Personally, I'm a fan of the shorter seasons. They were shortened in the first place because the season was two months of inactivity, two weeks of some activity, and two weeks of frenzied activity. The pattern stayed the same, but with shorter periods of inactivity preceding the interesting part. IMO, I think the short seasons are working at least as well as the longer ones did.

     The shorter seasons have an advantage, in that they allow for experimentation with rules changes and such without too much risk. If a change turns out to be for the worse, hell, it only lasts six weeks, then we can change it back.

Personally, I would like to see 4 Seasons each year, each lasting exactly 2 months, with exactly one month in between each season.  So, you would have one starting the first of January, going through February, then the month of March off.  The next season starts April 1, lasts through May, and you get June off.  The third season starts July 1, runs through August, and you get September off.  The final season starts October 1, runs through November, and you get December off.  Wow, that would be SOOOO easy to remember!

Make it so.

-GhostSniper Out.

60 day seasons would most definitely work.

That's similar to what I said Gabe, I think that shorter season take out the fun of anxiously waiting for another hyped up season.

Also, shorter seasons mean less to the respective winners in each ladder.

You play Season VIII from its start on April 29 until, say June 15.  Then start Season IX on July 1, and go with the schedule I set out from there.  That would only shorten Season VIII by a little (the season would still be over a month and a half long), and would also give a 2 week break before Season IX begins.

It's so simple I could almost cry.

-GhostSniper Out.

A couple thoughts and considerations:

Great idea GS. I like it. But I have a quick question. Would the regular season end at the end of the second month or would finals end at the end of the second month? It doesn't really matter to me which way it goes, but I'd like it clarified just for clarification's sake.

Actually Ara, that's incorrect. Unless more than 16 teams are competing in the finals, it will be done in two consecutive weekends. 16 teams makes for 4 rounds: one round each weekend day, two weekends.

That brings up a good point though, it might be a good idea to limit the total number of participaing teams to 16 to make the finals more manageable.

Pardon alaric, thanks for the clarification.

Interesting thoughts Flies, but I'm gonna have to respectfully disagree.

I think GS's season schedule makes more sense, as it accomodates those who are in school better and having longer seasons just means longer periods of inactivity before people start to cb anyway. If you really want to have summer off, just eliminate the July-August season. Maybe schedule some kind of summer tournament in it's place just to have something BL related going on.

I also think the MP finals system should replace the current finals system, for reasons I've outlined in other threads.

And finally, I think adding a minimum cb per week would do more hard than good. I think it would make the regular season less fun and more stressful. The incentives that come with the MP finals system should be more than enough to encourage people to cb, mostly by taking pressure off the regular season, not by putting more on.

I am with you on this Brain. Many times in the past have people suggested this same rule, and I have always been against it. Its just not a practical rule. In a already small scale community the rule would just put to much of a strain on things.

I do however like Ghostsnipers suggestion on the 2 month seasons with one month off, but in the end, the season really rotate around Elandrion and Mauti coming up with the scripts for the ladders to run on. This will most deffinatly be a topic of suggestion in the admin section.

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