So i wanted to comment on my personal opinion regarding the tiers played and team continuity. I agree with you on the no more 4 CG OU slots. For a tournament thats supposed to highlight lower tiers i dont see the point in 4 CG OU slots. it dilutes the level the games are played at sometimes and frankly it gets a bit boring. I think 2 CG OU would be more than fine especially considering we have all CG OU in WCOP and 3x CG OU in SPL now. As for the remaining tiers, UU RU NU PU LC DOU Ubers Monotype/Bo3 seems viable. Not a fan of bo3 option mainly because preparing 3 teams for a set each week is a headache and by week 9 no one is going to want to continue doing this especially if a tier has issues so i think staying from the bo3 is probably a better idea.
- Format and Tiers Played
- Please, for the love of god, no more 4 CG OU slots
- Tiers included
- Multi-tier slots?
- Total team slots
- Number of subs?
- In money auctions, fewer required subs = more competitive auction, more required subs = more forgiving auction
- Weeks? Pools? Bo1? Bo3? Who qualifies for playoffs?
- Number of teams?
- Team Continuity
- Retentions
- SPL system
- Re-auction (essentially you auction off your retains, several ways of doing this, including incorporating it into the second stage of a two-stage auction system)
- Full retention of teams from year to year plus a free agent system! It's teal6's dream!
- Expansion or reserve draft
Later gators.
As for team continuity, we could just piggyback off the current SPL system which seems fine but the concept of being able to retain a whole team year after year seems like a very interesting concept to me. It rewards being a great manager much more because if you build a championship team one year you can start to create a dynasty. A way to minimize this being uncompetitive to other teams is making the retains go up 3k like we do for spl each year. Essentially its like paying the players a signing bonus or a luxury tax. It gives teams much more of an identity year to year as well which i think is great for spectators. I will touch a bit on this later tonight more because im getting ready to leave work but just wanted to drop some initial thoughts!