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Post by Bob on May 30, 2014 18:27:29 GMT -8
Sorry for the long radio silence--work always gets really demanding right at the end. But now, I'm on summer vacation! Woohoo! I'll be teaching summer school in a few weeks, but even that is pretty lax. So, it's time to start the next league. Let's do this thing! challonge.com/blitzleague07We're level 40 now! Remember, bottom three teams get 3 player remakes, middle three get 2, and top two get 1. So that's: 3 Remakes Allowed: Mercenaries Mad Experiments Highwind Diamonds 2 Remakes Allowed: Sublimely Magnificent 7 Nightshades Magic Missiles 1 Remake Allowed: Grizzly Bears Marlboro Mayhem First game...probably a week from Sunday. So that's the 8th. Before that point, let me know what teams are entering (Same ones? There was mention of another person maybe joining, Rich?). Send me updated player and team data, of course putting a post to let people know who is being remade or renamed. And finally, get me your round one line-ups. You are, as always, playing against yourself in the first round, so ignore that there aren't brackets yet. Let's blitz!
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Post by monsoonexe on Jun 3, 2014 18:56:19 GMT -8
Hey guys, I have a friend who is interested and now that school is nearly over, I'm gonna help him stat his team. I think he'll just be doing the one for now, so if it messes up the brackets, he can take the Diamond's place.
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Post by Bob on Jun 4, 2014 6:52:18 GMT -8
You don't have to take out the Diamonds if you don't want--I'll just toss in an NPC team (probably the Goers).
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Post by monsoonexe on Jun 5, 2014 7:39:38 GMT -8
Word, the Diamonds will stay in!
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Post by countlieberkuhn on Jun 6, 2014 16:27:48 GMT -8
I'm in! SM7 has remade Edge, but everyone else is the same.
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Post by Bob on Jun 7, 2014 11:46:31 GMT -8
I guess I need to announce mine, too.
Grizzly Bears didn't remodel anybody. Mercenaries remade Amarant, Elena, and Worker 8.
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Post by wyvernxk7 on Jun 8, 2014 10:55:34 GMT -8
No full overhauls or roster swaps. NS and TME are confident that they can win in this new system (post-league 5) after a rigorous offseason.
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Post by Bob on Jun 8, 2014 12:02:12 GMT -8
Thanks for the submissions, guys! I'll have games up and going asap.
Rich, you know if your friend was going to play this league? Need his submission pronto if he intends to play. At least need a team name so that I can start the brackets, even if he needs another day or two for stats.
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Post by monsoonexe on Jun 8, 2014 19:27:10 GMT -8
No, he's not going to be in this season.
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Post by Bob on Jun 9, 2014 14:15:06 GMT -8
IT HAS BEGUN!
First round is over! Round 2 on either Wednesday or Thursday, so I'd appreciate submissions by Wednesday.
**********Round 2 Stamina**********
Sublimely Magnificent 7 Jecht=7 Balthier=8 Seifer=7 Cid Highwind=8 Edge=8 Edgar=9 Laguna=10 Snow=10
The Magic Missiles Rydia=7 Garnet=8 Rinoa=7 Aeris=8 Yuna=8 Lulu=9 Selphie=10 Vanille=10
Grizzly Bears Orlandu=7 Sazh=8 Zangan=7 Auron=8 Duncan=8 Galuf=9 Tellah=10 Unei=10
Mercenaries Lani=8 Amarant=8 Ba'Gamnan=10 Gafgarion=7 Tseng=7 Elena=8 Rude=10 Worker 8=9
Marlboro Mayhem Brother=8 Tidus=7 Zack=10 Cloud=7 Rufus=8 Shinra=9 Ashe=8 Baralai=10
Highwind Diamonds Seymour Guado=10 Angeal=7 Vincent=8 Wakka=10 Biggs=8 Macgregor=8 Guinness=9 Rin=7
The Mad Experiments Odine=7 Hojo=7 The Mask=8 Kuja=8 Celes=8 No. 288=9 Deling=10 Julius=10
Nightshades Blank=7 Illua=8 Fujin=7 Chime=8 Mira=8 Llednar=9 Reno=10 Desch=10
Results:
Umm...I don't have a lot to say on the results. Many of them went the way I'd expected, though some more extreme than anticipated. Grizzlies, Mercs, and SubMags all have incredibly overkill shooters on their teams (Gafgarion, Orlandu, and Jecht had some crazy shots!), all with shots above 150 (with bonus). Gafgarion has the record at 173! Beat that, suckers! And yet, while the Marlboros don't typically go over 100, they're still a dominant team that knows how to move the ball into position instead of going for the long bombs, so we'll see how the new strategies work out for everybody.
Lookin' forward to Round 2!
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Post by Bob on Jun 13, 2014 13:05:17 GMT -8
Waitin' on Wyvern, but have the two matches posted up.
Diamonds vs Mercs was pretty interesting. The flaw I saw in my Merc team build was very obvious here (to me, at least). Hopefully I can find a way to play down the weakness...
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Post by countlieberkuhn on Jun 15, 2014 8:03:39 GMT -8
This clearly isn't a good season for the Missiles. But SM7 may show promise!
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Post by Bob on Jun 15, 2014 8:08:19 GMT -8
Indeed they do! Edge rocked his game! Results are up, but I forgot something with stamina, so report coming in a couple minutes.
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Post by Bob on Jun 15, 2014 8:26:49 GMT -8
Here we go! Stamina!
**********Round 3 Stamina**********
Highwind Diamonds Seymour Guado=7 Angeal=4 Vincent=10 Wakka=10 Biggs=6 Macgregor=6 Guinness=8 Rin=5
Mercenaries Lani=6 Amarant=6 Ba'Gamnan=8 Gafgarion=4 Tseng=4 Elena=10 Rude=10 Worker 8=8
The Magic Missiles Rydia=4 Garnet=6 Rinoa=4 Aeris=6 Yuna=6 Lulu=8 Selphie=10 Vanille=10
Grizzly Bears Orlandu=10 Sazh=6 Zangan=4 Auron=6 Duncan=10 Galuf=8 Tellah=7 Unei=8
Nightshades Blank=4 Illua=5 Fujin=5 Chime=6 Mira=6 Llednar=8 Reno=10 Desch=10
Sublimely Magnificent 7 Jecht=4 Balthier=6 Seifer=4 Cid Highwind=6 Edge=6 Edgar=8 Laguna=10 Snow=10
The Mad Experiments Odine=10 Hojo=10 The Mask=5 Kuja=6 Celes=6 No. 288=8 Deling=7 Julius=8
Marlboro Mayhem Brother=6 Tidus=5 Zack=10 Cloud=4 Rufus=6 Shinra=8 Ashe=5 Baralai=10
Had a brief hiccup, but it's fixed. See, the way my coding works, each round I need to delete the previous round's stamina, otherwise it'll keep reading the first round's stamina, which is what it was doing. So I had to fix stamina. To do so, I resimmed the games, but deleted the resimmed game. Long story short: everything is perfect now.
Results!
NS vs SM7: Edge is a BEAST! He single-handedly dominated his game, giving SM7 one hell of a victory. Even Jecht was in awe...but not much awe.
TME vs MAR: Mad Experiments started off with a point and things were looking great...until that turned out to be their only point and were dominated by the dominant Marlboros.
DMD vs MRC: I hoped for good things with my Merc rebuild, and they seem better, but the Diamonds still whooped 'em. Angeal is a beast, much like Edge.
MAG vs GB: This is an interesting game. See, Grizzlies mopped the floor with those Missiles. HOWEVER, when I did my resim to get stamina, my whole goal was just subtraction, but I still peeked on the results for each game, just for kicks. All games went basically the same. DMD vs MRC was higher scoring, but still about the same ratio of points. But MAG vs GB was drastically different. I accidentally swapped Tellah and Zangan, but it doesn't matter since it was for stamina purposes only and they played the same position, stamina-ly speaking. But because of that swap, it actually turned into a 6-7 LOSS for the Grizzlies! So, for some odd reason, a tiny swap like swapping my forwards meant the game. Point being, they may have been slaughtered, but they're still a good team.
I know we're way off right now, but if you can get me your line-ups by tonight, I'll sim up today's game!
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Post by monsoonexe on Jun 15, 2014 9:39:18 GMT -8
I've been playing Tidus in the wrong position this whole time! His new position makes him even more of a powerhouse.
In MAR vs TME, Celes was a brawler, hitting my players multiple times but was never quite able to strip the ball away.
With the DMD vs MERC, the new comer Seymour Guado was a boss. He's my swing character, but I put him in there to see what was up and he did great. A few shots from him came even with the goalie's stat, making for some really close catches by Worker 8.
I don't mean to give away my strategy, but the MARBs are all about getting the ball and then keeping it. At least long enough to give it to one of two shooters.
Get the ball, pass it to Tucker. Get the ball, pass it to Tucker.
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