I don’t see how map size is an issue considering the extra armies per territories, negative sanctions and the ships. All test games that I played (20) lasted between 2-12 turns, 7-12 being the average.
All the other games linked here took practically the same number of turns to complete as this.
The template also uses light fog, so it’s generally clear when the game is decided. Generally as opponents playing cards is not visible.
If ladder position manipulation strategies (such as stalling) are official rules, it would be very clear to see who’s stalling while the game is still underway.

That just makes it worse. High income templates come down to predictions on where and where not to stack. Imo the template needs two things

No extra armies per territory
4-6 picks to better cover the map (5 is what I was thinking.

Plus it has bomb-cards.

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 Timid Lands.
Example game - https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=18020778

Olympus Cat Fight was a distant second, with British Raj bringing up the rear.

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 by posting in this thread in the next 24 hours. You can view all the votes here - http://bit.ly/2vmhRH8

Results:

Timid Lands            11.17
Olympus Cat Fight       9.50a
British Raj             8.67

Wow, not many votes...

Ok, since Raj has been not selected for every season since we started voting, can it stop being selected for voting.

Rip Gotham :(

Surprised how Gotham fell into cards and not map size too large when template panel decided... both Gotham and Buccaneers have about the same map size....

I mean buccaneers has 3 picks on a pretty huge map, gotham has 7 picks + INSS system which makes the size less of an issue, in addition buccaneers is WR which can make expansion even slower.

British Raj is obviously best. :)

Cant keep it, so I will share.

1. Voting 3 days, out of which 2 days are weekend. I missed voting just because of that reason. If I understand correctly, a total of 16 people voted. I think it shows how bad the voting was organised, if 202 people a ranked last season, but only 16 vote.

2. Voting should include a valid link to your ladder team's games page, not the team page. The reason for this given: easier to verify that 20 games were played. While there is a separate post about voting correctly, is this really an issue with 16 players voting? This season there is no information about wrong links, just the post. While previous season wrong link was given by me, bliss, Turkish, FSG... I would say people are not new to WZ, so its a question if requirements are really reasonable.

Thanks for reading.

Good points, Nemo.

edit: BUT - number of voters is more than 16. There are 15 voters on the "Season XXXV" sheet and 16 voters voters on the "Season XXXVI" sheet.

Edited 5/7/2019 09:02:07

If I understand correctly, a total of 16 people voted. I think it shows how bad the voting was organised, if 202 people a ranked last season, but only 16 vote.

Being ranked does not mean having completed 20 games. You only need 7 games completed to get ranked, so the set of people being eligible to vote is smaller than 202

i also missed the voting completely, was too fast

I was busy at weekends, otherwise would have wanted to vote and for Timid Land, so not much lost for me. Actually it would be interesting to see afterwards if those 16 at all play to end. I guess I will check it and maybe previous seasons as well. We can´t say that 30 votes for 200 players would be much either. I would settle for 50 votes.

It kinda screams for "Seasonal XXXi Template selection" in a form like "Map of the Week: Week 223" voting on Dashboard. Otherwise its going to be those occasional forum lookers who get to vote on tiny time window.

Edited 5/9/2019 19:03:06

I also missed this, which is my own fault (wasn't following last season), but I agree that a wider voting window would be nice.

Thanks for organising it again. Not a whinge, but a constructive suggestion.... It would be good if the panel were open to refining the template from the one that is submitted. I left comments in the Timid Land tournament chat at what seemed the appropriate time - when I was in the final and had as many games as possible to base my views on - but it seems the decision was already made by then.

I'm a bit sad about this because Timid Land has the potential to be the best reverse-kill-rate template, but with such limited picking options in the majority of games, I still rate Fast Earth (which the panel has rejected at least once) higher. Reduce the number of wastelands, and problem solved!

Yeah, the timing was a little bit unfortunate. Half of Europe has holidays on first week of May. I couldn't vote either (was out of my town and with no Internet access).

I'd vote for Timid Lands anyway so I'm not complaining, just pointing out things for future.