Round 1 Results:



3/20 3:48 pm Sterling def Llamas 12-8 log

3/20 3:47 pm Rebels def LSF 12-2 log

3/20 3:44 pm The Dark def StarFire Elite 12-6 log

3/20 2:50 pm Assassins def Happy Mob 12-5 log

3/20 2:29 pm Nguyens def !norating 12-3 log



3 out of 4 Sterling players ended up with 5 FR. Penguin was horrible and only got 3 <img src='http://www.subspace.co/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Gato pulled a 4-0 with 7 FR vs. LSF. Speaking of whom, should recruit more players. By the standard rules they shouldn't be in, but they're better than a BYE round as long as they don't do anything stupid like show up with 3 javelins and run.

Happy Mob kept their game vs. Assassins, who look to be more in it to win it this season, 4v4 for 30 minutes or so. Then mindriot's spaceship exploded. After which the Mopping up took 4 more minutes.



All in all it looks like 53 names appear on the league stats list.



Standings after round 1:

1 Rebels 1-0 10 0

2 Nguyens 1-0 9 0

3 Assassins 1-0 7 0

4 The Dark 1-0 6 0

5 Sterling 1-0 4 0

6 Llamas 0-1 -4 0

7 StarFire Elite 0-1 -6 0

8 Happy Mob 0-1 -7 0

9 !norating 0-1 -9 0

10 LSF 0-1 -10 0



Round 2 schedule - at least Finland fiddles with their clocks on Sunday, don't know about the rest of europe. But if you fail you'll only show up an hour early.:



EDIT: Sterling and Llamas cannot play each other by gap rule.



3pm:

StarFire Elite vs. Sterling

!norating vs. LSF

Assassins vs. The Dark



4pm:

Rebels vs. Nguyens

Happy Mob vs. Llamas

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[size="2"]Here's the current description on the Chaos Site:[/size]



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Quote:Chaos Zone is the oldest zone in Continuum and it is still standing strong today, with many players who have been dedicated to the zone for over 10 years and some who have joined just days ago. The absolute best players in subspace play in the 4v4 league hosted in the zone.



The zone is a simple kill as many people as possible game play, some go for win loss ratio, some hunt bounties, some play for points, there is a playing style for everyone. The zone resets scores every two weeks and the top five scores of each of the four categories get put on the map for everyone to see. So come on in and blow something up real good!

let's just face it: there aren't enough players to support the traditional model of greening in chaos anymore. starting with 0 or 30 or even 50 bounty was fine when there were 30-100 players in the arena and you had teams of up to 7 helping you green and getting you ready to fight. there was action enough for everybody in those days, whether they wanted to green or not - and what's important is that the promise of that action meant players were willing to green up and make it a little more high-stakes when they did make it to the fight.



forcing players to green was fine when there were *always* other pilots in; that's simply not the case anymore. a substantial portion of the time, the zone is empty. THIS IS A TERRIBLE THING. when there are no other pilots in the zone, or only 1 or 2, the fact that you have to spend 2-4 minutes greening up before you can fight on an even keel is a huge barrier to entry for most people.



we want to ENCOURAGE people to unspec. making them green up before they can fight DISCOURAGES THEM from doing so. worse, it discourages them from dying. this leads, eventually, to the kind of play that drives most league players away from chaos pub in disgust. you guys know who i'm talking about.



* IT'S NOT CHAOS PUB WITHOUT GREENING. okay - i accept that. but chaos pub, to make sense, always depended on a bigger population of players than it has now. we need some sort of hybrid - a zone where greening is still a part of play, but one that also immediately encourages players to unspec and jump in the action right away.



we can have this zone. start players with a full ship - full energy, full weapons, full ?status. those who want the traditional chaos flavor (mine repping, lobbing blueberries from afar and repping anybody who comes close) can green for their specials - for reps, bursts, bricks, whatever. you can even make people green for antiwarp, stealth, x-radar, and cloak. but don't make people green just to be able to play - you can't afford it anymore.



please, chime in. we need a discussion.

We need limit of items per ship and league ship settings

Ok so the 2nd round of preseason featured 10 squads. Solar Hydro is contemplating breaking his 11 people a game showing SFE back into SFE and SFA. This might be stupid, cause it'd create a BYE Round. Now, I know for a fact that Ra might be able to pull us some PB/DSB players to make that an even 12, but we'll see.



From last season's squads, Morph and NW are out at the beginning. Like everyone else, they have until round 6 to join as a squad. All missed matches are 0-12.



The squads in league: !norating Assassins Happy Mob Llamas LSF Nguyens Rebels StarFire Elite Sterling The Dark

Rosters are now locked for editing, additions will be handled by staff. I'll check for double squadders soon. LSF and !norating need to add a player (or two) to even hit the minimum player count of 8.

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Some issues with the website/scheduling system, surprise surprise. The rosters on bot are season 9 / preseason ones. The rosters on website are very very empty. UL has been informed with a few question marks.



Either way, schedule for R1 will be posted here in a few days. Please note the effects of daylight savings on game times.



Hallucination played the role of lady luck, by pairing up numbers from 1-10 with each other after I had assigned a random number to each squad.

The schedule using such an advance method is:



3pm:

!norating vs. Nguyens

Assassins vs. Happy Mob



4pm:

Llamas vs. Sterling

LSF vs. Rebels

StarFire Elite vs. The Dark

If anyone is interested I may consider putting the server back up.



email me or something.. jonathan@xpressamerica.net

I'm afraid we'll go for another round of preseason for a few reason, which in my head make sense.

1. Some squads that are active in league were just notified about season start this Sunday. This means Assassins and Rebels. I'd rather they know we're in season now than after one no-show loss.

2. One, or possibly two, new squads have yet to build their roster.

3. I want to see if Nightwatch is coming back, if anyone knows anyone from the squad, poke them. Unhallowed announced they would not be returning.



3pm:

!norating vs. Happy Mob

Sterling vs. Nightwatch or The Dark - Nightwatch, if they show. TD if NW doesn't and TD does.



4pm:

Rebels vs. StarFire Elite

Llamas vs. Morph

Nguyens vs. Assassins



That should be all the squads. We had a total of 3 matches last weekend I believe. In case of two no-shows a timeslot, we can rearrange for the squads that have no opponents to play each other. Or we can use BYE Round as a random scrub squad, but that's pretty much like a prac <img src='http://www.subspace.co/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blum.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':clapping:' />

Wondering how ppl like the current version of the rabbit flag... It has upgrades (obvious) and downgrades (maybe not so obvious, but potent). Any guesses on what the downgrades are?



--hallu

This Saturday March 5th at 5pm ET -- Master of Chaos



All pilots are welcome to play and see if they can pass the test to wear the crown of MoC! Can mindriot defend his Master of Chaos title???



Spread the word!

Pre-season is upon us. At least for this weekend. Double squadding won't be checked during pre-season, neither will just playing in two games if you feel like it.

If most of the squads actually show up, we'll start the actual season on the 13th. I'll let everyone know by the 9th. The schedule will be posted at an earlier date, and I will randomize the match-ups for round one.



March 6th, 2011



3pm:

Unhallowed vs. Nightwatch -- If either squad no-shows, they will be replaced by whatever a squad currently called !norating uses as their name.

Llamas vs. The Dark

Outlaws vs. Rebels



4pm:

Coverts vs. StarFire Elite

Sterling vs. Morph

Happy Mob vs. Assassins



The squads we might have participating in league -- the more question marks after their name, the less I'm counting on them to return. I know for a fact that the new squads will be including players from existing squads.:

Assassins

Coverts

Happy Mob

Llamas

Morph ??

Nightwatch ??

Outlaws

Rebels

StarFire Elite

Sterling ?

The Dark

Unhallowed ???



!norating