Name: This tournament will be called the Ultimate Doubles Tournament
Purpose: Conquer Club is a game of intense strategy and skill, but, like life and real-life warfare, is heavily impacted by the vagaries of fortune. Any one game can be decided by an unlikely dice roll or a favorable card distribution, so that often times lesser players are able to beat out even the best.
However, with a sufficient sample size, the best players and teams will distinguish themselves. With this in mind, we are creating this tournament with the goal of maximizing the impact of skill and strategy, while minimizing the influence of fortune. We have decided that the best way to do this is to create a tournament with a very limited number of teams (12), which will be called upon to play each other in a large sample of games.
We feel that the two teams that rise to the top of their respective divisions will be the best in the tournament, and the winner of their championship series will be respected as the best team.
Format: 12 doubles teams. The teams will be divided into two divisions of 6 teams. All games will be classic map, flat rate, sequential, unlimited.
Eligibility: All players are welcome. Since we will be playing three games at once it is recommended that you are a premium member.
Schedule: Each team will play each team in its own division 9 times, and each team in the other division 3 times. The games will be divided into 3-game series. Each game of the 3 game series will be played simultaneously. (For example, team x plays team y in a series of three games, and all three games are played at the same time. Each series must be completed within 1 week.) Each team, accordingly, will play 63 games.
Team Names: Each team will be asked to choose a team name. This name can be any that both team members agree upon.
Alternates: Each team will be allowed to have one extra player to serve as an alternate to maximize efficiency and speed up the competition.
Championship: The team with the best record in each division qualifies for the league championship series. The two teams will play each other in a best of 9 championship series. The first team to win 5 games will be declared league champion. The championship series will begin the week following the end of the regular season, unless tiebreakers are needed to decide either of the divisional champions.
Tiebreakers: if two teams should finish the season with an identical record atop a division, a one-game playoff will be played to decide the divisional champion. That game must be completed within one week of the end of the regular season.
Either post here with you and your partner screen name and team name or pm nmhunate or gpellamjr
Here are the twelve teams that have signed on to join the tournament:
Augusti Caesares: nmhunate, gpellamjr
Dark Spidermen: night strike, spidey
Team Semp: evil semp, mrs semper
Bring it on: wild_tiger, lokisgal
Flashex: flashleg8, the1exile
Bonnie & Clyde: Haggard, Z00T
BEERSCHOT: Demon666, tonyke
No name 2: juzzyruz, Robert 24
The Schrutes: Wiggin, neufdog6117
Purple Cobras: djt5483, larry holland
Undercover Dominators: michiganfan22, el scorcho
LoD: rayray, paulmac
The divisions were chosen at 14:39 MST 02 July. I took the sum of the scores of each team and tried to balance each division average score as best I could. The divisions are within 5.75 points of each other. The divisions are as follows:
Division 1:
(11-1) Team Semp
(10-2) Undercover dominators
(7-5) Dark Spidermen
(4-8 ) Flashex
(3-9) Bonnie & Clyde
(1-11 ) The Schrutes
Division 2:
(9-3) Bring it on
(8-4) Augusti Caesares
(8-4) Purple cobras
(7-5) BEERSCHOT
(3-9) LoD
(1-11) No name 2
