ORG Season 1 - Challenges and Breaks

Hello, guys. Welcome to the ORG - Challenges and Breaks thread. As the name of the thread indicates, here on this thread is where you should come to make challenges, announce breaks and also check if the player you plan to challenge is available for it, and also if you have any challenges. Here we will have a list of players on a challenge and on a break, so you can easily see who is available and who is not. We'll mention as well whenever there's a bonus round or any cool announcement, so you can plan the use of the breaks and challenges accordingly. The leaderboard will also be displayed somewhere below.

ABOUT THE CHALLENGES:

- You can challenge a player for a match (if he didn't took a break that week) to try to win more points than usual. But if you lose, you are going to lose more points than usual as well. The standard score for this will be gaining/losing extra points than what it was supposed to be. +10 or -10 points for challenges between people from the same rank or 1 rank apart. For 2 ranks apart we have +15/-15, for 3 ranks apart +20/-20, for 4 ranks apart it's +25/-25, for 5 ranks apart it's +30/-30 and for 6 ranks apart it's +35/-35 extra points. Right now, you can use up to 2 challenges for every 10 weeks and you can only challenge people from the same rank or ranks above you. Each player can be challenged 5 times for each 20 rounds passed on ORG and you have to announce your challenge at least one day before the beginning of a match. The player challenged is forced to accept the challenge.

PS: You don't HAVE TO use the challenges, it's totally optional.

ABOUT THE BREAKS:

- You can opt out of 5 weeks total in the season using a week break. Opting out allows you to not be matched with anyone and you don’t have to ghost the track that week, however you won’t gain any points. On the plus side, you don’t lose points either. You must opt out at least 1 day before the track and matches are announced.

Next Round:

Contest is over.

PLAYERS ON A BREAK:

No players are on a break because breaks are no longer accepted.

PLAYERS ON A CHALLENGE FOR THE NEXT ROUND:

Contest is over.

PLAYERS OUT OF CHALLENGES UNTIL THE END OF THE CONTEST:

All of the players in the contest, since the contest is over.

PLAYERS THAT CAN'T BE CHALLENGED ANYMORE UNTIL THE END OF THE CONTEST:

All of the players in the contest, since the contest is over.

PLAYERS OUT OF BREAKS UNTIL THE END OF THE CONTEST:

All of the players in the contest, since breaks are no longer allowed.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCENTS:

NO MORE FREE BREAKS STARTING ON WEEK 23*

*Due to the summer break for some players, we decided to give free breaks to everyone until the beginning of September. You could take breaks without losing any and without any penalties. Not valid anymore.

NO MORE BREAKS STARTING ON WEEK 31**

**We are doing this to prevent players trying to "secure their placement" taking 5 breaks in a row in the end, for example. This would take the fun out of the contest.

LIMITED CHALLENGES FOR WEEKS 31, 32 AND 33***

***To avoid players using challenges just to prevent high placed players of winning or gaining more points, we'll make a limitation in the challenges for those weeks. You will only be able to challenge players from your rank or up to 2 ranks higher.

EVEN MORE LIMITED CHALLENGES FOR WEEKS 34 AND 35****

****For the same reasons as we said above, we'll limit the challenges to happen freely only between players in the same rank. If it's between players 1 rank apart, we'll allow it if the challenge was made by the player with less points and if the difference of points between them isn't higher than 150.

FULL LEADERBOARD (in the 2nd page):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LaxV1H4EQkzOMJp-L20R764bzB0EAYhMdPwpcoE8UF4/edit#gid=245188596



PS: Let's try to always be clear whenever you decide to take a break, informing for how long you plan to stay out of the contest.
PS2: If you are planning to challenge someone, please check if they aren't on a break or already on a challenge first, and also if they aren't on an inferior rank than you.​

 

Just for the next round?

 

I challenge CHARREDLIZARD21

 

For how long? Let's try to always mention that.

 

I don't think it's that hard. It's an optional thing mostly for fun. For each 10 rounds, you get 2 challenge requests. You don't have to use them at any point, but you can use it to try to gain more points, avoid facing a certain player or whatever tactic you are planning. You can only challenge people in the same rank and the ranks above you. Players challenged have to accept the challenges, unless they are on a break.

For example, I'm on the Gold rank, so I can challenge players from the Gold, Platinum and Diamond rank at the moment. Let's see how it can go: I have 1374 points and challenged CHARREDLIZARD21 this week, that has 1328 points. Using the ELO Calculator to calculate the scores (that's what we use, having the K set as 100), I would gain 43.4 points (that would be rounded down to 43) in case of win in a standard scenario, with random matchups. Since it's a challenge with players from the same rank, 10 more points are added to that amount. So if I win next week I'll gain 53 points and CHARREDLIZARD21 will lose 53 points. Using the same calculator, since CHARREDLIZARD21 has less points than me, he would win 56.6 points (that would be rounded up to 57) in case of win in a standard scenario, but he will win 67 points since it's a challenge, if he wins. I would lose 67 points in that case.

So why use challenges then? Yeah, I can lose more points than usual if I lose, but if I win I will gain more points than usual as well, so that should be a calculated risk. For example, since RedOrBlue is the only one in the Diamond rank, if no one challenges him he'll be forced to be on a match with the top available player (not on breaks or chalenges) in the rank below, DrChill. If DrChill faces RedOrBlue, Cerasium will be the only one left in the Platinum rank, so he would be forced to face the top available player in the rank below, also known as me (before I made the challenge). So this is the kind of tactics you can use on certain scenarios. CHARREDLIZARD21 is for sure killing it in the contest, with a great win streak, but if there's no challenges between the top 4 players I would have to face Cerasium, which will probably happen eventually, but I'm not that eager to do it now, haha. Especially with college coming back for me, which leaves me having less time to ghost.

With this challenge I made, I'll be out of challenges until when the challenges get reseted in week 21, but I think it might be a good move for this round.

Also, each player can be challenged only 5 times for each 20 weeks, so then you can't become the only target for the players.

You can also use challenges to try to climb up the ranks quickly. For example, challenges from players in the same rank and 1 rank apart only give 10 additional points, but if you make challenges against someone many ranks above you and win, the bonuses can be bigger and there's 2 reasons for that:

1 - To value this big upset - If someone from Wood rank challenges RedOrBlue and wins, they will get other than the actual score earned (close to 100 points) an additional 35 points bonus (for being 5 ranks apart). Something like that is a rare thing to see, but if someone from a lower rank think they can pull this off, they are free to do it.

2 - To give some punctuaction to the challenged as well - Like, if the last place faced RedOrBlue, the actual score would be rounded down to 0, but with the challenge factor, he would get those 35 points for the win at least.

But to keep it short, challenges are meant to be used as an optional tactical advantage to either gain more points or maybe avoid certain matches or try to get some benefits in the next week's round. I hope you get the idea.

 

Sure.

 

You can't, since he's on Wood and you are on Bronze, 1 rank above.

 

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