Dominion Strategy Forum
Dominion => Tournaments and Events => Dominion League => Topic started by: samath on March 30, 2019, 08:05:17 pm
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Hello everyone!
Season 33 has just begun, about a day earlier than usual. Check your division Discord channel or your private messages for all of the details.
Since the League expansion of Season 27, we've been trying to build consistency: More players completing the entire season and deciding to come back for the next season. I'm happy to report that we've made some good progress on those metrics:
| Season | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 |
| Total Players at Start | 271 | 255 | 264 | 262 | 261 | 281 |
| % Completing the Season | 85% | 85% | 89% | 87% | 90% | 91% |
| % Returning Next Season | 66% | 64% | 66% | 68% | 71% | 73% |
To put those completion numbers in context, a rate above 89% means that a division of 6 players is more likely to stay entirely intact through the whole season than not. Indeed, 29 of the 47 divisions in Season 32 finished the season with all 6 players. And a higher number of players returning the next season means that the player pool grows more and more experienced, lessening the risk of future players dropping out. It's a positive feedback loop working in the right direction. :)
Rules Changes
As usual, we have a few minor tweaks to the rules (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=15509.0):
- Late Matches: Each season lasts for six weeks. If you need more time to finish, you are allowed to request more time, up to one week. Starting this season, we are requiring that you make this request of your moderator before the season ends. There is also no longer any point penalty for finishing late, as long as you communicate your plan to finish with your moderator ahead of the end of the season.
- Undo Policy: We clarified our rules and added an FAQ (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=18619.0) question around undo requests to say that we encourage, but do not require, players to grant undo requests which do not give new information, like drawing cards. If any player plans to deviate from this, they should discuss this with their opponent ahead of time.
- Signup Deadline: To allow for earlier planning, we're pushing the signup deadline for all future seasons up to the Monday before the season starts, at 15:00 UTC. For Season 33 players, this is the deadline to tell us whether you'll be back for Season 34 by filling out the returning form.
Moderator Churn
Seprix and volfied, who have been part of the moderating team since Season 28, are stepping down. We'd like to thank them for their service these last five seasons! To take their place, we've added wharf_rat, who had applied previously. Also, as many of you could tell from last season, we've been expanding our use of Discord bots (technically webhooks) to handle the more automatic parts of moderation. Please give us feedback on how those are working!
SamE