I am not giving up this cup

That's just the default retreat time on ground attacks, 3s, like in intermediate

yes, was talking about the auto-tracking idea.

In intermediate I've won and lost so many rounds because of human mistakes when tracking weapons/utilities usage. So yes, such a module would definitely erase one skill that many times gives the more invested player an edge. But if that module is going to be written, then I guess it's better if everyone has access to it.

Adnan: what about Saturday 11th 13 GMT?.

I smell stats...
Nice approach, and excuse my rope-noobeness, but what could be causing the low win% in TTRR? is it luck? what is "luck" in TTRR? Could it be explained because top TTRR players are all very good but with a similar skill level while in BnG very few players are way above the skill level of the average player?.
Those % are highly influenced by the distribution of skills in the player base; a player base that has very few high-skilled players and a lot of average/low skilled players will definitely have a higher win ratio among the top players, compared to another player base of the same scheme where the skill level is more or less the same in the whole player base.

I guess the question was about the best scheme among the fan-made schemes

We got a 3-way tie in group 1 between Leoric, Perdunok and Diego.
I can think of two options to solve this:

1) Since Perdunok had 1 tied round against Sheepworm, Leoric and Diego performed better and they would advance. The problem with this option is that drawn rounds are traditionally ignored and this mindset may have affected the result. If this option is the one to be applied, all 3 of the tied players (especially Perdunk) should be ok with it. I'd rather not choose this option because it would require to re-evaluate all the other ties of the group stage and check that considering drawn rounds doesn't change the result for anybody else

2) All 3 players (Leoric, Perdunok and Diego) play a bo1, or a new bo3 game, against the other two tied players.  A new set of bo3 games may result in another 3-way tie, so I'd rather choose a bo1. Since in the previous games no caves were played, I'd suggest playing cave if a single round, and playing cave-cave-open or cave-cave-cave if bo3; but it's up to the two players involved in a game to decide what they will do. I'd prefer if you guys played just one cave round against each other to break the tie, but if all 3 of you agree to something different then that should be fine as long as it is reasonable.

Edit: during this tie-break, tied rounds will be considered. Points for each game will be awarded according to the formula:
(won ronds + 0.5*tied rounds) / total rounds. If the single-round option is chosen and it results in a tie, an extra round will be played until someone wins one round.

Quote from: TheMadCharles on August 10, 2021, 10:02 PM
so what now? game will be replayed or what?

If Albus and Mega want to play another game, I guess that in this particular situation it should be allowed.

Yes Albus, players will always have a voice when there is something to debate. For example the aqua sheep incident, where hal voiced his opinion, you voiced yours and a decision was taken by the mods.

Some other times there is just nothing to debate because the game played doesn't meet the rules of this cup. For example, the game against fake SIBASA was deleted, there was nothing to debate there, the match was between Mablak and SIBASA, not between Mablak and whoever was impersonating SIBASA.

Alright, so Albus, you back in the Cup?.
Then, given what happened, some guidelines should be laid:
The scheme must be the one assigned to this Cup, only changing the number of victories required. Any modifications (besides the number of worms) to it will be considered intentional (good point brought up by Albus). You don't just accidentally go into the options and change something, and if the host did that's a big f@#! up and the host will have to accept whatever the moderators decide to do about it. As guidance, if the nonhosting player wants to replay, then that choice should be respected (of course that under some circumstances a different decision may be made by the mods). Other situations will be analyzed individually, and the most likely outcome is that the host will be held accountable and may be penalized in some way. If the error is in the number of worms used, since this is a plausible human error but very easy to check, the round(s) will not be accepted as a valid Cup game.

That's a very sad news Albus. I think Coste wanted a spot, it'd be amazing if he can join with his outworldy creativity and guts!

Edit (thanks Albus for pointing this out):
Since Mega'Adnan and Hal would have to play one extra game if Albus gets replaced, you guys should say whether you are ok with having a new player replace Albus. Otherwise that group will just be treated as if it was a 3-players group from the beginning: points won/lost against Albus won't be considered towards the final group score, because Rafka didn't get to play against Albus.

Yeah, sucks to think you played a cup game and in the end you were playing a funner. But sorry mate, the cup is with 8 worms. Players should have noticed that as soon as the first round started, can't blame it all on the host since in a strategic scheme it is kind of expectable for players to be aware of where each of their worms is as soon as the round starts.
It's awesome that you guys decided to play an extra game , can't wait for another amazing stream.

I don't think the game with 7 worms should be considered a game from this cup, because it wasn't played in accordance to the scheme settings. In this case, the scheme was tested and balanced for 8 worms, 1 less worms makes a huge difference, so a match with 7 worms can't count as a match for this cup. Yes, it isn't explicitly written, but in the scheme description and in every one of the past tournaments it was said that 8 is the number of worms. My mistake for not writing that down, many times some things seem so obvious that we don't even write down rules for some situations. I like the point about professionalism, and I think that if variations (intentional or not) are to be allowed, then it has to be explicitly said so in the cup description.

I guess that the aqua sheep round is fine as long as Hal accepts it.

We will wait some extra minutes past 16:00 GMT in case some of the players that said they wanted to play arrive.