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Mutant League 2009
Mutant League 2009 Rules
Sign-Ups: January 1-6
Once the annual tournament is announced on January 1, 2009, there will be a seven day registration period before the draft begins. Hopeful participants may sign-up in the Mutant League 2009 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 12-13
The draft will begin Monday, January 12 at approximately 10AM EST. Participants will be able to draft up to seven characters from the draft list. One of those characters may be from the Confirmed Depowered/Dead list. The draft order is randomly chosen, and reverses with each new round. New draft rounds begin immediately after the prior round ends.
Live Drafting
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 may be skipped, and the next participant's thirty minutes begin.
Wish List Drafting
Participants may PM their draft wish list to me before before each round if they're unsure of their availability. List your poster name and the Draft Round as the subject of your PM (i.e. "mattbib Draft Round 2 wish list"). Wish lists should list characters in the order you'd like to obtain them and should include the number of characters equal to your position in the draft order (i.e. if you have fourteenth pick you should list fourteen charactaers). Upon completion of a round, as I receive wish lists I will post each participants' pick for the new round using the first available character from their wish list.
Participants may feel free to post their own pick, even if they've submitted a wish list, even changing from their wish list pick, if I have not posted their pick for them yet.
Getting Skipped
If I have not received a wish list from a participant, and the participant did not specify that a previous list should carry over to a new round, that participant will be skipped.
If there are no available characters on a participant's wish list that participant will be skipped.
Since draft rounds will begin immediately after the preceding round has finished, participants should send their wish lists immediately after each of their previous picks have been posted (either by themselves or by me) so as to avoid being skipped.
NOTE: As it's possible that thirty minutes may pass without me being able to post a participant's wish list pick, we will only skip participants on my say so.
Skipped participants may then post their pick for that round at any time, so long as their character has not been taken by another player.
Forfeit
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
Draft Order
This year's draft order was randomly chosen after all slots were filled.
1. The Fury
2. CyberHubbs & fitditz
3. Nyssane
4. Greg Anderson & Mr. Kent
5. TShark82
6. Mitsaso & Novaya Havoc
7. lockerogue
8. AceOfSpades
9. pryde15 & Lex
10. Come_To_Deathstrike & Victor Borkowski
11. Jessica Drew & twilight
12. Speed
13. Dipset Byrd Gang
14. Pwood & Yoshi
15. Flaneur & Toboe
16. Shyft & Mike Smash!
Trades and Free Agency: January 8-10
Immediately following the final round of the draft on Friday, January 11, players may trade characters of same status and value 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 Sunday, January 10.
Regular Season: January 14 - March 25
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 3
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 10.
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, unless an alternate location is announced, 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 me and I 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 and out-of-character tactics 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 (wikipedia 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. NOTE: To prevent unfair ballot-stuffing, only votes from posters with 50 or more posts will be counted. Additionally, votes from posters with matching IP addresses will be disqualified.
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 specifically 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.