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With Season 16 starting in less than a week, I thought I'd make this thread to serve as a place to discuss the season, and also report any problems, comments or suggestions. Also, this thread will help get the word out about the new season and allow me to talk about some of the changes we've made.

Overall, this season will be fairly similar to the previous season, but we have made a couple of key changes. The biggest is that we are planning on making it so each round is worth more points than the previous one. At the moment, it is set so it increases by 45 points per round, starting at 180 in round on and increasing all the way to 450 points in round 7. In every round except the first, opponent quality will be worth 1/3 of the points, while roast:fall will determine the rest.

The reason for this change is twofold. The first is to simply make the season more interesting, by "raising the stakes" as the season progresses. The second reason is we have observe that activity often usually off towards the end of the season, and by raising the point value like this we hope to reward players who play all the way through to the end. The first few rounds will probably still be the busiest, but at least this way we are encouraging people to keep playing.

To balance this change of awarding more points for rounds, events will also be worth a little bit more. In the past, big events would be worth 25-30 points. In this season, big events will be worth 40-50 points (mostly depending on size and length).

Another change we have made is remove the "quality exponent" part of the score calculations. This part of the formula was really experimental, and didn't really do much in the end aside from making things more complicated. We have removed it in the interest of making the system a bit simpler. What does this mean to you, in the end? Pretty much absolutely nothing.

I'd like to know what you think of these changes, particularly the first one. Do you think 45 is too much? Too little? Think it's a bad idea alltogether? 45 is a fairly arbitrary number: any multiple of 3 will work.



Also of note, is that we have added two new event types: domination and team LRS. Expect to see both this season.

Finally, I'd like to say congratulations to n00b for having his logo (modified a bit) picked for this season. Nothing says "dueling" quite like CliffyB holding up a blaster.

As for the opening event, it will be hosted on Friday or Saturday, and will consist mostly of CTF. In terms of levels, expect to see at least a few old staples of JDC CTF events. If you have any suggestions for other levels that should be played in the event, go ahead and post them here. Big levels are preferred over smaller ones.