now and then, but it cut the effort for admins in half, in my opinion. Definitely something we'll do again.
A bit prematurely, I stated some weeks ago that I'd be willing to run a Team Battle Royale this summer. With us approaching the middle of July, I'm not so sure anymore. While I enjoy many things about TBR, it's also way more challenging from an admin perspective. Furthermore, we got some additional hurdles (not all map files with zoom trigger, Blizzard deactivated shared accounts, etc. etc.). As I'm not the only admin, I don't want to rule it out entirely, but my real life obligations prevent me from playing a key role in it. Another FML Season that starts in Q3 seems more realistic.
Last but not least, I don't want to leave unmentioned how much worse the FML Discord Chat has become in my eyes. I stated before that I don't enjoy it and I'm not willing to moderate it anymore. Still, in order for FML to be somewhat welcoming to fun people and new players, I kindly ask you to scale back sexism and toxicity.
« Last post by Peregrine on June 09, 2022, 03:59:41 pm »
Plush! good to see an orc legend return.
Just download the Battle Net client to get to play. And then download the W3Champions client which is how the community plays ladder nowadays: https://www.w3champions.com/
Should only take a couple minutes
The community is alive and well, and FFA is thriving. The ladder is active, and the RT and solo ladders are extremely active. FML seasons are also running, with a new event starting sometime later this summer.
The games are actually quite good on ladder, the skill level has increased, and most of the maps are on the smaller side. I would say the average game length is about an hour now on ladder.
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