Year 3 (Season 3) plans and discussions

I have one year left in me to run the VF Circuit. Please provide feedback on what you would like for the next year.

Things are in the works for season 3 which will start in January and I will have events planned for the entire year. Likely will have individual events go biweekly for each league (twice a month Saturday/Sunday or every week on Sunday scheduling). Anything related to team events will be left out, unfortunately, unless we get more people to actively participate.

Right now, year 3 will be partitioned:

1. January to March Qualifiers for the April Championship
2. May to July Qualifiers for the August Championship
3. September to November Qualifiers for the December Championship

Dates will be tentatively scheduled before season 3 begins and the points/ranking ladder will be used.

 

Well that is not in our control whether Sony/Microsoft shuts it down so enjoy VF5FS online as we can as long as we have it . And yes there definitely will be a season 3.

I will be posting how the points in the ranking ladder works and the season more in the upcoming days. Suggestions and feedback for making it fun and fair and keep people motivated/interested in getting together would be great.

 

I agree the room mode from season 1 worked well on the 360. I think I will leave that to the participants to decide. Especially when we don't have more than 8 people, people that want to do everything in room mode is more than welcome to.

- From this season, one thing I liked about not using the room mode though is that the actual tournament portion runs a lot faster. But as mentioned by you, people get to watch each other play in room mode and talk to each other. The shoutbox somewhat served that purpose in Season 2 (the talking), but it is not the same. The idea of saving replays and uploading failed!

- The tournament/event is mostly to get people to gather together at a certain time. The idea like offline tournaments - people gathered to play in the tournament, but the best parts for everyone is usually the matches outside the tournament itself (in my opinion).

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Schedule Format for Next Year -
Rough idea how the schedule will be for next year (I will make a calendar to map out the whole year with tentative dates).

For the 9 Qualifier Months
Sunday Evening of Week 1 - PSN League - Round Robin to Single Elimination
Sunday Evening of Week 2 - XBL League - Round Robin to Single Elimination
Sunday Evening of Week 3 - PSN League - Double Elimination Format
Sunday Evening of Week 4 - XBL League - Double Elimination Format

We can always add unique events or other people organized events into the VF Circuit. As mentioned in the past, I would really like to make this into an umbrella program that can accommodate more people (if there are more people!)

Schedule Format for Next Year -
Next post I will go into how the ranking ladder will work within the VF Circuit next season. Trying to find right balance for rewarding people that participate actively and for those limited with time. As of right now, tinkering with how much points are given and how it is calculated into determining one "score" (which is different from your "total points")

 

We can always try something like that. Maybe when it is 1 person meeting up with 1 other person it will be easier to schedule. I still think having people meet up at a single time is still better though.

DigitlSamurai - its mainly an issue of how many people are participating in the events. If there is a lot more people participating then we can always increased the number of participants.

 

Sorry for the late replies, but the last finals have been finished for year 2. So I will be starting up year 3 stuff soon. Because we have lost January, I'm going to try something different based on a suggestion made by Kingo.

 

Lots of little things pile together, the time and commitment needed to make it work was too much. Sorry.