The Sengoku Jidai League Discussion Thread

**AggonyKing** · 07-04-2011, 17:21

hmm am I doing something wrong? I create an open challenge for anyone but after a while it just disappears :?

**TinCow** · 07-04-2011, 17:29

Originally Posted by AggonyKing

hmm am I doing something wrong? I create an open challenge for anyone but after a while it just disappears :?

I think it disappears if no one has accepted it when the scheduled time has passed.

**AggonyKing** · 07-04-2011, 18:08

hmm well I just made a new one, will keep track of when it disappears.

**TinCow** · 07-11-2011, 21:59

We are entering the last week of Season One. As per the Rules, after the season is done we will have a one week break. As of this moment, we have a total of 24 players who have completed at least one match. I do not think that is enough to split up into tiers. If we split into tiers, we would end up with 12 in each tier, which will be way too few players available for people to find someone to play. So, the plan for the moment is to keep Season Two as a single ladder just like Season One. If you disagree with this plan, please speak now.

We will also need a new four map rotation for the next set of defaults. If you've got any preferences on this matter, post what you'd like to have included. As always, please do go out and recruit other players. This League will only be as good as the group of players we've got in it, so it's crucial that we increase the number of active competitors. The more active players we have, the easier it will be to find matches.

**TinCow** · 07-18-2011, 15:13

Congratulations to ][GERUDO][ Harba, who has won Season 1 of the SJL with a very impressive record of 12 and 4.

Unfortunately, activity levels have dropped off a cliff over the last two weeks. This whole League is pointless if no one is going to play any games. If you are interested in continuing play into Season 2, please post here and help us figure out how we can return activity levels to what they were during the first two weeks.

**AzureTotalWar** · 07-21-2011, 19:45

Yes. Lets do best of 1 and make the league last 1-2 weeks.

**Cu'Roi** · 07-22-2011, 01:39

you won't be able to return the activity levels of the start of the leagues, it's the life cycle of the game. it's the same reason there is no point in using the foyer, no point in televising matches, and no point in starting team tournaments any longer. i hate to rain on the parade, but if you want a longer game life a lot needs to be done with the base game.

having 6-8 active players at this point would be very good success IMO, so something more along those lines should be the goal.

one way to do this would be to change the default mode from classic to avatar, that could net a couple new players. regardless of the merits of classic (and i believe it does have merits for sure) most players play avatar, by a wide margin. so to me it seems logical to make avatar, not classic the default mode if you goal is more players.

speaking for myself one of the reasons i took my name out of the league was because nobody would play me in avatar, and i don't have the practice/game knowledge to play classic in such a competitive format as the level of play in the league is extremely high (that and i got tired of being asked to play 1 v 1 all the time when i tend to only play 1 v 1s when i feel like it these days).

but i'm not going to rejoin the league due to the reasons i mentioned above, so make what you will of my suggestions. i'm in my MPC phase of the game now heh.