Peja is not banned. Not anymore.

Yes you can. You can click on icon to modify your maps any time.

At the moment TUS map editor only toggles the borders on and off.  I'll put this feature in a few days. (Right-click to add toggle top border)

Interesting

Well TUS server could use Youtube's API to upload the videos. I'm still not sure if such high number of videos are allowed in Youtube. At least the submission rate must be limited. Doesn't Youtube count it as flooding?

@cgar, How much did it take to convert that replay into video?

I like this idea but the needed space is insane. Have you tested a replay? For example how much a 30-min BnG game with 720p and 50fps would be?
I don't know about Youtube's policy. Is there a limit on how many videos you can upload?

Also that software by solemnwarning has not been updated. Not sure if it works with v3.8.1

I'm sorry I think I threw you off.  I mean the 8 most popular schemes must be the pick selection of playoffs. The calculations for the standings stays untouched regardless of the popular schemes.

Yes I meant the latter. The schemes for playoffs of each season will be based the 8 most popular schemes of that season.

Regarding the Team17 example, most variations are different in crate probability. Yet there are so many players with different tastes.

Take this example, if I take deadcode's Team17 scheme and add one homing missile to it. Am I allowed to report the new scheme separately? While deadcode plays with his Team17 version, mine would be a different scheme. don't you think managing all these variations would be a disaster?

Yes That's correct. If we implement this system, there will be a page that predicts the playoffs schemes based on the current season popularity. It helps players to see what the current popular schemes are.

@Senator,
It is only about how we handle playoffs. It has nothing to do with standings. There will be pre-curated filters that show "allround" standings or "default" standings.

This is a raw idea at the moment. Sounds very promising but I think it needs work. Overall I'm up for it.
The schemes are a lot. Allowing players to play *any* scheme they want: Do you think it's possible we end up with so many different schemes getting played but only few players for each? Does it divide the games too much? There are quite a few team17 schemes:

https://www.tus-wa.com/schemes/search/team17/

Every single one of them can't be allowed to be played. I think regulating schemes is the most important part.

We already have scheme standings per season. E.g. Team17 standing of this season:

https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/allround-standings/aTeam17/

Quote from: Komito on June 18, 2021, 10:05 AM
What if you played 4/8 of those schemes and had a great season, made the playoffs, although you refuse to play the other 4 schemes, does this mean you forfeit the Playoffs?

This is why I prefer the idea of having single scheme playoffs, even if it's only the Top 8 schemes involved, so long as you don't have to play the schemes you don't enjoy, i'm happy with that tbh.

This is up for debate. In my opinion playoffs is the summary of the season. Someone should wear the crown after the end of the season. We could run specific scheme playoffs. Maybe only when that scheme has enough games played but that is very different from marking one player as the champion of the season.

My idea doesn't have any conflict with the original idea. It is only about the playoffs. To have playoffs, you need to make the league season-based. In each season, players play whatever scheme they want like the proposed idea. The playoffs picks most popular schemes out of those. That's it.

It's fixed. TRL is removed from the menu and free league is there again.

Please do not quote the exact previous posts. It is redundant.

I like the idea. I like the idea of allowing to report on every scheme but we should have regulated schemes. There are more than 4000 schemes on TUS. Many may be duplicate or have very tiny changes. Allowing to report on every scheme just creates duplicated/unnecessary standings. Instead we should regulate those schemes. A group of people reviewing the schemes and mark them as "league playable". So ZAR roper would be qualified and it would be a separated scheme from W2 roper or the official roper. (all 3 can be played obviously) But 2 versions of TTRR will minimal changes should be marked as one.

I don't like combining any scheme selection and TUS has to calculate a custom standing for you. Why should you be able to select BoomRace with Hysteria to see a standing? What's the point? Standings is a way to show how the competition is going on. Now every player can find a custom standing where they shine. It reduces the quality of the competition. (Pre-Curated Filters sounds OK)

Back to the main idea: If we take this rout, I would like to suggest a better system based on your ideas:

We set a period like 2-3 months for the league season. Only one league. Then we let players to play their favorite schemes. After the season is done, TUS system checks for top 8 played schemes based on number of participants. For example if 2 players play 100 Team17 matches, the popularity number for Team17 would be 2 but if 10 people play 50 BnG matches, the popularity number would be 10.  So after picking up the top 8 popular schemes, the playoffs would be set based on those.

The cool thing about this idea is that it allows any scheme to become popular. It's like schemes compete to be in playoffs. If in a season, WxW is played less but Darts becomes popular, Dart would be chosen to be in playoffs. If someone creates a new scheme and they are worried the scheme is not getting enough attention. Now they have a chance to play it in league and try to raise the popularity of the scheme to be in playoffs.

So far so good but there will be flaws. Will this system kill some oldschool schemes? TTRR requires lots of practice. Can TTRR hold popularity? Does this system drop TTRR?

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