Today I wanna explain you the Advanced ladders a little bit.

Since already season 3 or so, a few people asked for a full scheduled ladder. However we turned down it in the past and still think a complete scheduled ladder goes too much away from the have fun while playing aspect.

However one good point of a scheduled ladder is that you could use a 3 - 1 - 0 system, where you don't have to fear to lose some points. Yes, actually there are quite a few clans that prefer to avoid losing some points instead of having fun and playing. It's a bit ironical but what shall we do. The last 2 seasons I invented the sheep system to avoid this, but unfortunaly once again I was fooled by some clans and players, that were more interested to misuse a system instead of playing so the sheep point system is history.

Oh well, so for Season XI we are going to stay with an ELO system and an unscheduled 3 - 1 - 0 system. The problem is that if you don't schedule a 3 - 1 - 0 system the mass of played cbs often decides who is the winner, which is in my opinion not right.

So instead of making a serious and complictated schedule system we limited the amount of cbs you can play vs. the same clan: you can at all play twice vs. the same opponent. This should allow us to keep the amount of played cbs in balance. Of course some clans may play a few more, but they can't just win by the amount of played cbs.

So what can you lose? - Nothing, just play, either you go home with 0 points and new experience, 1 point or full 3 points for a win. So at all you can just win - win fun, and enjoy having an exciting cb!

In the future - the advanced and team ladders will be merged: and we will have 2 scorings in one ladder: while you can play vs. the same clan in the team ladder 8 times, your advanced ladder will stop updating once you have crossed the 2times limit.

So is the advanced ladder better than the team ladder, which uses the new *DAMN Elo system!? - No, it's just an question of taste. However we would like to ask you to register for both ladders and try them out and tell as after the season what you liked and disliked.

May someone of you have expected more like certain limits, etc... we didn't add any special requirements because we wanted to keep it simple and accessable for everyone.

Last but not least you should just have fun playing and we wish you a great season XI.

Good luck,

*DAMN Mauti in the name of the *DBL administration
*Information* - the ladder still show sheep and sheep classes: this should be removed until the season starts.