Deleted teams and playoff info!

2009-04-07 15:53 by

Four teams has now been deleted due to inactivity. One team in div1, one team in div2 and two teams in div3. Also important info regarding playoff!

A total of 4 teams has been removed this season due to inactivity. The clans that has been removed are the following:

Division 1: Vagabond
Division 2: AntiQuad
Division 3: Parolan Visa & TIEPS08A

Sadly this also means that the teams that have played vs any of these teams will get their points withdrawn and games has been removed. (Note that giving everyone else WO against these teams would have the exact same result in standings.)

Info about playoffs:

We are currently in week 8 of 10 in groupstages. So teams that have a lot of games left to play, play your games asap!

Playoff weeks will begin April 27th (week 11 in EQL).

Week 11: Quarter-finals
Week 12: Semi-finals
Week 13: Finals

(If teams for some reason can't play these weeks, let us know in advance!)

Top 8 teams from each division will advance to playoff in their division. And as usual the winner of each division faces #8, #2 faces #7 and so on.

Playoffs are played BO5. Regarding maps in playoffs: First all three maps are played. If the game score is 2-1 after first three maps, the team with 1 mapwin will choose the next map. Then if a 5th map is needed, it's the other teams turn to pick decidermap.

Have fun and GL!

// The admins

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#1 2009-04-29 10:00 by faustov (77.79.218.XXX)

Have fun and GL!

// The admins

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#2 2009-04-20 12:24 by Darff (193.130.68.XXX)

Hey, I write schedules for big sports competitions and can confirm, the playoffs are always 1v8, 2v7, 3v6, 4v5, leading to 1v4, 2v3 semis - if any games go against seed, then the teams simply switch seed - the matches on the schedule remain the same.

If a division is split into two next season and seeding is done based on this season's results, it'd make sense to have 1,3,5,7 and 2,4,6,8 (etc) as the groups, to avoid group rematches in the quarter finals.

Also possible to have a crossover before the QFs if feasible - 5v12, 6v11, 7v10, 8v9.

As there is always talk about teams not belonging in certain divisions, it could be good to see a change to the format, so that a team isn't stuck in a division for a whole season, and a certain amount of movement is possible. Depending on how it's done, this could make the various playoffs more exciting too. This would obviously have to be implemented without causing numerous rapes, and prob depends on quite a bit of activity so might not be feasible.

#3 2009-04-20 08:31 by buggy (84.230.75.XXX)

The way to go is obviously to have the best seed play the worst in every playoff round.
It makes the long regular season more important and that's the way it's done in every major sports leagues.
"Permanent brackets" are only used in quick competitions where no regular season is played. Like tennis tournaments.

#4 2009-04-11 18:31 by marklar (84.250.148.XXX)

Yeah.. I like the static-bracket approach as well. Just brought it up since there's been talk about regular season games not being that important, and this would be a little push (very small) towards it while maintaining bigger divisions and 8-team playoffs.

p.s. while not so relevant in qw, most sport leagues seed the teams in every playoff round according to the regular season rankings :)

#5 2009-04-11 17:56 by fog (85.235.31.XXX)

Allright, I get your point fifi, but if team 7 manages to win vs team 2, I think they deserve to play against team 3 or 6, and not face #1 in semis.

Since if team #7 would win #2, they probably should end up in final with #1, which is impossible if they play #1 in semis. :)

#6 2009-04-11 14:57 by marklar (84.250.148.XXX)

ehm fog, you might wanna read again...

to simplify it further: the highest seeded team always plays against the lowest seeded team (by regular season standards)

you know, if team 2 wins in my example, then the teams that are in semis are 1,2,3,5 and it would be 1 vs 5 and 2 vs 3...

not that hard!:D

#7 2009-04-10 15:32 by VVD (91.192.83.XXX)

[(1 vs 8) vs (4 vs 5)] vs [(2 vs 7) vs (3 vs 6)] - this is best possible static single elimination bracket.

#8 2009-04-09 16:59 by fog (85.235.31.XXX)

Razor that should come as a natural result of it yes. Marklar, yeah well what happens if team 2 wins team 7 and team 4 wins team 5 instead. Then it should have been: 1 vs 2, and 3 vs 4 in semis which is unnacceptable. So yeah razor, you are right.

#9 2009-04-09 14:36 by marklar (84.250.148.XXX)

better example would have been something like teams 1,3,5,7 win the first round game, then it would be 1 vs 7 and 3 vs 5 (instead of 1 vs 5 and 3 vs 7 what usually happens because people like to make brackets) :D

#10 2009-04-09 12:00 by razor (81.201.222.XXX)

helloooo? elloo elo lo... *echo*
answer!? ;)

#11 2009-04-08 00:25 by razor (83.250.106.XXX)

just checking, in the semis the teams are still seeded from the season results right? so lets say team 1-4 all win their quarters.. then it is 1vs4 and 2vs3..

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