Captain+2008 Winter Doubles League [WINNER: Forefall, Mozes]

[AndrewB]

Damn, would love to play this one. Unfortunately the only guy I've played 25+ games with is my regular dubs partner and he's still at 1400+.

I will add you to the list of the unpaired players too

[AndrewB]

[AAFitz]

add me to the unpaired list please

[pascalleke]

me and nachito

[David_Wain]

Haven't heard from Neph & he's moving this month to Aus... so Stick me down with you Andrew. If & When Neph gets back if he still wants in he can bum someone else

[khazalid]

wain you wont be over 2k before this starts

[AndrewB]

[khazalid]

sub alert! khaz and RT, ali is away til feb.

[edbeard]

no partner, but I'd like to play if you have room. thanks.

[codydonahue]

IN

[AndrewB]

IN

You dont qualify.

[Genghis Khan CA]

Lokisgal and I would like to enter as a team.

We've not played 25+ games together yet, could we get an exemption please Andrew?

[AndrewB]

Lokisgal and I would like to enter as a team.

We've not played 25+ games together yet, could we get an exemption please Andrew?

You got it

[happy2seeyou]

Lokisgal and I would like to enter as a team.

We've not played 25+ games together yet, could we get an exemption please Andrew?

You got it

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[AndrewB]

[Blitzaholic]

Continuing my Captain+ series. Planning to start this one in the beginning of January. I will be going away for 2 weeks at the end of February, so we might suspend the games for that time.

League Format:
1. Every game is 4 players doubles.
2. There will be 4 groups of 10 pairs in round 1.
3. There will be 2 groups of 10 pairs in round 2.
4. There will be 1 group of 10 pairs in the finals.
5. Whoever gets most points at the end of finals is declared a winner.
6. Groups will be assigned by previous round results and team rating. (First team will play with last).
7. In every round you will play 2 games against each other team. One game will be chained escalating and other game will be chained no cards.
8. In total there will be 9 games in a set. In total there will be 10 sets per round.
9. Top 5 team from each group will proceed to the next round.

Games Settings:
1. Every game will be 4 players doubles, sequential, casual, chained. With alternating escalating and no cards.
2. I will open 2 new sets of games every forth/fifth day.
3. Any tie-breaker game required will be on Classic, escalating, chained.
4. Maps will be assigned from the following pool of maps:
Africa, Alexander's Empire, Ancient Greece, Arctic, Asia, Australia, BeNeLux, Brazil, Brazil, British Isles, Cairns Coral Coast, Canada, Classic, Caribbean Islands, CCU, Discworld, Europe, Extreme Global Warming, France, Germany, Great Lakes, Hong Kong, Indochina, Ireland, Italy, King of the Mountains, Middle Earth, Middle East, Mongol Empire, Montreal, North America, Philippines, Portugal, San Francisco, Siege, Tamriel, USA, WWII Eastern Front.

Scoring and avoiding stalemates:
1. For winning the game you will get 1 MP (Match Point).
2. Every game must finish by the end of round 35.
3. If a game is not finished by beginning round 36 then every team will get -1 (minus one) MP.
4. Those rules will be applied regardless of how many armies/countries you have left.

Points Transfer
1. The 50% of points difference will be transfered to the next round.
Example: Let say you got 8 MP in your group. And the lowest qualifying team amongst all groups got 5 MP. So you get 1.5=(8-5)*50% MP transfered to the next round.

Tie-breakers
1. In the case of a two way tie, 3 extra tie-breaker game will be played.
2. In the case of a three way tie, we will play 3 tie-breaker games in total. Each team will play against the other team once. If 3 tie-breaker games are not enough, I will review how each team played against each other. If that won't established the winner, then team with the highest rating will proceed.
3. In the case of a four way tie, we will play 6 tie-braker games in total. Each team will play against the other team once. If 6 tie-braker games are not enough, I will review how each team played against each other. If that won't established the winner, then team with the highest rating will proceed.
4. No MP are allocated for tie-breaker games.
5. Same Tie-breaker rules are applied at the end of the finals too.

No shows, forfeiting and substitutions
1. Every team must join its games within 3 day period, since they were posted, unless advanced warning was provided. Upon expire of this period, team must provide a substitution. If substitution is not provided, then the team will forfeit their games and will be excluded from the tournament.
2. If team is excluded from the tournament when I will try to provide a substitution team, which will inherit all the MP from the excluded team.
3. If I wont be able to provide a substitution team, then opponents of the excluded team will get 0.6 MP for every forfeited game.

Requirements and Sign-up procedures:
1. 2000+ points for each team member.
2. I want to keep the tournament to strong teams only. So I would like the team members to play together at least 25 doubles games before joining this tournament. If you don't qualify because of this rule, please let me know, and I will use my own discretion.
3. I can deny or allow entrance of the particular team at my own discretion.
4. To sign up post your team members here.
5. Premium membership is required for the whole duration of the tournament.

Questions and answers
Q. I have another player on the ignore list.
A. If you happen to be in the same group as he is, then you would need to take him off the ignore list, so they can join the games. After that you can put them back on the ignore list right after they join the game.

Q. Also how are maps assigned - is there a strict rotation?
A. We will have one single map per set of games, which will be randomly selected from the pool of maps. So not every map from the pool will be played. But everyone will play the same set of maps.

ok, I see you got Osu an I in, thx

please make an attempt to start the triples about the same time, or maybe a week or two after, but announce it now,, and lock up, you, me and osu for that andrewb, TY



happy holidays all

[Blitzaholic]

Haven't heard from Neph & he's moving this month to Aus... so Stick me down with you Andrew. If & When Neph gets back if he still wants in he can bum someone else

he has been busy, got a pm from him a few days ago, moving soon.

[AndrewB]

[happy2seeyou]

So is this filled?

[AndrewB]

So is this filled?

I'll PM all 2100+ players first. Will take a couple of days. As it stands right now hopefully I can start on Monday, Jan 7.

[Blitzaholic]

kool

[Genghis Khan CA]

I'll PM all 2100+ players first. Will take a couple of days. As it stands right now hopefully I can start on Monday, Jan 7.

Andrew, I am away for that week - should I get my account sitter to join the games for that week or wait until I get back?

[DimnjacarStef]

DimnjacarStef and Fakoman
we'll like to play if is still available

[Fireside Poet]

Fireside Poet(2318) and DIXIE(2053)
...if there is still room.

[AndrewB]

I'll PM all 2100+ players first. Will take a couple of days. As it stands right now hopefully I can start on Monday, Jan 7.

Andrew, I am away for that week - should I get my account sitter to join the games for that week or wait until I get back?

Ideally I would like an account sitter to join those games. This is just because we have very busy schedule going, 2 new games each week. If we delay the joining for a week, the schedule will be skewed.