So we're into semi-finals for the season. It's also time to think about the next, let your captain or whoever know if you're planning to be active and all.

We'll have christmas and new years totally off (and be done with league by then) so we'll get back to setting up a new season, in whatever format it will be, sometime in January.





The quarter-final games:

12/4 3:31 pm Sterling def Llamas 12-2 log

12/4 2:41 pm Team KN def Rebels 12-9 log

12/4 2:34 pm team maimer def StarFire Elite 12-4 log





Sterling coasted into playoffs again, Rage showed up (theoretically 5th, but no one knows id Kdak's lag allows him to stay or not) and Llamas' teamwork wasn't where it should be.

Sterling finished the game 12-2, while Llamas wasted 12 repels.



Team KN knocked out Rebels in a much closer game. By 3-3 Hachiko was on his last life. Shortly after Apollo Creed was subbed by KingNguyen while inca was later subbed by Kentasaurus, who between 20:00 and 24:00 used all his lives.

Good one, kent <img src='http://www.subspace.co/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



In AML, team maimer had 4 people show up and beat SFE 12-4. Sath went 5-1 and 5FR and probably thinks he is super awesome now <img src='http://www.subspace.co/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



Schedule for semis -- if the games have OT, the 4pm games will be delayed accordingly.



3pm:

AML: Die Antwoord vs. Team Maimer -- 103856

PRO: Assassins vs. Team KN -- 103857



4pm:

PRO: Nguyens vs. Sterling -- 103858

AML: !norating vs. The Dark -- 103859



Oh. And congratulations to Nguyens for winning regular season, going on A1 again fo sho'

Standings:

1 Nguyens 11-0 80 -- added 7 that were missing somewhere

2 Assassins 9-2 71

3 Team KN 9-2 60 -- added one from !norating

4 Llamas 7-4 27

5 Sterling 6-5 22

6 Rebels 6-5 15

--- PRO / AML Split ---

7 Die Antwoord 5-6 -3

8 !norating 4-7 -39

9 The Dark 4-7 -33

10 team maimer 3-8 -38

11 StarFire Elite 2-9 -42



12 Mineshack 0-3 -22

13 BYE Round 0-4 -36



Round 11 of 11 Results:

11/27 3:44 pm Assassins def Llamas 12-3 log

11/27 3:39 pm Nguyens def Sterling 12-3 log

11/27 3:21 pm StarFire Elite def The Dark 12-0 log

11/27 2:45 pm Team KN def Die Antwoord 12-9 log

11/27 2:43 pm Rebels def team maimer 12-9 log

11/27 2:07 pm !norating def BYE Round 12-0 log



Sterling showed up with 4 people and played a decent game even if the score doesn't show it. Although the game was pretty sloppy. 7th whored up FR with 6 and got 4-1 for K/D too. KN got 4-1, 5FR. Sterling managed to coast into playoffs once again.

In Assassins vs. Llamas, Sika showed up after a few pracs and ended up 4-2 7FR.

Team KN eventually beat Die Antwoord (it was all going to smooth until Candyman subbed in). Team KN makes pro, Antwoord makes AML, and with the 5-6 makes my life easier not having to do the tie breaker math.

Rebels showed some fighting spirit when they went down 3v4 but came back to win against team maimer.

Then there was a no-show, and a BYE.



Huge stats posts coming up eventually, when I get all the stats to a pretty format from a crappy notepad version. You can of course see pilot stats with !leaguetop

Now for the schedule, AML with 5 will be all kinds of retarded. To make it 4 squads by round 2, only one game should be played.

In pro with 6, things are more simple. #1 and #2 BYE, while #3 plays #6 and #4 play #5.



Nguyens get to pick a match from which they want their opponents for the semi-finals. Default is winner of Llamas vs. Sterling.

There's no match for Die Antwoord to pick so they have to settle for picking from either the winner of team maimer vs. SFE or one of the other squads. The default pick is winner of the match (lowest seeds).



!norating inches past The Dark by a h2h win. BYEs assigned from the top means



3pm:

team maimer vs. StarFire Elite -- the only AML quarter finals game. Best of 1.

Team KN vs. Rebels



4pm:

Sterling vs. Llamas

If people want to, we can do semis as best of 3 still (the next round). But all necessary games will be have to be played in one weekend, starting at 3pm.

Standings after round 10 of 11:



1 Nguyens 10-0 71 -- added 7 that were missing somewhere

2 Assassins 8-2 62

3 Team KN 8-2 57 -- added one from !norating

4 Llamas 7-3 36

5 Sterling 6-4 31

6 Rebels 5-5 12

--- PRO / AML Split, eventually ---

7 Die Antwoord 5-5 0

8 The Dark 4-6 -21

9 team maimer 3-7 -38

10 !norating 3-7 -51 -- second no-show

11 StarFire Elite 1-9 -54



12 Mineshack 0-3 -22

13 BYE Round 0-4 -36



Nguyens beat Llamas 12-5 in a rather sloppy game.

Assassins had the official BYE after a few rounds of bad games.

Team maimer forfeit (they had 2 but no-showed anyways) against Team KN.

Die Antwoord beat Sterling's 3 players 12-4.

Rebels beat StarFire Elite 12-4

!norating beat The Dark's 3 players 12-2.



Schedule for the 27th, which I believe is Thanksgiving. If we play the next four weekends with all best of 3 final games on the 18th, we'll be done before christmas.

Then we can see if anyone is looking to play more 4v4, and if so, in what format etc. for 2012.



3pm:

!norating vs. BYE Round -- 103765

Rebels vs. Team Maimer -- 103766

Team KN vs. Die Antwoord -- 103767



4pm:

Assassins vs. Llamas -- 103768

Nguyens vs. Sterling -- 103794

The Dark vs. StarFire Elite -- 103770



Die Antwoord and Rebels seem to be the squads competing for the last PRO playoff spot. in case they end with the same W/L, Rebels gets it if The Dark also makes the same W/L. Die Antwoord will get it if only Rebels and Die Antwoord finish 6-5 or 5-6 both.

Standings after round 9 of 11:



1 Nguyens 9-0 57

2 Assassins 7-2 50

3 Team KN 7-2 45 -- added one from !norating

4 Llamas 7-2 43

5 Sterling 6-3 39

6 Rebels 4-5 6

--- PRO / AML Split, eventually ---

7 Die Antwoord 4-5 -8

8 The Dark 4-5 -11

9 team maimer 3-6 -26

10 !norating 2-7 -61 -- second no-show

11 StarFire Elite 1-8 -46



12 Mineshack 0-3 -22

13 BYE Round 0-4 -36



Nguyens beat the rest of Team KN 12-2.

Assassins beat The Dark 12-0. It is worth noting that Da Monkk (now Da Monkk1 or something until someone returns his name to him) lagged out three times just after using The Dark's only sub on a slot other than himself, and even did that without !fullsub

Llamas got +12 from BYE round

Sterling beat Rebels 12-7 and improved their position in the playoff race. 6-5 should be enough, and now they have at least one HtH win from the group that might end 6-5.

Die Antwoord struggled against SFE, but came out on top 12-7.

And !norating !no-showed vs. team maimer <img src='http://www.subspace.co/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



Schedule -- we'll be counting on Simon's server the next two weekends. So there's a chance you have thanksgiving off. And this weekend, depending on whether bots work or not.



3pm:

Sterling vs. Die Antwoord 103703

Assassins vs. BYE Round 103704

The Dark vs. !norating 103705



4pm:

Nguyens vs. Llamas 103706

Rebels vs. StarFire Elite 103707

Team KN vs. Team Maimer 103708

Hello



I'd like to remind you all, including misters Mindriot and Sath.

Cheating in 4v4 pracs is not really tolerated. My watchful eye sometimes needs sleep too, it's true. But when I constantly have ?messages about a certain person doing this and that and I end up reading the practice game log and everyone is steaming, I have to do something.



CFK will take a three day leave for being bricked in a box and spamming out.



Stupid things in pracs that might result in this include but are not limited to; Actions after dying out, such as repelling. !kicking people from your team to achieve something stupid. Doing it to end a prac someone is running to is still kind of dumb, but unless you constantly start doing it after dying out fast, won't be punishable.

Standings after Round 8 of 11:



1 Nguyens 8-0 47

2 Team KN 7-1 55 -- added one from !norating

3 Assassins 6-2 38

4 Llamas 6-2 31

5 Sterling 5-3 34

6 Rebels 4-4 11

--- Eventually the playoff split will be 6+rest --- And the few squads with 13 players can add a player until this upcoming round, R9. Nguyens will add zztop, probably with that name but I have to check this.

7 The Dark 4-4 1

8 Die Antwoord 3-5 -13

9 team maimer 2-6 -38

10 !norating 2-6 -49

11 StarFire Elite 1-7 -41

12 Mineshack 0-3 -22

13 BYE Round 0-4 -36



Nguyens played Die Antwoord, in a spectacular comeback after a few rounds of not showing up Candyman returned and Die Antwoord of course proceeded to lose 12-7. Other than that, Antwoord had three Assassins in. Both KN and TVB finished 4-2, realdeal ended up 2-1, 4AS 4 FR and 2k short of TVB's damage with way less toys used.

Team KN played BYE Round.

Assassins had 4 people against Team Maimer, who didn't really have a team in at any point. 12-1, PewPew got the kill.

Llamas played The Dark, and won 12-4. SF whored up the stats, 6-1 with 5FR and 3AS. The Dark wasted 14 repels between 4 people.

Sterling beat SFE 12-7, apparantly NINE using F3s and pb thors was super effective against the wild SFE players. 5-1, 4FR.

Rebels improved their K/D by +10 in their 12-2 win over !norating. This moves them above The dark in the K/D based standings; playoff standings are different though. Judging by the stats Rebels just outplayed !norating as a team, since Rebels' FR numbers are all between 0 and 3.







3pm:

Die Antwoord vs. StarFire Elite -- 103697

Nguyens vs. Team KN -- 103698

Sterling vs. Rebels -- 103699



4pm:

Team Maimer vs. !norating -- 103700

Assassins vs. The Dark -- 103701

Llamas vs. BYE Round -- 103702

Ok, so I understand the idea is that if the zone appears more populated people will come. However, if they come based on population and see all the players are in EG:0 don't you think they will go to EG:0? I don't see how this is supposed to help the zone in any way.

Standings after Round 7 of 11:

1 Nguyens 7-0 42

2 Team KN 5-1 43 -- added one from !norating

3 Assassins 5-2 27

4 Llamas 5-2 23

5 Sterling 4-3 29

6 Rebels 3-4 1

7 The Dark 4-3 9

8 Die Antwoord 3-4 -8

9 team maimer 2-5 -27

10 !norating 2-5 -39

11 StarFire Elite 1-6 -36

12 Mineshack 0-3 -22

13 BYE Round 0-4 -36



Manually added K/Ds since the bot situation is what it is. Still did not add in the missing kills from Mineshack 12-0s.



Nguyens had a BYE.

Team KN defeat SFE 12-0. Hoarmurath got the most FR with 8. SFE got 2 FR total.

Assassins and Rebels played a pretty standard 12-7, Masterlord only got 5 FR in that one. Saiyan got 8, though.

Llamas steamrolled team maimer 12-2, 11th was out in 12:01 with a hefty 5 WR. Either he was trying to get team maimer out of pro playoffs, or as he claims, was watching football.

And Sterling barely beat !norating 12-0, with !norating no-showing.



3pm:

Rebels vs. !norating

Assassins vs. Team Maimer

Team KN vs. BYE Round



4pm:

Llamas vs. The Dark

Nguyens vs. Die Antwoord

Sterling vs. StarFire Elite

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Well, round 7 has now been postponed twice.

This sucks for league, for many reasons.

We'll try again this weekend (yes, I know it's halloween, yes I know DST ends in Finland so if we do have bots I'll call games at the wrong time)



The short list of reasons why games cannot be played on the temp bots you sometimes see:

1) We cannot properly have them check rosters -> Partsi could !sub

2) We cannot get them to use match rules -> Subs would work like they do in pracs, time would be 30 minutes, etc.



Now, I know hallu has been keeping an eye on options on hosting, but we'll see. In the meanwhile, happy halloween to those of you who celebrate it, and I hope to see you in 4v4 ships.