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meloku: put on the waiting list for being inactive. Slot in D2 is vacant.
Shepherd: removed, at his request, from the A room. Slot is vacant for the time being.
truestyle: removed from D3 for inactivity, put on waiting list
kazekage: removed from C1, because he asked to be.
Tokee: substituted in for kazekage. He is only 6k, but I need to do something to get C1 active. I am also considering the possibility of allowing some people (only those with the very best score) to advance two levels, rather than one. This would make being in the D-Room much less onerous for strong players.
zalfor: removed from C1 due to inactivity. Added to the waiting list.
sai0: withdrew from the league. His slot is "vacant" for now. To save myself a massive headache, whoever replaces him will just take on his .5 record. It's getting so close to the end of the month that I can't be bothered.
rayen: removed from C1, for inactivity. In the future I will try to put people I remove for inactivity back in their old rooms, whenever possible, should they want to return. But chances are, they will have to come back through the D level.
Druft: substituted for rayen. I put him in the C1 room because it is the most inactive in the league, and because he is a 1k, and I'm increasingly in favour of introducing stronger players in somewhat higher sections. Makes things a bit more stable, and more interesting.
sneer: removed, been idle since Feb. 1st.
jowzer: claims to be 5k, listed as 10k. I've added him to D2, in sneer's place. See what happens:) (Oh yeah, and to hell with alphabetization, I'm just going to plug replacements in wherever I can find room)
Bunch of changes.
sognando: added to d1
kazekage: may remove, since he has not been on since jan. 28th, but I'll wait a bit to see. For now I'll leave the room at 8 people.
rayen: moved him up to C1, for a better rank fit
HikaruShin?: added to D3. The room is 8 now, but this may change if people drop out or go inactive.
Tsukikage: replaces akroma, who has not been on since Jan. 13th, in room D3
Truestyle: being 4d, I think he should be in the B room. I'd like to keep the A room as something no one gets into without fighting for it:)
Basically, for practical reasons, I am going to start using some judgment when deciding which starting room to put new players in. Stronger players will probably get to start higher up than weaker ones, simply to make things more balanced and interesting for everyone involved. I'll make sure you will get to play challenging opponents wherever you are, though. And don't worry, once you are /in/ the league, whether you rise or fall still depends on how well you play.
Please let me know if you're unhappy with anything! I really want to make this league work.
I've swapped Ubiquity out of the D1 room, and replaced him with vosechu.
The new league format is active! As you can see, the league is now structured in a pyramid format. All rooms are 7 players large. This will make for a much more stable system, and people will be more likely to complete all their games than before. Also, since the league has been running for a few months now, I believe players in each room are mostly of the same level. In any case, there should be fewer anomalies now.
Also, I'm testing out reducing the value of losing a game to 0.5. Thanks to tsai for suggesting this. I think this will give a more accurate result overall; but if it appears that it doesn't work, I'll raise it back to 1, possibly even before the end of the month. We'll see how it goes.
Finally, I had to do a bit of unorthodox shifting of players. tsai, who is about 6d, has been moved to the A-Room.
LegendsEnd has been jumped up two tiers, because of his exceptional performance. DrOlczyk, unfortunately, was moved down a room, for the sake of balancing out things. Part of why I had to do this was because of the unreasonably high value awarded for losing games. I'm still trying to get all the kinks worked out of this system, so I really hope I won't have to do move people around like this in the future. My apologies to anyone who feels they were moved unfairly.
Well, I forgot to mention that I removed not only the inactive players from the lowest tier, but /all/ inactive players. My reason for doing this is as follows: The league took a serious blow in popularity and activity after usagi's abrupt disappearance. I could no longer determine who was inactive only temporarily, and who was in fact permanently inactive. So, in order to give the league a fresh start, I removed all people who did not participate in the January league.
That said, I will make a note of what rooms the inactive players were in, and I will try to give them priority for re-entry at a tier above "D", should openings become available. A lot of kinks in this system still need to be worked out, so please bear with me:)
Tip: Put everyone you haven't played yet in your friends list. You can then see when they are online with you more easily! Also, why not create a homepage on sensei's library and tell us about yourself? It's a great way to become a part of the community.
ASR League Waiting List
+--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | #| Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | +--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 1| Avoudou | X | .5 | | 2 | | .5 | .5 | 3.5 | 2| hotspur | 2 | X | .5 | | | | | 2.5 | 3| ketran0 | | 2 | X | | | | 2 | 4 | 4| Medice | .5 | | | X | 2 | | 2 | 4.5 | 5| VACANT | | | | .5 | X | | | .5 | 6| tsai | 2 | | | | | X | | 2 | 7| wolferl | 2 | | .5 | .5 | | | X | 3 +--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
+--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | #| Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | +--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 1| AndreyL | X | 2 | | .5 | | 2 | .5 | 5 | 2| bigfatcat | .5 | X | | | | | | .5 | 3| LegendsEnd | | | X | | | | | | 4| sente | 2 | | | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5| VincentMA | .5 | | | .5 | X | | 2 | 3 | 6| waykay | | | | .5 | | X | | .5 | 7| wossname | 2 | | | .5 | .5 | | X | 3 +--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
+--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | #| Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | +--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 1| DrOlczyk | X | .5 | | | | .5 | .5 | 1.5 | 2| jiva | 2 | X | | | | | | 2 | 3| kamisama | | | X | 2 | | | | 2 | 4| Tokee | | | .5 | X | | | | .5 | 5| Prodigious | 2 | | | | X | | | 2 | 6| silentsnow | | | | | | X | | | 7| Druft | 2 | | | | | | X | 2 +--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
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| #| Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
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| 1| EndersGame? | X | 2 | | .5 | | | | 2.5
| 2| hamburglar | .5 | X | | 2 | | | | 2.5
| 3| reprisal | | | X | .5 | 2 | | | 2.5
| 4| Sonni | 2 | .5 | 2 | X | .5 | | | 5
| 5| Viperlason | | | .5 | 2 | X | | | 2.5
| 6| xSub | | | | | | X | |
| 7| zero9090 | | | | | | | X |
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+--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | #| Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | +--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 1| anyone | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | | | 2 | 8 | 2| JMEdwards | .5 | X | | | | | | .5 | 3| leslielau | .5 | | X | .5 | | | | 1 | 4| sognando | .5 | | 2 | X | | | | 2.5 | 5| Stones | | | | | X | | | | 6| vosechu | | | | | | X | | | 7| zealot | .5 | | | | | | X | .5 +--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
+--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | #| Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | +--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 1| ability | X | 2 | 2 | | | | 2 | 6 | 2| espiral | .5 | X | | 2 | | | .5 | 3 | 3| GoldX24 | .5 | | X | | | | | .5 | 4| hamachi | | .5 | | X | | | | .5 | 5| VACANT | | | | | X | | | | 6| raga2504 | | | | | | X | | | 7| jowzer | .5 | 2 | | | | | X | 2.5 +--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
+--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | #| Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | +--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | 1| cauchyG | X | .5 | | | .5 | | .5 | 1 | 2| Hikarujr | 2 | X | | | .5 | | 2 | 4.5 | 3| HikaruShin? | | | X | | | | .5 | .5 | 4| khan | | | | X | | | | | 5| Milo234 | 2 | 2 | | | X | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6| VACANT | | | | | .5 | X | | .5 | 7| Tsukikage | 2 | .5 | 2 | | .5 | | X | 5 +--+--------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+