I've decided that there will be a "mini-draft" for each team to pick up players from the "Undrafted Roster" every Sunday. Team's will get to pick first based on who needs players (i.e if one team has 9 and the rest have 10 then the team with 9 will pick first) and then the rest of the draft will be based on record (last picks first, first picks last, etc). However, since the tournament does not start until this Monday, the only way I can determine draft picks will be to have each captain rank all the teams from best to worst and then I'll average each out and whichever team was picked as the worst team will get pick #2, the 3rd best team will get pick #3, the 2nd best will get pick #4, and the team that everyone thought was 1st will get the #5 pick. Team 4 gets the #1 pick no matter what because they have one less person than the other teams. There are 5 people in this mini-draft so Team 4 will end up with 2 of them and each other team will get 1. So, each team will have 11 people to start their matches for the next week. I want to try to keep the team rosters to around 10 people. People can still keep signing up each week and there will be mini-drafts every Sunday. However, when team sizes get to be around 13-15 I will ask for a volunteer to be the captain of Team 5 and we will hold an expansion draft for his team where they will pick 2-3 people from each of the exsisting teams. Team captains will be able to "protect" a certain number of players which means that the new team cannot pick them. The number of people each captain can protect is still not decided yet, I'm thinking 3-5 people right now. This might not happen for a while, it could happen next week... it just depends on how many people sign up and how soon they do. I'm just letting everyone know what will happen as more people begin to sign up so no one is caught by surprise. If Teams 1-5 start to get 13-15 people per roster then a 6th team will be created as well. If anyone has any questions on this, talk to me on IRC.
Today is the last day for sign-ups unless you can catch me tomorrow between noon and 12:30. I've got soccer from 1-4 so the draft will start at 5:00 EST. Anyone that wants to be a captain be in IRC around 4:45 and I'll choose the captains. We're gonna have 4 teams right now, maybe more later if this goes as planned and is a success. Right now there are 35 people signed up. That means right now 3 teams of 9 and 1 of 8. I may change the rules so that wars can be between 5v5 and 9v9, however many people show up. I'm still taking sign ups though. If somehow we get 12-15 more people to sign up tonight, there will be 5 teams of 9-10. Finally, Death3D said he would try to get 2evil2f uploaded on the main servers that wars are played on such as ZAP, Biscuit, DaBoyz, NoX, etc. I haven't heard from him since so if these servers do not carry the map 2evil2f by August 4 I'll change it to spit2.
The total number is up to 25. Would be 26 but JDcompy is gay and he quit cuz I wouldn't give him +hops in #pugleague... what a baby. Anyways, we did a "mock draft" last night to test out Draft #4. We did it with 4 captains (since there were only 4 ppl on) and I think it turned out decent. I noticed there's some large gaps where some teams get multiple picks inbetween one team's two choices. We might test out #2 or #3 tonight and see if they go better. Also there is a new rule about "Ringers" in the rules page.
Some people were asking about class restrictions for this tournament earlier. Currently there are NO restrictions but I'm thinking about putting a limit to Snipers and HWGuys. Also the maps have been chosen for the 1st 4 weeks of play. I picked them randomly from a list of about 25-30 maps that I picked to be played in the tournament. Each map will be played once so you won't see these again after they are played unless this tourney goes for a long time. :P Week 1 will be 2fort5 and 2evil2f. Week 2 will be Well6 and Bases. Week 3 will be 2tech4 and 2mfield4. Week 4 will be Rock1 and 2Brave1. I have made a files page and will post links to download each map that is being played. Currently only Week 1 + 2 are up but 3 + 4 will be soon. If you'd like to submit a map to be put on the list for random picking just let me know. I'll check it out and if I determine it's a good map to war in then I will add it. And if you're lucky it'll be picked to be used during the tournament. I think that's about it. Spread the word people. :)
I was gone just about all day today after 12:30 so I only got 3 new people to sign up in the morning. If you stopped by to sign up today and I wasn't there come back tomorrow and I'll get you signed up. You can also ICQ me (14480264) and tell me to sign up. All you gotta do is gimme your name, clan, and main class and I'll add you to roster. If you are already signed up, then spread the word. The quicker we get people signed up the sooner we can get this started. :) Total People signed up after today is 15. Still shooting for August 1 to start the draft and August 4 to start the matches. Guess that's it for today. :P
Ok, I just came up with this idea and I'm gonna give it a shot. I know, I'm not very good at making webpages (or at least flashy ones with good graphics) but this'll do. Later today I'll have some people read over the rules and make sure they make sense and I didn't miss anything. Then when everything looks good I'll register #pugleague for an IRC channel and get this thing advertised! The sign up period will probably be a week and we'll try to get this started by August 1. Might not make that deadline but we can shoot for it. If you're signed up spread the word. This could be a great tournament. :)