TRL:Team17 Season 12 ended Friday, February 1st
https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/TRL-standings/?s=12
https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/TRL-playoffs/?s=12


Round1 deadline - THURSDAY, February 21st (20 days)
Round2 deadline - WEDNESDAY, March 13th (20 days)
FINAL deadline - TUESDAY, April 2nd (20 days)


If only one side is making good effort to finish playoff games, that side will advance.
If BOTH sides make poor effort to finish playoff games, BOTH sides will get kicked out.

Anyone who fails to finish their playoff games and is kicked out will be disqualified from the next playoffs.
After that, they are free to qualify again.



MonkeyIsland #1/Husk #8

Bonhert #3/HHC #6

van #4/Albino #5

Chelsea #2/Dmitry #7

I actually only played DiabloII for the first time last year from friends who revisited it for nostalgia, and it was one of them that introduced Path of Exile to the rest of us this last week, only he also recommends Torchlight2 like you're bringing up lacoste, so I'm sure it's also up there in quality gaming. I do personally like the free-ness of PoE, as these style of games are still new to me (perhaps I'll try T2 someday if I want to splurge).

such a good lead too Crazy, was hard to watch, bl. and gj lacoste

Quote from: OrangE on January 31, 2013, 08:39 PM
:v well kay, just pick few secs more so that pump will fit into the 30 secs, thanks!

again, give the exact time or I won't bother

haha, yeah darkz, I was wondering about that. even grouping with one friend of mine with my witch, I felt like all I was doing was 'pet' damage, like my damage didn't even matter so much that I may as well be his pet ;p

Quote from: Kayz on January 31, 2013, 02:56 PM
I always find it difficult here that if you came as a good player, wanting to play vs some high ranked players, they sometimes avoided to play, because winning won't give them a lot of points but losing would give them just a big loss.

This was actually only a problem in the previous system before March 2011 that had just Overall Rating, and adding the Seasonal Rating system helped drastically on these (win +1 lose -72). Your system works great for isolated seasons and constantly updates everyone's 'strength of opponent list', which I think is cool. But some magic is lost when say beating a strong player means almost nothing unless they play out the whole season. Still, I think both systems are viewed as acceptable for their own merits.



I think MI is probably right about a default bo3. Not everyone is great at choosing/making maps anyway, but I could still see at least some people maybe trying bo1 with sufficiently complex maps to prevent huge 3+ plop first turns.

Though a modified KRD idea could maybe work too (as a last ditch idea here) --> instead of reporting your Bo2 in one report like KRD was trying to rationalize, just simply treat the Bo2 games as completely separate games especially when reporting. This eliminates the need for MI to alter any unnecessary coding, and 2 games will always be played to help balance out. --> and hey! if players are having fun, they could even elect to continue with that 3rd 'tiebreak' game if they both mutually agree (still reported separately again anyway).

would any of you actually be up for that? only detractor I can of is finishing 1:1 might just not seem as satisfying, almost feeling like playing for nothing if the final effect is just +1 or +2 for one player and -1 or -2 for the other player. (this would only be true in this first Intermediate TRL when Overall Rank is being populated for the first time --> I could see this idea working a lot better in successive seasons: a 2nd Intermediate TRL, 3rd, 4th...)

Otherwise, I still think a Bo3 default could be fine, and allow other variations if players can agree.

fun game can't believe their giving this quality game away for free

Quote from: Free on January 31, 2013, 08:21 AM
This said, I also hope notching will be disabled in the future patches, as I believe in 4.0 they are planning that the power won't full out and start going down after going to the maximium power.

this is already in the game Free, just type /TestStuff in the lobby, or /ts or /test.

should be allowed to force /TestStuff, which at least makes full power shots not always 100% possible

tense endings. unfortunate Hurem, you seemed ahead in both. gj chuvash, gritty play

wow I advance way too many wrong players for it to be healthy. thanks

Reminder: FINAL deadline - TUESDAY, February 19th
almost 6 week(s) in now -> less than 3 week(s) left for FINAL


Bry4N #2/Lukz #6


cFc #1/dt #2, cFc is still delaying for 2 weeks so still need to see extra effort from you, but dt you risk kick out for not even replying to cFc's current offer: saturday 9th 20 gtm

https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/TEL-standings/?s=11
https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/TEL-playoffs/?s=11

I think I heard word this is Crazy's first championship here, and this seems to check out, so extra congratulations for this honor friend! +1 shiny medal points!

Quote from: OrangE on January 31, 2013, 03:53 AM
submtted another one. the turn starts at 17:03 but its 50 secs long. feel free to take the best 30 secs of it, i can't really choose i kinda like the whole turn

not how it works friend, sorry. you still have to supply your own start time, so it's 17:03 unless you say different

Quote from: Anubis on January 26, 2013, 04:22 AM
Erod!

Path of Exile SC (EU)
Occasionally D3 HC (also EU)
W:A

I actually quit WoW, have no sub atm, first time after 2 years. xD

wow he's clean