Ladder Restarts

If you don't remember the vote, you can take a look at it, by clicking on this link.

Vote: Wich Ladder (Ranking) should be resetted?


The results of the vote, the discussion of the player council a the discussion of the admins staff leads to following decision:

All Ladders will be restarted next monday

Why we will restart "all" ladders? There are a lot of reasons. First of all the result of the vote shows, that the majority of the players want to restart the ladders. But of course there are more reasons.

For example the activity of some ladders will be increased by a restart. Because everyone can get first place, there is a big motivation to play again a lot of matches.

And the ladder restart is a chance to improve the SWBF2 section again. A chance to go for professional eSports. A lot of ESL ladders are using the "BO3" system what means "best of three". It's one of the best eSports systems and so we will try to adopt it for the SWBF2 section.

To do so, we have to announce 3 big changes:

1.) As written above, all SWBF2 ladders will be restarted. 2.) You won't enter tickets as results any more. 3.) We will start the BO3 system.

Match Results - No more tickets

No tickets as results? WTF? Yes, it's something new, but it will be better for all of us. So before you start flaming, please continue reading.

At the moment you are entering tickets for every map. But this system is old, obsolete and complicated. First you have to take a look at all of your results, to sum them up to one result per map and to enter them into the result sheet.

And in fact the system isn't very good. In the last weeks more and more players complained about strange match results. Just take a look at following example.

Example - Mach Result
Round	Team A	vs	Team B
Round 1	40	:	0
Round 2	0	:	53
Tickets	40	:	53
Result	DRAW

So even if Team B has more tickets than Team A, it's just a draw. And in fact this is really confusing, isn't it? This is one thing, that we want to optimize.

In the future (starting from ladder restart) you will in all ladders just enter 1 or 0 for win or loss for every map. Maybe a few examples are easier to understand than a long explanation.

A few examples for the results of 1 map:

Example - Mach Result Round Team A vs Team B Round 1 13 : 0 Round 2 9 : 0 Tickets 22 : 0 Result 1 : 0	OR	Example - Mach Result Round Team A vs Team B Round 1 13 : 0 Round 2 0 : 9 Tickets 13 : 9 Result 1 : 0
OR		OR
Example - Mach Result Round Team A vs Team B Round 1 12 : 0 Round 2 0 : 13 Tickets 12 : 13 Result 0 : 1	OR	Example - Mach Result Round Team A vs Team B Round 1 14 : 0 Round 2 0 : 14 Tickets 14 : 14 Result 1 : 1

As you can see it's always 1:0 or 0:1. Even if the ticket result would be 299:298 it's just 1:0. There is only one exception as you can see in the lower example on the left side. If both teams got excactly the same tickt count on the map (for example 254:254) it will be counted as a draw (1:1).

BO3 - Best of Three

As mentioned above, the BO3 system is one of the best eSport systems and so we will try to adopt it for the SWBF2 section. BO3 ("best of three") means, that in case of doubt three maps will be played (each map 2 rounds) and who wins 2 of these 3 maps (1:0 + 1:0) will win the match.

You will play your matches like you did all the time, but you will just count win or loss (1:0). If you played 2 maps (4 rounds) and the end result is 1:1 (both players or both teams have won a map) a third map will be played, so that the end result will be 2:1 or 1:2.

If 2 maps are played and it's 2:0 or 0:2, no 3rd map has to be played, because the result can't be changed anymore.

We know, that probably 90% of you won't be happy now, but please believe us, that BO3 is much more ambitious as our actual system and it will be better for all of you. A lot of people flamed as the gameaccounts got announced. But now it's just "okay" and no one would flame about it. BO3 will be the same.

The gameaccounts are one step to more professional eSports, but they are not the last step. The BO3 system will be the second step to give you a better ladder. So please test it, before you start to flame the admins.


Your Admin Team