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Post by stonecoldload on Jan 14, 2015 17:04:53 GMT
....RESULTS ARE A FEW POSTS BELOW....>
CLAN WAR #4.
Details
- I sent out a mass email to like 120 plus people. Some of these are dead accounts and people who are gone, but whatever. No harm in sending it. I'm going with the assumption with this CW, that we have already qualified for the Diamond comps, which we assume will be starting in Feb or March. We are currently 3-0.
- This CW is another Platinum level war. Which means it's the 24 hour format, stretched over three days. Friday 12/16 3pmET start, going straight through to Sunday at midnight ET.
- I was considering loosening up the numbers for this one, to allow more people to play? Said another way, let even people who cant' play all the days, have their scores count even if they are in for just one day. Thoughts? I don't care either way. We've already qualified for Diamond. Please discuss and whatever people want, we can do.
- NEW INFO. SledgeHammer has changed the CW app yet again. And they have changed how the active roster works, yet again. Good lord, one needs a PhD to keep up with their rule changes in this game. I'm going to put up what YoYo wrote on this Reddit Clan news message board:
www.reddit.com/r/clannews/comments/2rnwmr/in_between_wars_roster_lock_changes_again/
So in reading that tweet and the image, here's the lowdown of what every clan needs to know heading into each war:
* Leaders pick the bucket again. Setting the bucket to Automatic will base the bucket around the clan's total roster size.
* BH reintroduces the 'inactive/active' list again but instead calls it 'Benched/Un-benched'. No real difference other than terminology.
* Players who were benched for those who'd be more active can now be 'un-benched'. What does this mean?: If a clan has a player commit to the war but doesn't end up showing, the leader of the clan can un-bench a player while putting the no-show onto the bench. Once a player has been un-benched, they can not be put back on the bench.
* Advantages: Larger clans who drop for smaller buckets now can bench a player who has become inactive while rotating in a player who may have only been available for half of the war.
* Disadvantages: Clans who've selected automatic with players who 'disappear' now are stuck with that roster... maybe.
•WHAT ALL CLAN LEADERS NEED TO KNOW: BH's new system still allows clans to boot players with 0 wins for a player who has not recorded a win in any other clan. Also, players who record a win while on the active roster during the war are locked in as an un-benched player. Even if a leader decides to bench the player (which I'm unsure if that's possible once they've won a game), once that player has become one of the first to win a game towards the bucket size, they are active the rest of the war. For example: Clan A locks into the 50 bracket with 100 players. Clan A puts 50 on the un-benched roster. 49 players win 100+ games in the first 2 days while 1 player has only won 5 games. If the leader of clan A benches that player to un-bench another player, the original player who recorded wins will still be active while the un-benched player will not.
Unanswered questions: The original AW roster lock barred 'inactive' players from counting in anyone's war. Now that players can be un-benched, not sure if they can be kicked while 'benched' and still count for someone else's war if picked up.
•FAQ seems to indicate players who have become active for war will be marked some way in the app.
So, in comparison to the two previous iterations, we see more or a curve back to what existed with a slight combination involving the second iteration. The benefits now help clans who have unintentionally benched a player to reactivate them (although I don't see how that should happen often) as well as allowing clan leader's a 'do over' for active players who don't play at all for someone who may have been not so committed to playing a war but finds they now have the time.
One of the previous complaints with active/inactive had been with those players who committed to the war but end up with a low number of wins... players who essentially de-commit without telling their clan leader(s). I started to think it through, and the truth is there's no fair way to justify deactivating a player with wins for a player with no wins. Why? Because a clan of 100 or 80 or 60 dropping to a 50 bracket where clans have ~45ish players now has options to deactivate players for several other players while the 45 man team has no option of doing so.
Little bit of a gamble to activate all players right off the bat up to bracket limit... some clans could play it smart and simply only activate 80-90% of roster to see who's really going to be playing and make the right choice based on players who are online. Good luck.
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Post by stonecoldload on Jan 14, 2015 17:09:57 GMT
So our take?
I think we have around 50 people on our roster. There are still another 40 guys floating around who aren't on the roster, many of those Xbox 360 players. A few of them have recently crossed over, like Monsta1Time, Cookie, etc...
Working with what we now have (those 50). We will have to pick from that roster size of 50, and 'un-bench' a list of players who want to play this weekend. Right now, the tentative list includes: (in no particular order, going off my head)
UN-BENCHED LIST
01. EliteWarrior
02. Aroc
03. Bearman
04. Swain
05. RoadBeers
06. LegacyPenguin
07. Monsta1Time
08. Stone 09. 10. 11. 12.
BENCHED but helping (but can help - got word from some, who will pitch in to fill out squads if needed, here or there)
1. Jayz 2. HSV1bro (he likes to help a lot)
BENCHED (if you are on this list, and want in...let someone know! ty ) 01. Forrest 02. Saggy 03. PostZMortem 04. MalGato 05. Witty 06. Liamism 07. VVKrypton 08. De Miad04 09. BrooklynsFinest 10. The 9thDegree
11. Nyteshade 12. BlazeDropshot 13. IamKingLuis 14. NathingRollings 15. XLegitChaosx 16. StingierKyle 17. GuidoMalan 18. Beavage 19. DoomsdayOG 20. CookieMonster
21. MaxOberst 22. Searphimvii 23. xWherestheBeef 24. LegendaryShadow 25. LittleOlFayt 26. zzHayszz 27. xxRangerOnexx 28. 1-800-BadKids 29. xZenox 30. ShotofBlood
31. Rican007 32. xxLondonxx 33. TedtheFed66 34. RicanAssassin 35. DeathRaider 36. AmazonBlonde 37. I-Gradiated 38. CoronaMan 39. Jallito76 40. HSV1BRO |
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Post by xswainx on Jan 14, 2015 18:14:00 GMT
Good info Stone
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Post by stonecoldload on Jan 19, 2015 14:45:06 GMT
RESULTS - PLATINUM CLAN WAR #4
THE STORY...
The story here? Three of them.
Story 1 - The first is that HSV1 had another blowout win. HSV1 is now 4-0 in 2015's version of Clan Wars. An interesting backdrop to that is comparing this year to last year. Last year HSV1 ran much larger group sizes in the initial Platinum Wars, and had some rough & tumble outings. We actually started out 1-2, before wrapping up the Platinum war season with three straight wins, ending up 4-2. See this link
hsv1.boards.net/thread/167/clan-results-updated-2011-2014
Not sure what's in the water this time, but the story is completely opposite. Obviously, we are running much lower group sizes this time. Which is partially deliberate/by design, and partially due to BeachHead app failures. But even so...... what a difference this year. To date, we have faced off against 19 other clans in the four wars. And none of these other 19 clans have even put up even whiff of a response. It's like we showed up at the start of the fight, threw one punch, and they all went home. 19 other clans have been stomped out. Pretty sure we will never hear from them again.
Story 2 - Platinum Clan Wars are over. Our 4-0 record has easily carried us into the Diamond comps. Those wars are coming up in February.
Story 3 - BeachHead studios app crashed. Again. This ...is... unbelievably ...fucking ...stupid. Period. I don't think we have actually even had one clean clan war yet. Why was this a big deal? The app failed to work on Wednesday and Thursday, when we were trying to set our roster for the war. Twenty four hours out, is the registration time, where clan lock in their roster sizes. On Thursday, we had a nice contingent of people expressing interest in playing. Up to around 20 or so. But the app crashed all day Thursday. We couldn't lock. So the app defaulted back to five people. We then pretty much had to cut 52 people out of the clan so no accidents occurred (and now we have to rebuild the roster) So we were only allowed to play five of us. So Friday afternoon/evening comes, even though we between 2 to 3 squads ready to go, only five people's scores could count.
WAR RECAP - I would like to thank those who helped out. As mentioned above with the app failure, only the FIRST five people who played on Friday afternoon (start was 3pmET), only their scores counted. So a lot of people won't show up on the scoreboard below. But first, big props to Bearman, ArocMathews, & LegacyPenguin for doing some heavy lifting over the THREE days. Those three logged in some nice work and retook the board two times on Sat and Sunday.
Thank you to CookieMunster and 1-800BadKids for helping out on Friday. Nice job and thanks for stepping up! Unfortunately, they could only play one day, as and you see from the scoresheets below, their placement in the first five scorers, locked out other people who helped over Sat and Sunday. We need to be careful about that, but it's not our fault.
But also thanks to a number of people who ran off-roster (their scores were locked out, but they could help the above guy's win). These people played hard and helped fill out squads, so the above people could log wins. Guys like....EliteWarrior, StoneColdLoad, LegitChaos, Swain, RoadBeers, Monsta1time, DeathRaider, TedTheFed, and LilOlFayt. I think I am missing another 3 to 5 guys. Sorry about that, let me know if so, and i'll add your name.
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Post by xswainx on Jan 19, 2015 15:47:16 GMT
Good stuff. Diamond is going to be much more difficult I'm sure.
We will be fine though.
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Post by stonecoldload on Jan 19, 2015 20:09:50 GMT
Updated clan list. I'm going to put this up after every clan war.
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People in Blue. Already in clan. Helped out last weekend and/or reaccepted invites back in. Thanks!
People in Red. Are newer(ish), recently joining and have taken an invite in the clan.
People in Black. Were in the clan last week, but have not yet re-accepted their invites.
People in Green. They are on the 360 still and haven't come over to XB1. Or are just MIA. Or have lost interest. If you see them, ask.
01. EliteWarrior
02. Aroc
03. Bearman
04. Swain
05. RoadBeers
06. LegacyPenguin
07. Stone
01. MF Nuclear 02. STUNA81 03. Voltic X Stipes
01. Jayz
02. HSV1bro 03 Monsta1Time 04. Forrest 05. Saggy 06. PostZMortem 07. MalGato 08. Witty 09. Liamism 10. VVKrypton
11. De Miad04 12. BrooklynsFinest 13. The 9thDegree 14. Nyteshade 15. BlazeDropshot 16. IamKingLuis 17. NathingRollings 18. XLegitChaosx 19. StingierKyle 20. GuidoMalan
21. Beavage 22. DoomsdayOG 23. CookieMonster 24. MaxOberst 25. Searphimvii 26. xWherestheBeef 27. LegendaryShadow 28. LittleOlFayt 29. zzHayszz 30. xxRangerOnexx
31. 1-800-BadKids 32. xZenox 33. ShotofBlood 34. Rican007 35. xxLondonxx 36. TedtheFed66 37. RicanAssassin 38. DeathRaider 39. AmazonBlonde 40. I-Gradiated
41. CoronaMan 42. Jallito76 43. HSV1BRO ------------------------------------------------
ComplexDazed EDog DeadlyDiahreah RelaxingEnd MrCrazy WineCracker Bluntz AngelPlayer Abyss Hero Biggest Martino
BrownMandingo Chezie ChumLee Clint42 ExHeavyHippie Specialist GladiusThrust JakeAbell LegendaryHaku JulieOscarEcho
Lead Rain SouthPawSlinger MillerTime NathanRollings OtisMan PubStarz.com RighteousThread SleezyP StarCross xGeneralGrimm
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