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General Rules:
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Draft
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- Each GM sends a top-5 preference list for where they would like to pick in the reverse snake-draft.
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 - Each preferred pick slot must be unique (e.g., If you'd like pick 12, you can only list that as one of your 5 preferences)
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 - The draft order is determined by going through each GM's first preference, and awarding the pick to GMs that have a unique claim. Some examples:
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 - If only 1 out of 16 GMs requests pick 7 as their first preference, they are awarded the pick.
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 - If multiple GMs listed pick 7 as their first preference, none of them would be awarded it. All of them would then have the chance to uniquely claim their 2nd preference
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 - This process continues (repeatedly) through all listed preferred picks until as many GMs can be placed from the submitted lists as possible.
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 - If there are remaining GMs who are unplaced, they will be contacted and asked to list their preferences among the remaining picks.
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- Our draft is a Reverse Snake Draft:
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 - Round 1: Team 1 -> 16
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 - Round 2: Team 16 -> 1
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 - Round 3: Team 16 -> 1
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 - Round 4: Team 1 -> Team 16 (Substitute players)
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- The draft is an offline-draft done via reddit messaging (if you prefer discord, contact me to let me know using the reddit messager!)
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- GMs will have 24 hours per pick
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- GMs are encouraged to keep big-boards of players they would like to draft if available 2-4 picks before they are up.
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- Players who are anticipated to become eligible for the upcoming RLCS season (e.g., Scrzbbles for 2024) CAN be drafted.
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- A player suspended for the entire upcoming season, or who will not be old enough to compete by the Spring split, CANNOT be drafted.
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- If you'd like the official ruling on a player, feel free to send me a message.
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- Drafted players (including those in round 4) cannot be team coaches. There are currently no coaches allowed for the teams in this project.
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Tournament
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- Seeding for teams will be randomized from 1-16 once the draft is completed.
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- Our tournament will run a Swiss Bracket that finishes before the World Championship
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- The top-8 teams from the Swiss Bracket will verse in a Final-Bracket that takes place following the World Championship
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 - The winner of this Final-Bracket will be the RLFS Season 3 champion
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How Series are Decided
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- Series are decided with posted polls to the RLEsports subreddit.
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- The only assumptions for the series are:
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 - All matches are played in a hypothetical LAN setting with a neutral-crowd present
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 - All players can fluently speak a universal language
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- Reddit users vote in a weighted poll to decide who wins the series
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- Weighted Voting for a Best-of-5 series (Swiss matchups):
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 - Team X wins in 5: 0.6 votes to Team X / 0.4 votes to Team Y
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 - Team X wins in 4: 0.75 votes to Team X / 0.25 votes to Team Y
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 - Team X wins in 3: 1.0 vote to Team X
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- Weighted Voting for a Best-of-7 series (Final Brack matchups):
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 - Team X wins in 7: 0.57 votes to Team X / 0.43 votes to Team Y
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 - Team X wins in 6: 0.67 votes to Team X / 0.33 votes to Team Y
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 - Team X wins in 4 or 5: 1.0 votes to Team X
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- These game-odds are then used with a random number generator to determine which team wins each series, game-by-game.
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- Results are posted to the RLEsports subreddit as sims.
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GM Messages
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- For every matchup in the tournament, each GM is encouraged to submit a message to u/wizard213 on why they believe their team should win
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- GMs are encouraged to either create a generic statement about their team, or to send an updated message prior to each matchup.
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- GM messages have a maximum word limit of 250 words
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- 1 image is permitted in addition to the 250-word limit. Words in the image count towards the 250-word limit total.
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