Elements PvP League 3/2011 - Announcements

[TStar]

Begins: League Season 3/2011 has begun!
Ends: League Season 3/2011 has ended!

The League Organizer team will post important announcements and updates on Season 3 of the 2011 Beginners and Championship Leagues here.

Please make sure that you read these announcements carefully!

Note to my fellow LOs: Please unlock the thread when you're ready to make an announcement post, then lock it back up when you're done. Thanks

[pikachufan2164]

The following players have received a ban from Season 3/2011 of Leagues for failing to complete the required number of matches last season. They may not play any League matches this season, and any match reports involving them will be disqualified.

1chase1997	9270984	Acceleration	Ace of Souls	Akatchi
alumpyrock	AnoverX	Arbalest	AsModias	atomi
az4rel	Azotaka	Baily18	Bhlewos	Blazing Moonwalker
BobertJoe	bongoz	carnage18	catalyzeme	champs4
chatra177	chrissi1988	Collini	coolyoung10	Deamon19
DeathPanda1	Dm1321	drogana	DSSCRA	einherjar145
FinalFrontier	Frugiemonkey	Gatling	glopso	harakirinosaru
Hisar	Hobnob5000	icecoldbro	Imthrond	jimfinn
karthikking	Kiebur	Kjaska	Ley	light_sefi
LStanley82	masamainio	Masterfurry	MrBlonde	Neopergoss
patchx94	Psybient	Remiarn	robinson_crouso	Sellsdrugs2kids
Seraph	Sevs	ShiningSword	Shmid	Singularis
Smittius	Solarias	Spiraler	Tea is good	TheonlyrealBeef
Trykster	vaudevillian	vidurkhanna	vinvick3714	whitevo
ZergKing	ZeroDegree	zissuu

[TStar]

Starting in Season 3/2011, the maximum number of matches you can play against another player has been raised to 10.

[pikachufan2164]

Season 3/2011 of Leagues has officially begun; good luck and have fun!

[TStar]

A user has been found to be utilizing multiple accounts to participate in League matches.  This is not only a violation of League rules, but a blatant violation of the forum-wide PvP anti-cheating policy.  An infraction this severe transcends even the PvP Parasite system.  As such, all winning matches in which the offenders have participated in this season have been erased and these players will be permanently banned from all forum-wide PvP fuctions effective immediately.

Banned players:
Blue Legend (also using Chaosfire and Fortehlulz)

The cancelled matches:

Blue Legend: 2
Chaosfire: 1

--aqwsz--: 2
---Mike120---: 0

Blue Legend: 2
SpikeSpiegel: 0

--aqwsz-- 2
---Mike120--- 1

Blue Legend: 2
Fortehlulz: 0

[pikachufan2164]

Banned players list has been updated after the results of investigations.

Also, please do not harass the League Organizers for updates. They will be done in a timely manner appropriate to the organizers' workloads.

If you are desperate to find out your rating, use the >>Do-It-Yourself League Scoring Calculator<< (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuizmEpb-KgrdEYyaHpaXzdocFlTbVdiQ0hQczB2YVE&hl=en_US#gid=0) developed by TStar.

With so many people asking for updates on a near hourly basis to see their scores, and others simply asking for the ratings are calculated, I figured the best option would be to just set up a sample calculation spreadsheet for everyone to use.  So now due to popular demand I present to you:

It's incredibly simple to use, just put in the score of the winning player in Column A and the score of the losing players in Column B and the new ratings will be displayed for you in Column F and Column G.  Enjoy!

NOTE:  This is a tool meant for personal use to get a fairly accurate view of scores.  The results are in no way official or binding to League scoring but they should be very close.

[TStar]

This is just to alert everyone that with the changes in 1.29 making unupgraded Shards useful cards, they WILL NOT be allowed to be used in Beginner's League matches for this season.  Please do not attempt to use them.  Anyone using an unupgraded Shard of any type for a Beginner's League match will automatically forfeit that game.

Use of all Shards will still be permitted in Champion's League matches.

[TStar]

Just a clarification to the previous post, but only the old Shards will be permitted in the CL matches this season.  The old shards are the Shard of Divinity, Shard of Gratitude, and Shard of Readiness.  The new shards WILL NOT be permitted in the CL for the remainder of the season.  Please do not attempt to use them.  Anyone using a new Shard for a Champion's League match will automatically forfeit that game.

[pikachufan2164]

As the League countdown clock has passed the "one month remaining" mark, new player sign-ups for this season of Leagues have now closed. A full list of players is to come later today.

Current players: remember that a minimum of 30 matches before the end of the season are required to avoid a ban for the next season.

[pikachufan2164]

Complete list of Beginners League players for Season 3/2011:

--aqwsz--	aarnott	agentflare	AngelMusti	Arceus567
ariannarose	artimies7	Athanaric	atomiton	Aves
Battoukiri Modified	blarp	bogtro	CCCombobreaker	Cereal Guy
Daguerreo	DarknessDemon	Dawidas888	ddevans96	DeathAngelx
demented Dandy	draco119966	dracomageat	fable19	Final Destiny Of Hope
Fluffy Ninja	furballdn	giosper	Gufo90	Gumbeh
Haltar Dhrim	Helston	Iman00b8	iTry	James Abrams
Jenkar	ji412jo	Jocko	killerassassin	Krypt101
legomyhobo	LifeLockable	Malebolgia	MartyrX	MatrimKK
mattwpp6	melwin96	Mithcairion	Momofunk	morningstar
mrpaper	neverstop4325	NikaZaslavsky	nilsieboy	nloloew
oblivion1212	Odii Odsen	Onizuka	pedzacyzolw	PlayerOa
poperekov	powdergame99	Psydonous	ralouf1	rnt-jackpot
Rush6	salox	seventoo	Shaliyah	Sinec
SpikeSpiegel	streakytarsier	taker	TakoMan02	terminator1337
TStar	Valyok26	Wadjet	WVM2	Xenocidius
xtrait	YawnChainHow

Complete list of Championship League players for Season 3/2011:

10 men	Antagon	blacob	BloodlinE213	bucky1andonly
calindu221	DrunkDestroyer	Dwerg	girlsgeneration	gocubbies1212
Jen-i	jippy99	kirchj33	Kuroaitou	Malignant
PuppyChow	RavingRabbid	RootRanger	thethinker13	vagman13
vikram207	Vineroz	wurmcoil	xn0ize

[pikachufan2164]

Daylight Savings Time has changed up some time zones so that they're another hour behind now (for example, GMT-7 turns into GMT-8). Unfortunately, this does complicate the 24-hour cooldown rule a little, since the LOs are in a part of the world that does Daylight Savings, while some League players might not.

If you're slightly unsure of how Daylight Savings Time affects your League matches, try to leave a little bit more of a gap (say 26 hours or so) in between your matches that were played yesterday and matches that you'll play today, so that the changing timezones don't cause problems with the cooldowns. Starting tomorrow, the cooldown clocks should work as normal.

[pikachufan2164]

As requested by the players, here is a list of match times, dates, and numbers played by individual players. This will not be as frequently updated as the official results spreadsheet, so use this as a baseline for your own observations. There may be small copy and paste errors caused from doing this when I want to sleep instead; if there are any inaccuracies, let me know

>>Click here to access the League Season 3/2011 Match Tracker<< (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuLG6-uKpq33dFNtajNXSmNqVGIxbEhmRkZBZzhkdnc)