Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
We are proud to announce the first installment of iCTF on OwnedWell. We have a lot of cool features planned and are looking forward to a fast paced Fall season. As it stands, the draft will be held on November 2nd and it will be a 3 week regular season with the top 8/16 teams making the playoffs.
: Sunday 26th October at 4 PM EST (Guys keep in mind that daylight savings happens on 26 October for Euros, but not until 2 November for Americans. This means that due to the time difference, match time is 8PM GMT, and 9PM CET).
Sign ups close: Friday 31st October at 11:59 PM EST. Keep in mind that there is no such thing as late sign ups. If you don't sign up before this time, you're missing out. Big time!
Draft: Sunday 2 November at 4:00 PM EST (9:00 PM GMT & 10:00 CET).
Final: Sunday 14th December
Semi: Sunday 7th December
Quarter Final: Sunday 30th November
Week 3 group: Sunday 23rd November
Week 2 group: Sunday 16th November
Week 1 group: Sunday 9th November
Players who sign up with Full Availability will be expected to make at least 2/3 matches. If a player cannot commit to at least 2 of the matches, they can sign up with partial availability which will make them mercenary and not eligible to participate in the playoffs.
Dev Matches: Start at 2:00 PM EST and will be done before reg matches
Reg Matches: 4:00 PM / 5:00 PM / 5:30 PM EST
In previous iterations of draft leagues, both teams would each pick a map and then play them. It's an acceptable method of selection however we have been mulling over the idea of an elimination system. Most competitive gaming these days does elimination rather than picks and we are looking to move in that direction. Telling a captain your map pick 10minutes after match time is no longer an acceptable strategy. The picks will need to be made and placed on the website at least 30 minutes before the match.
How it would work: both teams create a list of maps on the match page that they would like to play in the order of least favorite to favorite. This information is not visible to the other team. The site takes both lists and spits out two maps based on blind elimination. Clean, easy, efficient. A captain can change their list up until 30mins before a match and set it once a match is posted.
BrokenLimits
Complex
Command-CE3
DiamondSword_GU3
DukuCB6
GrudgeCB3
Klondike
PryXon
Rune][
+ 2 more, for which we want your input. We want 2 more competitive, fun maps that inspire flag running and not turtling. Let us know:
These will be ironed out at least a week before the draft.
One exciting new addition is that there will be no ties in reg matches! A lot of you will say is nothing less satisfying than going into a game and walking away with a tie. So now there will be a tiebreaker map (that will be the not picked map remaining from the elimination process). So you either win, or you lose - there is no inbetween
The winning team each receives a limited edition Owned Well t-shirt (in addition to the honour of winning...)!
The earlier you sign up, the earlier we have a rough estimate what the numbers will be and can account for that. Obviously a lot of things need organising, of which a lot depends on the amount and type of signups.
The more captains that sign up, the more teams we can make and the more people can play each week.
If we have lots of dev players sign up, we can perhaps revise the rule of 2/5 starters and 3/5 dev players to 4/5 dev players - that way more dev players can play!
So if you want to play, please don't leave it until the last minute:
There will be a lot more posts leading up to the draft. If anyone has any questions or issues that they would like addressed, post about them sooner than later.
Thanks,
PACO & HULKSMASH
