[EricH]

Originally Posted by Gregor

As someone who's weary of rejoining (last time I played was 2013?), is there an updated rules list? Trying to gauge time commitment.

There is, but it's not current to this year, YET. https://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2574 I'll publish an update once we figure out the waiver rules a little more.

The main thing is that district events are now drafted in blocks--so you pick an alliance for MI, one for MAR, one for Toronto, etc. Bigger districts will often use bigger alliances (MI tends to run to 6 teams per alliance), with drafts spread over two nights. I forget what all else we've adjusted since then.


Speaking of rules updates and changes and the like, I do believe I need to put those into more formal explanations. So, here goes.

1) Waivers, aside from any still-to-be determined changes in submission methodology, will have one change: Any team picked up after events begin will be a waiver claim. (The exception to this: any team assigned randomly by the scoring crew after an event to fill a hole.)
Reason: Had a bunch of folks simply wait out the waiver timing last year and then pick a bunch of teams.

2) Draft Order: The first draft will be randomized. After the first draft, each succeeding draft will rotate the order one slot (1 becomes 2, 2 becomes 3, n becomes 1--or reverse order of that, haven't determined which) until everybody has drafted in the #1 overall slot once. After that, draft order will be randomized again and rotation will recommence.
--Special Case: Tiered drafts. We didn't see any last year, but there may be some this year. If there's a tiered draft, rotation will happen before tier split.
--Special Case: District Block Drafts. The first district block draft will be randomized, and the remainder will be rotated.
--Special Case: Not a full rotation remaining. For either the regionals or the districts, if there aren't enough events left (e) to do a full rotation of n players, the decision process is as follows: If e<(n/2), all drafts will be randomized. If e>=(n/2), rotation will be used.
Reason: Random can slide some folks down a little bit in the average draft order, so we're trying to level the playing field even more.

It should be noted that DCMPs will use finishing order in the districts they cover.

3) 2Champs is going to do some messing with the CMP drafts, I think. Let's take any discussion on that to https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s...d.php?t=146725, though. (Same for any other waiver improvements to discuss, please.)