Dream Team League recruitment thread

[wiegeabo]

Know all those tournaments that ask you to vote on which character would beat which character? Ever wanted to pit a group of super heroes against each other? How about a group of villains. Or maybe mix and match teams of characters in an epic tournament?

Well, you can in the Dream Team League.


So, here's how it's worked the last few seasons. Each owner puts together a team of characters. Each week, they pick 5 of their team to fight against the 5 their opponent picks. Everyone writes about how their team would win, trying to convince voters to vote for them. The teams with the most votes wins their match.

We have a season of matches, then playoffs for the best performing teams until we have a champion.

It's a lot of fun. Especially if you like debating comics. And we also shoot the ****, talking about comics and life in our general discussion thread.


There are some rules, but, as the League Commissioner (a title bestowed on me by the once great and almighty Johnny Blaze), I'm taking this opportunity to put all the rules on the line. Meaning they're all up for debate and change. So, here are those rules:

* Teams of 12 characters, 5 at a time battle in a match. (The other 7 stay on the 'bench')
* Characters are broken up into classes. Uber, Middleweight, Regular. Think Superman & Thor, Aquaman & Vision, Batman & Spider-Man falling into those ranks.
* You can take 2 ubers, 1 middleweight, and 2 regulars into a match. If you want to take a weaker team into the fight, go right ahead.
* Your team gets 24 hours of prep-time using whatever resources they'd normally have access to in order to prepare for the match.
* Write the fight however you want. Describe the battle, write the battle, or just make an argument why your guys win.
* You get a couple of days to write, a couple of days to read everyone else's stuff, and a couple of days to vote.
* A couple of times a season we have a special theme week to spice things up.


Those are the basics. There's some more detailed rules, which I'll get into later, but that's the gist of the League.


So, got any questions, suggestions, general interest? Let's here them.

 

[SenseiofCheese]

I've been meaning to sign up for the DTL for a while now, but where/how do I do that?

 

[wiegeabo]

I think you just did.

But where are the DTL threads is a good question.

The Rankings Thread where we talk about what characters can and can't do, figure out their ranking: uber, med, reg or tuber (too uber, meaning they're banned).

The Transactions Thread where we talk about lineups and make changes to lineups and teams.

The Discussion Thread where we talk about anything else. The League, comics, life, whatever. We had to create the other two threads because those posts were getting lost easily in this thread.

And there's the Update Thread with all the rules and current standings and teams/lineups as the season progresses. But there's no posting in there. It's just for informational purposes.

 

[SenseiofCheese]

Right, so....I choose my characters. Where do I post what characters I've chosen? The sheer number of threads is throwing me for a loop.

 

[wiegeabo]

Trust me, when we used to have one thread, it was much worse.

You can see the current teams in the Update thread. This is where you can find everyone's latest lineups, teams, win-loss records, and the rules.

The Transactions thread is where you post any changes to your team. Picking up characters, dropping them, trading characters with other players.


As for picking up a new team, that's part of the purpose of this thread. Everything is up for evaluation. I wouldn't be against restarting the League from scratch with a new draft and fresh new teams.

If we don't do that, then all you have to do is pick a team name and select 12 characters not owned by someone else.

Now, when you're picking characters, here's a couple of those more detailed rules I left out above (again, these rules are up for possible change, like all others):

* You can only choose characters from Marvel and DC
* Only two versions of the same character can be owned at any one time (three different Green Lanterns like Kyle, Hal, and Guy can be in play. But if Superman, and Superman Blue are being used, that's two Clark Kent's, and no more Clarks are allowed.)

 

[SenseiofCheese]

I'd feel kind of shaky about coming in with a new team mid-season, I gotta say. So whether you guys restart the season now, like you said, or play the current one out, count me in at the start of the next season.

 

[wiegeabo]

I think we'll be starting a new season and call this one finished early like we did season 4.


When we do a new season, I'd like to try and run it over the summer. Seems we always lose a number of players when school is going, and people tend to have the most free time during the summer months.


Also, if you have any ideas fro recruiting players, feel free to bring them up.