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Mutant League 2007
Mutant League 2007 Rules
Sign-Ups: January 1-7
Once the annual tournament is announced on January 1, 2007, there will be a seven day registration period before the draft begins. Hopeful participants may sign-up in the Mutant League 2007 - Announcement Thread. Preference for spots will be given to participants from the preceding year. All hopeful participants should seriously consider the time involved before signing up..
The Draft: January 8-13
The draft will begin Monday, January 8 at approximately 10AM EST. Participants will be able to draft up to six characters from the draft list, and one additional character from the Confirmed Depowered/Dead list. The draft order is randomly chosen, and reverses with each day's new round. Participants are given thirty minutes from the preceding participant's pick to post their own next pick. If a participant does not post their draft pick within their allotted thirty minutes, they are skipped, and the next participant's thirty minutes begin. However, the skipped participant may then post their pick for that round at any time, so long as their character has not been taken by another player.
If participants are unable to participate in a live draft round, they may choose to e-mail their draft wish list to me the day before each round. List your poster name and the Draft Round as the subject of your e-mail (i.e. "mattbib Draft Round 2 wish list"). Please do not PM them. Draft wish lists should list characters in the order you'd like to obtain them. If a participant has e-mailed me a wish list, I will draft the first available character on their wish list at some point during their thirty minute period.
Any participant who misses two draft rounds in a row, without providing their draft picks for those rounds later in the same day, will forfeit their spot in the tournament..
This year's draft order was randomly chosen on January 3.
1. Tre Styles
2. The Lucky One
3. AceOfSpades
4. melodyrider
5. Nightcrawler & Jessica Drew
6. Soophisticated Gamer & Joe Acro
7. The Fury
8. UTVol8102 Atom_Basher
9. element13
10. Novaya Havoc & Nyssane
11. Dipset Byrd Gang
12. Siddon & venuscameback
13. TShark82
14. Mikl C & Hi-Fi
15. Roland Taxt & da noble savage (forfeited in Week 1; replaced by Mariah)
16. Zombienorthstar & Mitsaso
Trades and Free Agency: January 13-15
Immediately following the final round of the draft on Saturday, January 13, players may trade characters with each other. In order to trade characters, both parties must PM me approving the trade. The PM must include the name of the other party and the character that they've agreed to trade. The trade goes into effect once I receive both PMs.
Players may also PM trade requests for characters still on the draft list. PMs for draft list trades must include which character you want and which you're giving up. These will be awarded on a first-come-first-serve basis.
All trading must be completed before Midnight EST on Monday, January 15.
Regular Season: January 22 - March 5
The sixteen (16) teams will play in a double-elimination tournament comprised of two brackets. Teams remain in the winners bracket until their first loss, upon which they move to the losers bracket. A team is eliminated upon their second loss.
Playoffs: March 12
The top team of each bracket will play each other in a Final round. If after this round, the loser has suffered only their first loss, a second Final round will be held on March 19.
Battles
Battles are scheduled and each team will fight approximately once a week. Teams will be battling until the opposing team cannot continue. Team members will be assumed to be fighting in character. For example, Sabretooth can be written using lethal force, but Leech would not be. The battles will take place in a barren battlefield, and teams are allowed to carry into the battle whatever equipment they normally have with them. They begin the battle 100 meters away from and in clear sight of the opposing team. Players cannot leave the battlefield unless to do so is necessary to utilize a character's powers (i.e. Nightcrawler, Lila Cheney, etc.). Beyond that use your imagination.
Strategies
The day prior to each match, players will e-mail their teams' strategies to the league administrator, who will post them in a thread devoted to the appropriate match, on CBR's X-Books forum. Please do not PM them. A team that does not submit a strategy will lose that match and forfeit their spot in the tournament, offering their team up to a new player.
A note about imagination: Strategies will be judged on believability and creativity. While there is a great deal of liberty how the match will play out, unfair tactics, like using Lila Cheney to teleport the opposing team into the sun (or having any character utilize their own powers to permanently remove opponents from the battlefield), are not allowed.. One-time feats done in the comics will be considered, but the ordinary feat levels demonstrated by a character will be more strongly weighted. Try to rely on information gleaned from primary sources (the comics) before secondary sources (guidebooks and fansites). Ultimately not everyone will have encyclopedic knowledge of the X-universe, but just do your best.
Lastly, after each match, team players are assumed to be revived and ready for the next match.
Voting
Participants and spectators may vote in each match. All voters should use the poll included in each match thread, and vote solely on a team's strategy and defense. The voting polls will remain open for 24-hours.
Participants may question each other's strategies and offer retorts during a match so long as they stay civil. Spectators may also question the participants. However explanations may not contradict or embellish the posted strategy. Voting should not be based on any potential that characters possess or on any other moves that a voter might want to interject on their own. All voters should feel free to comment on why they've voted for a specific team.
To maintain fairness across the board, teams with two or more participants will only be allowed one vote in any match. If more than one member of a team votes in a match, only the first vote from that team will be counted.
Additionally, while encouraging friends or family to vote in the tournament is allowed, encouraging others to vote for you is against the rules and is grounds for disqualification. Friends and family are expected to read both strategies and make a decision based on what is presented; not based on allegiance to a particular participant. All voting should be done without bias.
Bannings
An issue that sadly has to be addressed. Any player who is permanently banned is also banned from the Mutant League. Anyone who is temporarily banned may remain in the League so long as their banishment does not disrupt the League schedule or prohibit them from submitting strategies. Posters may not vote during their banishment.