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Team Captains all meet at the same location, a chat-room, and challenge one another in the next round. Provisionally, I can set up my computer to host a game and we can use the chat facilities there: look for '''2020's T-room'''. This will only be available at the right times since I hope to be playing: 9pm, 9.45, 10.30, 11.15.  
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Based on [[Ladle Feedback]], we are experimenting with another way of assisting the self-organisation of the competition. Team Captains may use the '''Challenge Board''' below to establish the provisional games to be played that night. Team Captains should still visit a common chat-room to ensure all teams turn up and deal with any problems that may arise. If the preparations are abused in any way, then let us relie on Team Captains to organise it as they did in the first Ladle.
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One critical problem to solve this time round. I was most disheartened to discover that one of AW's established team-mates was effectively locked out of a server because it was full. We must be more careful about last-minute additions, as well as recognise that without these last-minute team alterations the Ladle would have crashed to an ignoble end. So... any practical suggestions..? See Last Minute Solutions below.
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=== chat-room ===
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Team Captains use the chat-room to register their team: their team is assembled at the appropriate server and they are ready to play. Team Captains should register at 9, 9.45, 10.30 and 11.15pm GMT. That is, at the beginning of every round...
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If things get messy, then we must resort to trusting one another and allowing Team Captains the opportunity to challenge other teams and allocating servers.
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'''We need a chat-room that all Team Captains can visit, and make sure it is closed to others to make the communication feasible.'''
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=== Challenge Board ===
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A provisional play-off sequence is provided below. Please note, it is for Team Captains to issue challenges and to locate their teams appropriately on the board. If they can not do this here, they will have to do it on the day in less than 5 mins, so... be cool and be brave... Challenge and accept challenges.
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=== Last-minute Solutions ===
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WORK-IN-PROGRESS
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Team Captains have to decide on two things within 5 mins: who to play next and where.
 
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:Team Captains should make sure they choose an apropriate server to the PING their players get, perhaps compiling a favourite list from their players before the matches. Check out the available servers at [[LADLE fortress-servers]].
 
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:It is the Team Captains collective responsibility to find a suitable opponent. Since we are running with a very short time schedule, captains must be very strict with themselves and sort games out quickly. It would be nice to have some software to help with this process, something to do with a captain's team loses by default if they do not accept a challenge at the end of 5 mins... but we are running short on time and we may just have to trust team captains to sort it out.
 
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:Please make sure all your players know about the timing. First round is at 9pm GMT to sort out if there are more than 8 teams (with multiple entries from large teams), and then the competition starts in earnest at 9.45pm GMT with the quarters, 10.30pm GMT with the semis, and the final at 11.15pm GMT.
 
  
  
  
 
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The following team list is from [[LADLE team-lists]], and all captains must put there names here so that we can discuss and prepare for the night.
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The following team list is from the  [[LADLE team-lists]], and all captains must put there names here so that we can discuss and prepare for the night.
 
* anarchic wanderers - garissimo
 
* anarchic wanderers - garissimo
 
* speeders - PsYkO (gogodsmackgo@hotmail.com)
 
* speeders - PsYkO (gogodsmackgo@hotmail.com)

Revision as of 07:57, 15 July 2006


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Based on Ladle Feedback, we are experimenting with another way of assisting the self-organisation of the competition. Team Captains may use the Challenge Board below to establish the provisional games to be played that night. Team Captains should still visit a common chat-room to ensure all teams turn up and deal with any problems that may arise. If the preparations are abused in any way, then let us relie on Team Captains to organise it as they did in the first Ladle.

One critical problem to solve this time round. I was most disheartened to discover that one of AW's established team-mates was effectively locked out of a server because it was full. We must be more careful about last-minute additions, as well as recognise that without these last-minute team alterations the Ladle would have crashed to an ignoble end. So... any practical suggestions..? See Last Minute Solutions below.

chat-room

Team Captains use the chat-room to register their team: their team is assembled at the appropriate server and they are ready to play. Team Captains should register at 9, 9.45, 10.30 and 11.15pm GMT. That is, at the beginning of every round...

If things get messy, then we must resort to trusting one another and allowing Team Captains the opportunity to challenge other teams and allocating servers.

We need a chat-room that all Team Captains can visit, and make sure it is closed to others to make the communication feasible.

Challenge Board

A provisional play-off sequence is provided below. Please note, it is for Team Captains to issue challenges and to locate their teams appropriately on the board. If they can not do this here, they will have to do it on the day in less than 5 mins, so... be cool and be brave... Challenge and accept challenges.

Last-minute Solutions

WORK-IN-PROGRESS





Team shortcuts and their full names
Shortcut Team Name/Link
AW Anarchic wanderers
SP ~*SpeederS*~
HG Hg MeRKuRiuM
FE Fortress Elite
WS Wraith Squadron
CT Crazy Tronners
LL ¡LØL!

The following team list is from the LADLE team-lists, and all captains must put there names here so that we can discuss and prepare for the night.

  • anarchic wanderers - garissimo
  • speeders - PsYkO (gogodsmackgo@hotmail.com)
  • Lords Of Destruction - AÐ¥-Lµ¢îfer
  • Shadow League [fe] - sKy
  • wraith squadron - Manta
  • CrazyTronners - Xevi
  • ¡LØL! - Durka (I might not be there on time so I'll just ask now....Can we play LOD on Z-Man's Ladle Fortress?....Planning a day early would help a lot.
    • WiLdCaT or Chuck are the sub-captains for Durka...they will show up at 2020's T-Room for the first round
    • WE CANT PLAY LOD BECUASE SL IS PLAYING THEM...SINCE ONLY 4 OF US CAN SHOW UP TO THE FIRST ROUND AND ABOUT 10 CAN SHOW UP THE SECOND ROUND AND SINCE THERE ARE 7 TEAMS, CAN WE PLEASE GET A BYE IN THE FIRST ROUND. SOMEONE HAS TO AND I WOULD APRECIATE IF BECAUSE 2 OF OUR BEST PLAYERS CAN'T BE THERE THE FIRST ROUND BUT CAN MAKE THE SECOND. IT WOULD BE UNFAIR TO US. SO CAN WE PLEASE GET THE BYE. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ASAP. --Durka
      • Good grief -- it depends on who turns up and who challenges who and accepts... don't worry.... remember the second round is the quarter finals with 8 teams, so we may not even have a first round... relax

  • WS will chalange LOL on first round... The Wraith Squadron could play you guys, Durka...that would be fair because we only have 5 members also, and I'm not sure if all of us will show up, probably only 4 at the most, and maybe only 3, so it would be a good 4v4...if only one of us gets the 'bye', then the other one of us will be outnumbered, whoever we play. This will make it fair, maybe the largest team will get the bye. - Manta/Upacreek



Team captains can use the discussion page here to discuss matters, and they may be asked to collect at 2020's T-room before the competition begins, perhaps an hour before (but the worldcup France v Brazil is on... so we may have to start just before 9pm). They will then have an hour before the first matches to organise their teams, make sure they have a sure-fire communications set up for them, so that they can enter a server exactly on time and play a match.

THE LADLE is only going to work with the skillful and patient contributions of all Team Captains. Teams -- choose well!

provisional play-offs

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Durka seems to have a good idea. We could try to set up the first round here so that it gives time for players to assemble etc. Team-captains should turn up at 2020's T-room at 9pm GMT just to say they are present and conducting their game. They return to their server, play their match, and at 9.45 the winning captains assemble at 2020's T-room to meet the other winning captains to determine the second round. Since there are only seven teams, there will only be three rounds, with one bye in the first round.

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Since some teams only have 5 players and other have more than ten, let us play matches of 5v5 or thereabouts and so we may get multiple teams fielded by eg speeders. This might only be determined at the time depending on who turns up. This complicates matters. To give us all more time, I would like to propose that we stick to the original time-frame: 9pm first round, 9.45 quarters, 10.30 semi's, and 11.15 finals. Which means, the first round might or might not be happening...

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Remember: assemble your players somewhere where you can communicate with them easily! Whether it is a chat room, your clan's forums or this wiki, or a server, or where-ever -- just get a simple mode of communication to tell them where and when. We have five minutes to get us to the right server and ready to start the match!

LOL challenge LOD at z-man's Ladle fortress(Let it be in LoD server because of better pings.)
WS Challenges LoL at Bugfarm fortress. (Unless another open server comes online) -- apparently SL is playing LoD? so we challenge LoL, if that is the case.
good grief... all captains will have to pair off within 5 mins... be brave and accept the challenge... flipping a coin is a crappy way of deciding who plays whom but if it comes down to it, i am ready 2020


first round

The first round play-offs will be announced here immediately after team-captains have met at 2020's T-room at 9pm GMT and confirmed their participation. There will only be games if there are more than 8 teams (because some team lists may wish to field more than one team -- remember each team needs a representative captain!); if that's the case, use this time to practice!

  • only seven teams... and we took 20mins to set up the quarters -- see below

quarters

The quarter-final play-offs will be announced here immediately after team-captains have met at 2020's T-room at 9.45pm GMT and confirmed their participation. This is when the competition really gets under way.

  • AW v Speeders at zman's ladle 2-0
  • WS v LOL at bugfarm 2-1
  • lod v SL at LOD server 0-2
  • CT get bye

best of 3... teamcaptains to return to 2020's T-room at 10.30 gmt

semis

The semi-final play-offs will be announced here immediately after team-captains have met at 2020's T-room at 10.30pm GMT.

  • AW v SL at zman's ladle 1-2, 98v98 in final match... soooo close... started at 11.10 finished at 11.55
  • WS v CT at bugfarm -- CT forfeits, doesn't show up

final

The final play-off will be announced here after team-captains have met at 2020's T-room at 11.15pm GMT.

  • WS v SL at zman's ladle 0-2, congratulations and well done to Shadow League!