I am very excited to announce the second Official SimHack OCTGN League!!
@nordrunner and @SneakySly did a great job on the first one, so why stop a good thing? @lpoulter and @argamas are happy that we can continue the league for this great community!
First and foremost here, while OCTGN is a great interface, please do your homework and know how to use OCTGN prior to entering any league games. OCTGN is not entirely intuitive, but thankfully Tuism (from BGG) made an excellent easy to use OCTGN GUIDE: Playing Netrunner Online | Steven Tu / @Tuism.
Please make your names on OCTGN, Stimhack, and the league website as close to the same as possible to avoid confusion for your opponents!
The league will start 11/22/2014 and conclude 01/22/2015. (Yes we start Saturday!)
When you start a league game, just make sure you have “SHL2” in the title. It will deter non league players, and let other Stimhack league players you are looking for a game.
There will be no minimum or maximum number of games you can play. Play anytime, as much as you like. The winner will report the game, and loser will have 36 hours to “reject” the game if there is a
discrepancy. It’s also nice if you are the loser to go ahead and “verify” the loss, this will speed along the scoring of the game.
You are not required to play a full match, playing only one side is ok. Although to keep in the spirit of Netrunner please mix up who you play and which side you play as much as possible.
Play any legal decks you like. For simplicity sake, if the cards are “rezzed” on OCTGN, then they are available for league play.
We use an ELO system, and will do a Top 4 end tourney after the 2 months to decide the ultimate winner.
If you have any troubles ingame, make screenshots of the full incident so we can see what happened (be as informative as possible). We hope we can avoid trouble, but will deal with it if needed.
Prizes:The ultimate winner will get a special forum badge signifying their victory in the league. Additionally there will be other prizes. We already got an alternate art Noise! If you wanna donate, feel free to PM us.
I think that about does it. Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns here at the forums or at the challengeboards.
So what’s the status of the first league? Still some games waiting in limbo? It seemed like a bunch of prize support was pledged initially, was that ever sorted out?
Just read all of it: report each game asap, but at least within 36 hours after a play. Reporting late has consequences for your opponent and your rating and is frustrating for all involved.
Joined. Let us know what to tag our OCTGN games with so db0’s posts pick it up – I can do some post-league matchup analysis if the games are tagged.
Top 4? That’s harsh. Last league I almost got to top 8, this is much harder. But the challenge is awesome!
Hopefully by the end of the league Order and Chaos will be out and my win stats as Weyland will improve!
We plan on playing the top 4 in one sitting and broadcasting it with commentary. This way, everyone doesn’t have to wait around for people to finish. Getting a whole t8 to be ready to play for a few hours at the same time would have been impossible.
That makes a lot of sense! Thanks for explaining why this choice was made.
Now all I need is to dust off OCTGN, find out which are my least janky decks and sell my soul for some wins : D