The International Clan League [Cancelled]

[The Voice]

Thanks so much for hosting this, guys. Good luck, everyone!

[IcePack]

I'd like to see the seeds by team but overall it looks fine.

The Elite Conference seems to have gotten the larger share of top clans with the 3,7,9,11 F400 ranked clans (7.5 avg.) while Premier has the 5,8,10,13 F400 ranked clans (9.0 avg.). I would have liked to have seen those more evenly distributed between conferences but it's not a big deal.

Thanks for the hard work, guys. Looking forward to the season!!!

With the random drawing / placement of the top 8 to ensure unbiased, minor diff are expected. Also, the F400 is based on current standing while ICL is built with sports league mentality of "these teams will fluctuate year to year".

The diff in top 1-5 and 6-10 are very minor overall, and with random placement it's about as fair as could be. And when you look at the expected weights conference wide, they are very close and as you said, the Elite Conference has just a slightly higher difficulty level overall than premier, but not a statistically relevant amount. Expected weight avg was 345 and elite was 343 and premier was 347. Both 2 pts +/- from expected.

I think year to year this group will fluctuate well, while if I tweak to much for the "right now" ranking, it may affect to heavy one side or the other in the future.

Anyway, I'm glad the feedback do far is largely positive both in forum and privately. I don't expect to many hiccups.

IcePack

[cookie0117]

This is looking very good

[benga]

Do we get to keep our conference and division in next season?

[Leehar]

Who's RH and when did they get in?

[IcePack]

benga - the ultimate goal is to build permanent places into the ICL for future years.
This will be adjusted as little as possible, but can be changed due to number of sign ups, etc.
If we expand or contract year to year it may mean a change in number of divisions or teams per division. We will address this next year, but this is the answer that is the "goal".

Leehar - Random Heroes, they signed up via PM. I'd have to look into time / date.

[IcePack]

Roster Updates Completed Early.

FYI PM's went out on May 4th to all clans that hadn't submitted rosters yet.

We are still waiting on rosters from the following:

RH

[Denise]

Thanks, IcePack. Nice job.

[IcePack]

Thank you. Clan info are slowly rolling in. While we waiting we are finalizing schedules.

Thanks for your patience and helping us get the ICL started successfully

IcePack

[dazza2008]

The New Crusade

Captain: dazza2008
Co-Captain: Ragian

1. dazza2008
2. Ragian
3. tokle
4. BlackKnight_6
5. TheCrown
6. ejph
7. thunderhue
8. dana1971
9. Ckyrias
10. EminenceGrise

[deantursx]

hey so i noticed that for each conference you have 5 teams going into the playoffs....usually with 16 teams in a conference, 6 go, but anyway, how will the playoffs work with 5? The worst division leader will play the wildcard in a round where everyone else has byes?

[hmsps]

War

Captain - HMSPS
VC - SaviorShot

Roster

Stevenshome
Gradybridges
Tobikera
Atax
Kingm
HerrZ
Sekretar
Shaun850

If you need any more information, just let me know

[IcePack]

hey so i noticed that for each conference you have 5 teams going into the playoffs....usually with 16 teams in a conference, 6 go, but anyway, how will the playoffs work with 5? The worst division leader will play the wildcard in a round where everyone else has byes?

Yes, play in for each conf will get into final 8.

[cookie0117]

Can I just check one thing.

Am I reading it right that it is "maps can be used once per set". With a set being 3 games. So maps can be repeated through the season many times.

[IcePack]

One last clan to give me their starting rosters. It seems there will likely be a small delay in the schedule (technical difficulties made me do it twice). So, I'm expecting sometime this weekend. In the meantime, I have requested privladges for our game team and will answer any more questions + get a little more organized.

Thanks for your patience, as a special treat chapcrap will now sing a love song to you all while you wait. I'm sure he would love to have some song requests posted on his wall
Cheers,
IcePack