Vassal League Season 8 signups are open!

By Mu0n729, in X-Wing

-= X-WING VASSAL LEAGUE =-

-= SEASON 8 SIGNUPS ARE OPEN =-

https://listfortress.com/league

FORMAT

You’ll play 8 games of second edition x-wing in the extended format.

Inactive players will be dropped from the league. You must play at least two games in the first four weeks.

DATES

Signups Open: June 24th

Signups Close: July 6th

Season Starts: July 8th

Late Signups End: July 15th

Interdivisional and kicking of inactive players: Aug 5th

Scheduled Season End: Sept 2nd

REWARDS

The real rewards are the friends you make along the way.

We’re also planning on shipping prizes to the division champions from this season and last season.

HOW DO YOU SIGN UP?

Sign into List Fortress with your vassal league slack account.On the league home page, there will be a link to the sign up form right above the news

Fill it out with your time zone and resired start timePress submit and get to theory crafting new squads with the upcoming points update.

One new detail: games will be limited to 15 rounds instead of 19. This will be revisited again in the future if it's too much/not enough

Edited by Mu0n729

Another detail, the start of the season will probably coincide with the official release of wave 4, allowing the official squad builder to be usable and giving us the rest of the card arts

On 6/26/2019 at 7:45 AM, Mu0n729 said:

One new detail: games will be limited to 15 rounds instead of 19. This will be revisited again in the future if it's too much/not enough

This may bring me back for another season. 19 round games were way too long.

I WAS 17th!

first

Having not played the other seasons, how flexible/often are the games? Based on the 8 games, once per week whenever the timing works out with the opponent? I’m very interested, just concerned I’ll be one of the kicks because of some schedule limitations with the kiddos.

Edited by dsul413

You pick your availability and get put in a division with players that have similar preferred start time. It's not too hard to schedule games if you have a couple open times a week.

Thank you!

I also welcome the change to 15 rounds, I'm even thinking even 12-13 might do it. Some 19 round games used to last well over 2 hours (in 1.0).

Seeing as I last participated in season 4 or so and I've no clue where I was, I opted for the boonies this time around.

Thanks for Vassal and for organizing!

I just downloaded Vassal and created a Slack Account for this. Is there anything like a Discord channel or something to find free games? I might want to try and get a game or two in before the league, just so I know the controls better. I watched the GSP vids on it, but nothing like firsthand experience.

Thanks!

3 minutes ago, profparm said:

I just downloaded Vassal and created a Slack Account for this. Is there anything like a Discord channel or something to find free games? I might want to try and get a game or two in before the league, just so I know the controls better. I watched the GSP vids on it, but nothing like firsthand experience.

Thanks!

I run my own tournaments on Vassal, one-round-per-week style. Sign-ups for my tournament are open right now as well. I use Discord for organizing my events.

https://discord.gg/B2f7KB5

Edited by MegaSilver
6 minutes ago, profparm said:

I just downloaded Vassal and created a Slack Account for this. Is there anything like a Discord channel or something to find free games? I might want to try and get a game or two in before the league, just so I know the controls better. I watched the GSP vids on it, but nothing like firsthand experience.

Thanks!

If you just log onto Vassal, there are often people who are LFg, just let them know you are new.

11 hours ago, profparm said:

I just downloaded Vassal and created a Slack Account for this. Is there anything like a Discord channel or something to find free games? I might want to try and get a game or two in before the league, just so I know the controls better. I watched the GSP vids on it, but nothing like firsthand experience.

Thanks!

As AlexW pointed out, vassal x-wing server itself is often enough. People with a blue '!' (exclamation mark) besides their names are looking for a game. You can set one on yourself as well.

You can also try to leverage the slack server itsel in channel #random.

The dates were tweaked slightly. Heads up on the official signing in ending in 2 days! Don't miss out on season 8;

Signups Close: July 9th

Season Starts: July 11th

Late Signups End: July 18th

Interdivisional and kicking of inactive players: Aug 5th

Scheduled Season End: Sept 9nd

On 7/8/2019 at 4:12 AM, Mu0n729 said:

The dates were tweaked slightly. Heads up on the official signing in ending in 2 days! Don't miss out on season 8;

Signups Close: July 9th

Season Starts: July 11th

Late Signups End: July 18th

Interdivisional and kicking of inactive players: Aug 5th

Scheduled Season End: Sept 9nd

First time player here. Thank you for the effort.

How will fixtures be published and how do you correspond with your opponent on a date/time to play?

45 minutes ago, PsychoCC said:

First time player here. Thank you for the effort.

How will fixtures be published and how do you correspond with your opponent on a date/time to play?

The vassal slack channel. Information should be on the website (and list fortress site).

6 minutes ago, Tlfj200 said:

The vassal slack channel. Information should be on the website (and list fortress site).

So nothing up yet? I did check those 2, the season is starting today, so was just wondering. Maybe I am just a bit too eager and jumping the gun here.

13 hours ago, PsychoCC said:

So nothing up yet? I did check those 2, the season is starting today, so was just wondering. Maybe I am just a bit too eager and jumping the gun here.

The lists aren't seeded yet. @Antigrapist is on it. There are many cases to cover (returning players, qualifying players, downgrading players, vacant spots, late joiners, etc.)

The season will be pushed a few days to accomodate for delays.

Also, all y'all must wait for the next module release 8.7.0

VERY SOON NOW

All efforts are appreciated!