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	<title>ETF2L &#8211; Latest activity in &#8220;Potential Playoff Solutions&#8221;</title>
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    	    <title>Reply by y4eHuK</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[19, 20, 21, 24, 27, 28, 29, 2(?)

if u still need that.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2014 03:20:33 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Permzilla</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/league/topic-27873/page-1/?recent=482962#post=482812</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[Now we will look like we copied Admirable, thanks a lot! We had this planned all along people, don't listen to the potato!

i am talking about taking available days, not the teams in playoffs :&#62;]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:06:09 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by DroSoPhiLe</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/league/topic-27873/page-1/?recent=482962#post=482811</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[Round robin is way too much time consumming to be played in one night. A single delay in one game and everyone ends up playing until very late.
Your idea of 3 top seeded teams playing each a lesser opponent and a round robin between the 3 losers of those matches on another night would be better imo.

ok: scratch that. nvm]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:05:26 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Admirable</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/league/topic-27873/page-1/?recent=482962#post=482810</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[18:58 - Admirable: hey post the days you could playoff here plz http://etf2l.org/forum/league/topic-27873/
19:01 - mig*ipz-: its gonna be 4 spot playoff
19:01 - mig*ipz-: newspost is done already
19:01 - Admirable: humour me
19:01 - Admirable: :D
19:01 - mig*ipz-: ?
19:01 - mig*ipz-: what does that mean
19:01 - Admirable: just pretend you don't know that
19:01 - mig*ipz-: i wont bother writing anything in there
19:01 - Admirable: well I suppose it suits you better
19:01 - Admirable: fucker
19:01 - Admirable: :D
19:02 - mig*ipz-: and it does suite me better cause i dont have to bother playing one more night against fenneks
19:02 - Admirable: I'll just paste this long
19:02 - Admirable: checkmate
19:02 - Admirable: rip in peace noob
19:02 - mig*ipz-: you are an idiot]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:02:57 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Ond kaja</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[In case of a tie just do like ESEA does. The one with the most rounds gets the promotion. If it's still tied, the one with the least rounds lost gets the promotion. I guess tiebreaker matches are preferred but in such a tight time schedule, opting for this solution seems better.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:53:39 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Created by Admirable</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/league/topic-27873/page-1/?recent=482962#post=482806</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[There are 4 open spots in Season 17 Premiership. Maybe 5 if Team Decerto get slapped with the hijack rule. Let's assume 4.

There are six teams who have applied for these 4 spots.

<a href="http://etf2l.org/teams/18689">http://etf2l.org/teams/18689</a>Fenneks eSports by SimRai.com
<a href="http://etf2l.org/teams/19418">http://etf2l.org/teams/19418</a>Made In Germany
<a href="http://etf2l.org/teams/19451">http://etf2l.org/teams/19451</a>Dotter
<a href="http://etf2l.org/teams/19298">http://etf2l.org/teams/19298</a>Ayo Gurl Sugadaddy Hood Pussy Creepers
<a href="http://etf2l.org/teams/19466">http://etf2l.org/teams/19466</a>Lethal Weapon
<a href="http://etf2l.org/teams/19484">http://etf2l.org/teams/19484</a>Mais La Moule !

In an ideal world you would make these teams compete to prove who deserves the spots, but the admins have a schedule and want the least hassle.

I guess the ultimate fairest way would be to play a 6 team round robin where every team plays each other once. At first I thought this would be impractical, but it could be played out in 5 rounds, 3 matches at a time. Now if you are talking single map best of 1s, that could be done in an extended evening of play. Most Prem teams play 4 maps in a night, this would be 5 with little breaks probably requiring 3 hours to complete. Round Robins can also lead to ties in the rankings, but with a pool of 6 and us only needing to decide the top 4 or bottom 2 I think we could cross that bridge when we come to it with future tiebreakers.

Obviously the hard part about playoffs is scheduling, finding a day or days when 6 teams can have 6 players could be tricky. In fact this seems to be the admin teams biggest fear, but perhaps it would be wise to ask the teams first?

There are a few other systems I will propose, but I'll put this one up first and see if we can burn it down or not.

Also I would invite the 6 teams to post which evenings they would be available to play on next week Sunday 19th - Sunday 26th. This is not leaugally (ha!) binding, just to get an idea if scheduling is a real issue or not.

Let's talk it out!]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:36:15 +0100</pubDate>
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