Archive for October, 2007

The Big Surprise

Friday, October 26th, 2007

I could write this in the last post, but I prefered to write a new one, because it’s a big change for this season.

WC3Manager is growing day by day. In number of users, features and community. Users should spent more time every season to reach their goals, because the huge competitivity right now. For this reason, we should improve our prizes, right? :)
The next season the winners will receive the normal prizes, but in certain tournaments, they will get also real prizes! So the Champions Series winner the next season will receive :

1º CHAMPIONS SERIES PRIZE

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- 1 SENNHEISER PC 161

- 1 QPAD CT

CHAMPIONS SERIES PRIZE

- 1 QPAD CT

The Bnet Pro Ladder winner also is going to receive a real prize :

1º BNET PRO LADDER PRIZE

- 1 QPAD CT

It is a good start, isn’t it? :D Im trying to improve the prizes every season, but I need your help to make bigger and bigger WC3Manager! Good luck to everybody this season!

Bet system, players limit and more changes!

Friday, October 26th, 2007

A new season is starting this Monday and here we go with new features!

This season you will test your prediction skill, because you will be able to bet in the most exciting matches every day! The system will pick 10 close matches from some countries and you can choose your favorites for win extra money every day. Of course, you can’t bet on your own matches and we will check and punish people who try to fix results.

Now we can enjoy with the best Champions Series ever. Why is this the best edition? Because now we have group stage before the final brackets, where the teams will play once against each other, and the best two teams from each group will get access to the playoff.
To generate these groups the system use the history and current ranking to make seedings and don’t put the best teams in the same group. Teams from the same country won’t face in the same group either.

There are some changes in this season. Now the teams won’t be able to have more than 15 players. If you have 15 players, you can’t buy new ones. And if you have now more than 15 players, you can’t buy new ones, and you can’t renew this players until you sell/sack players to have only 15 players.

This league cup edition will have only active teams with players, so we won’t have the problems like the last season. Remember that you get money for each round that you reach, and you get money that depends on your oponent’s division.
We have new schedule for league cup too. This season Champions Series and League Cup will be played at the same time. Remember that you only can qualifier to one of them at the same time. So these championships will be played Wednesdays at 12:00 CET and Sundays at 20:00 CET.

Many people was complaining about rush tactic was too good. I’m trying to balance it and this season the rush is a little bit worse than the last seasons.

I also want to reward you help us! Now I open a new referal system where you can get money in the game if you get new sign ups. Every user has a personal address. If five users use that address to sign up in WC3Manager, you will get a reward worth in 300 € in game. Easy, right? The users have to complete all the steps to make a team. Only to register is not enough. You can check your personal addresss in your own profile.

Finally, I fixed some minor issues :

- Now you have “pages system” in your finances details, to make faster the page load.
- The WC3Manager scene news filters and pages are working perfectly now.
- Sometimes you could see “Months” instead “Days”, now is fixed.
- Your history/current ranking in your town hall, is the same than in the history/current ranking list.
- Problems with the showed results in the 1on1 tournaments are fixed.
- Now you can see the map pool for the 1on1 tournaments in the brackets top.

Exciting week!

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

This week we have a lot of exciting matches to be played! On Tuesday the Champions Series semi final will be played at 12:00 CET. Russia is owning this edition with 3 teams in the semi finals. Only the spanish team zod_team could steal this edition to the russians! The grand final will be played on Wednesday at 12:00 CET. The last edition finalists are out, so who will win?

But we have more competitions this week. This wednesday the best 32 players in the Bnet Ladder will play to decide who is the winner! The whole tournament will be played on Wednesday. The prizes are the same than level 1 tournament.

The next season, the best 400 players will promote to the Bnet Pro ladder, where only the best players will play. Every season, the best 200 Bnet Ladder players will promote to the Bnet Pro ladder, and the last 200 players from the Bnet Pro Ladder will come back to the normal Bnet Ladder. And the best players from Bnet Pro ladder will play the bracket to decide the final winner.

Remember that the ladder is played since the first league playday until the last league playday. And if you choose hard ladder, your player will play more games, but he will also lose more EF points.

1on1 tournaments

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Hi! Here it comes again! New 1on1 tournaments this weekend. I added more tournaments this time. Now there are 9 tournaments in total, with three different levels. Remember that if you are in first division, you only are able to sign up players in level 1 tournaments. If you are in second division, you are able to sign players in level 1 and level 2 tournaments. And so on.

I also increased the prizes for these tournaments.You can check the new prizes in the tournaments section. Also there are prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th, instead only 1st and 2nd. The tournaments start tomorrow and they are played during the whole day. Good luck everybody!

We also made new upgrades to the website these days. Now you can see cool new icons in the navigation bars, which make the website more comfortable. Also you can see the players’ map in the training, tactics and roster sections, with the maps line up order.
Now in your shortlist, you can see if the players that you have in your own shorlist are been bided at the moment. This is a good way to have a auctions shortlist, just adding the player to the shortlist.
And after a “buggy days”, we can enjoy the “next match” feature, where you can see your next match (into the top). Is very useful, because now there are several games a week with League cup, Champions Series, friendly, etc.

And finally, about the league cup, this edition is only played with some teams, but the next season, most of the teams will play it. Only the teams who qualified to Champions Series, and maybe the last teams of the last division won’t play it.

This week we will have some fresh news! Stay tuned!