Season XXXV is drawing to a close, so it is time for us to start thinking about the template on which we will play Season XXXVI.

The template will be selected following the same process used in the past three seasons. As a reminder, this process is broken into three phases as detailed below.
Phase 1 - The community can nominate templates for the seasonal.
Phase 2 - The template panel will prune the submissions down to a small number.
Phase 3 - Anyone who has completed all 20 games in any one of the last 3 seasonals (Season XXXIII onwards) will be allowed to vote (no alts). We will resolve votes using the Dowdall system- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borda_count#Dowdall_system_(Nauru)

Please consider the following while submitting templates in Phase 1:

• Quality of template
  
• Finish in a reasonable amount of time
  
• Diversity of settings (WR/SR, MA, fog levels, armies per territory, income cap etc.)
  
• Diversity of maps
  
• Diversity across seasons (i.e. don't repeat previous seasons)

Deadlines
Phase 1 - 19th April 2019
Phase 2 - 29th April 2019
Phase 3 - 2nd May 2019

There are nearly two weeks until the template submission deadline, so if you are working on a template or have a new and largely unplayed template that you would like to submit make sure you have tested it extensively with many test games, ideally with players who have experience creating or testing strategic templates, as those are the types of people that make up the template panel. For new templates it might also help your case to post multiple several games to help the panel get a better sense of how the template plays.

Let's pick a great template for Season XXXVI. I hope everyone participates in this process and we can have a good season! Please nominate templates on this thread by providing a link to a finished game with the exact settings.

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Thread for Season XXXV
https://www.warzone.com/Forum/327381-season-xxxv-template-selection

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Phase 1
The community has nominated these templates:

• Tic-tac-toe reverse income
• Timid Lands
• Discovery 2
• Phobia 0% SR
• British Raj
• Buccaneers
• Olympus Cat Fight
• Lombardy Swap
• Gotham City
• Greater Middle East III

Edited 4/22/2019 18:11:43

Tic-Tac-Toe reverse income
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=11013437

Edited 4/10/2019 22:48:48

Timid Lands
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=18020778

Edited 4/11/2019 06:25:02

@timi, seph, can you attach a name to the template submissions? It makes it easier for me to process them.

Have we done any of the discovery templates in a seasonal yet? Discovery 2 is pretty fun: https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=18182677

Phobia no luck

https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=14100670

B.raj the proper version

https://www.warzone.com/multiplayer?GameID=15001534

Buccaneers 0% WR
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=18201593

Olympus Cat Fight 2 (0% WR)
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=18372337

Edited 4/13/2019 03:26:25

I nominate Lombardy Swap.

https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=17525814

Check the template beren. It's not the same cat fight.
If someone is better at names than me, please suggest.

Edited the name a bit. Thanks rento.

Edited 4/12/2019 13:23:17

I nominate Gotham City 1v1 (V.1.5)

https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=16549757

WGL #166:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKnxIZhb2r0&t=8122s

gotham sounds good lionheart

Greater Middle East III

https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=17934760

Sorry for the delay. Phase 1 is now over. The panel is looking over the templates. Thanks to everyone who submitted a template. Phase 2 will be extended to account for the late closing of Phase 1 until The 29th of April.

Phase 2 is running a bit overdue... about how long left for template panel to decide?

Today we will enter the last phase.

The community can vote on the seasonal template (Phase 3) from the list below:

British Raj         https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=15001534
Olympus Cat Fight   https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=18372337
Timid Lands         https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=18020778

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As mentioned earlier, we will be using the Dowdall system to resolve votes. Anyone who has completed all 20 games in any one of the last three seasonals (Season XXXIII onwards) is eligible to vote. Please order all the templates as per your preference (1 is most preferred, 4 is least). If you don't list all of the templates, your vote will be ignored. Also include a valid link to your ladder team's games page. Make sure to link the ladder games page not the team page, as this makes it easier to verify that 20 games were played.

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Voting will close on Sunday, May 5th, 2019.
All votes will be made public after the voting closes.
Votes can be submitted by sending a Warzone Mail to this account. Do not edit your message after the deadline or it may be ignored.

Example

Subject: Season XXXVI Template Votes

1 British Raj
2 Olympus Cat Fight
3 Timid Lands

https://www.warzone.com/LadderGames?ID=4065&LadderTeamID=20957

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For transparency and to provide feedback and guidance to those who created or submitted templates for this season, we are providing the general reasons why each of the excluded templates was not chosen.

• Buccaneers 0% WR: The map is rather large for a 1v1, especially in WR where expansion is slower. This can lead to games being too long.
• Discovery 2: Since the previous season featured a vanilla 0% SR template (and in fact 2 of the past 3 did), we decided to avoid such templates for this season.
• Gotham City: The primary objection to this template boils down to the cards. There are too many and it leads to messy situations. The emergency blockade card in particular drew significant criticism. Some other voices suggested that we had an INSS template too recently (Season XXXII).
• Greater Middle East III: See Discovery 2
• Lombardy Swap: Mods are not currently supported for the seasonal ladder
• Phobia 0% SR: See Discovery 2
• Tic-tac-toe reverse income: This template in particular with random move order and WR is not remotely strategic.

WR guaranteed season, nice.

Edited 5/2/2019 21:06:15

A good number of people have submitted votes incorrectly. Please make sure you link your ladder games page not your ladder team page. Your vote will not count unless you submit your vote correctly.