I'm soon going to start working on a bi-daily double elimination knock-out tournament. For those that are unfamiliar with double elimination tournaments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-eli ... tournament

The way i'm thinking about doing it is similar to pha's MiniCup with the main difference being that it's played on hockey and that players are able to pick their own teams and submit them. "Team stacking!" I hear you cry, but no, I will enforce some kind of restriction that prevents the same players being on the same teams every day - possibly similar to the way MnM dealt with squads each season.

So, my current thoughts (and please feel free to make suggestions or give reasons why my ideas won't work) are as follows:

One tournament for each server each night at around 9-10pm local time.
Unlimited number of players/teams can sign up (more teams just means more rounds).
Players form their own teams and submit them to the bot.
Games are 3v3 hockey with a time limit of 10-15 mins (shorter games will be more intense and also keep the tournament moving)
Seeds for the knock-outs will be random so that good teams aren't always playing bad teams and winning every time.

That's it really. I want to keep it nice and simple while keeping it competitive. Obviously I'd keep track of stats and all that and the season would last x number of days. But yeah, those that I've mentioned the idea to so far have been supportive (except (noob) cos he doesn't understand how double elimination works) so I think it could work. Give your opinions and stuff.

That sounds very nice! Minicup turned into a HockCup!

I always support evolution!

God Bless you Darwin!

lets see if it works..

double elimination? stick to cs please.

Since you're going to be hosting two of these per night, why not make one that is MNM pick style, and the other where you just put in your own teams?

set times = better.

One for each server

Just noticed the title says "new mini league". Very misleading.

gl pete

hopefully it will bring some activity to ub, it's pretty much dead as it is atm

very nice. yea set times would work nice. would be cool to see spiked activity at a certain time. nice idea looking forward to it

as usual taking you ages, and youre probably going to make it happen when ppl lost the excitement already.

i'm in the process of moving house and finding a job, don't have time to work on this at the moment.

in 3 weeks or so i'll be more settled and can put some more time into it.

(noob) has no clue what you mean in your first sentence lolol

is your fridge empty again ?

Nice.