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[Season XI winners] - [4.11.2005 ; 12:50 am - by *DAMN Mauti]
Vienna, 3.11.2005

Season XI

Season XI was finished last friday and the proud winners are:

Clan ladders:
Raven Shield Team & Advanced: BBs|
Ghost Recon Team: [a]
Ghost Recon Advanced: GhRa>
Ghost Recon CQB: z][t

FFA ladders:
Ghost Recon FFA: Ghostsniper
Raven Shield: Twist

Further I would like to mention the =US= clan for doing the most cbs this season overall! I hope you had a good time.

Congratulations! I really loved to observe the close finish in the GR Team and Advanced ladder.

Season XI had a few pro and contra, and I would like to start off with the bad news: the cb activity was decreasing which has a few reasons: first the overall activity in GameRanger is decreasing since months, many people get already tired off Ghost Recon, while Raven Shield never took off as much as GhR or Rogue Spear did when it entered the Mac market. The reason is pretty simple: high system requirements. So it's no big surprise that even the GhR demo gets almost as much play as Raven Shield. I even don't dare to talk about the great team orientated Battlefield with its superb Desert Combat AddOn. This game, although it got GameRanger support a few months back, still doesn't make it into the TOP 10 games of GameRanger, which translates into less than 265 games played per week. Sad, because it's a great game. Once again very demanding system requirements, together with the very long(too long) wait for GameRanger support obviously killed this game before it even had a chance.

Another reason why I think we had less played cbs this season, beside that it was a few weeks shorter than season X, was that the break between season X and XI was too long, which was my fault. The preseason couldn't fill the gap. However we have learned from it and season XII gonna start in less than 2 weeks from now.

Alright enough contra, because there are also a few good things to report:

There have been almost no cb disputes, the clans that played obviously had their fun. The *DBL Final Map Pack was a huge success and was downloaded more than 2000times since it's introduction.
Further we could gain a lot of experience with the Advanced ladders and once the script supports it right it will allow a lot of possibilities for future ladder gaming. For season XII I hope I can write a small script addition so you don't have to double submit the cbs. However how did you see the Advanced ladders? Tell us in the BL Forum!

Critics:

there hasn't been much critic or suggestions what to make better. The only big discussion was about the finals, and yes we will reintroduce them for season XI to all Team ladders with some special tweaks: due the lower activity only the Top 4 clans, reaching a minimum level of activity of each ladder gonna make it into the finals. If not enough fullfill this requirement the finals won't be hold. Otherwise the SuperFinals gonna be more or less the same as in season X.

Suggestions:

wishes have been expressed for adding new gametypes to several GhR ladders including the FFA ladders. We are right now discussing the possibilites in the BL forum and the admin zone.
Readding America's Army ladder!? In the past AA never took off in the *DBL, but may you have some suggestions to make it more attractive here and how we could organise cbs easier for AA!?

Future:

Season XII gonna start probably on 14th november, maybe 19th, but it will be announced here until monday. Winner icons and the according entries into the Hall of Fame will be done also very soon. Please be patient.
*DBL 2.0 is still under construction and won't see the light of the day before 2006. A public dev thread will be created once the theoretical part of my diploma thesis is done.

More news as they come. Have a nice weekend, yours,

Mauti
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