I'm assuming/asking that season 2 will basically be a repeat of this? Like an entirely new draft and maybe new captains?

Is it too late to sign up?

My rankings: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 17

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@Master Turtle

Yes, next season, it would be cool if we have new captains (Rocky1 and me might still be captains though as we created this event).

We'll maybe have a little bit of prerequesites too for next season (but nothing too exclusive) concerning players admissions and criterias for captains.

This season, we are lucky enough to have captains that have somewhat a similar level of gameplay but we'll have to think about some things about captains for next season. Let's say per example MOTD would be captain and all other 7 captains wouldn't be of his level... I don't think it would be fair in this case as his team would clearly have an advantage. I am not saying MOTD or someone of his level couldn't be a captain, but if we get such an elite player as captain, we would need some kind of compensation method to make sure teams remain balanced.

Other aspect for captains, I think next season (assuming this one goes well and is appreciated), we should make it clear that captains must make templates choosing and picks of the roster faster than in this season as it was a bit too slow this season in my opinion (we had to wait for some slower guys :P).

Regarding the players, I must say that almost the totality of the players of this edition are decent to great. But for next season, we would like to have all 48 guys decent to great, with 0 exceptions (I might be wrong concerning guys I don't find decent though :P). I don't know how we would restrict a bit admission but rest assured, it wouldn't be something too restrictive.

I would like to thank you all for participating in this edition of captains league and would give a special thanks to the captains that have helped bring new ideas to make this league better and the whole processes of structuring it easier!

@Jeff Sorry Jeff, teams are already made mate :(

@Pushy Where did you thought you would be picked?

Edited 10/4/2016 02:28:16

@Master Turtle

"Very interesting to see how each captained ordered their votes." Yes it is man! But if you see picks of let's say per example Mirage, he clearly tried to have a more "balanced" team compared to some other teams that yes got one of the top 3 guys (arguably MOTD/MOD Buns), but also got one of the bottom guys. Since each guy must play 2 templates in this competition, it might be more strategic to have a balanced team that will get points in all the templates rather than have 1 or 2 guys sweep a template, while others in the team are doing miserably. We'll see at the end of this edition what was the best strategy!

Protesting for missing two words from team name

wow :o like everyone in Violent Primates is cool and I will look forward to crushing them :D

@ Ox haha we'll see. Tbh, I think Semice's team is the weakest ;)

@ Glam your name was too long :P

Obviously all us captains had some biais to take some people we know already.

Edited 10/4/2016 20:36:23

HankyPinky: 6th, rocky1: 4th, Semicedevine: 29th (come on man!), Phahk Gokhn: 16th, Glamorous: 18th, Cloud Strife: 16th, Mirage: 5th (Yea man, nice pick!), and Simi the Lunatic: 14th.


Hmmm very interesting...

My picks:
30th,34th,19th,37th,37th,37th,14th(wait what?),36th.
Interesting. So most of the managers viewed me as within the weakest 10 players in the draft, which I don't inherently disagree with. Thanks for the high pick semi.

Aww man the 30-40 picked guys are gonna hate us lel

It is fun for people to see their pick order, made by the different captains, because it might give them an extra-motivation to kick the ass of the team in which the captain did a low pick of them :P.

@Mirage Given the quality of the top players on this draft, I think anyone reasonable will understand that we couldn't pick them much higher :P. Or maybe we did not pick high people with whom we could have had issues with in the past :P. I think I have only 1 really aberrant pick.

Edited 10/5/2016 18:42:46

Sign me up pls for next season :)

Edited 10/6/2016 06:44:38

feel free to post predictions below... Which 2 teams do you think will advance to stage 2 and who will win it all xD

I'd say Peaceful Nation by Phakh would advance, his team is scary.

@Mifran ofc man!

So in the division of Cloud Rocky1 Semice and Simi, I would think Simi's team or Cloud's team will win this (I have obviously a subjective few of it ;)) with Rocky1's team being really competitive. In the division of Mirage Glam Phakh and Hanky, I would think Mirage's team is the more balanced team but Phakh's team is looking very strong, so it will probably be either of theses 2 teams that wins this division. I would think the "weakest" teams of each division are Hijacks (Semice and Rakleader can't do everything) in D1 and Hanky's team in D2 (not that weak but weak compared to others imo).

So in D1, I think it will be:

1. Violent primates (Simi) or Rumtide (Cloud)
2. Violent primates or Rumtide
3. Rocky1's team
4. Hijacks (Semice)

First 3 spots will be extremely competitive in my opinion and it is anybody's guesses who will be 1,2 and 3. I have put Rocky1's team as 3rd but they could clearly finish 1st with their roster so we'll see.


In D2, I think it will be:

1. Rekt (Mirage)
2. Peaceful nation (Phakh)
3. Fractured (Glam)
4. Hanky's team

I have put Glam's team as 3rd only because it seems they might have 1 questionable guy that might hurt them (the rest of the line-up is nice though). I see a difference in overall skills between the first 3 teams and the last team as I said too for division 1, but I might be wrong though.

I am so uncertain who will get first of each division that I have no clue who might win the whole thing :P.

Edited 10/6/2016 21:03:22

Have more faith in Semice Hijacks.
I'm sure we are set off to a top position in this!

D1:

1.) Cloud
2.) Simi/Ben
3.) Rocky1
4.) Semice

I think it is a toss up between 1st and 2nd place. Benoit's team has a higher level of skill (Buns + Farah), but Cloud's has a greater number of skilled P players (Pardon, ps, Pushover). I'd have to give it to Cloud because I believe quantity > quality here.
Rocky has MoD who should perform well and some average players that could hold their weight. Semice has rakleader.

D2:

1.) Mirage
2.) Phakh
3.) Glam
4.) Hanky

Mirage has Pana and the rest of his team are ok players. However, in contrast with other teams that have a "power play" + a generally lesser quality of skill (Phakh has MotD, Glam has Chris, Hanky has INSIDE), they definitely seem the strongest. I then rated the teams based upon their star player, keeping in mind the rest of their team.

My predictions:

D1

1) Rocky
2) Cloud
3) Simi
4) Semice

I think the top 3 will be really close. While Cloud has 3 outstanding players and 1 really good player, rocky's team has the most depth here imo, while he has only one outstanding player, the rest are pretty decent all of them. Simi's team is decent but not sure Buns and Farah and probably ben himself can carry the rest. Semice has only one outstanding player and the rest average. Rakleader can't carry the whole team but i do hope they do well as theyre all nice people in that team :) It would seem that Semice has picked his friends rather than think about a balanced team.

D2

1) Phakh
2) Mirage
3) Glam
4) Hanky

Phakh's team is just looking op to me here. Just one outstanding player but the rest of them are all really good. Mirage's team looks really balanced too one outstanding player and the rest really good but I just think Phakh has a slight edge with his team. Glam's team also looks very decent and i think the differences between the top 3 teams in both divisions will be the templates each player will be chosen for. It's up to the captains to make the best decision, and putting players on the wrong template will dramatically change things imo. Hanky's team does look the weakest here but his players are definitely capable of causing a few upsets. So lets see what happens and good luck to all!