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alright it's out you guys have a good time : youtu.be/3RLK7NpJ89A

After this season the season start will be always 1st of each month I think (but still have the 2 week break).

The 2 week break in my mind has dual purpose: give mods a break from the 24/7 things that is otherwise making them work and it builds up for a new season.

Otherwise I might see if I can make a script that pulls up the map lists of the most popular tournament featuring TO picked maps like Swim or Sink and just make the bans purely off that or something

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As a reminder bans apply to both SendouQ & tournaments with the "team pick maps" mode.

Related discussion on Discord from last September

discord.com/channels/299...

Any opinions what I should do with map/mode bans for SQ Season 11? As a reminder TW/SZ have all maps legal and TC/RM/CB have some bans but...

1) since SQ launch map quality improved with some updates
2) we anyway have teams picking maps

Is the whole banning now redundant?

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Then by default you can expect not to get in.

Yeah the standard is 5 team members as is today and you need to add the 4 to your roster that were on the leaderboard. No change in that regard as I already enforced that.

Yep correct but if you can't play with that 4 you can give your spot to the next team up and play with another roster in the qualifier

(but the restrictions who you team up with otherwise do not apply)

So for Finale -> you need the same roster as leaderboard
For qualifier -> team up with whoever you want as long as they played 7 SQ sets

⚠️ important ⚠️

As is today both for the Finale and qualifier you need at least 7 SQ sets played that season or you will not be able to join.

The format for the qualifier is planned to be double elimination that is not played out to the end (e.g. winners finals is not played).

The tournament still otherwise is similar: $500 in prizes and RR->SE Finale. SZ only.

3) Season Finale

New qualifier event one week before the Finale. Finale will have top 12 teams from leaderboard + 4 from qualifier.

I want to improve the major feeling of the event and give people a second chance who maybe just didn't get their preferred squad together during the season.

So e.g. for +1 50 passes (assuming enough suggests, 40%) but everyone with 60%+ also

40% is the standard that can be adjusted if for some reason there was extra-ordinary amount of mass down voting or something but I don't really expect adjusting it to be necessary. Just mentioning it in case

2) Plus Server voting changes as follows.

- 60% or more and you are guaranteed to pass
- 40% or less and you will not pass
- 50/75/150 with the highest voting score will pass for each tier.

The goal is to make sure the servers better keep the "pyramid" shape where it's kind of random today.

1) I'll add editing functionality to Plus Server suggests. This should make sure that you can add any results or w/e you want during the period and don't have to strategize too much to only open it late. The "no-edit" was a relic from when we had monthly voting. Comments will still have no editing.

Here are the planned changes to Plus Server and Season Finale for next season that starts next week.

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Amazing grand finals obviously but giving a chance for any team to show their potential on the big stage was one of the main goals I had with Season Finale. Very happy to see results like this 💪

SendouQ Major #10 🏆

w/ Noah, Gos, Jordan.

Always a blast to compete against strong japanese players, had a good clutch moment in game7 to secure my 4th SQ Major win!!

Top 4 now!!

In case you missed it new user profile design is currently in supporter early preview bsky.app/profile/send...

Added a new user profile widget: in-game badges! Show off 4 (side widget) or 8 (main widget) of your favorites.

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Here's every player making their #SendouQ Finale debut in season 10!

Who is gonna make waves in their first showing?

- Azu
- Momo
- め
- Treyshawn
- Hayden
- Goji
- Splatickle
- Riki
- Bonk
- Mirage
- Carlos?
- Allegro
- Ace
- No_Name
- Assis
- Kito
- Boopy

#compsplatoon

To me I can see it both ways but I see it up for discussion so was just thinking how I could see it working.

Thoughts?

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- in tournaments you can also anytime resent a link if needed and it will overwrite your previous link
- ofc it knows to use the link/code for the hosting team
- new toggle in settings to indicate you need/want to join with pool -> shows a warning and ppl know that pool is needed too

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Pools vs. Invite Link for SQ/tournaments

Which do you prefer? I've been thinking and I could see:

- if invite link sent to chat, make it an always visible clickable link
- qr code to quick access with mobile
- tournament remember invite link from previous rounds

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Want to learn more about the teams competing in SendouQ Season 10 Finale? Join us this Friday for our preshow!

@sapphireia.bsky.social
@rissahi.bsky.social
@cyrenbanshi.bsky.social
@obesetyrese.bsky.social
🎥 @pipedreamdx.com

🗓️ Friday, Feb. 27 @ 5PM PST / 8PM EST

As a side note crazy to think it's already been 10 full length seasons! Thanks for everyone who keeps playing season after season 🙇

Season 10 Finale teams confirmed. Definitely once more a tournament not to miss. Streamed live by players and @iplabs.ink this Saturday!

sendou.ink/to/2979/teams

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Added a new feature to tournaments: draft.

Draft is intended to be used when you want to work privately on a tournament in your organization before you are ready to make it public. Draft tournaments don't show on calendar and are not accessible via link unless you are a TO.

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That’s in development by the amazing @hfcred.dev