Every now and then people seem to get bored of the current league system and that's why I'm here for!
We've been experiencing 4-5 separate leagues in the past 3.5 years. This plan have worked good and have showed results. Wasn't perfect, but imo it worked. Many of you have been with this plan for long enough, so it is a good time to gather your ideas for tweaks or new plans for the leagues. (or even not touching it at all!)
Summery of current plan:
4 active leagues and 1 inactive, with
completely separate ratings:
Classic League: (containing 8 schemes, the most popular ones)
- BnG
- Roper
- TTRR
- Shopper
- Team17
- Elite
- WxW
- Hysteria
Free League: (containing 19 schemes, less popular schemes)
- Battle Race
- Big RR/Tower
- Boom Race
- Bungee Race
- Capture The Flag
- Elemental
- Forts
- Golf
- Holy War
- Intermediate
- Jetpack Race
- Kaos
- Mine madness/BnA
- Mole Shopper
- Parachute Race
- Plop War
- Pro
- Super Sheep Race
- Walk For Weapons
TEL, TUS Elite League, Only focusing on Elite scheme
TRL, TUS Rotated League, Focusing on one specified scheme each season voted by members.
TNL, TUS Normal League, Only focusing on Intermediate scheme, which is currently disabled due to inactivity.
Current new flawed/incomplete plan:
All leagues will be merged into one. There will be no Classic, TEL or anything. Instead, all schemes will have the opportunity to have playoffs if they get qualified by enough activity.
Each scheme receives its own season length. For example, 2 months for Elite, 3 months for Intermediate and after that system checks for the possibility of their playoffs. It is kinda like each scheme has its own league.
Since our community needs to know the best all rounders defined by certain schemes, system will pick the best 4, 8, 16 players of last seasons of all specified schemes (leagues), and set a playoffs combining of those schemes.
Pros: (will get updated more)
- Since each scheme have the opportunity to have its own season and playoffs, certain scheme fans can focus on their own scheme and enjoy having playoffs for their own scheme. (Even for new schemes like Aerial)
Cons: (will get updated more)
- It seems that after first seasons, people lose the motivation. When there comes a new scheme for TRL, it acts like an announcement: "New scheme!! Go go go!!" and that creates activity. With all schemes being there waiting for their PO, I guess system has the potential to get bored after few seasons.
- A system like TRL, makes semi-fans of a scheme to participate (because there's no other scheme), this adds up to TRL activity to have possible playoffs (or does it?), with all the schemes being there, no scheme will have enough activity to have its playoffs. In other words, the activity required to have playoffs in certain scheme, will now split into small bits for each scheme and none will have the opportunity for playoffs.
Other ideas are welcome. Please think it through first and give us enough details.
I find division plans cool and interesting, but I don't support them because at this time, I think our community doesn't have enough activity to handle division plans.
There are 12 days left to new classic league. Depending how much this discussion goes, I don't think it would be possible to implement the new plan in 12 days. So a fair date would be at the end of the next classic league, probably along with the release of TUS2.
*If you like the new system, please post so that we can keep track.