Team America's got a discord server, if you're interested in joining message me and i'll send you a link
Want to figure out who wants to play full stop before deciding A/B/Q teams but yeah hit me up if you want that.
If you don't have discord that's fine, just send me a mail over the forums letting me know you're American and interested in playing. We're gonna be fielding multiple teams it looks like so yea.
New Nations Cup - sign up your team now!: 9/24/2019 21:54:21
@Rento: If you received a lot of feedback, why don't you consider a change at this stage?
I never played Greece with cyclic but it's fine as non-cyclic. What's the point of changing a great strategic template from the way it is commonly played? (For Guiroma I find the 0% SR and improvement and don't mind cyclic)
In the end it's your call (or whatever the organisers are) of course. Thanks for the effort.
New Nations Cup - sign up your team now!: 9/25/2019 01:58:54
Cyclic move Greece is clearly the most controversial template. There are people who absolutely hate this and there are people who love this. So I see no point in returning to random move this edition, although I agree, it's best if there's just 1 verions of every template and if I wanted cyclic move, I should have chosen something else completely.
New Nations Cup - sign up your team now!: 9/25/2019 13:59:55
Many people ask about it. So I'll clarify: the system I'm using is totally different from CL system.
Here's how it works:
1st round, played on Guiroma template.
Every team plays 12 games on Guiroma, so a full 6-player team will have 2 games per player.
After 21 days, 2nd round starts, this time all games are on French Brawl.
So all your players play French Brawl now
etc, until the final 6th round, which should start on 26th January 2020.
Also to keep in mind, you can put a player on a bench and have other people play instead of him on some particular template(s). They would then play 3 games instead of 2. It comes with a small penalty to max points though, as explained in the spreadsheet I linked in the opening post. Still it could be worth it if someone really hates some template(s).
New Nations Cup - sign up your team now!: 9/26/2019 07:29:40
- How do you plan to decide the pairings? Based on team ranking? Standard swiss or accelerated pairings? - Why is there at this point no possibility to change Strat Greece back to non-cyclic move order?
New Nations Cup - sign up your team now!: 9/26/2019 08:02:06
I have an algorithm that ranks teams from favourites at top to weaker teams going down. I use this algorithm after signup deadline to seed teams. So before October 12th I have no idea what team will have what seed, including my own Poland team. I'm trying to make it as objective as I can. Then I do the pairing for 1st round.
I know 3 types of pairing systems used in Swiss: -adjecent pairing: 1st seed vs 2nd seed, 3rd vs 4th etc -fold pairing: best seed vs worst seed, second best vs second worst etc -slide pairing. With 16 teams participating it would be 1st seed vs 9th seed, 2nd vs 10th etc.
I don't know which one of these you consider standard Swiss, but I plan to go for slide pairing because it looks most enjoyable.
-- Like I said, I'm not changing Greece back to random move because a good number of people enjoy this change. I already have rules for this season, including templates chosen. I can change rules any time when I see a very good reason to do so, but I don't think we have a very good reason here. Cyclic Greece is controversial, but not overwhelmingly disliked.
@edit I thought about accelerated pairing but it comes with some disadvantages and I think 6 rounds for 16-32 teams is enough without it. I don't expect to get more than 32 teams.
