I am tabulating the votes. Will post results shortly.

Since the votes weren't public and I wasn't able to check the votes personally over the weekend, people who submitted votes which were lacking required information (a link to a ladder games page from Seasons XXXII, XXXIII, or XXXIV) were not able to be informed of this while voting was open as they had been in the past. I am giving those people an opportunity to resend their submissions with the correct information.

This must be done within 24 hours of this post by replying to the original PM you sent.

Players whose votes are not currently counted:

• machine-washed-bliss
• Turkish
• Nemo
• Nicforth
• FiveStarGeneral

Not surprised Fivestar is in that list

Hm, looks like our 2v2 ladder team is stupid also :(

What a cliffhanger.

A big thanks to everyone who voted. We used the Dowdall system to resolve votes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borda_count#Dowdall_system_(Nauru)

The next seasonal template will be Lombardy Swap.
Example game - https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=17525814

Hannibal at the Gates made a strong showing, while British Raj and Island of Ruins did not poll incredibly well. Voter turnout was significantly lower this season than last, and more people seemed to have issues voting correctly.

I would also ask for someone who is willing to cross-check the votes that were submitted to ensure I did not make any errors and also note that my vote is the first one in and wasn't edited at all (so I could not have altered my vote after having seen the results).

If your vote appears to have been counted incorrectly or if it wasn't counted and you think it should have been, please let us know in the next 24 hours. You can view all the votes here - http://bit.ly/2vmhRH8

Results:

Lombardy Swap            10.17
Hannibal at the Gates    9.00
British Raj              7.00
Island of Ruins          5.08

Edited 1/31/2019 04:46:53

That example game is last seasonal's template.

Thank you. It has been fixed.

Ok, what does WZ Wiki say about membership: It doesn't increase your chances at winning a game. Warzone doesn't sell additional armies, cards, or anything that would give paying players an advantage over free players. Players have the same chances to win as members.

I have to conclude that setting Seasonal ladder on Member only template violates the above rule. I am not a member, I can not play QM template with swapped picks (I know its a different map), I can not create game to practice seasonal template.

Without practice I have disadvantage over Members. Possibility to practice swapped picks on QM and selected template greatly increase chances at wining a game for Members. I request to remove members only template from Seasonal ladder.

@Nemo:

Better join the games I create while I still can :P

Thanks Onoma, you are good man, but thats not the same. If it would be possible to buy armies for money. Does asking other person to buy armies and gift me makes game fair?

lol

Practising is a form of cheating and should be banned!

More seriously, you could request that the Seasonal Ladder template always be made available to non-members once it is selected, until the seasonal is over? That seems more reasonable than eliminating all templates with mods.

Thanks Beren for organising. I forgot to vote, but would probably have voted for Lombardy Swap precisely because it's completely new to me (there's a decent chance that my first game on it will be in the seasonal).

onoma failed to mention nemo that i gave him the coins for our practice games ;) but yeah would be nice to get them back. good template though, gonna be fun.

Yoooo, this template is dope. If this is the kinda stuff that keeps getting voted into the seasonal ladder then this whole thing is a great success!


And not just empty words here, first seasonal I have signed up for in a long time.

the template is super cool - just tried it out

the template is super cool - just tried it out

Unfortunately, I have learned that the Seasonal Ladder doesn't currently have the ability to support mods. Since Lombardy Swap utilizes the Picks Swap mod, it won't be possible to use that template this season. I know this will be disappointing to those of you who were excited about this template being used, but hopefully at some point in the future we will be able to accommodate templates like this.

In the meantime, I have removed the votes for Lombardy Swap and can announce that we will be proceeding with Season XXXV on Hannibal at the Gates (https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=17513723), which easily won with Lombardy Swap excluded. Voting results can be seen here: http://bit.ly/2vmhRH8

Pretty sad, that mods aren't supported. Including such stuff to seasonal ladder should be prio 1 for Fizzer.

Man, why you gotta say that right after he released one of the best updates ever, especially with CL coming up... :/