Season 7 Finals, Season 8 and Off-Season

Season 7 Finals:

The end of the season is upon us! With finals starting this Sunday (8th) we will be ending the group stages of this season. All matches that aren't played by sunday will be forfeit in no one's or 1 team's favor, depending on the effort shown to schedule the match in the match comments. The forfeiting and final creations will happen on Monday(9th) morning. Several matches still need to played before Sunday so we will be contacting the team captain to get them scheduled.

Season 8 Signups and more:

We have decided as a team to keep the ball rolling and start Season 8 with just a small break between Season 7 and 8. Therefore, Season 8 signups are open and will end on Friday November 27th and Week 1 of Season 8 will start on that Sunday (29th).

By doing this we can make sure you can enjoy playing with less downtime. Because of holidays this means that we will have an official break mid-season but we will supplement that period with a few events. You can still play your matches or participate in some off-season events we will discuss in the next part of this post. Feel free to play the matches scheduled after the break during this time.

Season 8 will be using the same system as Season 7. We will take the seedings from Season 7, move teams around according to how well they did this season, take out teams that aren't signed up for the next season, and add the ones that are. Finally we will split it up into groups of equal size.

Off-Season:

With the break in the middle of Season 8 we will need off-season events to keep the players active and ready to play the rest of the season. I'll post a schedule of the following weeks at the bottom of the article but anywhere where it says "Break" we can have an event. Please add your ideas in the comments to this article, right now we have:

Skulks with Shotguns Tournament: Daan stopped with NS2 so we (or you) will have to find someone to update SWS.

Nightcup: Teams sign up & I'll plan a small tournament for whoever signed up that lasts 1/2 nights filled with matches.

Draft Tournament: If you are interested in this, we will need captains to pick the teams. With this the captains pick a team out of a pool of players that signed up and you will play a small tournament against each other.

Open Training Night: Want to get better at the game or want to help other players become better? This is the thing for you. Higher skilled players will drill with other players so they can improve and pass their knowledge to others. Want to learn how to position yourself, ambush, improve tactics for when you team up with another lifeform? Come join!

The dates for these are not decided yet and will be planned when we get enough input from people on what they would like to happen. Please fill out this form to find out what you guys want to see.

How to create a team and sign up for a contest:

Season 8 signups deadline: Friday November 27th

Season 8 start: Sunday November 29th

How to create a team and sign up
If you don't have a team, it's easy to create one with the following steps. If you want to register a pre-existing team, skip to step 4.

  1. To create a team, register an account and go to Agenda -> Create a new team
  2. Get your players to register and tell them to Join your team in their Agenda.
  3. To accept your players on the team, go to Agenda -> Click your team name -> Edit (scroll down) -> Members -> Change their status from Joining to Member, Leader, or Deputee.
  4. To join the tournament, go to Agenda -> Click your team name -> Edit (scroll down) -> Contests -> Join NSL Season 8 Signups
  5. Check the Contest page for your team name to see if you've done it correctly.

Good luck and have fun everyone!

 

Current planning:

By the way, please give input on wether you want me to post things like this schedule in the normal match schedule or not.

 

Season 8 Planning

Yaluzan on 06 November 15 19:00

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Blank ryssk | Ram Ranch

Uhm only 1 week of "break" between the seasons? It just feels like you could have 2-3?

9 November 2015, 15:05

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Blank Yaluzan | Admin Abuse

We did that to keep players active, and a bunch of teams don't have playoffs already so they already have 3 weeks of break. any more weeks of break and it would be "week 1" "break break break" "week 2"

9 November 2015, 15:28

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Blank ryssk | Ram Ranch

Then i understand your logic, but remember.. this time only!

9 November 2015, 16:20

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Blank Yaluzan | Admin Abuse

Wasn't my idea, but agreed in the end cus we wouldn't have enough to fit in the off-season :p

9 November 2015, 16:34

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Blank tudy

What's the problem... keep the ball rolling!

9 November 2015, 19:33

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Blank Kash | For The Lolz

I think around this time of year the small gap between seasons is needed. a lot of people don't want to play over Xmas + New year, so delaying it would have meant either, waiting until January to start season 8 which would mean a lot of downtime for a lot of people, or as Yaluzan pointed out, having "week 1" and then a long break until "week 2".

But I say bring it on, its great watching matching every weekend. Keep it up guys! :D

10 November 2015, 19:31

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