Final 2014 Online Rankings

[Heroscaper Guy]

Hey, I'm actually in the top 15! Maybe this year will be better.

[kevindola]

Halfway through the 2014 season. I believe automatic bids for this tournament belong to:

vegie's dad (2013 End of Year Champion)
kevindola (Season 11 and 13 Champ)
MegaSilver (Season 12 Champ)

When do you expect the format for this to be announced?

Also, would it be possible to note who in the top would NOT qualify based on not having played the requisite 2 full tournaments?

[superfrog]

Originally Posted by kevindola

Halfway through the 2014 season. I believe automatic bids for this tournament belong to:

vegie's dad (2013 End of Year Champion)
kevindola (Season 11 and 13 Champ)
MegaSilver (Season 12 Champ)

When do you expect the format for this to be announced?

Also, would it be possible to note who in the top would NOT qualify based on not having played the requisite 2 full tournaments?

Well if they have played fewer than 8 games, they haven't completed 2 seasons. (Except if somebody made playoffs one season and dropped out another, which seems unlikely, especially among top players).

[caps]

Is anyone excluded yet? It's only June. I imagine there will be at LEAST two more Tourneys before the EoY event.

[awesomeunleashed]

Originally Posted by kevindola

Also, would it be possible to note who in the top would NOT qualify based on not having played the requisite 2 full tournaments?

Originally Posted by superfrog

Well if they have played fewer than 8 games, they haven't completed 2 seasons.

That's a pretty good way to tell. We don't have an easy way to tell set up, but if people want to be able to see it it could probably be done.

Originally Posted by kevindola

When do you expect the format for this to be announced?

Oh ... during the S16 regular season at the latest, maybe way before. We haven't discussed it much yet.

Originally Posted by capsocrates

Is anyone excluded yet? It's only June. I imagine there will be at LEAST two more Tourneys before the EoY event.

14, 15, & 16 are all scheduled for this year, so even someone who has only played in and dropped out of one event could theoretically still get in.

[awesomeunleashed]

The OP has been updated. I figured out a hack to get around our current inability to have live spreadsheets, namely putting the information into a form. The leaderboard should update live now.

[kevindola]

Originally Posted by awesomeunleashed on 6/11/14

Oh ... during the S16 regular season at the latest, maybe way before. We haven't discussed it much yet.

You sure had some unbridled optimism about announcing a format way back in June, AU .

It appears we are in midst of the 'at the latest' timeframe, so we should see the public announcement at any second.....

[awesomeunleashed]

Originally Posted by kevindola

You sure had some unbridled optimism about announcing a format way back in June, AU .

It appears we are in midst of the 'at the latest' timeframe, so we should see the public announcement at any second.....

Yeah, yeah. There you go.

[kevindola]

Any thoughts to reducing the overall participant number in future years from 16 to 12 or 8? I imagine the 2013 EOY had a bigger pool of qualifying players that the 2014 EOY (even if you only considered the last 6 tournaments). Or maybe a 'must be above .500' qualifier?

[awesomeunleashed]

Originally Posted by kevindola

Any thoughts to reducing the overall participant number in future years from 16 to 12 or 8? I imagine the 2013 EOY had a bigger pool of qualifying players that the 2014 EOY (even if you only considered the last 6 tournaments). Or maybe a 'must be above .500' qualifier?

2013 did have a bigger pool, yeah. After this year I think going down to 12 is probably a good idea.

[dok]

I like top 12 for next year; that would be more dramatic. If that was the format for the current year it would be down to the wire between AU and vegie for the last spot. Plus there would be two big cutoffs: making the event, and making top 4 to secure a bye.

As it stands, though, the last two spots in the event are still up in the air. With lo pan and thesparkleinyourwater ineligible (too few events), simval has nudged past betawolf for the last spot. He will need a win in the last round to hold onto that spot, probably - betawolf could back in to #16 again otherwise. However, weebaer, currently sitting in 18th place, could potentially leapfrog both of them with a win in his last round against vegie's dad, and would almost certainly do so if he can follow that up with a playoff game win. If simval wins his last game and weebaer wins a playoff game, then that would probably knock TheLegendaryIrishSword out.

[dok]

While the rankings could change due to playoff results in S16, the top 16 qualifiers (through #17 here since lo pan does not have two qualifying events) have been settled. Invites will be sent out soon. Congratulations and good luck to the qualifiers.