TEL will be disabled.

StepS · April 20, 2012, 06:27 PM

Guaton · April 20, 2012, 06:57 PM

;/

harpy · April 20, 2012, 07:10 PM

was my plans

- joke have other pro plans

HHC · April 20, 2012, 07:28 PM

already posted mine:

TEL has been going on for too long. Elite could be added as just another TRL-scheme.

In that case we'd go down 1 league (only Classic, Free & TRL left), that's not a bad thing IMO.

A 4th league could be used though for experimental things:
1/3 of the seasons as a back-up TRL (for Elite mostly)
1/3 of the seasons as an alternative all-round league (with only all rope schemes, or only all default schemes for example [edit: or that each player remove 3 schemes-thing])
1/3 of the seasons as a TRL for the most popular FreeLeague scheme

Something like that

TheWalrus · April 20, 2012, 08:28 PM

doubletime will not be happy

TheKomodo · April 20, 2012, 08:37 PM

Why can't we find ways of making TEL a bit more interesting?

I am actually a bit saddened at this news of disabling TEL, I don't play but I check the TEL games played and the standings every morning after work, I thought we had already agreed that activity in TEL isn't a problem neither should it be one, I thought everyone agreed that TEL should have it's own League regardless? 400 games a Season is still good amongst the hardcore followers and I think that is special enough for it to remain like that, imo it's still active until it drops below 100 games...

chakkman · April 20, 2012, 08:45 PM

Quote from: Komito on April 20, 2012, 08:37 PM
400 games a Season is still good amongst the hardcore followers and I think that is special enough for it to remain like that, imo it's still active until it drops below 100 games...

Imagine 100 games per season, and imagine approximately 20-30 players playing those 100 games. Then you can calculate what it would take to reach po's. Even 400 games is very, very few...

TheKomodo · April 20, 2012, 08:46 PM

We don't REALLY need playoffs though for TEL, but at the moment we can still have 4 players doing playoffs with 30-40 games played each, I think it's still worthy to watch, especially because those players are at the top of their game.

Chelsea · April 20, 2012, 08:58 PM

maybe TAL ?

TUS AERIAL LEAGUE ?

SPW · April 20, 2012, 10:23 PM

MI, this would not be a good way in my opinion.

Guess without a fixed default ladder many people dont see any reason to keep playing worms. And that would be sad.

I dont think it will fall down 400 a season, its the down peak.

Just let it like it is. It's still a nice ladder, imo.

nino · April 20, 2012, 10:38 PM

Porra! MI :<

twistah · April 20, 2012, 10:46 PM

A reason for inactivity could be the amount of games u have to play to even get the chance to reach the playoffs. Not sure.

nino · April 20, 2012, 10:52 PM

Quote from: twistah on April 20, 2012, 10:46 PM
A reason for inactivity could be the amount of games u have to play to even get the chance to reach the playoffs. Not sure.

agreed, me per exemple, i would play some TEL weekends if there were a chance to get in the playoffs playing few games.

twistah · April 20, 2012, 11:05 PM

That's what I'm talking about. There are some flaws in the system, not in the leagues itself. The best you can have is to check at any scheme you want the top 10 players. And this is here not supported. Not resetting those leagues, but giving the players the opportunity to reset their account. I liked FB back in the days the most with the standings system and stuff. Everything what later came out wasn't the same. And with TUS I never really started before I had my break of Worms. Couldn't get into it for some reason. Wasn't enjoying.

franz · April 20, 2012, 11:28 PM

here was my idea from that 'New plan for leagues' thread

Quote from: franz on April 13, 2012, 12:54 AM
TEL is suffering from too many consecutive seasons, so I have an idea that will likely help TEL and other TRL schemes.

Multiple TRL's. Split up the schemes by popularity, so you have different tiers. One tier could be Elite/Hysteria, so those two schemes would alternate back and forth in their own tier. All the other schemes could be their own tier, or you could split up even more by popularity (like another TRL tier could be TTRR/Team17 just looking at the Season Info page activity). What this does is keep schemes more fresh by not repeating 2 times in a row or more, and it let's schemes not have to take forever to show up in TRL again since they'll be in their own tier.

so TEL can still shut down in a few days. but when the current TRL:Hysteria season ends in 5 weeks, we could start this idea starting with Elite in the rotation, then alternate it with Hysteria the following season, and then back and forth continuously. I think this is a nice compromise

also we lowered the TEL/TRL minimum games from 50 down to 30. would you still recommend even lower nino? 20?

I think the win% requirement should be removed too, because each win is not the same, so +50% win percentage shouldn't really be necessary