It's like this - we face the same problems season after season that some clans avoid and boycott certain clans. Those certain clans just happen to be the top clans - clans that have already left the league because they're fed up with being turned down all the time. What's the point in joining a ladder, when your just gonna pick and choose who you cb? then avoid the top clans and battle the ones you think you can beat? Not only that, but then you have the little issue of activity and how some clans are more active than others. This is why this system came about. We wanted to give the community a more even and fair competition.
This setup is designed to
1. Give players/clans more reason to come on gameranger, which then increases overall activity
2. Get clans back into the habbit of clan battling. (the last 2 seasons there were very few clan battles and with signs of it decreasing more and more)
3. allows the scoring system to be fair
4. You play ALL clans on the ladder (how many times during a season do you miss out playing 3-5 clans on the ladder?) 5. Allow inactive clans time to organize their members to be online for cbs.
I think having a "makeup CB week" at the end of the season defeats the purpose of having the schedule, clans could just hold off on all their CB's until the final week of the season and then start CB-ing like crazy, while every clan that followed the CB schedule gets screwed over.
We want this competition to be as fair as possible. If a "BONUS" week gives clans this opportunity, then how is that screwing the other clans over? The non-schedule cbs are there to get clans into the habit of approaching clans and trying to work out times to cb on their own. I've observed how hard it is for clans in different timezones to arrange these times and it could be teething problems with this setup or clans simply not taking it seriously enough.
IF we did have this bonus week, it would more than likely be limited to 1 cb vs each clan missed.
I'm sick of watching clans that put their heart and time into this league and not even qualify for the tournament
It will only be the top 4 clans in the finals, so the clans that HAVE put their heart and time into winning will be the ones in the finals. Those that don't qualify would have had equal opportunity and if they don't make it, well that's competition right? You either win or you lose, but at the end of the day we are trying to find the best of the ladder.
Whats the point in playing for all these regular season points when anybody could beat you when the finals come at the end of the season? Its a waste of everyones time.
Erm, anybody could beat you in the finals? well there will be only 4 at the top. 4 of the best or rather 4 who may have played better than the others. In competition everywhere why do you think they have semi-finals and finals? To allow the top clans to battle it out in a more serious and last attempt at the tougher clans. I don't see that as a waste of time for the other clans who had their chance and if they failed, well once again that's competition.
It's just too restrictive. Having caps on how many times u can play a clan is fine, but scheduling when u can play em on top of that sux. Scheduling clan battles is fine to allign times with the Euros and Ausies and such, but it has to be coupled by complete freedom to schedule your 2 clan battles at any time you want without getting DBL approval, it just gets too confusing and hurlded that way.
Make Saturdays cb days and have a schedule, but if people want to cb before the scheduled day or time and get both over with let them. Also I think only being able to allow clans to battle in the one week they are scheduled should be changed to any time during season your unscheduled can be played
Roem, you can cb before the scheduled weekend. Thats what I've been saying all along. That's whats mentioned in the rules, in the FAQ and in the emails I sent to the leaders. If you complete both cbs before the scheduled day (in that same week though) then you don't need to turn up to that scheduled cb in the weekend.
I feel the old way of cbing was best.. - No Schedule, clans simply were online and asked each other.. I agree with Clay, because as you can all see - sP - is only still existing by the inch.. We cant run a schedule.
Asylum, the last 2 seasons saw a decrease in activity on gr and clan battles. They weren't simply coming online or asking eachother as much as this league would like. There were a few clans making a good effort but it certainly wasn't a rounded compeition. People were saying this league is dead and making suggestions of hanging up our coats and devote our time to other stuff, but you know what? this league isn't dead and we proved that this week.
I think the main problem people are facing, is dealing with changes that make them have to think more seriously about this league and the competition. Well that's exactly what we said at the beginning of the season - Your clan has to be serious about cbing in this ladder....simple as that. There is the CQB ladder and other ladders to keep the less active clans happy. If you want to be on a "team" ladder, then learning to organize, plan and execute those plans into clan battling, is all apart of having a team on this ladder.
If we sat back and "let" clans do as they have done in the past, then we would be letting this league die.
A monthly tournament for future seasons could be a possibility, but we're not going to simply ditch this setup....There are a lot of clans that like this setup for all the reasons I meantioned above and aside from a few hiccups this weekend, a lot of clans completed their cb's. Lets at least give this setup a shot, before we talk about ditching it.
