I guess rules says nothing about clans taking their toys away beacuse they were to be punished for cheating. As for me, it should not be such straightforward to be reinstated to CL. Also, absence time should not count toward ban period.

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I haven't followed the whole story but what Zev says makes sense to me.CL positions belong to clans not to players.If clan A doesn't wish to participate in next CL for any reason, it should be replaced by the rightful clan not by one that might have collected players that left clan A.

@krzystof just for your information since you might be talking about masters.

There are no clans being punished but individuals. In our case deadman and farah for 2 seasons, jz for 1 season. None of these has been playing cl for apprentice/masters the last seasons either.

@Mylo

Well, what if other 14 members have little lower skills so they decide to let these 6 people play to have better results?

You can change the numbers to play them around. Like full clan consist of 70 members and 11 of them are playing. Still the same answer from you?

What if 8 of 11 are leaving the clan or retiring?

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Don't really want to deepen the topic on this thread, but with 70 players in a clan, there still only needs to be one of them in the wrong position to fuck up cl for the others, while in the other situation if 11 were playing cl there have to be at least 8 players hijacking the cl spot together. Seems obious to me which one should be the prefered option.

Edit: if players retire they surely won't request to transfer the cl spot. Only if there is such a request and more than 2/3 move to the same clan the spot can be transfered

Edited 5/13/2020 13:47:18

Edge, I like your voting proposal - conditional on B teams having the same rights as sister clans like Lynx/101st would have (e.g. template voting/ movement between clans).

(But maybe create another thread for this, since this one is likely to get derailed.)

I don't think the original post addressed the issue of two teams from the same clan being in the same division... Obviously there would be an incentive for the worse team to tank all games to the better team so that the clan gets the win. A rule preventing this would be ultimately unenforceable because it's impossible to tell if a boot was accidental or intentional, or if somebody just made a bad predict or was intentionally playing poorly.

It seems like this solution to the brother-sister clan problem fails to resolve any of the problems mentioned, and perhaps makes them and others worse:

First, you mention the issue of sibling clans voting. In the proposed system, would each team get a vote, or each clan get a vote, no matter how many teams they had in A/B? If the former, it rewards larger clans, which simply recreates the original problem. If the latter, then there's still the problem of sibling clans getting extra votes.

Second, you mention the issue of sibling clans playing in the same division. I gave my thoughts on that above.

Third, you mention that the issue of sibling clans taking each others' spots. This remains to be an issue in the world of multiple teams. If Apps could have made a team B, they still would have merged with Masters so that Masters' better players could play in a higher level of clan league. This scenario still would have come up and been just as controversial. Also, it creates additional problems. If team B from ONE! all decide they want to create a new clan called TWO?, do they get ONE! B's spot? Or do they have to start from the bottom?

There's an additional issue of moving players from one team to another. Would current rules against spot changes still apply (i.e. if you move to another team you have to stay there for another full season), or would it become a fluid system where when a clan's B team promotes as the A team relegates, the A team all move back up to what was the B team and vise versa, essentially making the last seasons' promotions and relegations not happen. Some may say that this is currently an issue with sibling clans, but that's not the case because there are no sibling clans that are in position to swap places now or in the near future. FCC and Disco have a division in between, so it's impossible for Disco to surpass FCC. Lynx is not relegating from A any time soon, and if we're being honest with ourselves, 101st probably isn't promotion either, so this is also not a likely source of issue. While it might happen in the future between sibling clans, it would happen much less often than with multiple teams from a clan.

Finally, it's not more equitable to have multiple teams per clan than having the current system of some sibling clans. Only a few clans would be able to field multiple competitive teams, meaning it still puts some clans above others since most clans couldn't make a second team, essentially making it the same as now, but with more iterations of sibling clans, and the additional problems described above.

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How about bringing back the Reserve Clan League?
Then we could have 101st, Discovery, MH's second team and whoever else is interested play there.

Problem solved.

Sad day for Warzone.

Creating new rules isn't something that comes under the purview of the Ethics Committee, so I don't understand why they are proposing this at all. But to address this proposal I have a few thoughts.

Allowing B teams doesn't make detecting or defining sibling relationships any easier unless you are giving sibling clans more rights than independent clans, they have no incentive to declare themselves as such otherwise. I can't see any compelling reason why a sibling clan ought to have more rights than an independent clan, so this proposal doesn't seem to solve any of the problems sibling clans pose for the organizers.

In addition, if having sibling clans is a headache for the leadership (which it is), why would making it easier for clans to establish them be a good thing? None of the arguments in favor of teams was actually an argument in favor of B teams. They were all arguments essentially saying, "having a sibling clan is an advantage, so let's allow all clans this same advantage." But all clans already have the ability to create sibling clans today. Currently there are very few examples of sibling clans, but there is nothing currently stopping any clan from creating their own version of 101st or Discovery, except the desire and motivation to do so.

Sibling clans pose tricky questions for the integrity of the competition: should players be able to move back and forth, should they be able to play in the same division, should they both get votes, etc. Allowing B teams doesn't solve any of those questions, and actually has the potential to take a mildly annoying issue and make it dramatically more consequential.

There are some other objections that are more closely tied to the format of Clan League. With the current linear promotion and relegation system, there is a long path for a new clan to travel before they can potentially compete for the championship. The more teams we introduce into the competition, the longer that path becomes. This is already a complaint, and if 3 or 4 clans decide to take advantage of this, we potentially have to add yet another division to the hierarchy.

Another issue is clan/team stability. The promotion relegation system also breaks down when teams form and dissolve on a somewhat regular basis. If it is easy for a clan X to create a B team for people who would otherwise not play in their A team, they might do so, and if X is a strong clan, their B players might do well in the lowest level and promote. If the next season or the season after that X decide that they actually don't have the resources to field two teams, they'll fold the B team and bring their players back to the A team. I'm sure it would be especially galling for a clan to be denied promotion in Season 13 by a B team, watch that team play Season 14 and then drop out.

In addition to these B teams likely securing the promotion spots, this has a negative impact on the in-game experience for players in the lower divisions. Ideally they'd be playing against clans that are around their skill level. There is already a problem with new clans entering the league who are at a higher level than the lowest rung (see Lu Fredd, FC, and Polish Eagles this season), and if you allow B teams this will happen even more frequently.

tl;dr - allowing B teams doesn't solve any of the problems you mentioned and creates a host of new ones.

First of all, i want to remind everybody, that we were split on this proposal. There wasn't a consensus, so we're interested in all opinions on that matter and we got the permission to post it here to see how it's taken by the community.

Now to a few points:

1. As stated above, the biggest problem was always, that nobody was able to come up with a suitable definition. Without that definition, it's not possible to forbid siblings clans to compete. Unless there should be someone to rule on it in each case. I guess that's not a suitable option, because nobody can know every connection certain clans have.

2. The problems i mentioned above, where all problems that were brought up and discussed in the past. Since there is no definition, that would allow to even think about forbidding them, it might be worth a try to go in the other direction and give every clan a chance to field multiple teams, since some could say, that sibling clans are basically the same. So it might be worth a try to equal the playing field that way.

3. As stated in the cons, extra rules would be needed to make sure, that every clan has the same rights. Players movement was brought up. Under the current rule player movement between clans is forbidden, so if you create this rule, it would be allowed for clans to move their players between the teams as much as they want to. They just have to think about it before the season, as roster / lineups still need to be submitted. There is a midseason registration window, but obviously it would be very risky to submit no backup options for the 1st team, who wouldn't be able to compete for the 2nd team. But back to the problem. Should it even be allowed? If it should be allowed, it would make sense to apply the same rule to sibling clans. And again we got a problem, who will define sibling clans? Well in this case, now sibling clans could be allowed to register themselves as such and get the same treatment as every other 2nd, 3rd etc. team for these kind of things. So as you see, now everybody could have the same chance.

4. On that basis, there could also be a chance to come up with additional rules to limit some things that got mentioned before. To keep it simple, it could be possible to find solutions, for the 3 problems that already were topics of past discussions in the community. So if there would now be a feeling, that you need to restrict certain areas, you might be able to come up with explicit rules to do so.

In the end, who knows if it will work out. That's why we ask for all your opinions. As mentioned, it would be a try and nothing final, because it would be easy to always go back to the current rule set, if it shouldn't work out. It's an idea. A potential solution for a controversial topic that creates discussions and sometimes even heated discussion, basically since i can remember playing in CL. If the majority thinks it's not a suitable idea, than it's fine. But it's at least something worth mentioning and worth discussing. A try and a potential solution, which is better than staying silent and doing nothing.

Edited 5/13/2020 16:45:08

Berens post sums everything up quite nicely. Fizzer should close the thread so it won't get polluted by people who have no clue

Beren's post sum up my own views extremely well.

100% agree with Beren's post.

Another issue is clan/team stability. The promotion relegation system also breaks down when teams form and dissolve on a somewhat regular basis. If it is easy for a clan X to create a B team for people who would otherwise not play in their A team, they might do so, and if X is a strong clan, their B players might do well in the lowest level and promote. If the next season or the season after that X decide that they actually don't have the resources to field two teams, they'll fold the B team and bring their players back to the A team. I'm sure it would be especially galling for a clan to be denied promotion in Season 13 by a B team, watch that team play Season 14 and then drop out.

I have to admit, that point kinda makes sense. At least for M'Hunters we would have to decide on a season per season basis whether we could put a B team.

As for M'Hunters how far we would use the B team option would depend very much on the exact wording. The problem is that M'Hunters has 3 types of skilled players, let's call them ASkill, BSkill and CSkill. The ASkill players play in the league, the BSkill players are backups and the CSkill players don't play at all. When fielding a B team we might run into the problem that we don't want to use the BSkill players there in order to not weaken our A team. So we might run into the bizarre problem that if we decide the slots for the B team we would have to value a high boot and a bad gaming attitude as the primary positive criteria in order to get a slot.


However if we could move players between our A and B team freely then we would love to field a competitive B team.

Agreed with Beren's post 100%! Sums up everything!

Also +1 to locking down the thread so it won't get out of control....

EDIT: I will review this more in depth later, and will most likely post again...

Edited 5/13/2020 17:46:09

Note that all rules changes will be applied by the Clan League Panel and not the Ethics Committee. The main point of this is for opinions, particularly of the clans themselves. There is no point of even discussing this if only 10% of clans want it.

As far as rules regarding multiple teams those would be implemented if the decision was made, and the rules would not be lax



Furthermore, the rules on claiming a spot will stay, as if you look with the previous cases (ignoring this one), the rule has done good for many clans who have needed it, and the one time it wasn't used (Lynx-101st) it was overwhelmingly considered a bad decision, and the health of the league suffered as a result.

-Cowboy

I'll be sending out mails to clan leaders today or tomorrow to get the votes in.

Edited 5/14/2020 06:43:59

100% agree with Beren's post.

there were 2 questions the panel had to answer!
1/ does master have the right to take the place of apps in cl
2/ should we give priority to clans or players

apartment, the 2nd question has been put on the side!
why not ask for the opinion of all the clans instead of imposing it
are you afraid of the result?
you say that in the past, this rule has shown that it is a good rule !! I'm sorry, but I don't agree !!
only half of the people were happy
but as you were among those who were happy, you decide it was good and does not want to give clans the opportunity to express themselves on this subject
there is no more deaf than one who does not want to hear

Edited 5/13/2020 20:30:20