Ahh, I found it (wasn't simple because I have -1 hour time zone from you :)), I updated it, but only with "under construction" text.
Well, I am (parallel) working on it, I am already in the last phase.
Until then here are some info we have already:
Grand Slam templates:
- Old 1v1 Ladder (Strat ME 0% WR)
- New 1v1 Ladder (Strat MME 0% SR)
- Biomes of America
- Blitzkrieg Borg
Masters templates:
- Strategic Greece
- French Brawl
- Guiroma 16% SR
- Battle Island V
- Volcano Island
- British Raj MDL version
- Phobia SR
- Macedonia No Split
500 Series templates:
- China
- EA&O
- Strategic Commanders
- Fast Earth
- Pangea Ultima
- Elitist Africa
- Hannibal at the Gates
- GME III
- Poland
- Cat Fight
- Succession Wars LD
- Malvia
Fixed 250 Series templates:
- Gelvien Islands
- Belarus
- Georgia Army Cap
- Turkey LD
- MA Battle Island V
- Sumo
- Treasure Map
- Numenor
- EarthSea
- Concordia (the changed version by Alex)
- MDL Australia
So these are the updated 35 of 50 templates for fixed events. I mean:
- every first Mondays of the Months will start a major event (Grand Slam or Masters),
- every second Mondays of the Months (except December where will be only two events and after a Tour Holiday) will start a fixed 250 Series event and
- every third Mondays of the Months (except December, then will be second Monday) will start a 500 Series event.
And for the rest 15 Mondays (fourth and fift Mondays of the Months) we won't use fixed templates, instead will be template pools (by categories), and after the Monthly update posts I will create a forum topic where the community can choose one (or two if will be 5 Mondays in the next Month) 250 Series template for the next Month from a given pool(s), or even the community can propose brand new templates too which aren't included in the template pools yet (in this case the template panel will validate first that new template, and then will become part of the template pool and maybe will be choosed for next month too).
This won't be a voting (it would be too long and difficult to organize that), I will choose the template(s) but very based on your posts. This is because I would like that the templates on the Tour won't be a static things but dynamic. I hope that these monthly topics (which will be an interface for the community regarding Tour templates) and the not fixed 15 events and template pools will guarantee this.
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The other big changes will be (but only from 2020) that the present Seasons will be ceased, at least in their present form.
Won't be time segregated but distributed seasons.
I mean, now we have seasons segregated by time. We have 29 continuous weeks when opened SR events only, then 13 weeks when weird settings events only, then 8 week with WR events only. This is not very optimal, because for example:
- if you hate the WR settings you will have 8 weeks pause on the Tour.
- or if you adore the weird settings, you will must join too much tournaments in that 13 weeks period (and you will have uncomfortable many ongoing games)
- or if you get bored of SR settings, well then you have damned long boring period on the Tour now :|
So instead of time segregation we will distribute the different type of templates evenly over the months.
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So this is the present status and plans.
Now, I am collecting the templates for the template pools, then template panel will validate them.
But I understand you, so I give priority to this, and I will create a fixed schedule for 2019 Clay (weird) season asap.
And thank you for your patience.
