Final 2014 Online Rankings

[awesomeunleashed]

Final 2014 Online Rankings
(Formerly 2014 End of Year Championships Qualification)

Below are the final top 30 of the 2014 rankings.


This is the official qualification format for the 2014 EoY Championships event.

• The winners of all regular seasons during 2014, as well as the winner of the 2013 EoY Championship event, will be invited to play in the event.
• The remaining invitations will be given to the highest-ranked players, based on their 2014 ranking (details below) at the end of the last regular season in 2014.
• Players who have not played in at least 2 full seasons will not be invited unless they won a 2014 season or the 2013 EoY event. Dropping from a season subtracts one from this count.
• The tournament will have up to 16 players. We will continue inviting players to play until we have 16 players, up to the 25th position on the 2014 rankings board. If we do not have 16 spots filled by then we will assign first-round byes to the top seeded players.

2014 Rankings
In order to fairly and accurately track players' performance over 2014, we have come up with the following system. (Note: only games that are a part of a normal 2014 season count toward these rankings.)

• Each player has a 2014 ranking that started at the base ranking level at the start of 2014.
• When a game is played, three things happen (example: dok beats Kinseth):
  • The overall rankings (used for pairings during the seasons) is updated.
  • "2014 dok" gets credit for beating "Overall Kinseth"
  • "2014 Kinseth" gets credit for losing to "Overall dok"

The reasoning behind using this format instead of simply running the rankings normally but with only 2014 games: imagine a scenario where TheSparkleInYourWater (currently the #1 overall player) plays in the first event, goes 0-1, and then drops out and doesn't play the rest of the year. For whoever beat him, the win would look like a win over a bad player using the normal system, when in fact it's a very impressive win. Using this system, players advance a fair amount for beating a player who has proven himself to be good, but those good players still have to re-prove that they're good in order to make the cut.

Spoiler Alert!

Note: while these details are official, we reserve the right to change anything about them if at any point we feel that they have some significant problem.

[greygnarl]

Very nice.

[kevindola]

looks great guys. Much kudos for all the organizers for taking the time and effort to put all this together and giving us a well thought out system.

Any idea how many tournaments are planned for 2014? Seems like you could make a fairly static schedule if you wanted.

(In fact it would be kind of cool to have a few tournaments at the same time of each year be the same format every year, like every June is Main Event warmup, and every January is Draft Tournament or something like that. My old WWF fanboy wants them to be called the Royal Rumble and Survivor Series)

[awesomeunleashed]

Originally Posted by kevindola

Any idea how many tournaments are planned for 2014? Seems like you could make a fairly static schedule if you wanted.

We have a schedule with dates internally, although we won't be posting it so that we can feel free to change stuff up if we want. I can say that we currently have 6 seasons scheduled for 2014, although that's with basically no breaks, so it could end up being fewer.

Originally Posted by kevindola

(In fact it would be kind of cool to have a few tournaments at the same time of each year be the same format every year, like every June is Main Event warmup, and every January is Draft Tournament or something like that. My old WWF fanboy wants them to be called the Royal Rumble and Survivor Series)

We do plan (loosely) to have a GC Main Event warmup season each year for as long as it's more prestigious than we are.

[awesomeunleashed]

Updated the OP with the live 2014 leaderboard, although it won't be all that interesting for a while.

[Foudzing]

Shouldn't Tablewalker and Sir Yeshua have one loss?

[awesomeunleashed]

Originally Posted by Foudzing

Shouldn't Tablewalker and Sir Yeshua have one loss?

They do.

[Crixus33]

How is vegie's dad 1 and 1? Hasn't there only been 1 round so far?

[awesomeunleashed]

Originally Posted by Crixus33

How is vegie's dad 1 and 1? Hasn't there only been 1 round so far?

It was accidentally including his EoY win last night. It's fixed now.

[Eraguy816]

Do the C3G ones count?

[Heroscaper Guy]

Originally Posted by Eraguy816

Do the C3G ones count?

Eraguy, I'm pretty sure this has been answered for you last year. I believe it was a no and that it probably didn't change since those are unofficial.

[MegaSilver]

Originally Posted by Heroscaper Guy

Eraguy, I'm pretty sure this has been answered for you last year. I believe it was a no and that it probably didn't change since those are unofficial.

Yes, this was answered last year.

Super League Heroscape is official, but is a separate entity from OHS Tournaments. The records of SLH are not included in OHS.

It is true the SLH is less formal than OHS, though.