360 Online League Ideas (intelligent suggestions welcome)

**Thurman91** · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:22 pm Post subject:

makes me sad that i have a ps2 and not an XBOX 360, PS3 or Wii

if these online leagues were set up, could i use a friend's xbox live account to play against others? his scores are far lower than mine so scorehero scores will have to be used to put me in a division, but shouldnt be too much of a problem.

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**Celeles** · Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Posts: 391 Location: Skaville, USA

Honestly, this is the best idea I've heard in a long freaking while. I seriously like it a LOT better than the current system, which required you to play the same song over and over and over and over again until you want to drive your guitar through your TV. Plus it would be a lot easier to keep organized than the current system, and someone's accidentally dropping out of a game would be a lot easier of an issue to deal with than say, scores being submitted late or GHevents crashing.
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**Rhinox** · Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 91

hmm... I like this idea but I see an issue. Saeson length. As much fun as it would be to play people twice and play at least everybody once and whatever, its just not reasonable. Lots of people will lose interest I think if the season incuding playoffs is 4-6 months long.

How about a format like this: 2 conferences, 3 divisions per conference, 5 players per division for a total of 30 players per league.

Conference 1:
DivA: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
DivB: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
DivC: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Conference 2:
DivD: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
DivE: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
DivF: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Now, suppose I am player A1. during the season, I would play the other 4 players in my division, 1 player randomly chose from DivB, one player Randomly chosen from Div C, and one player randomly chosen from all of conference 2, for a total of 7 regular season matches. My schedule might look like this

Wk1: A2, Wk2: A3, Wk3: A4, Wk4: A5 Wk5:B#, Wk6: C#, Wk7: DEF#

Now, for playoffs, you take each div winner and the next top 3 players as wild cards and have a 4 week playoff bracket.

This gives a total of 11 weeks to determine a champion, instead of something like a 13-16 week regular season and then playoffs still.

Of course, the challenge would be to generate a full league schedule with no conflicts so that everyone can play everyone.

Oh, and one more thing. For as even competition as possible, players could be seeded into the divisions based on scorehero career score in the following order:

A1, D1, B1, E1, C1, F1, A2, D2, B2, E2, C2, F2, A3, etc....

Thats all for now

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**lazor** · Joined: 24 Sep 2007 Posts: 1079

I would join if this is done on the Wii. I like this alot better than the regular leagues, because I always get crushed.

**larius** · Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Greesnsboro, NC

Can someone explain why this wouldn't work on a PS3? We have the ability to play specific people. One person creates a session, and the other joins. If someone else joins you quit and remake the session, a pain, but doable. Correct me if I'm wrong.

**M002** · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:14 am Post subject:

Okay, I said this in a battle Thread that got shut down in the League Forum, I didn't bother reformatting it to this thread, so, if you don't know what im' talking about, forget about it, enjoy my ideas:

Yeah, this thread will probably be shut down, locked, or moved to the Miscellaneous, this would be more of a rivalry
but this would definetly be fun, I'm a much better battler than FC'er, I can own at battles on hard or expert, but I can't FC for crap
so, a league would be great if possible
only thing is, you need lots of room on your friendslist, simillar timing schedules, and lack of cheating
thats why I suggest:
1. Divide league into regionals to help with timing
2. One match a week or 3 days
3. Have it done similarily to gamebattles, report the win or loss, and have the ability to dispute the loss or win up to 24 hours after the results are in
4. Based on popularity, if there is a large amount of signups, do a pre-eliminating round, or just go straight to Groups
I believe playing this like a tournament will help keep it organized, groups of 4+ will play one match of 7 against each opponent in their respective groups, top two advance to the playoffs
5. Group winners are determined either by #of matches won and Rounds WIN/LOSS ratio
6. Playoffs are done in the fashion of best of 3 matches of 5, Best of 3 matches, if tied after two matches, Win/Loss ratio determines who hosts the last match, keep in mind that No song is repeated
7. Difficulty must be agreed on by both players, if both players want to play Medium, that is acceptable for that match, if one player wants to play Medium and the Other Wants to Play expert, a compromise will be done as they play hard, if One person wants to play Hard and the other Expert, Expert is the default difficulty, its a battle league, so a bit of skill is required, such as being able to get to the 8th tier in expert

Well, after all of those rules, i'm sure there are a million more, but governing and running a league is tough
I'd love to do something like that, but its too time consuming, and I Just don't have the time outside of the summer
so, if someone starts this up, I'll be glad to join

**ClarkIR** · Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 162 Location: Evansville, IN

ok, im the one the made the battle thread and this is what id do if i actually ran the league

#1: XBL only (for the moment)

#2 Registration Requires SH Name/ XBL Gamertag/ Level of Difficulty

#3 Break it up into 3 leagues (only medium, only hard, only expert) And you can only participate in one leage and must qualify for medium to prevent ass stomping in an unfair fashion.

#4 Split Up X number of players into groups like they do in Soccer. If they are a bunch of people that sign up (ex 128 for expert) break them up into groups, and then have one group qualify up, and another go to consolation matches. Try to make the groups fair and consistent as possible

#5 Matches will be held Mon-Sat. Sunday will be used as a day to post results and prep for the following week.

#6 A point percentage system would be installed this way it prevents people from being punished by having individuals who sign up and not participate screw you over. A win is 3 points, a loss is 1 point, and a no show is 0 points. this would help individuals who have played less matches due to dropouts. You would have to maintain fairly consistent attendance seeing as it has a huge impact on the way the league functions, so a 3 miss rule w/no excuse and auto eliminated would be a good catch.

#7 the match consists of a standard best of 3 series. You may only pick a song once per week Ideally you would get put into a group with 3 other people, and be required to play them during the week. During this week you can only pick a song once. You cannot pick the same song for every match. Again certain songs would not be permitted. Both Players must submit results.

#8 creation of schedule, playoffs and other league infrastructure would be created upon knowing the amount of participants.

just some rough draft stuff
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**bloodrose** · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 78 Location: joliet, IL

we should get this started. i would be willing to join and i would love to help out
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**flyingrossie** · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 1514 Location: Wisconsin

This would be an awesome thing. Hope it gets organized.

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**lassise** · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 332 Location: Ellicott City, MD

maybe instead of doing as a "league" style, it could be done more as a tournament style. Just set a time like 1pm est and have everybody meet up in an IRC channel and just have the commissioner take roll, and designate brackets

I also think an OGL style bracket would be cool where you challenge an opponent on a ladder style
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