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Originally Posted by Mage_016
I think getting 24 active players for 8 teams is quite hard. And can we do anything with 8 teams or less?
Balancing teams is important, but most of the active players are already in top 24. Do we need list of active players now?
Should there be 2 or 3 matches per week. For win 3 point's, tie plus 1point, lose 0 and if misses a match it's -1 point for those who didn't show up and +1 for those who waited for nothing.
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We don't have to start with 8, that's what's good about ladders. All we have to do is form teams and start playing matches. Even 4 would be enough. Once it starts, I think there'll be a big "snowball effect."
It's true it might be hard to avoid 3 in the top 24 on the leaderboards, at first, especially if you speak French as I think the three most active French-speaking players are all top 24 in team battle and/or dogfight. Using at most one top-12 in any one mode per team would be easier to start. If it's not, we could change it to top 8.
The reason I think top 12 would work is probably no more than half of them are gonna join up, at least at first. A ladder can end up with dozens of teams once people notice it.
I agree with a 3-1-0 scoring system, except maybe a no-show should be worth 1/2 point. When I ran a Warhawk clan on the Gamebattles ladder, it gave out too many points for forfeits, and it kind of ruined it.
How about if a few of us volunteer to round up teams, then once there are at least 4 teams, we'll hash out the exact rules as founding team reps.
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also mage I thought some more about your idea of using AoA as the start of an individual ladder, I think it would be a good way of avoiding schedule problems since you can challenge any of 8 players. I think maybe the top 8 could be ranked first by successful defenses, and then for tie-breakers, use first overall ladder record, then original AoA rank. To keep the bottom 8 from avoiding challenging the #1 spot, they could challenge the top 8 as a group, and the first one to accept is the one they fight. If nobody defends the challenge, the challenger takes over #8. And any top 8 who fail to defend at least once every two weeks fall back to the 9-16 group.
So if you're ranked 9-16, you issue the challenge by sending PSN to each of the top 8, and you might get lucky, or you might get Mirgervin. Same if you're unranked and challenge 9-16.
Also the 1-8 and 9-16 could challenge each other to determine their overall records and order.