In response to complaints about the unacceptable crappiness of IDL's default servers, TT admins Nostar and Ladna have fired their old server host and hired a new one.  The board played a few rounds on them this afternoon and the response was very positive.  No more obvious errors, no sudden ***, lower pings, and less packet loss.  Try them out for yourself!

IDL A-D: 216.52.143.234:11022 - 25
Priv: 216.52.143.234:11014

Here is some info on the new host for the tech-savvy and curious: https://www.nfoservers.com/order-dedicated-server.php

This Friday, right after CTB vs TCB ends, be there for the first Reserve League priv session!

Do you want to improve your game? Do you want to catch the eye of a captain in need of fresh blood? Are you just sick of warming the bench? Everyone's welcome!

Friday @ 9 PM EST, Total Trash Chicago

Time subject to change depending on the length of the IDL match. Feel free to comment if you wish for an alternate server location.

Here we go, onto Week 4! The map this week is the winner of the first IDL mapping contest, Collision's map19.

CTB vs TCB: Friday @ 8:30PM
SUC vs PBH: Saturday @ 7:00PM
PDU vs KGB: Saturday @ 7:30PM
KNF vs SGS: Saturday @ 9:30PM
WAD vs MAD: Sunday @ 7:00PM
BBC vs RRS: Sunday @ 8:00PM

Required demos as of 11:00 PM EST are as follows:

ALL DEMOS ACCOUNTED FOR

If these are not submitted by 11:59PM EST tonight: Tuesday, January 24th, players will suffer infractions for this week's games.

What is an infraction? This is the standing definition on the rules page:

Each player that plays in a round, no matter the length of time, is required to submit a demo either by Wednesday of the following week, or before their team's next game, whichever comes first. The penalties for not submitting a demo are as follows:

    First Infraction: Three minute power play.
    Second Infraction: Player is suspended for one round of play.
    Third Infraction: Player is ejected from the league.

The definition of what a power play constitutes is later described towards the bottom of the page. For added clarity, any additional time on the powerplay is nullified upon on opponent's flag capture (NOT the team with the powerplay in effect). There is confusion upon this aspect due to wording that will be clarified further in the future.

If you have issues uploading demos please contact the admins ASAP.

Also get your availabilities in to your captains / HumanBones if you haven't already! You can be given a Scheduling Infraction if you do not do this.

I wanted to wait until I scheduled PDU vs SGS, but.. Hate and Rus are still in the same division after however many seasons and they still can't find good times to play each other. I know they secretly love playing each other twice a season because it drives me nuts. Anyway when we finally get that game settled, I will add it to the rest of the list!

EDIT: PDU vs SGS: Sunday @ 8:30PM
EDIT: CTB vs MAD: Sunday @ 7:00PM

SUC vs TCB: Thursday @ 11:30PM
KGB vs RRS: Saturday @ 8:00PM
KNF vs BBC: Saturday @ 9:00PM
WAD vs PBH: Sunday @ 9:00PM

With the introduction of the new website, there came with it a lack of reliable demo uploading. This has since been fixed by Ladna and you will be able to upload demos from the profiles page, which can be seen in the upper right navigation bar. Alternatively, you can click here to go there directly. You will be able to log in with your forums username and password in order to upload demos.

Note that you will not be able to upload a demo for the week your team has played if statistics have not been run on that matchup. Be patient if the week has not ended or talk to an admin about running stats so you will be able to get your demos into the database in a timely manner!

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In addition, an effort will be made to post gametimes every week in a post on the front page for easier viewing. Since it is Saturday, tomorrow's games are scheduled as such:

CTB vs PBH @ 6:00PM EST
SGS vs KGB @ 11:30PM EST
SUC vs WAD @ 11:55PM EST

IDL-R: The Reserve League

Due to a large number of players left in Free Agency (FA), a development league will be held. It will copy the system of IDL private games instead of the league itself. This means participation is strictly voluntary and the sessions aren't dependant on attendance of whole teams.

Organization:

The IDL-R privs are announced and organized by the commissioner and the board members on a convenience basis. Any one of the league administrators may organize an IDL-R priv by himself at a suitable time. The session needs to be supervised in the server all the time by a league admin or a deputized IDL player. The length of the session, maps used and player picks are to follow the customs of IDL privs. Any disputes are decided by the supervising admin or deputy. The IDL-R priv ends if there is no supervisor present.

Participants:

The reserve league is focused on developing FA players, therefore they take precedence over other participants. If enough FA players gather for an IDL-R session, the games should be played by them exclusively. The supervisor may allow the "benched fourths" to participate on an equal level. This means players on IDL team rosters whose games were already played and who weren't used for them. If no such players are around or there is not enough of them to proceed with the session, other IDL or even non-IDL players may be admitted in by the supervisor. The supervisor may allow or disallow additional players to play with the skill level of the free agency in mind.

Game system:

Team captains are selected via randcaps vote, the picking order is selected with a coinflip vote (regardless of pings). The first captain may pick a player or a map choice, which is selected after teams are filled.
Games are played in a 3v3 format to mimic IDL.
Games count towards player statistics. Rounds played, won, lost, tied and abandoned will be counted towards an IDL-R player ladder. This will help IDL captains in estimating player quality and activity. Non-FA participants will also be evaluated.

Supervising:

The supervisor stays on the green team, records a demo and logs the game. To ease up the evaluation process, he/she should also take screenshots of round results. Players disconnecting early will have the game count towards abandoned rounds. The supervisor polices the games, allows non-FA players to participate and disqualifies FA players if they break rules or behave in a disruptive manner.

Due to a minor issue, the Schedule page is only showing the day that all the matches are scheduled for, and not the time. Until Ladna the slave can fix this issue, might as well post the times here!

MAD vs KNF: Thursday @ 8pm EST
PBH vs KGB: Friday @ 8pm EST
PDU vs SUC: Saturday @ 7:30pm EST
TCB vs BBC: Saturday @ 10pm EST
CTB vs RRS: Sunday @ 6pm EST
SGS vs WAD: Sunday @ 8pm EST

Today is the first official day of the IDL Winter 2012 Season! This is a reminder to all Captains that your teams schedule for this week needs to be sent to me by Tuesday @ 11:59:59 PM. Any team that does not submit their availability to me by that time will be penalized.

Be sure to visit the Week 1 discussion and results page. I'd also suggest that all players take some time to read the Rules page as there have been several changes. Looking forward to a fun season!

The IDL Winter 2012 schedule has been released.

CHECK IT OUT