I’ve been considering trying to start a 1v1 AoE3Heaven Ladder League. While team leagues could possibly follow, I don’t want to get in over my head and so 1v1 is the place to start. In order to have any shot at making this a long term success a good format is needed. So right now, the general goals are:
1.Making it as easy and painless as possible to schedule matches.
2.Minimizing the number of potential matches that go unplayed (i.e. byes, off rounds).
3.Has a skill based structure that matches players of roughly equal skill.
So how would you do this? I may have a bit of experience with ladders but have only been a participant in leagues.
One important question is, how many games should each participant play each week? This clearly has a large impact on the format. A single match could consist of multiple games. More than a best of three makes for a rather long match however.
[This message has been edited by Flammifer (edited 07-11-2006 @ 01:24 PM).]