TBR2 Begins!

[FML|red7z7]

Welcome to the start of the second Team Battle Royale! Thank you all for patiently waiting for the application period to end. This time around we are introducing a number of changes, which I'll get to in more detail in just a moment, but for starters, this time we will have 5 captains drafting teams of 8 players each.

Captains

Please welcome your new captain overlords:
Mog
ZsSuperCumulo
Shave
DV-
HighTac

Captains will soon be invited into the captain channel on discord to work out the details of the live draft, which will hopefully take place in the next couple days. After the draft all players will be invited to their teams respective discord channel to begin scheduling matches. So stay tuned for that!

Now, back to the new format. You may remember from last time we had a set schedule of matches with fun modes mixed in with regular modes. Well, this time we are bringing the power of the fun modes directly to the teams themselves, in the form of cards.

Captain Cards (Edited)

Each captain will have the following 5 cards at their disposal:
- Exploration card - Captain gets map choice
- Earth card - No air units allowed
- Silence card - No chat allowed
- Shackles card - Captain bans 1 hero from each race + 1 tavern hero
- Truth card - All players' identities will be revealed before the match

Admins will publish the entire schedule of matches for the event prior to the first playweek. This schedule will include the time and map (which may include random hero maps) as well as if the match is 4-way or 2v2v2v2. Then, by the beginning of each playweek, captains will announce which cards they will use for that week. Captains can use at most one card per match, and after a card is used, it is lost and cannot be used again. So choose wisely!

Note that multiple team's cards can stack. For example if one team uses their Earth card while another uses their Silence card in the same match, then that match will be no air units and no chat!

A few more caveats: the Exploration card is first come priority, so if 2 captains go for map choice in the same match, only the first captain to announce his cards will get to choose, while the second captain will get his card back. Exploration and Shackle cards cannot be used on a random heroes map. For Shackle card, if two captains ban a different set of heroes in the same match, both cards will be applied and used. For Earth, Silence, and Truth cards, if multiple captains use it in same match, both team's card will be used up.

Games and Points (Edited)

There will be a total of 25 matches in the event, 20 four-way FFAs (regular and random heroes) and five 2v2v2v2s. Each game will involve only 4 teams, meaning each game one team will sit out.

A team will be awarded 10 points for each four-way won, and 20 points for each 2v2v2v2 won.

This time, at the beginning of the playweek, captains only need to send to admins which cards they will use. They do not need to assign players to matches at the start of the week. Captains will work with their team to send a player into a match. They only need to inform admins which player was chosen after each match is played. This will make it easier for teams to adjust plans as people's schedules change. Players can play as many games as their captain allows. However!...

If a player has already played 4 or more games, then a win for that player only awards 1 point. Similarly for the 2v2v2v2, for each player with over 4 games on a team, a win will award 9 less points for that team. As an additional incentive to give a chance to all members to play, at the end of the event if all of a team's members have played 3 or more games, then that team gets a bonus of 10 points.

Okay that about sums it up. Feel free to ask questions below, and good luck to everyone. Stay tuned for the draft and team roster announcement!

[SweeT]

There needs to be more pure FFA matches.

Currently there is only 15 and 1 team misses out on some equating to only 1-2 ffa matches per player in each team. Not enough in my opinion. Adding more FFA matches to the play week and making it 4 weeks like last time instead of 3 would be better. Last TBR it was 2-3 FFAs between each team member. I played 4 matches myself last time, 3 ffa. 1 team ffa

My opinion = 25 matches - 20 FFA matches - 5 team ffa matches spread over 4 weeks.

2x2x2x2 should be 15 pt win maybe? 20 seems bit big, but im curious about others opinions on this

The format overall seems interesting and I thank admins for their work

[FML|Mog]

I would be open to making the event 4 weeks and adding some more regular ffa. The only bad thing about the 4 weeks last event was the last week was ALL 2v2v2v2. Which was bad.

[SweeT]

Yes bro just spread the 2x2x2s out 1-2 each week over the 4 weeks. I doubt any single person would be opposed to more FFA right? Its a win-win imo.

Actually you could go 26 and 1 more team ffa too ;)

[dv]

I'd vote for 4 weeks/more ffas but it seems it would get a lot of work from admins side at this point to change the system.
Lets just relax and enjoy the TBR2 and for the TBR3 u guys make a feedback thread like u do for fml seasons sometimes.
This time you didn't ask ppl what they want (No complains)

[FML|red7z7]

Also the cards seem problematic. It seems like in tons of matches we will be seing non-anon, no air, no chat + heroes banned. This good for a handful of matches, but since cards stack this will end up being problematic as too many matches will be customized with no air no chat etc.

@admins to make this format more interesting I would put a limit on captain cards total or per week for example: Each team gets 10 cards over the 4 week period. Or at the start of each week you assign captains with 3 cards to use each week!

To clarify, each team only gets 5 cards to use for the entire event. They aren't restocked each week.

[FML|HighTac]

Let the fun begin 

[FML|red7z7]

Thanks for feedback, our goal is to maximize fun, so admins have discussed and agreed to add more games to the event. Please see the changes in green text in the post above. Cheers!

[Airenikus]

Very interesting system with all these cards, bonus points, penalties for abusing gosu players etc. I like it a lot. Thank you admins for the innovations!

[ena1337]

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[FML|HighTac]

Just to check if I got everything correctly 

- Each team will play 16 x 4-ways and 4 x team-ffas

- The maximum number of points amounts to 210 (incl. 10 bonus points)

- Unless truth card gets played, every match will be played with hidden identities

- Unless exploration card gets played, maps (can be random hero as well) will be selected by admins before each week

Is all this correct? 

[QQs]

Thanks admins for putting so much work in TBR. We as community really appreciate your work! Also nice that you extended the duration to 4 weeks!

Let the games begin! 

[FML|red7z7]

Just to check if I got everything correctly 

- Each team will play 16 x 4-ways and 4 x team-ffas

- The maximum number of points amounts to 210 (incl. 10 bonus points)

- Unless truth card gets played, every match will be played with hidden identities

- Unless exploration card gets played, maps (can be random hero as well) will be selected by admins before each week

Is all this correct? 

That's correct except for the last part. Maps will be selected by admins only once for the entire event. So you'll know the schedule from the start rather than waiting until each week.

[FML|Mog]

Thanks admins for putting so much work in TBR. We as community really appreciate your work! Also nice that you extended the duration to 4 weeks!

Let the games begin! 

I could be wrong, but I believe the event is still 3 weeks--there are just more 4 way ffa games added into those 3 weeks.

[FML|red7z7]

Thanks admins for putting so much work in TBR. We as community really appreciate your work! Also nice that you extended the duration to 4 weeks!

Let the games begin! 

I could be wrong, but I believe the event is still 3 weeks--there are just more 4 way ffa games added into those 3 weeks.

We will reveal the entire schedule later today, but the event has been shifted from 3 weeks to 4 to accommodate the 5 extra games!