Welcome to Devonin's Ongoing FFR League. This is a somewhat new thing, think of it like a tournament that doesn't actually end, with prizes given out periodically as we go along. I'll explain everything below.
The league is going to be divided into 5 divisions, corresponding to general skill level at FFR. There will be no placement process, and thus don't bother asking to be put into a certain division. The beauty of this system is that it fixes itself. At the beginning of the league all participants will be placed into Division 3. For the first several rounds, the top and bottom X people will be moved up into division 2 and down into division 4, this will continue until the 5 divisions have roughly equal numbers in them. This will be the make-up of the league for Season 1.
At the end of each Season (Probably one round per week for 6 weeks) we'll take a 1 week break to give out prizes, and sort out anything that needs changing, and then Season 2 will start.
At the end of each season, the top X people in their division will be moved up one division, and the bottom X people will move down a division. The top of Division 1 stay put, and the bottom of Division 5 are removed from the league and put into a 're-qualifying' bracket. This bracket also contains anybody who wants to join mid-season. At the end of each season, the re-qualifying bracket are shuffled into the league at skill-appropriate levels.
This is a raw score based league, it's all about accuracy and skill. There won't be any trick-shot rounds (bad PA, max boos all that other stuff) I know it's a game, but this is a reasonably serious attempt to get some long-term competition and interest going. Scores are ranked simply by their raw score, highest to lowest. Points are awarded each round, with 1000 points awarded to the first place finisher, and .9*N points for each lower place. (This means that it is MUCH easier to stay competitive. This is the method I used for the Critical Thinking tournies way back, and it makes the middle of the pack a lot easier to move around in.
At the end of each season, prizes (So far just credits out of my pocket, we'll see how it develops as we go) will be given out across the divisions such that the top 50% of each division win something (So the more people who sign up, the more people get prizes, including YOU!)
If we get at least 50 people for season one, I'll shop around for someone to make some "Ongoing Tournament Season 1 Champ" style sig banner things. Heck, if it really takes off, maybe we can bribe Velocity to put stuff on profiles for it!
CURRENT PRIZE POOL
Qualifying Tourney: 1,000,000
Season One: 2,000,000
Season Two: 2,000,000
DONATIONS
GENERAL QUESTIONS
Q: How do I sign up?
A: Just post in the thread that you're in
Q: When does the first round start?
A: I'm planning to start the sorting/qualifyer round Sunday Jan 22, for 4 weeks. Standard Seasons are 6 weeks long.
Q: How long is each season?
A: The season will be 6 rounds, 1 per week, Sunday->Sunday
Q: I'm on Team X, Can we make this a Team Thing too?
A: Absolutely! If you're on one of the FFR Teams, just include it in your signup request and I'll put a note beside the name. While I'm not including anything in -my- tourney about the teams, it's a great way for you to compete and rank against your own and other teams!
Q: You already started the qualifier, is it too late to join?
A: Anybody who wants to join the Qualifier ONLY while Round 1 ONLY is going on, can submit scores. Those people will have their scores recorded by me, be moved through the divisions as normal, but will only actually be present in the start of season 1 if they were needed to make the numbers in the divisions work out. If this is going to become a regular long-term thing, the system in place is going to have to be enforced, which means only signups during the time for signups count.
DIVISION/MOVEMENT QUESTIONS
Q: What if I don't submit a score for a round?
A: You get 0 points, and drop places
Q: What if someone becomes inactive, do they just soak up a spot until they work their way all the way out of the bottom?
A: Anybody who fails to submit for at least 3 of the 6 rounds of a season is dropped immediately to the re-qualifying bracket
Q: Someone is obviously too good for their division! Move them up mid-round!
A: Not going to happen. I'll do my best to put people in the qualifying bracket into the correct place at season start, but if someone is really good and got misplaced (Or skill jumps, or whatever) then they slowly work their way up just like everybody else. Yes this means a D1 player who somehow got into D3 is probably going to win D3, then win D2 next season, but the prizes go down to 50% of people, and I'd really like to see this become a permanant ongoing thing, so there's MORE than enough time to be winning credits and prizes
SCORING/SUBMISSION QUESTIONS
Q: What's with this 0.9*N nonsense? How do the points work?!?
A: Basically, this system is designed to keep a large number of competitors as competitive and involved as possible. The way it works is that the top score for a round is awarded 1000 points. For each place below that, they player scores 90% of the previous person's points. So instead of a usual structure that tends to go
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0
It goes
1000, 900, 810, 729, 656, 590, 531, 478, 430, 387
This means that as you move down into the middle of the pack, it is MUCH easier to stay competitive and in the running for good prizes since one bad round isn't going to completely wreck your score.
FORMAT
The league is going to be divided into 5 divisions, corresponding to general skill level at FFR. There will be no placement process, and thus don't bother asking to be put into a certain division. The beauty of this system is that it fixes itself. At the beginning of the league all participants will be placed into Division 3. For the first several rounds, the top and bottom X people will be moved up into division 2 and down into division 4, this will continue until the 5 divisions have roughly equal numbers in them. This will be the make-up of the league for Season 1.
At the end of each Season (Probably one round per week for 6 weeks) we'll take a 1 week break to give out prizes, and sort out anything that needs changing, and then Season 2 will start.
SEASONAL DIVISION MOVEMENT
At the end of each season, the top X people in their division will be moved up one division, and the bottom X people will move down a division. The top of Division 1 stay put, and the bottom of Division 5 are removed from the league and put into a 're-qualifying' bracket. This bracket also contains anybody who wants to join mid-season. At the end of each season, the re-qualifying bracket are shuffled into the league at skill-appropriate levels.
SCORING AND PRIZES
This is a raw score based league, it's all about accuracy and skill. There won't be any trick-shot rounds (bad PA, max boos all that other stuff) I know it's a game, but this is a reasonably serious attempt to get some long-term competition and interest going. Scores are ranked simply by their raw score, highest to lowest. Points are awarded each round, with 1000 points awarded to the first place finisher, and .9*N points for each lower place. (This means that it is MUCH easier to stay competitive. This is the method I used for the Critical Thinking tournies way back, and it makes the middle of the pack a lot easier to move around in.
At the end of each season, prizes (So far just credits out of my pocket, we'll see how it develops as we go) will be given out across the divisions such that the top 50% of each division win something (So the more people who sign up, the more people get prizes, including YOU!)
If we get at least 50 people for season one, I'll shop around for someone to make some "Ongoing Tournament Season 1 Champ" style sig banner things. Heck, if it really takes off, maybe we can bribe Velocity to put stuff on profiles for it!
CURRENT PRIZE POOL
Qualifying Tourney: 1,000,000
Season One: 2,000,000
Season Two: 2,000,000
DONATIONS
FAQ (As things come up)
GENERAL QUESTIONS
Q: How do I sign up?
A: Just post in the thread that you're in
Q: When does the first round start?
A: I'm planning to start the sorting/qualifyer round Sunday Jan 22, for 4 weeks. Standard Seasons are 6 weeks long.
Q: How long is each season?
A: The season will be 6 rounds, 1 per week, Sunday->Sunday
Q: I'm on Team X, Can we make this a Team Thing too?
A: Absolutely! If you're on one of the FFR Teams, just include it in your signup request and I'll put a note beside the name. While I'm not including anything in -my- tourney about the teams, it's a great way for you to compete and rank against your own and other teams!
Q: You already started the qualifier, is it too late to join?
A: Anybody who wants to join the Qualifier ONLY while Round 1 ONLY is going on, can submit scores. Those people will have their scores recorded by me, be moved through the divisions as normal, but will only actually be present in the start of season 1 if they were needed to make the numbers in the divisions work out. If this is going to become a regular long-term thing, the system in place is going to have to be enforced, which means only signups during the time for signups count.
DIVISION/MOVEMENT QUESTIONS
Q: What if I don't submit a score for a round?
A: You get 0 points, and drop places
Q: What if someone becomes inactive, do they just soak up a spot until they work their way all the way out of the bottom?
A: Anybody who fails to submit for at least 3 of the 6 rounds of a season is dropped immediately to the re-qualifying bracket
Q: Someone is obviously too good for their division! Move them up mid-round!
A: Not going to happen. I'll do my best to put people in the qualifying bracket into the correct place at season start, but if someone is really good and got misplaced (Or skill jumps, or whatever) then they slowly work their way up just like everybody else. Yes this means a D1 player who somehow got into D3 is probably going to win D3, then win D2 next season, but the prizes go down to 50% of people, and I'd really like to see this become a permanant ongoing thing, so there's MORE than enough time to be winning credits and prizes
SCORING/SUBMISSION QUESTIONS
Q: What's with this 0.9*N nonsense? How do the points work?!?
A: Basically, this system is designed to keep a large number of competitors as competitive and involved as possible. The way it works is that the top score for a round is awarded 1000 points. For each place below that, they player scores 90% of the previous person's points. So instead of a usual structure that tends to go
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0
It goes
1000, 900, 810, 729, 656, 590, 531, 478, 430, 387
This means that as you move down into the middle of the pack, it is MUCH easier to stay competitive and in the running for good prizes since one bad round isn't going to completely wreck your score.
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