[Frogmite]

Update: SEACL was by far the most popular choice with voters and hence it will be our first major tournament of 2012. This thread will be where you can discuss the format.

Hello admin, moderators and MVPs,

We have been speaking with Erasmus, Stallion and Maynarde about the clan leagues on sc2sea.com. It appears today that there are more stuff done for BSG/PD players than for good players. Furthermore, we faced a lot of issues with smurfing, players not laddering on SEA, players purposely remaining in BSG/PD just to play those clan leagues.

It's not exactly the result expected so we have been thinking about setting up a new clan league system, that aims to start early 2012.

Current league system:

Pro:
+ Dedicated to the level of players (BSG/PD)
+ New teams created for the events (or teams we never heard about)

Con:
- smurfing, farming, loss tanking
- people not laddering on SEA
- player purposely staying in bsg/pd to play competitions
- not encouraging players to get better
- not enough coverage

New clan league system

The main point of the new league system would be to remove the league ranking restriction.
The idea we got, was to merge BSGCL/PDCL/SEACL into one big league, open for all players, but with three divisions.

I put an example below on what could be the divisions for season 1. I am not 100% aware of the levels of the teams/clans so don't be offensed if your team/clan is not in the right division.

TOP DIVISION:
Terror Australis, aLternative, Infinity, newGeneration, SPR, ArchaicMSI, xGKing, SQLT, TTesport, Mineski, Flash

MIDDLE DIVISION:
FXO, Prodigy, EVE, H, nRv, Crux, 2bh, FaDe, iRL

BOTTOM DIVISION:
BtD, QED, TCP, ToR, Clanless, KA, VB,...

Features

- Restrictions for 2 teams max per clan
- One player can only play for one team
- There will be a cash prize for first team/clan of top league. No cash prize for bottom/middle league as we must not force players to remain in a lower league. However we can think to another prize for finishing first of the league (sc2sea achievement....)
- At the end of a season, top 2 teams face bottom 2 teams to decide who is promoted/demoted.
- 5/7? players per team minimum - tell me what is your thought about that
- BO 5/7? seacl style (every player playing 1 game)
- playoff with top 4 teams of top league / no playoffs ???

Dates
Starting date: 26th January 2012
End of regular season: 29th March 2012
End of playoff :? 12th April 2012?
So roughly 4 month for a season.

What do we need
- Cash prizes for first team of TOP DIVISION. I spoke with Mayo to check if Tt can sponsorize this clan league. Will check with Razer too. If you know interested people to sponsor this project they are welcome.
- 2 admins per divisions, so 6 in total (Maynarde, myself, Erasmus, Stallion, ???, ???)
- a strong organization, i believe it won't be a mess if we manage the three leagues separetly.
- maybe give three different days (tuesday/wednesday/friday?) for the three divisions so there can be a better coverage?

Pro
+ Give a strong identity to SEA community
+ No more smurfing/cheating
+ It will encourage people to get better
+ It will involves pro/semi-pro teams into the community.

Con
- no dedicated competition for BSG/PD players, unless someone else run those league next seasons.
- difficult for bronze/silver players to get a seat into teams and so playing clan league.

These are just ideas, we won't post anything before it gets mature enough. We'll maybe make a poll as well to see what people think about it.

Tell me what do you think of this, all comments are welcome.