RISK Super League - Season 16

[Craig25]

Season 15 is Ongoing. For 'LIVE' Season 15 League Tables and Results go here (Note, Page has 11 Tabs, The 1st 3 are the important ones!):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p8NopcJwcy-F9pm4s6YuMPE148DDpYBs5tCda26gC_g/edit?usp=sharing


THE RULES



Get in on this CC Event TROOPS!


Join this FLAGSHIP Tournament.................................


A Full Season lasts 2 MONTHS

A Tournament that will run for YEARS.........................................


A Tournament that has already had OVER 120,000 (One Hundred and Ten Thousand) games played in it.............


Currently, their are 280 PLAYERS: 28 Leagues of 10 Players.........


Come Join, work your way through the Divisions to become CHAMPIONS of the RISK Super League. You are playing for RISK GLORY and PRIZES!!!!


CC are sponsoring this Event, and will pay these prizes EVERY SEASON!!, so it is worth your while to climb your way to the top:

1st: Premier Champion = + 1200 Conquer Credits

2nd: Championship Champion = + 180 Conquer Credits

3rd: League 1 Champions = + 100 Conquer Credits

To give you an idea of what you are in for. Follow the link below for 'LIVE' League Tables and Results from Season 11. NOTE, there are several tabs on the page, 1st 3 Tabs are the important Ones!:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p8NopcJwcy-F9pm4s6YuMPE148DDpYBs5tCda26gC_g/edit?usp=sharing

Previous Seasons CHAMPIONS are below:

- Season 1, WINNER: Shoop76
- Season 2, WINNER: UKEY
- Season 3, WINNER: Shoop76
- Season 4, WINNER: Loose Canon
- Season 5, WINNER: big jumbo
- Season 6, WINNER: Pajarito
- Season 7, WINNER: Tin Trumpet
- Season 8, WINNER: Mass Miracle
- Season 9, WINNER: Craig25
- Season 10, WINNER: Craig25
- Season 11, WINNER: ESQuire
- Season 12, WINNER: sonofabs
- Season 13, WINNER: Shoop76
- Season 14, WINNER: joshzam

TOURNAMENT FORMAT:

This is a League Format. Each League will have 10 Players. Every Season, 3 will be Promoted and 3 Relegated.


Finish 1st: You get Promoted 3 Leagues
Finish 2nd: You Get Promoted 2 Leagues
Finish 3rd: You Get Promoted 1 League
Finish 4th to 7th: Remain in Current League
Finish 8th: Get relegated 1 League
Finish 9th: Get relegated 2 Leagues
Finish Bottom: Get relegated 3 leagues

***Premier League will have 6 players relegated: Bottom Drops 3 Leagues, 8th and 9th Drop 2, 5th,6th and 7th Drop 1.



As a NEW SUPER LEAGUE PLAYER, you will start in one of the bottom 4 Leagues. This Tournament will run for years. You have plenty of time to work your way to the TOP!


LEAGUE GAMES:

- You play a HOME and AWAY Match versus every Opponent in your League.
- So that is 18 Match Ups Per Season.
- 4 Games per Match Up.
- 2 Games on a HOME MAP + 2 Games on a Random Map


HOME MATCH:
- You are the Green Army for HOME games.
- 2 Games on Map of your Choice (Your Home Map)
- 2 Games on Random Map
- You accept Game Invites Last - Can move immediatly taking full advantage of your opponent not getting any snaps!

AWAY MATCH:
- You are the Red Army for AWAY games.
- 2 Games on Your OPPONENTS HOME Map
- 2 Games On Random Map
- You accept Game invites 1st - Your opponent gets to start as soon as they accept game invites.

SCHEDULE:
The Kick Off - 1st Match Set Up of Season - 3 Match Days are set up (12 games)
Match Day 4-Match Day 7 - 1 Match Day (4 games) is set up on a Monday, and 1 on a Thursday
Mid-Season Madness - Match Day 8 - 10 - 3 Match Days are Set Up (12 Games)
Match Day 11 - 15 - 1 Match Day (4 games) is set up on a Monday, and 1 on a Thursday
Match Day 16+17+18 - 3 Match Days are set up to complete the Season (12 games)

MATCH DAY SET UP DATES:
M01 - 02 Nov 2023
M02 - 02 Nov 2023
M03 - 02 Nov 2023
M04 - 06 Nov 2023
M05 - 09 Nov 2023
M06 - 13 Nov 2023
M07 - 16 Nov 2023
M08 - 20 Nov 2023
M09 - 20 Nov 2023
M10 - 20 Nov 2023
M11 - 23 Nov 2023
M12 - 27 Nov 2023
M13 - 30 Nov 2023
M14 - 04 Dec 2023
M15 - 07 Dec 2023
M16 - 11 Dec 2023
M17 - 11 Dec 2023
M18 - 11 Dec 2023


SCORING:
This is where it gets really, really good!!!!
4-0 WIN: 3 Points
3-1 WIN: 2 Points
2-2 DRAW: 1 Point
1-3 LOSS: 0 Points
0-4 LOSS: 0 Points

TIE BREAKERS:
1. Points
2. Goal Difference
3. Highest Number of 4-0 Wins
4. Highest Number of 3-1 Wins
5. Lowest Total Game Duration of All the CURRENT Seasons games***

***All Start Times of Games will be 12:00 CCT on the Match Day Set Up and will be the same for all players. It is this time and not the actual start time of the game that is used to calculate Game Durations.
***Where Games are closed as Predicted Result, Completion time is counted as 23.59 CC Time on the day the Season Ends.

SETTINGS:
Players: 2
Auto
Seq
FR
Adj
Fog


REST SEASONS:
Each Season lasts 2 months. You are commited to playing 3 out of 6 Seasons in a Calendar Year. So, for 3 Seasons every year you can take a Rest Season where you hold your League position and do not need to play.

***TO ENTER:
To join, pick your Favourite Map (For 2 Player Games) and Reply to this Thread. You will start in the lower Leagues..............Can you rise to be a Premier League Risk Player?

But the fun is, are you good enough to make it to the top???

To get your name added to the starters for Season 12, just reply on this forum with your HOME MAP choice!

Some Maps ARE EXCLUDED (the slowest Maps on these settings with an average round time of over 12 Rounds):

1982
2011 World Cup
Antarctica
Baseball
Circus Maximus
Clandemonium
Conquer Man
Conquer Rome
Das Schloss
District of Alaska
Eurasia
Feudal Epic
Feudal War
Hive
King's Court
King's Court II
Knights
Labyrinth
Monsters
New Zealand
Peloponnesian War
Rail South America
Rorke's Drift
Spanish Armada
Trafalgar
Trench Warfare
USA 2.1
WWI Gallipoli


ALL SEASONAL & BETA MAPS





JOIN NOW TROOPS!



Team Responsible for Tournament Creation:

Craig25 - Creator
SoftBelly - Graphics
Anila8 - Excel
Bilbo1_OC - Commentator
Ewebasher - Google Sheets



#ForThePlayers
#PayTheMan


**Commentary will be made on the Tournament. So you will receive CC Mails containing the HIGHLIGHTS and COMMENTARY throughout the time you participate in the Super League.
***If you do not want to recieve Commentary mails Our preferred choice is you:
- Filter Out Commentary Mails.
- Delete them.
- Ignore them.
- Play the Tournament as described.
- Do not Enter the Tournament.
****After that EXPLICIT Warning, if you still want to Enter, Post on the Tournament Forum with your entry that you do not want Mails and EVERY EFFORT will be made to accomodate your request........We promise not to mail you by mistake on purpose and start CC WAR II
*****The speed of this Tournament will Progress at the speed of the Many, not the few. If it becomes clear that there are a couple of games/players slowing down the progress of the Tournament. Organisers retain the right to predict the outcome of there remaining games to allow the next Season to progress. Predicted Scores will be final. 300 Players will not continuously await the outcome of a few players games.


Previous Seasons League Winners:

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BoBSL: Sep-Poll + Re-Brand

Bonjour Mon Amis and fellow Scudders.....

As we are all aware.........The Super League is the only event on Conquer Club where the PLAYERS SET THE RULES!

For New Players, this is always done by way of a SEP-POLL.

So called, In Honour of The Head of The BoBSL, CCFA, CCPGA & CCMOFO's and our Glorious and Esteemed Leader................Sepp Blatter.

Re-Branding

Those were the days, some crazy Loon Tune accusing me of asking for money to enter Tournaments I set up, The next day 'The Sepp Blatter Super League was born. Who misses the Sepp Platter Super League?



Talking of which, there is another re-branding of The Super League appearing. softbelly (responsible for the 1st and Current Super League Graphics) has entered the creative depths of hell to come up with a new Branding for the Super League. And it sounds amazing. A montage of actual Photo's of 19th Century Century Soldiers (Crimean War, American Civil War, etc). 'CCSL' will appear on it somewhere....Conquer Club Super League to You and Me!. More to come on that SOON!


Sep-Poll

As we all know, CC will intro a AUTO-SNAP in all Fog Games where BOTH Players get a Snap of the Drop. This negates the requirement for us to have a 2 Leg Tie between 2 Players to give each player an equal opportunity to start the game with their opponent not getting the opportunity to snap (If the Home Player gets 1st Turn).

In order to optimise the structure of the Super League to take advantage of the new CC capability, after a full consultation with the Players, we have 3 Options to Offer. Each Player will get to pick 2 Options from the 3. The most popular choice wins..........

Question: Which structure to The Super League do you think would work best?

- 19 Player Leagues - All Invites are sent out at the same time. Each League will be the same, 19 Players. This keeps the Number of Match Ups in a Season exactly the same. It will be an all Play All ONCE! Match Up= 1 HOME Game, 1 AWAY Game, 2 RANDOM Games. This also keeps the percentage of HOME Maps to 25% of all your Super League Games. Promotion: 1st=3 Leagues, 2nd+3rd=2 Leagues, 4th=1 League. Relegation=The Opposite. 15 Super Leagues instead of the current 28!

- 10 Player Leagues but with Premier with 19 Players - All Invites are sent out at the same time. Some things change, some stuff remains the same. All other Leagues remain the same with the same Promotion and Relegation Rules and Match Ups. Premier moves up to 19 Players with the Rules above. Every Season 6 New Players would be promoted to the Premier, and 6 would be Relegated.

- 10 Player Leagues - All Invites are sent out at the same time. Nothing else Changes.


Okay Troops, The Poll is on the Link below. Voting will stay open until Monday. Have a Great Weekend!

https://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=240037

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BoBSL: SEP-POLL RESULTS

This could be EXPLOSIVE!.................................................................

Aross all Sep-Polls.......We received 137 Votes and 2 complaints!

-1 Complaint was around there being 3 Options and each Voter being able to pick 2 Options. The complainer thought we would only find out what the least favoured option was instead of the best.
- The Other was around players in the Lower Leagues being able to dictate the size of the Premier League. Suggestion was that running a Super League Wide Poll on the size of the PREMIER League is un-fair as it MOSTLY effects Players in the Higher Leagues.

And, as you all know, I am all about the Customer Services. And complaints must be taken seriously......................

1st complaint was negated by the fact Players only needed to vote for 1 option if they wanted. And the way the voting went made it pretty much redundant. The 2nd one looked to introduce a dynamic to the voting system that had not really been considered. So remedial action had to be taken.


So, without further ado..........We asked:

- Which structure to The Super League do you think would work best?

And you all replied:


- 19 Player Leagues across the board
29 Votes
28%

- 10 Player Leagues but with 19 Player Premier League
27 Votes
26%

- 10 Player Leagues across the board
48 Votes
46%

Analysis: On the 1st View, the stand out most popular choice was '10 Player Leagues across the board'. However, there is no escaping that most Players voted for change in the form of increased League sizes in some form. 56 Players and 54% of the Vote went for '19 Player Leagues across the board' or '10 Player Leagues but with 19 Player Premier League'. Furthermore, it looked like most of the Votes for increased League Sizes came from the TOP LEAGUES in the Super League. As we shall see.



We also reached out to Players primarily playing in the Top 9 Leagues in the Super League for help in addressing the 2nd complaint.

It was to get a feel from the Higher League Players on what they think the size of solely the Premier League should be. That comprised 90 Players from the Total of 270 Super League Players. So the Top 1/3 of Players, i.e The Players playing in the Top Leagues.

Problem is that over 60% of the Premier gets RELEGATED every Season, plus, only 10 Players are in the current top League. A 19 Player League cuts the RELEGATION from 6/10 to 6/19. It makes it EASIER to get into the Premier League and maintain your position. 19 Players still keeps the structure the same, 18 Match Ups spread over the 2 Month Season with 25% of your games being on your HOME Map, which is the same as it is at the moment. And the results were very revealing. We asked:

- What would the Players in the TOP Super Leagues want the size of the Premier League to Be?

And they replied:

- 19 Player Premier League
19 Votes
58%

- 10 Player Premier League
14
42% Votes

Analysis: By a margin of almost 60/40 the Players in the Top Leagues want a 19 Player Premier League. In conjunction with most Players voting for increased League sizes across the board, all be it, Leagues of 10 was by far the most popular singular choice, I think we can find a compromise that keeps most people happy and addresses the complaints received.



Solution

CC will give us a little notice of when the Auto Snap will be introduced. It will be rolled out so that it does not effect The Super League. It will either be, the last week in October, December or Febuary. Basically just when the final games of a Super League Season will be being finished off. We will introduce the NEW STRUCTURE for the New Season which starts the week after the Roll Out. Until then we continue with exactly the same format as we have now. Staggered Invites and Leagues of 10 Across The Board.

To reflect the main vote AND the Players views from the Higher Leagues. In the new structure, all Leagues will remain at 10 Players with the same Promotion and Relegation Rules. BUT, on a TRIAL BASIS, the Premier League will increase in size to 19 Players. It will be an all play all ONCE, keeping it at 18 Match Ups per Season like the rest of the Leagues. And, it will run to exactly the same schedule as the rest of the Leagues. Match Ups in the PREMIER only will be 1 HOME, 1 AWAY and 2 RANDOM Maps.

As all Players will get an AUTO SNAP at the start of every game. Match Up Invites will be sent at the same time in the New Structure. So, as an example. If we move to the new structure in November (as an example), Match Ups would be set up on the following dates:

MATCH DAY SET UP DATES (Example)
M01 - 02 Nov 2023
M02 - 02 Nov 2023
M03 - 02 Nov 2023
M04 - 06 Nov 2023
M05 - 09 Nov 2023
M06 - 13 Nov 2023
M07 - 16 Nov 2023
M08 - 20 Nov 2023
M09 - 20 Nov 2023
M10 - 20 Nov 2023
M11 - 23 Nov 2023
M12 - 27 Nov 2023
M13 - 30 Nov 2023
M14 - 04 Dec 2023
M15 - 07 Dec 2023
M16 - 11 Dec 2023
M17 - 11 Dec 2023
M18 - 11 Dec 2023

Season to be completed by End Dec.

Extra Promotion Spots to Premier would be, 3 Survivors from Championship, 3rd-6th Placed in League 01 and 2nd and 3rd in League 02.

To make up for these players, these EXTRA PROMOTION SPOTS would go to EVERY LEAGUE throughout the ENTIRE Super League.

Trial would be for 3 Seasons and if it was not Loved by All, it would be changed!

Okay Troops, from tomorrow it's back to REGULAR HIGHLIGHTS!

Good Luck!

[Caymanmew]

Rest

[anonymus]

Id say keep the same rules.. even with auto-snap.. one can get an unlucky streak on only 3 games so its good to get a 2nd chanse on 3 more later on..
getting or not getting the snap never was a huge advantage anyways compared to who goes 1st..
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[hjelp]

12h fog rule, thank you.

[Silvertop]

Id say keep the same rules.. even with auto-snap.. one can get an unlucky streak on only 3 games so its good to get a 2nd chanse on 3 more later on..
getting or not getting the snap never was a huge advantage anyways compared to who goes 1st..
/

I follow here

[heatz]

Id say keep the same rules.. even with auto-snap.. one can get an unlucky streak on only 3 games so its good to get a 2nd chanse on 3 more later on..
getting or not getting the snap never was a huge advantage anyways compared to who goes 1st..
/

I totally agree with anonymus, personally as well I’d say the current setup is extremely enjoyable too

[shoop76]

Id say keep the same rules.. even with auto-snap.. one can get an unlucky streak on only 3 games so its good to get a 2nd chanse on 3 more later on..
getting or not getting the snap never was a huge advantage anyways compared to who goes 1st..
/

I totally agree with anonymus, personally as well I’d say the current setup is extremely enjoyable too

Not sure what the alternatives will be, and I am all for a larger Premier League, but the current set up is something I do like.

[Wile E Coyote]

Hi folks, i'm unsure as to the reasons for the change... there is something about playing someone twice that makes this work. Auto snap would be a nice addition though. The main issue is people going first get a better shot at winning, although not sure there is much that could be done about that!

[RomLOL]

I think fewer but larger leagues would be good.

Currently, in a league of 10 we play 9 players in 4 games 2 times. 9 x 4 x 2 = 72

If had leagus of 24 players and played 1 home game, 1 away game and 1 random against 23 opponents only once then we would each play 69 [wahey!] games.

[guzmanuk]

I agree with anonimous comment. Let's keep the same rules - The snap does not change things much, the main difference is the advantage of playing your favourite map when playing "home".
If you want to speed up the tournament, I suggest to limit the number of rounds per game to 20 or 30, as well as allowing players to resign after 10 rounds.


Re: RISK Super League - Season 16
Postby anonymus on Wed Aug 30, 2023 5:23 am

Id say keep the same rules.. even with auto-snap.. one can get an unlucky streak on only 3 games so its good to get a 2nd chanse on 3 more later on..
getting or not getting the snap never was a huge advantage anyways compared to who goes 1st..

[Avi8or]

Id say keep the same rules.. even with auto-snap.. one can get an unlucky streak on only 3 games so its good to get a 2nd chanse on 3 more later on..
getting or not getting the snap never was a huge advantage anyways compared to who goes 1st..
/

Completely agree with keeping the games as is and PL table relatively the same 10-12.

[Clanlord Carl]

Having an autosnap doesnt change much as it is all about the home maps. Just means you could release to both players at the same time.

[Tviorr]

Dang. Would really prefer that it stayed the way it was. - Its a bit wonky, but I like it. - Auto snap is generally a good thing,

but is it completely impossible that it could be disabled for a tourney by the tourney organizer, or even just for the Super League and Cup??

Other than that, I also like the current format even if we cant have the auto snap disabled for the Super League/cup. 2 home games and 2 random games make for a home game feeling that would be lost, if it was all comprimated into some sort of single face off containing both home and away maps - whatever the exact setup might end up on. - I think that enough home game advantage remains to justify keeping it home and away.

On a slightly different note, if CC could put in a feature for tourneys where first and second turns could be decided in the tourney settings then it would be interesting to remove the luck factor here. - Interesting possibilities would open. - The most obvious would be to do 1 home and 1 random with first turn and 1 home and 1 random with second turn, but with the current set up of home and away matches, the home advantage could be driven home by doing a 3-1 first turn advantage (preferably 2 first turns on the randoms then, or even 4-0 first turn advantage for the home games. - I would think 4-0 (or rather 2 first turns on home maps) would have unintende consequenses as maps can be chosen where first turn is an almost overwhelming advantage (Mogul is certainly one such), so doing 2 set first turns on both home maps would lead to competitive players choosing the same 5-10 home maps. - I digress though. This isnt possible presently and I havent heard any cc plans to explore this. Just for future reference, though, Im thinking a 3-1 first turn home game advantage with 1 first turn on the home map and 2 first turns on random maps would be very interesting. - It could also be possible to do 5 games in a match and have 3 random games with 2-1 first turn advantage.

Again most of it not relevant, but I happen to live in a dimension slightly different to the normal one, so

[fishbonex]

Id say keep the same rules.. even with auto-snap.. one can get an unlucky streak on only 3 games so its good to get a 2nd chanse on 3 more later on..
getting or not getting the snap never was a huge advantage anyways compared to who goes 1st..
/

I agree, I think the rules are good as is and the whole auto-snap issue is overrated.

[fishbonex]

If you want to speed up the tournament, I suggest to limit the number of rounds per game to 20 or 30, as well as allowing players to resign after 10 rounds.

This is a great idea, some of the games can run insanely long.

[denominator]

I agree with most of the above comments, leave it as is even with the auto-snap. The format works well and the only change will be expediting the invite system, but having two matches against each player in the group is appreciated.

[SuperSian]

Agree a 20/30 round max with option to resign after set amount

If you want to speed up the tournament, I suggest to limit the number of rounds per game to 20 or 30, as well as allowing players to resign after 10 rounds.

This is a great idea, some of the games can run insanely long.

[rousseau72]

sounds like a great idea - sign me up - at the bottom though!

[SoN!c]

Agree a 20/30 round max with option to resign after set amount

If you want to speed up the tournament, I suggest to limit the number of rounds per game to 20 or 30, as well as allowing players to resign after 10 rounds.

This is a great idea, some of the games can run insanely long.

If we go to a limit of the number of rounds per game to 20 or 30 then we could include all maps if we make it 20.

[SoN!c]

Having an autosnap doesnt change much as it is all about the home maps. Just means you could release to both players at the same time.

What the man says. Doesn't have to change a thing unless you want it to change a thing.

"Just means you could release to both players at the same time." = that's all it means really

[Devante]

Based on what I've read so far, I think keep it the same number of players in each league and agree auto snap doesn't really impact things as much. I also like the idea of bringing in 20 round limits with a resign option and in turn opening up all maps.

[Bad-Ape]

I would agree with others - why not just keep it as it is? I find the BoBSL thoroughly enjoyable and I don't think the auto snap stuff will make that much of a difference

[serram]

I am with most that have written here: keep it as it is, since the autosnap doesn´t really change much. But I think that the question of who has the first turn need to be addressed, maybe by CC as a whole, because in many maps the outcome is really decided in the first turn!

[Kaiser_Tottenham]

[b]Maps[/b]

Since there are maps which are excluded (for lengthy reasons) , i think Random maps/games should be excluded for the same reasons.. because these excluded maps still can appear in random..

A home game should be (4 home maps)

Or either make most maps available with round limit.

[BobbyLama]

I would like to join the league. I'd like British Islands has my home map. Thank you