Hello all!
It's been three years since season 37, but I'm bringing the P/R League back for season 38! First off a huge shoutout to almosttricky who ran this league for 15 straight seasons!
For those who don't know about the P/R League, it works as follows:
Concept
The Promotion/Relegation League is a seasonal group of round-robin Warzone tournaments, always on the classic “strategic medium earth” map and settings with 0% weighted random luck. (This is not the same as the template currently used for the 1v1 ladder). An example game of this is:
https://war.app/multiplayer?GameID=34768165. Players are grouped into 7 player groups, each group sorted into a tier. At the end of each season, the top players of each tier are promoted to the next tier above. Bottom players are relegated to the next tier below. Middle players remain in the same tier.
The league is meant to appeal to players who want to see, over the course of several seasons, where their natural level of competition might take them. For new, skilled participants, this means patience in getting to the levels where they will be challenged. Hopefully, that is part of the fun. The idea is to see how quickly you can progress, how long you can stay high, or how long it takes to stop a skid.
A (1 group): 2 demote, 1 wins the league!
B (1 group): 2 promote, 3 relegate
C (2 groups): 3 promote (1 each group plus 2nd place playoff between C1 and C2), 4 relegate (2 each group)
D (2 groups): 4 promote (2 each group), 6 relegate (3 each group)
E (3 groups): 6 promote (2 each group), 9 relegate (3 each group)
F (5 groups): about 10 promote (2 each group)
Placements in a round-robin are determined by number of wins. In the event of a tie, placements are determined by head-to-head results among tied players. Occasionally, there are loops of ties that cannot be resolved by the head-to-head rule. A tie-breaking tournament then takes place unless all the players involved agree to otherwise settle the tie.
If players are still tied after the tiebreaker tournament, tiebreaker tournaments will continue to be created until the end of the season (minimum of 1 tiebreaker tournament) or until any player forfeits. If the end of the season is near, tiebreaker tournament boot times can be adjusted to 1 day 10 hours.
For players with multiple accounts, transferring your spot in the league to another account is allowed. You must send me the request from both the accounts involved in the transfer and both accounts must have the same flag (and state if applicable). This is an effort to prevent players from transferring their spot in the league with someone who hasn't earned that spot. Playing with multiple accounts in the same season is not allowed.
Before the beginning of each season, a summary of the movements will be announced to allow for questions or corrections. The league works most smoothly if those who wish to bow out of it let the administrator know before the new season begins instead of simply declining to play after the groups have been determined and tournaments begun.
Since this is a return after several years all players that played in the last season or were signed up for this season at the time have received a warzone mail notifying them that the P/R League is back! Depending on interest both from them and from potential new sign-ups I will have to create the groups as good as possible. As administrator these group decisions will be final when made, but based as good as I can on the last played season. Since this is a return after several years, should players have played in earlier seasons of the P/R League, but have been inactive during season 37 and want to sign back up now, they can send me a mail linking the last season they were part of and I may in this specific case place them in a higher group than other fully new sign-ups. They will not have priority over players that played in season 37. The deadline for sign-ups is september 1st, the tournaments and groups will be finalized in the days afterwards. You can sign up by reacting to this forum post, or by sending me a mail through warzone!
League Administrators by season:
Chokecherry 1-10
Frankdeslimste • apex 11-18
Pushover 19-20
awesomeusername 21-22
almosttricky 23-37
Master Meldarion 38-
As always, the hall of fame will be posted in the second post. This will also thus contain the link to the last season. I probably will run the P/R League through the CLOT again, but this is as of right now undecided.
Hope to see you soon, and good luck all!
