As most people familiar with the League of Erroneous Aspirations (LEA) know, our focus is on 5v5 games. For our season 3 tournament, we have decided to allow other clans to submit teams to the tournament if they wish. We don't consider this a clan vs. clan event, but rather a team vs. team event.

Pertinent Details:
Tournament start date: January 1st, 2015
Template: https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?TemplateID=548980

If you would like to participate in this tournament, please post your 5 person roster (with links to the player's profiles) below.

A couple other minor rules that I feel should be mentioned:
1. The games all have a 2-day autoboot, so make sure your players are active!
2. Player substitutions are not allowed mid-tournament.
3. Only complete teams from one clan will be accepted. No mixed-clan teams or non-clan affiliated players will be allowed.
*However, if you are non-clan affiliated and want to participate, post below and we might be able to issue you an invite really quick and get you onto a last-minute ad hoc team.

Thanks for your attention (and I hope this doesn't clog up the clan forum page too much!)

Invited Teams:

LEA Teams:
The Wild Beasties...........................................-Confirmed
The Comrades................................................-Confirmed
The Pretty Princesses.......................................-Confirmed
LOL All Stars.............................................. -Confirmed
The Five Guys.............................................. -Confirmed
The FTA ....................................................-Confirmed
Les Borreaux............................................... -Confirmed
The Dangerous Dafodils..................................... -Confirmed
The StraitAtEm............................................. -Confirmed
The Globetrotters.......................................... -Confirmed
The Washington Generals.................................... -Confirmed
Saving Face................................................ -Confirmed
Angels of Death............................................ -Confirmed
The Gunslingers............................................ -Confirmed
Dr. Stupid's Alts.......................................... -Confirmed
The Odd Evens.............................................. -Confirmed
The Wazzu Babies........................................... -Confirmed
CataClysm Killers.......................................... -Confirmed

Non-LEA teams:
Appalachian Warlight Federation Team A......................-Confirmed
Appalachian Warlight Federation Team B......................-Confirmed
Appalachian Warlight Federation Team C......................-Confirmed
After_Dark................................................. -Confirmed
The Royal Falcons.......................................... -Confirmed
LN......................................................... -Confirmed
The Warlighters............................................ -Confirmed
The "G" Spot............................................... -Confirmed

Edited 1/1/2015 05:24:14

The Royal Falcon Team

Team Captain: https://www.warlight.net/Profile?p=4737892289

Players:
https://www.warlight.net/Profile?p=2435849618
https://www.warlight.net/Profile?p=3729159872
https://www.warlight.net/Profile?p=1137733542
https://www.warlight.net/Profile?p=9020293974

Edited 12/25/2014 03:57:43

Why are lost wolves not considered "Invited Teams"?

or the other few clans in that matter

It says Invited teams, with 2 sub categories of Lea and Non-LEA

Lucid, it is what Mr. Fall said. Also, the "invited teams" are just clans that have done events with us in the past or are clans that maintain good relations with us. Really, we welcome ANY clan that wishes to participate in this tournament to do so.

Can Gridlock join

Not until you recruit two more clan members. You have to have 5 from one clan to participate. (But yes, if Gridlock can come up with 5, we will happily have them in the tourney).

We know

What would be "mean as crap" for me to do would be to discuss this in a public forum. I have no problem with you personally and don't want to get into a public discussion of your merits or shortcomings. If you want to discuss any LEA decisions with me in private, I will be more than happy to give you any clarity you feel you need.

Hi I would like to know that if I assemble a team if I may be allowed to enter this tournament?

Edited 12/19/2014 02:03:55

Rick,

Please go through your clan leader for that sort of thing. Any wolf clan team is welcome!

thankyou

These settings are bad IMO:

-2 day boot - you will have a lot decided by boot as normal is 3 days. Is making all turns 1 day faster really worth deciding games on boots?

-No attack by % - why exclude this option?

-map - I have never played it, but why is it ALL blue and purple? Some colors would go a long way to make bonuses easier to see.

-Full distribution 5 picks - picking 50 spots is pretty damn tedious. Anything over 25 is really. Why not do 3 picks per player with random warlords?

We thank you for your input, Chris!

Why the 2 day autoboot?
The 2 day autoboot has been the standard in LEA since the very beginning, so if any games are decided by it, it will probably be a non-LEA team that gets socked by it. (Which is why we specifically called it out as a warning).

Why this map?
Because one of my best friends in Warlight, NinjaNic made it. He is also the clan's Cartographer of Catastrophes (chief mapmaker). I have a tremendous amount of fun playing on his maps and would be happy to share that fun with any other players that also enjoy those sort of things!

As far as attack by percentage and distribution mode, you would have to consult our tournament director, Kasparov. He designs all our official tournament templates. I will be happy to bring this thread to his attention so he can come explain himself.

For better or for worse, the LEA focuses more on fun team play than on strategic purity. (Probably that's one reason why you rarely see an LEA tag high on a ladder. lol). Either way, I guarantee you all that I will have a blast playing these bad settings with my friends. If anyone feels they would not have fun playing these settings, I would personally recommend not participating in this particular event.

Yeah, I get that it isn't intended to be that strategic, but I am guessing %75 of players will end up not picking 50 spots and just leave it up to luck. Especially with no wastelands.

But if they do, 50 spots is very painful to have to pick. Especially when coordinating with 4 other players and the shorter boot time. If you compare it to a standard 3v3 Europe game, you have over twice the picks to make and 2/3 of the time to do them in.

There are an awful lot of strategic template tournaments floating around.

Anyone who has taken part in an LEA event has an opportunity to influence future events, and this Season's template is testament to that input.

You can't please all of the people all of the time, and the template for the season's matches is only one part of the enjoyment to be garnered from playing the game. We tend to focus more on team interaction.

Okay here's my team
1. me
2. Stealth90 https://www.warlight.net/Profile?p=4022913705
3. marsad PL https://www.warlight.net/Profile?p=7523770695
4. BilboSwaggins https://www.warlight.net/Profile?p=1023171825
5. Andrew https://www.warlight.net/Profile?p=2535704693

I see your point, but I'm not sure the math adds up...
If the template says 50 picks/player, that is certainly not correct. It's only 5 picks a player. I've played this exact template 3 times completely through, and all three times, I've only made 10-13 total picks and I've never seen more than 4 total lost picks by any one player. I'm assuming that I won't lose all my picks because the other team certainly won't be picking on top of themselves just like my team won't be.
Lol. Now you've got me thinking maybe I screwed up and posted the wrong template, but I'm on mobile, so I can't check. Lol. The suspense is killing me!