Season XLII is drawing to a close, so it is time for us to start thinking about the template on which we will play Season XLIII.

The template will be selected following the same process used in the past three seasons. As a reminder, this process is broken into three phases as detailed below.
Phase 1 - The community can nominate templates for the seasonal.
Phase 2 - The template panel will prune the submissions down to a small number.
Phase 3 - Anyone who has completed all 20 games in any one of the last 3 seasonals (Season XL onwards) will be allowed to vote (no alts). We will resolve votes using the Dowdall system- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borda_count#Dowdall_system_(Nauru)

Please consider the following while submitting templates in Phase 1:

• Quality of template
  
• Finish in a reasonable amount of time
  
• Diversity of settings (WR/SR, MA, fog levels, armies per territory, income cap etc.)
  
• Diversity of maps
  
• Diversity across seasons (i.e. don't repeat previous seasons)
  

Deadlines

• Phase 1 - Monday, January 11th, 2021
  
• Phase 2 - Monday, January 18th, 2021
  
• Phase 3 - Monday, January 25th, 2021
  

There are nearly two weeks until the template submission deadline, so if you are working on a template or have a new and largely unplayed template that you would like to submit make sure you have tested it extensively with many test games, ideally with players who have experience creating or testing strategic templates, as those are the types of people that make up the template panel. For new templates it might also help your case to post multiple several games to help the panel get a better sense of how the template plays.

Let's pick a great template for Season XLIII. I hope everyone participates in this process and we can have a good season! Please nominate templates on this thread by providing a link to a finished game with the exact settings.

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Thread for Season XLII:
https://www.warzone.com/Forum/449888-season-xlii-template-selection

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Phase 1:
The community has nominated these templates:

• Small Brawl
  
• Basileia
  
• Yin'angzhou
  
• Phobia SR
  
• Phobia WR
  
• Great Lakes
  
• Fogless FIghting
  
• British Raj
  
• Lion's Japan
  
• Fast Earth
  
• Final Fantasy VII
  
• Elitist Africa

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Final Results:
The next season will be on Great Lakes (https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=25193910).

Voting results:

Great Lakes     15.83
Phobia SR        9.50
Phobia WR        9.42

Edited 2/2/2021 22:38:57

Nominate small brawl:
Ex Game 1: https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=24454459
Ex Game 2: https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=24454489

And Basilea:
Ex Game: https://www.warzone.com/multiplayer?GameID=25089613

I nominate Yinyang'zhou
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=24872891
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=23168686

According to my MTL survey, Phobia is the most popular template that wasn't a seasonal yet, so here we go:
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=14174994

and the winner of AI's new template competition, Great Lakes:
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=24675976

Edited 1/3/2021 23:35:18

Fogless Fighting
Probably the first QM template that made it to 70+ votes in 48 hours.
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=24602030
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=24469117

I nominate 1V1 ladder template

Great Lakes would be an awesome seasonal!

The template has been updated a little though.

It should have:

Superbonuses as +1,

and yes to all of

Can attack by percentage:?
Can transfer-only:?
Can attack-only:?

Ursus, do you have an updated template with these changes?

Great lakes 1v1: https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=25193910
With attack by %, attack- and transfer-only and superbonuses of 1.
(unfortunately the QM-version does not have attack by %, I mailed Fizzer about it but it cannot be changed unfortunately :( )

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Edited 1/3/2021 23:39:08

I agree that AI's template tourney winner Great Lakes would be a good choice

Yeah let's just scrap the voting this time, we know the winner already.

MME 1v1

Phobia SR and cyclic:
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=14174994

Braj

https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=24526124

https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=25185249

lions japan
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=25152376

archipielago

Elitist Africa
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=25267168

Fast Earth
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=25036089

Final Fantasy 7
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=23834579

Template submission has closed.

https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?TemplateID=1283876

This is the correct template for Tokyo.

100% killrate was wrong by mistake.

The community can vote on the seasonal template (Phase 3) from the list below:

Great Lakes                    https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=25193910
Phobia SR                      https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=14174994
Phobia WR                      https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=23917922

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As mentioned earlier, we will be using the Dowdall system to resolve votes. Anyone who has completed all 20 games in any one of the last three seasonals (Season XL onward) is eligible to vote. Please order all the templates as per your preference (1 is most preferred, 5 is least). If you don't list all of the templates, your vote will be ignored. Also include a valid link to your ladder team's games page. Make sure to link the ladder games page not the team page, as this makes it easier to verify that 20 games were played.

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Voting will close on Monday, February 1st, 2021.
All votes will be made public after the voting closes.
Votes can be submitted by sending a Warzone Mail to this account. Do not edit your message after the deadline or it may be ignored.

Example:

Subject: Season XLIII Template Votes
1 Great Lakes
2 Phobia SR
3 Phobia WR

https://www.warzone.com/LadderGames?ID=4075&LadderTeamID=25290

Edited 1/24/2021 19:56:54