SM Rando League notes

LEAGUE FORMAT

Depending upon the number of entrants, the league may be split into 2 leagues (Invitational and Open) with the split primarily based on overall skill level. Each league will operate under the same basic ruleset (with adaptations to open as needed to accommodate as many entrants as possible):

1. The League consists of multiple divisions possibly in multiple conferences (depending on number of entrants.)
2. Each team will play each team in their own division and then a selection from the other divisions.
3. Each team must consist of exactly 3 players, each with a specific designation of Power, Varia or Gravity chosen prior to the start of week one.
4. Each team must submit a team name.
5. Teams can replace one player per season.
6. Each week teams are responsible for scheduling two races with their designated opponents.
    A specific discord channel will be available for this.
7. Each of the week’s two races must be completed by a different team member.
Exception: Co-op and multi races may be run by the same 2 team members if desired.
Note: With two races scheduled each week, one team member will not compete during any given week. Exceptions could be co-op and multi weeks.
If teams are unable to resolve matchups themselves, admins will randomize who races who.
8. Every team member must race a minimum of 5 times per season.
9. At the end of the season, each team who has a member that has not raced the minimum of 5 races will be deducted 4 points for each race below the minimum that player did not participate in.
10. If you cannot get your match scheduled, please let an administrator know as soon as possible.
11. The race week begins on Monday and ends on Sunday.
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REGISTRATION
Registration for the League opens February 8th and ends February 22nd 2021 at 5pm EDT.
• A full, 3-person team must be assembled at the time of registration.
• A #team_search channel has been made available to use to recruit and build your own team.

SCHEDULE
Regular Season
Will begin on March 1
• The regular season lasts seven weeks with two races per team per week.
• Weeks start on Monday

RACE FORMAT
Each week the racing format rotates.


Schedule (subject to change)
1. Multiworld (Tournament, M/m) https://sm.samus.link/
2. DASH https://dashrando.github.io/
3. Chozo
4. Route Rando coop - branching https://metroidconstruction.com/resource.php?id=102
5. M/m (Boss)
6. Full (Random Start Location)
7. Area (Boss) coop

Weeks 3, and 5-7 will use the VARIA site at http://varia.run/

Progression Speed in all VARIA seeds will be randomized between slow, medium, fast, basic, speedrun and VARiable. Logic for VARIA seeds will be the same as in previous seasons. DASH and Multiworld logic are based on Total’s tournament logic. Route Rando logic branching, progressive difficulty, dual item randomization, Hell Run Lvl. 0, skip ceres station.

Multiworld winners will be determined by the first team to finish, coop week winners will be determined by average time.

SCORING
Win - 3 points
Loss - 0 points
Tie - 1 point
Forfeit times are 3 hrs

TIE BREAKERS

Tie breakers will ONLY be used for seeding position and will NOT be used to decide who is in or out of the playoffs.

Tie breakers will be decided by the following order:
1) Overall wins
2) Head to head
  2a) If the tie is among 3 or more teams, best aggregate record against other teams involved in the tie
3) Fewest forfeits
4) (In the event of a tie for entry to playoffs) 1 Game Race-off - One player, any team member can be selected for this race. (Randomised between single player modes from reg season.)