Season 6 of the Discord League is now live!

Season 6 of the Discord League is now live!

Find the groups here: https://goo.gl/9bohzY

Report your matches here: https://goo.gl/forms/XqLQzFIGR5QuopZn2

New player guide: https://l5rdiscordleague.blogspot.de/2018/01/new-player-rough-guide.html

If you haven't already, join the discord server here: https://discord.gg/nvVX9Wb

If you have any questions feel free to ask them in the main #discord-league channel and ping a league admin with @discordleagueadmin

Upcoming League events in April!

Discord League Invitational

In May we will be having the first Discord League Invitational, this means April will not follow the normal format so we can correctly prepare for the Invitational.

The Admin team has decided to allow for open clan selection for the Invitational. 

Season 6

Season 6 will not be happening in April but instead will start in May, with signups in mid-April.

Season 5 Cup

The Season 5 Cup will run in the same format as the Season 4 Cup with all 4-3+ players from pods qualifying. Season 5 League will finish on the 29th of March at 11:59pm PST and S5 Cup Deck submissions will be live from the 28th of March until the 30th of March 11:59pm PST. NOTE Deck submissions are only open for 48 hours so do not miss it as there will be no late signups.

Season 5 Cup will be using the Imperial Cycle; Disciples of the Void will not be legal.

LCQ (Last Chance Qualifier)

The LCQ will run through April with the bracket going up on April 1st. It will be using the Imperial Cycle; Disciples of the Void will not be legal. Decks will be locked and need to be submitted on signup. The LCQ will be single elimination with players seeded via invitation points that can be viewed here https://goo.gl/G92bS8

The following type of players are eligible to sign up for the LCQ:

- You have at least 3 points in the Invitational Standings table: https://goo.gl/G92bS8

- You have qualified for the Season 5 Discord league cup

- You have qualified for Day 2 at an FFG L5R Kotei Event; you need to contact a League Admin to confirm your sign up.

LCQ Signup Form: https://goo.gl/forms/mnCmIfyzOf1TzUxP2 Signups close on the 30th of March at 11:59pm PST

L5R Team Unified Format! 

As there will be no league in April we have decided to run a fun event instead, you can read all about the rules here: https://goo.gl/BXDFTX

You need to form a team of 3 players, once you have done that you can sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/4pOuTTlVY8IDtUbE2

If you are a solo player looking for a team or have a team and are missing a player, you can use the new Looking for Group board. It can be found via direct link here: https://goo.gl/kSF1Ca or on the normal Stats Sheet under the tab Looking4Group: https://goo.gl/jKf3H1

If you have any problem using the Looking for Group board please message me directly @Khrytos#2971.

If you have any comments, questions or concerns please post in the #discord-league channel.

League Invitational!

Hello shugenja, samurai, courtiers,

Today we announce the first ever Discord League Invitational!

Taking place in May, 2018, this premier tournament will feature the Top 16 players from the League and have the swaggiest of swag prizes!

The Invitational will be a Double Elimination tournament, with prizes for all participants. There will be an Invitational every 6 months.

"How does one get an invite to this party?" you may be asking yourself.

1. Win a League Cup (5 slots)

Those things aren't just for drinking out of! All Cup winners automatically receive a bid to the next Invitational

2. Top Points Getters (7 slots)

tl;dr "Do good in League Cups"
Players will earn points by participating in League Cups:
3 points for Cup Qualification (note, Play-in  Round does not count as qualification)
2 points for Round of 64 and 32 win
3 points for Round of 16+ win

These points are cumulative across each season, ensuring the most consistent performers make the Invitational.

3. Last Chance Qualifier (4 slots)
In the month proceeding the Invitational a Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ) Tournament will be held. Players who have qualified via the first two methods cannot participate in the LCQ. To participate in the LCQ players must have earned at least 5 Cup points (qualify for 2 Cups or 1 Cup and win Round of 64 game)

The LCQ will be a Single Elimination tournament, with the Top 4 advancing to the Invitational!

4. No Double Qualification
There is no double qualification, in the event a Top Points Getter has won a League Cup and autoqualified their Points spot will be given to the next-highest qualifier.

5. Points Reset
After every Invitational the leaderboard will be reset and all players will have 0 points.

6. Schedule
The month before each Invitational will not have a typical Season. There will be no Cup and the League will follow an alternate format.

The Invitational itself will run alongside a standard League. For instance, the May 2018 Invitational will run alongside Season 6, the first season for the October 2018 Invitational.

Brand New Cup Qualification Rules

Hello friends!

Today we have a couple cool things to announce - a streamlined Cup Qualification system and a Discord League Invitational (in it's own post here).

Firstly, new Cup Qualification guidelines:

As many of you know the previous Wildcard system just wasn't working, as the Wildcard round never took place. We're announcing a new system for Cup Qualification that is very similar to the previous system but improves a number of things, so without further adieu:

1. Group winners will automatically qualify for the Cup as before
1a. #2 finishers are no longer guaranteed a Cup spot, but mathematically most #2 players will earn a Cup spot
2.  Any player who achieves a 4-3+ record now qualifies for the play-in round, if not the Cup itself
3. Players will be seeded into the Cup under the following seeding rules:

1. # of wins
2. # of true wins
3. Random

This allows us to stack-rank all Cup participants which makes seeding the Cup easier as well as enables the new Play-in system described below.

4. The Cup is still a Top 64, in the event there are more than 64 qualified players after the criteria above a Play-in Round will be initiated. This round will include the lowest seeded players and will be a number of games equal to the number of players beyond 64 who have qualified.

That's hard to follow via text, so let's take Season 3 as an example. 67 players qualified under the new criteria. Therefore, the bottom 6 seeded players (#62-67) would play in 3 games as part of the 'Play-in Round', with the victors taking the final three spots of the Cup.

This season we're on pace for 73 players to qualify at 4-3+, which will require 18 players to play 9 games in the Play-in Round

The Play-in Round will be scheduled just like the other rounds, albeit with a shorter timeframe. Unlike the previous Wildcard system this ensures participants know who they're playing and it also affords them a short window to schedule their game.
5.  Sample Timeline Under these New Rules
 This information will be in a League Calendar SOON(TM) as well

25th Feb S4 Cup Deck submits goes live
25th Feb S5 Sign ups close
26th Feb S4 ends
27th Feb S4 Cup Deck submits ends
28th Feb S4 Cup Bracket goes live
1st March S5 Groups go live

March
1st - 4th S4 Challenger round 
5th - 11th S4 Top 64
12th - 18th S4 Top 32
19th - 25th S4 Top 16
26th - 31st S4 Top 8

April
1st - 6th Top 4
7th - S4 Live Final

You'll notice we're also extending the length of the Cups slightly, as this spills over into April.

We feel these changes make Cup Qualification a more fair and streamlined process. Players no longer need to wait for their whole group to finish to know their individual results and the Play-in Round replaces the Wildcard in a far more controlled manner.

As always, please feel free to leave feedback on this post, in the league channels, or via direct messages!

For Rokugan!

All the Things for Season 4

Hello friends!

Season 4 is here and will run through February 27th! Here's all the links you should need for Season 4:

League Reporting Form Report your Group matches here! Remember to play 3 by the 15th!

Stats and Info Sheet Cup 4 Bracket and Decklists will be posted here

Prize Contest! Submit a winning idea and receive a copy of the prize you suggested!

Winner Cup Season 3: Top Cut Initial Seeding

These are the seedings for the 1st and 2nd placed Season 3 players. When the players who pass through the wild card are known they will also be seeded in the same fashion and the worse will face the top seed here. As with elimination rounds the top seeds will be half placed so the odd seeds will be in the top half of the table and the even seeds in the bottom.


UPDATE. Wild card seeds have been carried out (there have been some adjustments to top cut and Wild card due to dropwins awared as seasons end). Every player was seeded and then challonge was used to generate the correct pairings on seeding. The competition is not running on Challeonge so at some point one of the more google spreadsheet orientated admins will transfer those results to another sheet.

Brackets can be seen here

http://challonge.com/b3j15i8p

These may be subject to change as the other admins need to validate...

Season Three - pod winners

This list will be updated with winners from the pods as and when they can be confirmed. All players (in the cup and playoffs) will be required to provide deck lists before they can compete and before the relevant deadlines are complete.


Firstly the top two. These players will automatically go to the cup. The top seeds may also get bye's through the first round.

Pod	1st	2nd
1	Bayushi Yuuji (Scorpion, 24, 1792, 7-0 [6-0])	Mjothr (Crane, 286, 1500, 5-2 [4-2])
2	Wosho (Scorpion, 90, 1384, 7-0 [6-0])	Shiba Inu (Phoenix, 165, 1777, 5-2 [5-2])
3	Nyxnyx (Dragon, 194, 1776, 6-1 [4-1])	thelazyninja(Crab, 255, 1500, 6-1 [5-1])
4	Tenerim (Lion, 192, 1630, 6-1 [4-1])	Isawa Eujin (Phoenix, 139, 1841, 6-1 [4-1])
5	Wydwen (Scorpion,176, 1541,7-0 [5-0])	Madavaster (Scorpion, 1500, 6-1 [4-1])
6	Shiba Takeko (Phoenix, 154, 1433, 6-1 [6-1])	Pimittens (Crab, 91, 1540, 6-1 [6-1])
7	Oryx Wild (Scorpion, 158, 1332, 6-0 [7-0]	Heinzel (Scorpion, 89, 1707, 5-1 [6-1])
8	Bill.jr (Lion, 48, 1710, 6-1 [6-1])	Anemone (Scorpion, 118, 1677, 6-1 [5-1])
9	Daidoji Micah (Crane, 169,1853, 6-1 [4-1] )	firesa (Lion, 270, 1500, 5-1 [4-1])
10	SirLargeness (Scorpion, 127, 1740, 7-0 [3-0]	GoblinGuide (Lion, 219, 1695, 5-2 [1-2])
11	Ashahin Neph (Crane, 161, 1611, 6-0 [5-0])	spitfiremoe (Phoenix, 274, 1500, 5-2 [2-2])
12	humblestmonk (Scorpionm 19, 1715, 6-1 [6-1])	Byron Kran (Scorpion, 181, 1881, 5-1 [5-1])
13	Kingsley (Dragon, 98, 1978, 7-0 [7-0])	Jarlbank (Scorpion, 211, 1279, 5-2 [4-2])
14	Brundim (Crane, 146, 1380, 6-0 [3-0])	Chutereve (Crane, 52, 1814, 5-1 [2-1])
15	Kiramode (Lion, 117, 1801, 7-0 [5-0])	Kaza (Phoenix, 143,1609, 6-1 [4-1])
16	Demagogue (Phoenix, 145, 1756, 6-1 [4-1])	Click5 (Lion, 174, 1441, 5-2 [3-2])
17	Joe From Cinc (Crab, 80, 1781, 7-0 [5-0])	Chaley (Dragon, 292, 1500, 6-1 [4-1] )
18	JDSauce (Scorpion, 289, 1500, 7-0 [7-0])	Csonti (Crab 287, 1500, 4-3 [4-3] )

Secondly the 3rd & 4th placed players. These may have to attend a play-offs to decide who gets through to the winner's cup.

Pod	Playoff 1	Playoff 2
1	qkieu (Scorpion, 27, 1486, 5-2 [4-2])	Yfkes (Phoenix, 231, 1518, 4-3 [3-3])
2	yaba (Scorpion, 121, 1751, 5-2 [4-2])	IdeLeenath (Unicorn, 251, 1500, 3-4 [2-4])
3	Jokingly (Crab, 166, 1774, 5-2 [4-2])	Lenca (Unicorn, 198, 1218, 3-4 [2-4])
4	MindsDesire (Dragon, 155, 5-2 [4-2])	Daidoji Zorzo (Crane, 126, 3-4 [1-4])
5	tsuke (Lion, 160, 1681, 5-2 [3-2])	Seba_stian (Lion , 213, 1482, 4-3 [3-3])
6	KailamPD (Lion, 261, 1447, 3-4 [3-4])	Matrim (Crane, 33, 1221, 2-5 [2-5])
7	JacekBe (Crabe, 263, 1500, 5-2 [3-2])	Erik (Crane, 131, 1854, 3-4 [3-4])
8	acecase (Dragon, 266, 1500, 3-2 [5-2])	Jeremy (Crane, 206, 1700, 4-3 [4-3])
9	Toreadory (Lion, 1744, 4-3 [3-3])	Quindo (Unicorn, 228, 3-3 [2-3])
10	Kakita Leniel (Crane, 233, 1366, 4-3 [1-3])	Phoenix1 (Phoenix, 244, 1142, 4-3 [2-3])
11	fordream (Scorpion, 209, 5-2 [3-2])	shenful (Scorpion, 162, 1874, 4-2 [2-2])
12	so_Crates (Crab, 1500, 3-4 [3-4])	Suzume Jaku (Crane, 110, 3-3 [3-3])
13	FlyingZergling(Crane, 29, 1615, 4-0 [2-0])	Finster27 (Crab, 188, 1433, 3-2 [2-2])
14	Adam H (Scorpion, 210, 1449, 5-2 [3-2])	Marcus (Lion, 282, 1500, 4-2 [1-2])
15	Travis (Phoenix, 85, 1598, 5-2 [3-2])	Isomalt (Dragon, 1500, 3-3 [2-3])
16	sruman (Lion, 144, 1765, 5-1 [3-1])	brendon (Crab, 132, 1598 4-2 [2-2])
17	KrisPWales (Scorpion, 291, 1500, 4-3 [3-3])	OgreZSan (Crab, 293, 1500, 3-4 [3-4])
18	action_johnny (Crab, 249, 1591, 4-3 [4-3])	Kostkias (Lion, 294, 1500, 3-4 [3-4])