05-11-2021, 03:26 PMlespoils Wrote:

05-11-2021, 03:24 PMFluw Wrote: This was considered when forming these two new teams. The issue was that once each team had finalized their rosters there were always active players left out without a team, so they could not participate in the WJC which honestly sucks.

The idea here is for each original WJC team to pick/final their rosters, and once that has be done there will naturally be left over active players. Team NA will take the Canada/USA remaining actives. Team Young Guns will take S61/S60 remaining players to field their rosters.

Rest assured the goal is for each team to round out their roster with active players in the fairest way possible, without having players sitting on the sidelines looking in.

Thanks! That brings another question : which of the two new teams gets NA players from the S60 and S61 classes? Is there a kind of draft, or is it like first come first serve? Or maybe the player has a say in it?

Since this is a new concept we will be trialing it this season and see how it works, just as how we ran a trial with Canada/USA split squads and realized it wasn't the best solution to the problem we faced.

Ideally, Young Guns will have access to all the S61 creates by the cut off deadline for the WJC, however this will have to be discussed and determined once the activity of each eligible player is verified prior to the hiring of GMs. Once we have a better picture of what each nations active player numbers look like, it will be more clear.

This WJC is essentially the start of something great, and we are going to be testing different proposed plans to improve both GM and user experience this time around, so throughout the process feedback is appreciated.

So I know I somewhat avoided your questions there so to answer it, ideally Team NA would take the place of the USA/CANADA split squad. They would avoid drafting S60s/S61, (again this will be discussed depending on roster numbers and size.)

Once "Interim Rosters" have been made final, "Each player belonging to your nation" the floor then will open up to picking up any extra active players that remain teamless. This process has also improved and been made easier for user experience.

Again we will be testing this all out this WJC and tweaking it for future tournaments as this is just the first of many.