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Spider and Chef sit down to discuss some of the aspects of the upcoming League, as well as what the future holds for this new living format!

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scottydog50
Lodge Member
scottydog50
2 years ago

Consider using external data sources (e.g. tournaments) to bring in the factors you want to use for faction ratings.

Jay
Lodge Warrior Member
Jay
2 years ago

OMG, I love everything about this! I loved the Tactica series and I have always wanted you guys to do an in house league.. This is so exciting! I can’t wait to see em!

mallet_man
Lodge Member
mallet_man
2 years ago

EL BEARDO! EL BEARDO! EL BEARDO!

Martijn Versteeg
Lodge Member
2 years ago

I would hereby like to formally challenge each and every member of the team. Being almost a neighbour to the studio already :p

Josh Greenberg
Josh Greenberg
2 years ago

Raw PF and PA with splits – faction opponent, primary points. secondaries – would be more interesting than margin IMO. I’ve heard some armies/lists described as “hard to score secondaries against” or “scores a lot but gives up a lot too”. It’d be interesting to see if some armies or lists skew one way or another and if it aligns with what the list designer intended. I don’t consider myself a competitive player. My interest is more curiosity about certain list designs. Hearing about dark technomancer liquefiers and seeing them in action are two different things. On the flip side… Read more »

jordan wilcox
jordan wilcox
2 years ago

$50 CAD on the boss and his Drukhari xD

Gerald Cloud
2 years ago

Yoooooo, let me see that data. If it is in spreadsheet form I’ll be even more hyped. Love that ish.

joshua Ivy
joshua Ivy
2 years ago

Bring back El Beardo! He has lived in exile for far too long.

Daniel Hawthorne
Daniel Hawthorne
2 years ago

If there’s a belt, the winner needs to wear it for every League battle report the following year. The crown lies heavy.

Chris Nuttall
Chris Nuttall
2 years ago

This sounds awesome

Doug Branton
Doug Branton
2 years ago

This sounds so cool, guys! Excited to follow the games and stats. One thing I noticed, and maybe this is intended and I’m misunderstanding, but it seems like the turn 1 and turn 2 win rates are calculated as (turn 1 wins)/(turn 1 wins + turn 2 wins)*100 and (turn 2 wins)/(turn 1 wins + turn 2 wins)*100 respectively. This makes sense for your totals column, but for the players it seems like it’s maybe not giving the intended answer? For example, the Spider has played 13 games and won 6 of them that he was given turn 1 and… Read more »

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Daniel Bromley
2 years ago

Wow this is such a cool idea! Would love to play you guys with my Thousand Sons or Tzeentch Daemons. I’d 100% loose but it be so fun :).

Aparach
2 years ago

I would like to have a dice-tracker. So we can have “proof” to spiders luck 😉

Captain_Valerius
Lodge Member
Captain_Valerius
2 years ago

Guys, how exciting! I think this is a wonderful new format to add to the channel! I really like the idea of challengers. A wonderful way to interact with the community and adds even more excitement.

Daniel Turner
Daniel Turner
2 years ago

Sounds awesome, looking forward to it. How will the ranks move between seasons? Stay same or reset?

Alexander Bodarwe
Lodge Member
Alexander Bodarwe
2 years ago

Hey guys, first off, great idea. looking foreward to the league! I think id like to see some kind of short summaries of the games played in a easy to view archive. It could contain the list used, margin of victory, and maybe a short summary from both players on what happened in the game and what errors/good plays they did. Nothing big mind, just a few sentences. That would give someone like me the ability to, f.e. watch Mr. Bone-geddon wreak havok with his Orcs and then pop over to that list and see what changes he made to… Read more »

Jeremy schudel
Jeremy schudel
2 years ago

Stoked for some competitive banter. Lawrence, I know we have the oldest book right now, but bring out the Sons of Titan! I need more grey knight content!! 🖤

thedarkartisan
thedarkartisan
2 years ago

chef – “statician” you mean analyst right?

GreaterChickenofTzeentch
Lodge Member
GreaterChickenofTzeentch
2 years ago

You guys need to hang an “ELO Hell” sign above the door to Sanga’s painting room. 😉

William Clark
William Clark
2 years ago

Have you guys considered adding some kind of draft? I think that could be a fun way of balancing the army hand outs.

Keith Surprenant
Keith Surprenant
2 years ago

great idea guys, will the community challengers be allowed to call you out on specific armies of your pool? I.e: i am the challenger running BA and i call out chef using GSC…

Martin Jackson
Martin Jackson
2 years ago

Australia still has to put up with ridiculous prices from GW and FW. Its not unusual to wait a few months to get a FW piece shipped as well. But…. In New Zealand, its even worse (add another ~10% to the Australian prices). e.g. A squad of intercessors in the UK => 35 pounds ($63 AUD) In Australia, the price jumps 55% to $98 AUD. Note: the UK price includes 22% VAT, in Oz we have a 10% equivalent. In New Zealand, the same intercessors are $115NZ ($108AUD). Its bloody ridiculous and the cost is a huge barrier to growing… Read more »

David Garneau
2 years ago

The TTT belt done in the WWE style for the win.

Imperial Grunt
Lodge Member
2 years ago

This is great stuff. And really glad that the coaching is not going away! Will there be a leader board posted somewhere?

Really like the points system, I wonder if something like that will cross over into the tournament scene.

Stay safe and roll the hard six!

Warp Wasp
Warp Wasp
2 years ago

Could we get a direct link to the league in the sidebar menu?

Porthos
Lodge Member
Porthos
2 years ago

COME ON YOU STIG! Can we buy supporter t-shirts?
As an idea, can games be home/away? Mainly represented by the home player choosing the terrain and mission?

bradley Baumann
2 years ago

You know what would also be really interesting is if you had a top most cost effective per faction. Just as a talking point, something like cost/points killed per match, and average that, it might require a lot of work, but might be something interesting for the community to keep track of. just listing the average points cost per model, and then listing what that unit killed at the end of the match.

Laura Forbes
Laura Forbes
2 years ago

Championship belt! Could we get wrestling-style promos and named finishing moves from the competitors too? Glad to see that TT is leading the way in tabletop sports entertainment

Joe Ashforth
Joe Ashforth
2 years ago

I love the stats side of thing so much I have been noting down results of your games since the new year, but more on a faction based excel type format with wins/losses/draws/victory points etc for each army and adding together cumulative results for wider factions ie Imperium/Chaos/Aeldari and getting an average win rate, giving you the most dominant army and which of those is faring better from a narrative standpoint. You could call it…… Tabletop Statistics´!!

Joe Ashforth
Joe Ashforth
2 years ago

Everybody needs to have El’Beardo in their lives!!!

Karmu
Karmu
2 years ago

YEESSSSS
I need to see the players vlog style talking to the camera about their plans for the army while walking around the garden. Would need a neutral editor though haha.
Also, Spider on the Tyranids! Will you be bringing Terry in?
Im hoping for a Bone vs Spider grand finale. Bone wins, hugs Spider and walks out the door. A single tear down his cheek.

Aron Rowley
Lodge Member
Aron Rowley
2 years ago

Coaching section should be called “the emperors playbook”. Please keep doing what your doing!

DelinquentBunny
Lodge Member
DelinquentBunny
2 years ago

Will whoever gets “space marines” be able to switch between chapters or will they have to pick 1 chapter to run continuously? If they are chapter locked what happens with the other chapters?

likif
likif
2 years ago

With a brilliant mind like yours, Chef, you could be something other than a policeman. I mean, editor.

david tipton
david tipton
2 years ago

your league ranking table page looks great cant wait for this to kick off and see the evolution of it with balance incorporated in and the 7th player idea sounds amazing and i bet there alot of people that would love to take part in that.championship belt with roku on would look awesome and i imagine all of you will be gunning for lawrence to get them big points lol

Seth Marber
Seth Marber
2 years ago

Very excited for this. I am shocked at the initial rankings, I would have put Chef #2 on instinct.

Adrián Perez Martínez
Lodge Member
Adrián Perez Martínez
2 years ago

I’m hyped with this!

Definetly waiting for El Beardo appearance!

RichieC
RichieC
2 years ago

Giving the belt to visitors won’t be good to do as you won’t with it and it have to be shared. Maybe it be more fun to do a forfeit instead if the community wins like you have to dress up as a plant for the next batrep or something like that and it be a fun video to do.
The forfeit should be done in good humor and be something that is funny and silly and not something that you would dread to do 🙂

David Anderson
Lodge Member
David Anderson
2 years ago

Looking forwards to this League, some structured competitive games. £100 on Spider to win first league (sorry guys).

Richard McCreadie
Richard McCreadie
2 years ago

The initial league data makes me feel sorry for Beard with that 24% win rate 🙁

Philip Moorhouse
Philip Moorhouse
2 years ago

Championship hat, not a belt. Should come included with water bottles for hands free re-hydration when using the camera.

_bryanrs
_bryanrs
2 years ago

Glad something is replacing Tactica with Tourney Season back on and upcoming. Give us your knowledge!

FunTimeFranky
2 years ago

Why not a football league style table for the armies it would be easier to follow and give loads of information. 3 points for a win. 1 point for a draw 0 points for a lose Most points win every faction plays each other twice. If there is a draw it comes down to VP difference. VP for – VP against = VP difference You could record board wipes, total full units destroyed, full units lost, value of units destroyed for and against and then armies points efficiency could be taken into consideration. You could even record deployments wins and… Read more »

The Casual
Lodge Member
2 years ago

Chef, your face when Spider mentioned the championship belt is just amazing 😀

Bluepuffoflogic
Bluepuffoflogic
2 years ago

Awesome league concept, I’m so hyped to see rankings and some regular appearances from my favorite armies. How are you hands long the terrain set-up? If it is too different from game to game, something like a giant line of sight blocking wall in the middle of the field versus more open shooting lanes could have just as much impact on a game as who goes first.

Richard Caine
Lodge Member
Richard Caine
2 years ago

Chef needs to win. Just to see his expression as he holds the championship belt between is thumb and pointer finger half a meter away from him with the awkward Internet Historian pained smile.

PunchieCWG
Lodge Member
2 years ago

So who’s the bookmaker for this Super League. Not to be confused with another much less super league of the same name. I wanna put money on this enigmatic dark horse “El Beardo” they mentioned.

DGehring0809
Lodge Member
DGehring0809
2 years ago

I want to see El Beardo dive bombing BBone from the turnbuckle while saying lines like “time to bury this plant under 6 feet of earth brother! Oh yeah!”

Warp Wasp
Warp Wasp
2 years ago

Sounds cool gang. Personally I would like a faction lineup. Say example Chef: Necrons, GSC and Chaos Deamons (Slaanesh). Beard: Chaos SM (Iron Warriors), Dark Angels, Space Marines (Ultramarines). Etc. Helps just get an idea of when a army changes hands and list changes what a different skill player is doing with an army…