Ok so after browsing some forums and digging for more info on how the league is going to work, I find out many other people are asking the same thing. One of our local SGS (SAIX Gaming Services) forum admin and part of the AGASA team, TetraSpektra decided to step in and give us a clue. I quote…

All divisions in the 2009 League system will have a 12 team cap. We have set time frames that we need to work within to co-exist with major LAN events (i.e. rAge/BattleLAN…etc) as well as other online tournaments. If we get more than 12 teams, we will split the competition into 2 similarly-sized divisions, based on previous qualifying results.

If this is indeed the case, we will use a similar system to what was used in Call of Duty 4 this year. Teams will be promoted/relegated according to their results in each leg. The League will be contested over 3 legs with a final Playoff to be held at a LAN event (and if you look at the Calendar, I’m sure you can work out where thats planned to be held ).

The Leagues themselves will be based solely on the results of standard league games. As I’m sure many will agree, it is silly to have 8 weeks of matches and then pretty much disregard those results and instead hold a “semi-/finals” in 1 week, to decide the winner. I do understand the “vibe” created by having a close final is something that you guys really enjoy, so I will try and use some scheduling trickery to try and ensure that some of the exciting matches are held in the last 2 weeks of each Leg.

We are planning to use the results of the legs to seed teams for other competitions which we will announce later in the year. So, those of you desperate for a single-/double-elimination tournament will likely see one during the course of 2009.

This indeed sounds fun, I just hope I can be around enough to fully participate, traveling is limiting. I really hope we can get enough teams. The following clans are possibilities at this point…

+SSG+
[BBH]
[FiB]
[Grrr]
[UGSA]
|BFC|
[]=BUD
[HF]
=VVB=
=MoD=
-=CP=-
[FFL]
|WrG|

Right now I think I need to go practise

Later..