I don't like the idea to vote the unseeded Clans and sort them by this. It should be ranked by privious Seasons/Performances if possible.
You wouldnt vote by their strength. Much more you vote by impression of few matches with few members or even by by sympathies. E.g. I play against Blowfly I May get an other impression of 101st strength as if I play against Edge.
Some countable measure would be good. Average Ladder stats ...
Ofc it wouldnt be perfect to vote, but way better than just to randomize.
Average ladder stats is difficult, how do you weight them, who do you take in (you do not know the roaster yet).
I would prefer to avoid ranking clans. It becomes hard because each clan does not know all the clans they are ranking and it becomes a crap shoot. And as much as I want to believe everyone will be honest when ranking clans, if how voting for CL templates has shown, it gets really strategic and not at all factual really fast. There is a built in incentive to lie and punish good clans when voting then to actually be truthful. That's why voting shouldn't be done.
You may vote a clan down, but this can be very risky for yourself, as you may get paired with this clan and another strong one. Ranking at least lowers the risk of getting all skilled unseeded in one group.
yes and in the end you need to beat all except one to get in B anyway. :)
Yeah, but there are a lot of games and warlight has some random factor in it.
There is no perfect methode to group or rank clans. But current situation is weird. Seeding some good + some "not so good" clans and on the other hand there are unseeded clans, which are at least able to beat all of them. We will see how it works...