Highlander Magic

@ Zimagic and NLG_playr

Quote from: Vazdru on 30-09-2007, 06:48:17 PM

B) Pairings (week 1)

8. NLG_playr vs. Zimagic

Please report the results till 071111 here: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=53.0

Please try to play AT LEAST one game during the next week.


What you will do? You have a few options mentioned beneath.

A) You'll play the match vs each other during the next week.

B) Both of you want to play your match but can't find a common date during the next week. Then you get an additional week till the deadline for this match ends.

C) You want to stay in the league but won't play this match. That counts as loss for both players.

D) You don't want to stay in the league so you drop.

E) You do not say anything = drop.


Both get this info via ICQ.

Hi Guys,

First of all appologies for the absense. I've been very caught up with life and not here very much. My wife, who has been logging on, has said that you have been trying to contact me for a while.

I'll be online from tonight again and will try to get a match in tonight and tomorrow.

Apologies for the delays/non-contact/inconvenience.
Owen

Quote from: zimagic on 04-11-2007, 01:21:06 PM
Hi Guys,

First of all appologies for the absense. I've been very caught up with life and not here very much. My wife, who has been logging on, has said that you have been trying to contact me for a while.

I'll be online from tonight again and will try to get a match in tonight and tomorrow.

Apologies for the delays/non-contact/inconvenience.
Owen

Thx for your quick reply !

Away from Thursday till Sunday - so there won't be any Updates Pairings/Ranking till next Monday.

NLG_playr has left the league.

New pairings won't be up before next Wednesday. Then you'll find the actual standings.

There won't be any new pairings before at least 2 existing pairings were played or another player drops.

Whistler has left the league.

What's wrong with Zimagic and Fussballpunk?

There will be new pairings this weekend.

:S

i dont know.. i´ve tried to contact them, but no luck... fuss at one point talked to me in ICQ and said he was very busy...

Fussballpunk joined the league 071014. He haven't played any games since that time, no comment has been posted.

Last time I've spoken to Zimagic he has said to me he wants to drop cause that would make things easier for us (active player).

Both player have left the league.

Season I is over now.

36 matches / 89 games have been played during the last 12 weeks.


A more or less symbolic price of 2 Booster Planar Chaos goes out to Sturmgott.

Congratulations !

On the following places: Guardian (2nd) and Vazdru (3rd)


Wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a great year 2008.

Cya next year.

Congrats to the winner and to the rest of the league players.
Lets hope there will more of the league and with more participants

Have a great rest of 2007' days.

There will be some changes for HLL Season II

- prizes:

more than 50 matches have been played during the season: 4 Boosters for the winner / 2 Boosters for second place
40-50 matches: 3 Boosters for the winner
less than 40 matches: 2 Boosters for the winner

- pairings:

no deadline of 6 weeks to post results anymore
if anyone is unable to play any games for a period of 3 weeks or more he/she has to post the reason for on the board - otherwise he/she will be dropped automatically

- beginning:

season starts if we have at least 10 participants

- scoreboard:

please mention at least result and decks which have been used
a short summary -like some player already have posted during season I- would be nice


Any further ideas?

i think that ppl shouldnt be able to switch decks.. they can make changes to the deck, but they shouldnt be able to swtich from a  control deck to a RDW (for e.g.)
this is my opinion.

Quote from: Mythrandir on 30-12-2007, 01:53:21 PM
i think that ppl shouldnt be able to switch decks.. they can make changes to the deck, but they shouldnt be able to swtich from a  control deck to a RDW (for e.g.)
this is my opinion.

why not?

what do the other think about this point?

Quote from: Vazdru on 30-12-2007, 05:18:18 PM

Quote from: Mythrandir on 30-12-2007, 01:53:21 PM
i think that ppl shouldnt be able to switch decks.. they can make changes to the deck, but they shouldnt be able to swtich from a  control deck to a RDW (for e.g.)
this is my opinion.

why not?

what do the other think about this point?

it´s mainly because i think there is an advantage for ppl who play agains not-changing (deck) opponents.. they can tune/switch their deck to their opponent´s deck. and even choose their cards with the mulligan rule according to the their opponents.
and also the feeling of playing against the same player with other deck doesnt seem very "leaguish" to me...
just my two cents

Quote from: Mythrandir on 30-12-2007, 01:53:21 PM
i think that ppl shouldnt be able to switch decks.. they can make changes to the deck, but they shouldnt be able to swtich from a  control deck to a RDW (for e.g.)
this is my opinion.

I just say: Keep it simple :D We need easy rules!

I don't wanna judge if

a) adding a Splash (e. g. Mono Red -> Rb / Rg / Rw),
b) changing a WGB-Aggro Deck to a WGB Control- or Combo-Deck
c) transforming a Zoo into R/G or RB
..........

is allowed. Looks scary to me  ??? (Btw: how many cards mean Splash - so is it allowed to change a Rb into Br)?

There are two alternatives.

Option 1: One Deck for whole season

Problem: You can't add or remove any cards (including new sets)

Option 2: You do not have any restrictions during a season for deck-building.
= Actual ruling

I definitely prefer option 2 but i will change it if the majority wants it.

you know my opinion... ;)
i was thinking of a number of cards per week, for example 10 cards per week. but this is hard to control..
let the opinions roll.. if there are none, i think we should stay with the old rule to avoid problems

I won't be able to play any [HLL]Games before this Thursday...busy season for an auditor :-\.

i´ve been busy too and off msn/forum...
but i´ll be able to play on this weekend and after that i think i´ll be back to my normal routine...

Next pairings (+ first ranking) for week 3 will be up this Wednesday.

The Season ends 080430.

Ranking and Pairings (week 5) will be posted until next Tuesday.

No one can join Season II anymore.

Payron will have some additional Pairings next week. In the end everyone will have two matches vs each other participant of the league.

There are final pairings for Season II.

Next Ranking will be posted until next Wednesday.

Quote from: Vazdru on 09-03-2008, 01:16:45 PM
There are final pairings for Season II.

Next Ranking will be posted until next Wednesday.

the league will end when everybody has played their matches right?
because i havent had news from Payron... :S

Quote from: Mythrandir on 09-03-2008, 05:44:52 PM

Quote from: Vazdru on 09-03-2008, 01:16:45 PM
There are final pairings for Season II.

Next Ranking will be posted until next Wednesday.

the league will end when everybody has played their matches right?
because i havent had news from Payron... :S

Each Pairing twice:

STURMGOTT â€" VAZDRU
STURMGOTT â€" GEORG B 2:1
GEORG B â€" PAYRON
VAZDRU - PAYRON
PHYYHTTU â€" PAYRON
PHYYHTTU â€" PAYRON
MERCATOR â€" PAYRON
MERCATOR â€" MYHRANDIR
PAYRON - MYTHRANDIR

Should be enough time till 30th April for everyone to play the missing matches.

Quote from: Vazdru on 18-02-2008, 10:46:02 PM
Next pairings (+ first ranking) for week 3 will be up this Wednesday.

The Season ends 080430.

i've been away last week and now can't manage to play my last games...
we just aren't on at the same time.
Does the season end today?
If so, please try to get me in icq this evening.

Otherwise i've got off from university for another week. Just send me a time u would like to play and i try to be online at that time.

Have fun.

Quote from: MErcator on 30-03-2008, 02:34:27 PM
i've been away last week and now can't manage to play my last games...
we just aren't on at the same time.
Does the season end today?
If so, please try to get me in icq this evening.

Otherwise i've got off from university for another week. Just send me a time u would like to play and i try to be online at that time.

Have fun.

nop, i dont think it ends today. today i wont be able to play. but tomorrow evening i´m available.

Quote from: Vazdru on 09-03-2008, 10:14:27 PM

Quote from: Mythrandir on 09-03-2008, 05:44:52 PM

Quote from: Vazdru on 09-03-2008, 01:16:45 PM
There are final pairings for Season II.

Next Ranking will be posted until next Wednesday.

the league will end when everybody has played their matches right?
because i havent had news from Payron... :S

Each Pairing twice:

STURMGOTT â€" VAZDRU
STURMGOTT â€" GEORG B 2:1
GEORG B â€" PAYRON
VAZDRU - PAYRON
PHYYHTTU â€" PAYRON
PHYYHTTU â€" PAYRON
MERCATOR â€" PAYRON
MERCATOR â€" MYHRANDIR
PAYRON - MYTHRANDIR

Should be enough time till 30th April for everyone to play the missing matches.

Quote from: Vazdru on 18-02-2008, 10:46:02 PM
Next pairings (+ first ranking) for week 3 will be up this Wednesday.

The Season ends 080430.

???

One month to go  ::)

Season II is over now.

39 matches / 94 games have been played during the last weeks.


A symbolic price of 2 Booster-Packs is on its way to the winner.

Congratulations !

congrats Mercator :)

i almost made it to first place :P

lookinf forward to another (with a little more ppl) league.

Yeah, I also enjoyed this league as it served as an excellent platform to test various decks, looking forward to another one. And congratulations to MErcator!

Thx. Good to know that the league making fun at least for a small group of people.

I've got 5 Booster Packs for my last article about the 4th HL GP recently -> so there will be another season.

We can start, if we'll find 10 participants for it. The price support will be better than before.


I'll have to discuss some organizational points with Sturmgott first, then i'll open a Registration-Thread for season III.

lets hope the III league will have the minimum of 10 people (lets see, if the forum members participate a little more) because it aint just fun playing with 5/6 ppl.

btw, thks Vazdru for the donation :D

Hello,

I hope to have enough time to play season 3  ;D

Quote from: cron on 21-05-2008, 03:40:03 PM
Hello,

I hope to have enough time to play season 3  ;D

the league doesnt take up too much, the biggest problem is the lack of players, but lets hope, that in the III league there will be more players participating.

welcome aboard, cron

I will play this season too. I hope I can make every match this time. But if you ask me via ICQ, I will play with you. The only thing that I dont like is that the Forum is so unclear.
As the part of the forum with most activity, it should get an own section.

@georgB:

if you look at the home page of the forum, you need only 1 click to get to this area. simply click on the HL league on the "child boards" of the tournament :)
i dont think is that unclear, perhaps for new members, but for ppl who have been here a couple of times, is not that hard.. just my opinion, but we can ask the admin to change it, if possible.

Quote from: Mythrandir on 25-05-2008, 02:38:55 PM
@georgB:

if you look at the home page of the forum, you need only 1 click to get to this area. simply click on the HL league on the "child boards" of the tournament :)
i dont think is that unclear, perhaps for new members, but for ppl who have been here a couple of times, is not that hard.. just my opinion, but we can ask the admin to change it, if possible.

i've already asked him - i think he will change it sometimes, but like you've said i don't think the board structure isn't a huge barrier for new members to find the way to us  :D


the registration for season III is up now

there will be at least 3 Booster packs for the winner this time - if we have 50 or more matches during season III the winner takes 4 Boosters for his victory

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the registration for season III is up now

there will be at least 3 Booster packs for the winner this time - if we have 50 or more matches during season III the winner takes 4 Boosters for his victory

may i give an opinion? how about dividing the prize for the 2/3 first places, this will make the league more competitive, as (i noticed this on II league) a lot of ppl stopping playing in the league after a couple of defeats, perhaps due to the fact that they knew the wouldnt finish in 1st place,. this way even if the 1st place seems like a stretch there is always the 2nd place.

i know  players here shouldnt be playing for the prize (i know, i´m not), but perhaps this way we wont have that many unplayed matches.

p.s i dont mind pitching in with some money/card/booster.

I don't know if we get mor participants if we have more prices. But i would easily donate my 2 boosters from last season lets say for 2nd place.
If we really hope to have a few more players his season i'm in with mythrandir that there should be prices for 2nd perhaps 3rd place

i wish us all fun (and time) for next season...

Quote from: MErcator on 26-05-2008, 04:19:09 PM
I don't know if we get mor participants if we have more prices. But i would easily donate my 2 boosters from last season lets say for 2nd place.
If we really hope to have a few more players his season i'm in with mythrandir that there should be prices for 2nd perhaps 3rd place

i wish us all fun (and time) for next season...

i think its not a matter of having more ppl, but i think if there were prizes for 2nd and 3rd the league would be more "competitive" and probably the outcome of the top3 more opened..

Quote from: Mythrandir on 26-05-2008, 07:39:21 PM

Quote from: MErcator on 26-05-2008, 04:19:09 PM
I don't know if we get mor participants if we have more prices. But i would easily donate my 2 boosters from last season lets say for 2nd place.
If we really hope to have a few more players his season i'm in with mythrandir that there should be prices for 2nd perhaps 3rd place

i wish us all fun (and time) for next season...

i think its not a matter of having more ppl, but i think if there were prizes for 2nd and 3rd the league would be more "competitive" and probably the outcome of the top3 more opened..

Thx guys for your proposals and offers. I think both of you are right, but the contenders of that league gain another -intangible- profit (beside of course the fun of playing the game). Let's have a look on the stats of the last GP - although noone reached the Top every participant of Seaon II are in the top of the field:

Vazdru 16
MErcator 21
Georg B 22
Payron 25
Sturmgott 32

The Problem is, do 1 Booster for second or third place really makes a difference?

Anyway i'll change the arrangement of the price as follows:


First Place - 3 Boosters
1 Booster for second place and 1 Booster for third place, if we have at least 50 matches during season 3

If anyone wants to add something in the price pool - feel free! It's not my but OUR league :) E. g. if MErcator wanna add 2 Booster for second place, it will be like this:

4 Booster for the winner (by Vazdru), 2 Booster for second (by MErcator), 1 Booster for third (by Vazdru).

Hmm... I have to say that I play the league manly to test some deckideas or to get an impression how good a deck is.
I never really tried to get to the top (I mean otherwise I would not have played the 4c ZuiZoo.deck ;) ).
And it makes no differences to me if there are boosters I can win.
I resolved to take more focus on the league. But that has nothing to do with booster prices.

Quote from: Georg B on 27-05-2008, 12:35:37 AM
Hmm... I have to say that I play the league manly to test some deckideas or to get an impression how good a deck is.
I never really tried to get to the top (I mean otherwise I would not have played the 4c ZuiZoo.deck ;) ).
And it makes no differences to me if there are boosters I can win.
I resolved to take more focus on the league. But that has nothing to do with booster prices.

like you, i play in the league(s) (I and II) just for the fun of playing this format in a more compettive way, however the two leagues we played had some problems with attendacy or players dropping out of the league, leaving it less competitive and more repetitive. so my idea, was to prevent this.

however the 2nd and 3rd prizes are just an idea..

New pairings won't be announced before next Tuesday.

Every participant of Season III should have at least ONE match OR ONE posting before end of week 3.

Ok I am in. Once I figured out MWS out.

Quote from: coldcrow on 01-07-2008, 12:28:17 PM
Ok I am in. Once I figured out MWS out.

its quite easy.you can see some pointers here: http://www.mwsgames.com/index.php/Strovil%27s_Standard_Play_Guide_for_MWSPlay

Quote from: coldcrow on 01-07-2008, 12:28:17 PM
Ok I am in. Once I figured out MWS out.

If you wanna join our League just leave the necessary information here:

http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=94.0

20 games have been played already.

It's quite close on the top this time. Everybody still has the chance to reach a top place. Skies seems to be Tier I already; Georg B played 3-1 with UR Skies and me 3-1 with UW Skies. The format seems balanced, unaffected by the recent bannings. Noone managed to leave undefeated.

Guys to beat in the moment: MErcator(WWu?), Georg B (UR-Skies), Pyyhttu (Surprise?!) and me (UW-Skies).

Mythrandir (5C-Control) had a strong comeback and Payron is still some kind of "insider tip"  ;D

http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=103.0

Quote from: Vazdru on 21-07-2008, 04:00:42 PM
20 games have been played already.

It's quite close on the top this time. Everybody still has the chance to reach a top place. Skies seems to be Tier I already; Georg B played 3-1 with UR Skies and me 3-1 with UW Skies. The format seems balanced, unaffected by the recent bannings. Noone managed to leave undefeated.

Guys to beat in the moment: MErcator(WWu?), Georg B (UR-Skies), Pyyhttu (Surprise?!) and me (UW-Skies).

Mythrandir (5C-Control) had a strong comeback and Payron is still some kind of "insider tip"  ;D

http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=103.0

its becomin quite interesting, even though the skies are pretty though for my 5cc, damn those anti-nonbasic lands cards :P

gl to all.

BTW: if u have a game to play with me and see me on icq/msn give me a ring.

Quote from: cron on 21-05-2008, 03:40:03 PM
Hello,

I hope to have enough time to play season 3  ;D

Hmm, meanwhile i don't think so.

No I'm not a lazy student (anymore  :-\ ;)) Meanwhile I'm working 45-50 hours a week + I am a young family man with a 3-month old son ...and even I've managed it to play some matches already. Time is quite valueable for me, I don't wanna waste it - I organize this league for players who like playing Magic and not for "nominal members".

Sorry! - i can't believe that someone who wanna play a match or two within 6 weeks doesn't find the time to. So the question is, if you wanna play or not?

I wouldn't say a word cause i know you're a nice guy - but no matches at all is too little.

There will be a time schedule now for the rest of the season:

Every participant must have at least 3 matches till 10th of August.

Every participant must have at least 6 matches till 17th of August.

Every participant must have at least 9 matches till 24th of August.


If anyone do not reach the benchmark he will be excluded.

Season ends 31st of August!

Quote from: Vazdru on 28-07-2008, 11:23:23 PM

Quote from: cron on 21-05-2008, 03:40:03 PM
Hello,

I hope to have enough time to play season 3  ;D

Hmm, meanwhile i don't think so.

No I'm not a lazy student (anymore  :-\ ;)) Meanwhile I'm working 45-50 hours a week + I am a young family man with a 3-month old son ...and even I've managed it to play some matches already. Time is quite valueable for me, I don't wanna waste it - I organize this league for players who like playing Magic and not for "nominal members".

Sorry! - i can't believe that someone who wanna play a match or two within 6 weeks doesn't find the time to. So the question is, if you wanna play or not?

I wouldn't say a word cause i know you're a nice guy - but no matches at all is too little.

There will be a time schedule now for the rest of the season:

Every participant must have at least 3 matches till 10th of August.

Every participant must have at least 6 matches till 17th of August.

Every participant must have at least 9 matches till 24th of August.


If anyone do not reach the benchmark he will be excluded.

Season ends 31st of August!

Michael0103 and Coldcrow will be excluded unless they play at least one game today.

Ranking + Parings will be updated tonight.

Season III is over now.

41 matches / 106 games have been played during the last weeks. This is a new record but less than i hoped.

And we have a winner:


I've played all my games with White Clouded Skies. The two matches I've lost were against Georg B with UR-Skies and MErcator with Rb-Gobbos. MErcator lost vs pyyhttu with Staxx and me with UW-Skies.

The first prize (4 Booster for the winner) is put into the prize pool of Season IV.

The second prize (2 Booster for the second place donated by MErcator) goes out to himself.


Season winners:

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)

congrats to all players. Specially Vazdru. Skies is definitely not an easy deck to play versus

League-Updates:

Unlike season 1-3 there won't be any "Rematch-Pairings" before week four.

Whenever more than 50% of all sheduled matches are played there will be new pairings.

Just to reminder everybody that Shards of Alara is now legal in the League, so u better patch up!  :)

[HLL]Ranking updated

Mythrandir still on the top - but it has become close since he has lost his first match this season vs second placed Payron.

The two guys followed by the last undefeated player (with at least one match) Vazdru.

Mythrandir played all his games with 5CC-Control like in all other seasons before (i've made more than 250! games vs his deck already ;D)

Payron played his games with UGwb-Survival-Lark-Combo :) I played my games like last season with modern style of UW-Skies.

Nastaboi and Thibir are the best "Rookies" we've had for a long time with 50% wins each so far in their first season.

A curious thing is that our best player MErcator (-> just check [HLL]Ladder) is actually on place 10 in season IV. I'm sure this won't be for a long time!

EDIT: Cause > 50% of the matches have been played and we have lots of new members waiting for their first matches  ;) there will be the new pairings already tonight! Still no Rematches until week 5.

Quote from: Vazdru on 12-10-2008, 08:41:12 PM
[HLL]Ranking updated

Mythrandir still on the top - but it has become close since he has lost his first match this season vs second placed Payron.

The two guys followed by the last undefeated player (with at least one match) Vazdru.

Mythrandir played all his games with 5CC-Control like in all other seasons before (i've made more than 250! games vs his deck already ;D)

Payron played his games with UGwb-Survival-Lark-Combo :) I played my games like last season with modern style of UW-Skies.

Nastaboi and Thibir are the best "Rookies" we've had for a long time with 50% wins each so far in their first season.

A curious thing is that our best player MErcator (-> just check [HLL]Ladder) is actually on place 10 in season IV. I'm sure this won't be for a long time!

EDIT: Cause > 50% of the matches have been played and we have lots of new members waiting for their first matches  ;) there will be the new pairings already tonight! Still no Rematches until week 5.

This can be a little bias, since i´m (temporarily) on 1st place, but this, IMO, is the best league so far. :)
We have a good number of players. All players are making their games which is great. And the 3 top players are neck to neck, so a very competitive league so far.

@Vazdru, we might wanna celebrate our 500th game in a few months :P

Thks and congrats to all players of the league

I rly enjoyed the last games ... and that I can play with such great players on the top and I can learn from them :) ... also i don t want that u call it Revilarke combo ;) ... its just a piece in my build because it perfectly fits in the deck ... but I rly think that I found with survival a deck typ that fits my playstyl and is rly strong ... and y I rly think our league is growing and thats just great ... its perfectly to seriosly test decks !!

The registration for Season IV closes after scheduling pairings no. 6.

Season IV ends December, 14th.

As long we have that many participants in our league there won't be any rematches. Like in a "real" league we will have one match against each other - even if there are more than 12 matches for each player in the end. It's of course the best system cause everyone has equal chances to win the league. But in former leagues we just haven't had the opportunity tp use this system because there weren't enough players.

If a participant drops or is excluded the outdated system will be reintroduced.

Next pairings are probably available tomorrow evening.

Ranking will be updated Wednesday or Thursday.

[HLL]Ranking updated

MErcator had a great comeback (place 10 to 1!) and is now on the top (like I expected and in previous seasons  ;D). But it's quite close on the top. He won his matches with WWu and Red.

On second place is Nastaboi! He won 66,67% of his matches and games! His favourite deck seems Heartbeat-Combo.

I'm still on the third place of our ranking. I've played White Clouded Skies like in the last season and GP. UW-Skies has actually the unbelievable record or 6:0 matches and 12:1 games in season IV (Aker123 + me) and is of course the last undefeated deck. Particulary in regard to the great record of MErcator's WWu this color-combination seems to be the strongest Two-Color-Deck available in the moment. I'm looking forward to my match vs Thibir with his UG-Skies-Build.

Payron played his games with UGwb-Survival-Engine. He's still in contact to the first places like Mythrandir too who lost his top position in our league for a while. He played all his games with 5CC-Control like in all other seasons before.

Quote from: Vazdru on 22-10-2008, 10:21:00 PM
[HLL]Ranking updated

MErcator had a great comeback (place 10 to 1!) and is now on the top (like I expected and in previous seasons  ;D). But it's quite close on the top. He won his matches with WWu and Red.

On second place is Nastaboi! He won 66,67% of his matches and games! His favourite deck seems Heartbeat-Combo.

I'm still on the third place of our ranking. I've played White Clouded Skies like in the last season and GP. UW-Skies has actually the unbelievable record or 6:0 matches and 12:1 games in season IV (Aker123 + me) and is of course the last undefeated deck. Particulary in regard to the great record of MErcator's WWu this color-combination seems to be the strongest Two-Color-Deck available in the moment. I'm looking forward to my match vs Thibir with his UG-Skies-Build.

Payron played his games with UGwb-Survival-Engine. He's still in contact to the first places like Mythrandir too who lost his top position in our league for a while. He played all his games with 5CC-Control like in all other seasons before.

Vazdru and Mercator have impressive records (not only on the IV league, but other leagues as well). UW decks seem really strong. My 5CC is just too unpredictable... to be on the TOP for long times, i keep losing some games (mainly because of the deck inconsistence) to decks that arent my biggest problems.

Heck of a league ;)
I´m glad this one is going so well :D

Keep up the GG´s everybody.

I'm looking forward to find out which build is winning the Skies vs. WWeenie matchup. I think my deck sports a better matchup vs. RDW but the direkt comparison will be interesting.

Have fun.

Quote from: MErcator on 26-10-2008, 03:02:49 PM
I'm looking forward to find out which build is winning the Skies vs. WWeenie matchup. I think my deck sports a better matchup vs. RDW but the direkt comparison will be interesting.

Have fun.

i dont think with just this league we´re gonna find out, because either deck can have a bad game without having a bad matchup. But, nontheless it will be interesting. looking forward to see UW skies VS Wu wennie

Rating update + new pairings won't be available before Wednesday.

[HLL]Ranking updated

Still quite close on the top of the ranking. It seems the top 4 are sealed!

MErcator is still on the top. His latest deck is some kind of Rock and undefeated yet. He lost two of his eleven matches in season IV vs Thibir (UG-Skies) and Nastaboi (U-Skies) - skies seems to be the right choice when facing the top player of our site.

On second place is me (UW-Skies). Undefeated but a little bit lucky vs Thibir (lost best of 5) and Mythrandir (2times B2B for the win).

On third place is Nastaboi - you can't call him a rookie anymore, he is on the top of our list. His three losses were vs pyyhttu (Time Vault Combo - a bit unfair  :o ??? :-\), vs Ludwitch (RDW - btw his single loss with Heartbeat-Combo) and me (U-Skies lost vs UW-Skies)

Payron is forth only because of tie-breaker. He won his game with UGw(b)-Survival-Engine. He lost vs. MErcator (RDW), Thibir (UG-Skies) and me (UW-Skies). Like i've said, skies works well vs. 3(4)-C-Survival-Control :)

Ranking updated (not much has changed, but I've had some minor problems with sum-if or if-sum ??? ::))

New pairings posted and we have some kind of final this time: MErcator vs Vazdru.

If MErcator wins he probably (depends if i win all the rest or not) stays on the top.
If MErcator loses Nastaboi will take the second place till the end of season IV.


Prizes:

For the winner: 5 Booster
For second: 3 Booster
For third: 1 Booster

Quote from: Vazdru on 14-10-2008, 10:51:45 PM
The registration for Season IV closes after scheduling pairings no. 6.

Season IV ends December, 14th.

Pairings capped to 12 matches each.

When every participant has at least 8 matches (esp. D1sturbed, Aker123, Joutzen, Ludwitch) there will be the last pairings (don't expect this szenario).



There will be a time schedule now for the rest of the season:

Every participant must have at least 6 matches till 23rd of Nov.

Every participant must have at least 8 matches till 30th of Nov.

Every participant must have at least 10 matches till 7th of Dez.


If anyone do not reach the benchmark he will be excluded.

Joutzen just wrote me that he drops.

Quote from: Georg B on 20-11-2008, 06:26:39 PM
Joutzen just wrote me that he drops.

There will be new pairings next Monday.

Rematches are allowed so everyone will get 12 pairings.

Quote from: Vazdru on 20-11-2008, 09:14:17 PM

Quote from: Georg B on 20-11-2008, 06:26:39 PM
Joutzen just wrote me that he drops.

There will be new pairings next Monday.

Rematches are allowed so everyone will get 12 pairings.

Joutzen dropped.

Aker123 has been excluded (didn't reached the benchmark of 6 matches).

Pairings updated.

MErcator donated 5 Booster Packs for coming HLL season! Thanks a lot.

I (finally) got some Booster Packs from Miracle Games for my last HL article.

So there will be definately a new HLL season soon. Registration will start next week. Matches will start first week of 2009!

well, once again thks to Vazdru and Mercator for supporting the booster prizes :D you´re GREAT!!

Hoping for a (even more) competitive Season V

Yea also thanks from my side that u spend boosters to help improving the season ... I looking foreward to season V

Season IV is over. Thanks to all participants! It has been the best season so far.
Final Ranking and Rating Update will be available Wednesday/Thursday.

Nastaboi and Payron are called on sending me their adresses per PM/ICQ so they will get their boosters before Christmas  :)

I am rly ok with th 3rd place, now I am getting the feeling I can also go for the top 8 from our very nice GP's ... The season was pretty cool because we had a lot of new players and even pretty cool decks that worked out ... just love this online seasons :)

thx Gerry for the work you doing here ... keep it up .. and don t know if you need help with something just ask maybe I could help a bit too :)

Season IV ended 14 December 2008.

73 matches / 172 games have been played during the last weeks. This is a new record (in comparision Season III with 41 matches / 106 games)

And the winners are:


The first 4 places were close together like also place 5 to 9. Have a look at the final ranking udpdated today.

MErcator donated his first price of 5 boosters for the next season.

3 Boosters go out to Nastaboi. First time a player from outside Germany gets a prize!
1 Booster goes out to Payron.

Season winners history:

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)

Ladder updated today.

The first three places level off. MErcator stays on the top as single player with a rating above 1700.

Payron climbed 1, Nastaboi 2 and Ludwitch 3 places.

Mythrandir now on the 8th place, first time not the best player from outside Germany in our Ladder. The best player from outside Germany coming from Finland and is called Nastaboi (5th place).

The biggest step made pyyhttu from 16 to 10.

Season V started yesterday, 04.01.09 and ends 29.03.09.

Every player will have two parings/week.

If you wanna win this season have a look at the guys to beat:

• MErcator, two times League Champion and toped-ranked player in our [HLL]Ladder,
• the former League Champion Sturmgott who has come back to get the title again and
• last but not least actually our best player from outside Germany Nastaboi and runner-up in Season IV

MErcator (Season IV winner) has already been paired against Nastaboi (Season IV runner-up) - it will be interesting to see which weapons they choose and who comes out ahead.

As long as all participants of Season V stay in our league there will be no rematches at all and first time 13 pairings at the end of the season for each of you. Like in a real league each contender would play vs everyone else once.

New pairings posted today, ranking after the first week (9 matches played) is online. Nastaboi got the first big point vs MErcator, like last season I've started with a nice record of 2 wins and 4:0 games actually leading the field - let's see who beats me first.

Ranking and pairings updated.

Nastaboi took the lead - still undefeated playing some sweet rogue decks recently. The rest of the field is quite close together. Week 3 pairings will bring together the reigning champion MErcator with the past ones Sturmgott and Vazdru. We will also have a match Nastaboi vs Vazdru - after which there won't be more than one undefeated Highlander in season V!

hi everyone,
i've got a lots of games open and would be delightened if i could play some during next week
so if u see me online, please just ask me or sent me a time when it would suit you...

I'm doing a lot of things in the evenings (mostly magic :-)) so it's easiest to get me during the afternoons
cu all,
Mercator

Registration has been closed.

Ranking is up-to-date again. New pairings are following tonight.

Like in the weeks before the leadership has changed. Nastaboi is on the top again. But although Nastaboi and me haven't played our match yet there is noone left undefeated.

And have a second look at our ranking. There are some "newies" on the top of the field  :o Georg B and coldcrow showed their real faces and had a terrific advancement.

Nastaboi 6-1 (defeat vs pyyhttu)
Georg B 6-2 (defeat vs Ludwitch and after 6 straight wins another one vs Outlaw)
Coldcrow 5-3 (defeats vs Nastaboi, Vazdru, Outlaw)
Vazdru 4-1 (defeat vs grizzledmage)
Outlaw 4-1 (defeat vs MErcator)

hey, this is a reminder/question.

Don´t forget that conflux is legal from the release date, february 6th (this Friday), so i´m guessing that it will be legal here on the league as well, right?

So it´s better to update your MWS masterbase.

Thks

I'm ill actually so everthing will take a bit longer this time (ranking/pairings/matches).

Quote from: Vazdru on 08-02-2009, 12:51:40 PM
I'm ill actually so everthing will take a bit longer this time (ranking/pairings/matches).

No prob. If you need anything just ask. Get well soon. :)

Quote from: Mythrandir on 08-02-2009, 03:15:48 PM
No prob. If you need anything just ask. Get well soon. :)

Thanks.

Ranking, Pairings updated.

Next week all the pairings left will be posted. Then there will be still ~ 6 weeks for everyone to play the remaining matches. There will be a time shedule posted like the time before next week. There will be necessarily points for the players not able to reach 14 matches due the fact someone else dropped/is excluded (2 points).



Have a look at the "Big-Point-Matches" to come (matches between guys already have 6 or more wins):

Georg B (21) - Nastaboi (18)
Georg B (21) - coldcrow (18) 0:2
Nastaboi (18) - Vazdru (18)
Mythrandir (18) - coldcrow (18)

In this few games the way will be paved for the top places in this season!

Outlaw, Payron and pyyhttu also have still some chances to reach place 1-3. For everyone else place 3 is still be possible.

Ladder, Ranking, Pairings updated.

Ladder: All the same but the intervals getting closer.
MErcator still on the top, Runner-Up Vazdru, Nastaboi already 3rd place!

Ranking: Coldcrow took the lead. The top of the field is still close together.

• Coldcrow 8-3
• Georg B 8-5
• Vazdru 7-3
• Outlaw 7-3
• Nastaboi 6-3
• Mythrandir 6-5
• pyyhttu 6-5

Pairings:
Big-Point-Matches to come:

coldcrow (24) - Mythrandir (18) 0:2
Georg B (24) - Nastaboi (18) 2:0
Vazdru (21) - Outlaw (21) 2:0
Vazdru (21) - Nastaboi (18)
Outlaw (21) - Nastaboi (18)

hey, i´m having some trouble with my wireless (good signal, no net), so i´m wont be ble to play my matches until i solve the problem (MWS crashes enough on it own) or during the weekend (different pc), sorry for the trouble.

cya

Did you check your W-LAN cable? ;-)

Let's put the fun aside, why don't you simply use a cable?

Right now I do not have the time to play my matches, so I am afraid I have to drop from the league. Sorry :(

Quote from: Ludwitch on 16-02-2009, 09:25:23 PM
Right now I do not have the time to play my matches, so I am afraid I have to drop from the league. Sorry :(

Plz remeber that there is still 6 weeks left in this season for playing your open matches. Do not quit if there is a busy period in which you do not have the time to play any games.

Edit: Just spoke to Ludwitch - he really wants to drop - so it's ok.

Quote from: Sturmgott on 16-02-2009, 09:21:54 PM
Did you check your W-LAN cable? ;-)

Let's put the fun aside, why don't you simply use a cable?

yeap, my W-lan cable is plugged :P

Simply (no cable) because i bought a wireless cardbus and i need to see if it´s working fine, so it either works properly, or my time goes to figuring it out ;) but yes, if in case of an emergency match, i´ll plug my cable :P

BTW: it seems i resolved it, still wanna test some friendly matches before playing league ones. I changed my router from N to G... go figure.. o.0

EDITED: well, i´ve played half dozen games with payron, and only got one crash, so i think i´m O.K. for the league matches, if you see me around msn/icq just ask if i have time. cya

Georg B is the first guy reaching 14 matches. His impressive record is 9-5 (27 pts) 20:16 games

Ranking and Pairings will be updated early next week.

I'm abroad to visit GP Rotterdam with some mates.

Cya soon!

Ranking, Parings updated.


There is a time schedule for the rest of the season:

Every participant must have at least 9 matches till 12.03.2009

Every participant must have at least 11 matches till 19.03.2009

Every participant must have at least 13 matches till 26.03.2009

If anyone do not reach the benchmark he will be excluded.

Every participant reached at least 11 matches.

- Nkiro, MErcator, Thibir (11)
- Goblinpiledriver, Payron (12)

There are already 93 matches played in Season V altogether.

Season V ended today (Final Ranking updated).

96 matches / 234 games have been played during the last weeks. This is again! a new record! (in comparision Season IV: 73 matches / 172 games; Season III: 41 matches / 106 games).

It was the closest season ever, place 4-6 are seperated by 5% in games-%, place 7-9 by 3% in games-%!!!


Congratulation to all of them!

The prices are:

5 Boosters for Nastaboi
3 Boosters for coldcrow
1 Booster for Georg B

Prices donated by MErcator and myself this time.


The winners are asked to send me their current address via personal message for the price-mailing.

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Season winners history:

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)

Congrats to the winner! it was a very competitive league, good to see some many matches being played.

I'll gift my boosters to the 3rd and 4th place, because I am not playing with real cards anymore.

Quote from: coldcrow on 31-03-2009, 08:19:39 PM
I'll gift my boosters to the 3rd and 4th place, because I am not playing with real cards anymore.

Thx!

So Georg B gets 3 Boosters and me 1 Booster.

The price-mailing for Nastaboi is on its way.

Ladder updated today. 284 matches recorded.

MErcator still on the top but just with an edge.

Nastaboi is rushing irresistible forward now on the second position of our ladder.

I'm on third place now. The top 3 are separated by no more then 10 rating points.

The biggest advance made Thibir (24 -> 16), Georg B (18 -> 13), Goblinpiledriver (12-> 8 ) and Payron (7 -> 4).

Season VI is starting right now 12.04.09 and ends 05.07.09.

Every player will have two parings a week.

New players are still able to join the league.

Just as clarification for new participants:

You may change your deck between two matches (completely) but it's not allowed to change your deck between the games of a single match (naturally no sideboarding or something like that  ;D).

10 Booster-Packs have been sponsored by Sturmgott for the winners of our league.  ;D

Mauchas gratias !!

Quote from: Vazdru on 25-04-2009, 12:26:14 AM
10 Booster-Packs have been sponsored by Sturmgott for the winners of our league.  ;D

Mauchas gratias !!

Thks sturmmgott!!! That's a big donation!

I won`t be able to play my matches this week, because my computer crashed...
Hopefully i will be back next week.

Will the players that have pairings with me, please add me in msn/icq. I still have plenty of games left to play.

Thks

Just FYI, I won't be online next (this) week except maybe friday night. I'll be available to lose against again the following week.

Ranking updated.

Again its quite close on the top. Have a look at the Top 5 of our ranking:

Nastaboi 5:1 -as usual-
Sensenmann 5:2 -man on fire / made a huge step in our ladder-
Sturmgott 5:2 -after winning first season he wasn't on the top for a while; now he's back / great comeback-
Outlaw 4:1 -the man behind ...with awesome stats-
Payron 4:1 -never in the Top 3 this season but still in good position to reach on of the first places-

On "key match" is still open: Nastaboi (1) 15p - Sturmgott (3) 15p

Now we have another man on fire: Goblinpiledriver! who won his last four matches in a row to get a nice 5-2 score and reach one of the top places of our ladder.

On the one hand we have lots of players with 7 or more matches, Sensenmann played already 9 matches lio123 and Doc 8 ones.

On the other hand we have still some guys with 3 or less matches:

codexx, peeler (3)
jaro (2)
Ferris, saptox (1)

I strongly recommend that those guys tell us if they are willing to play more matches in the next few weeks.


The time-table for the rest of the season will be posted on Sunday.

Hey guys.
Please feel free to write me via ICQ if you have time to play the matches against me even if I am not online (we will find a date to play).
I would love to play all my matches till the end of the season (as usual for me).

Hi
please write to me too. I had a time with ferris arranged but he didn`t show up. The same with Kassow Rossing.
So i want new arrangment for our matches, because i really want to play them.

Greetings

There is a time schedule for the rest of the season:

Every participant must have at least 4 matches till 04.06.2009

Every participant must have at least 6 matches till 11.06.2009

Every participant must have at least 8 matches till 18.06.2009

Every participant must have at least 10 matches till 25.06.2009

Every participant must have at least 12 matches till 02.07.2009

Season ends 05.07.2009

If anyone do not reach the benchmark he will be excluded.

Ladder-update and new pairings will be available till next thursday.

I am so sry but my adapter for my laptop is broken .. I don t know why and it pisses me off ... but just wanted to tell you guys that I can t play my matches until I fixed the problem .. in a computer shop they told me I can get it next week somewhen ... I hope it won t take to long :-/

just that you know ... peace out

and don t be irritated if I am still online some times ... my parents got also a laptop .. but they kill me I guess if I install MWS on here ;)

Ranking updated. Two new pairings posted.

This is the closest season ever! We have 4 player with 18 pts (Sturmgott, Nastaboi, Sensenmann, Mythrandir) together on the top of the list. 5 players following close behind with 15 pts (Payron, Outlaw, Kassow-Rossing, Goblinpiledriver, lio123). Everything's possible.

Lets see who will leave the field behind in the end.

5 players have been excluded from the season. Roobiee needs some matches next week (at least one).

Will we get additional matches because of not having the ability to play against the excluded players?

Quote from: Georg B on 04-06-2009, 02:31:26 AM
Will we get additional matches because of not having the ability to play against the excluded players?

Each player will have the opportunity to play the same number of matches like everyone else. Actually everyone has 11 or 12 pairings (have a look at the ranking). In the end there will be between 13-15 matches for every participant.

True, but what about the matches against the players whitch got excluded and we are already paired against?
peeler e.g. told me some time ago that he has lost his MWS and doesn't want to instal it new.

Quote from: Georg B on 04-06-2009, 12:28:14 PM
True, but what about the matches against the players whitch got excluded and we are already paired against?
peeler e.g. told me some time ago that he has lost his MWS and doesn't want to instal it new.

You'll get new ones of course. In the end there will be some rematches maybe - we will see (depends if rooobiee stays in the league or not).

The pairings against excluded players are annulled. Matches which have been already played against excluded players are still counting.

Will there be 13-15 Matches for every particiant?
Now I have 11 pairings and played 10. So does new pairings coming these season?

Roobieee has been excluded and new pairings have been posted.

In the end everyone will have 13 matches!

There will be a few rematches soon.

Actually there are 17 open pairings.

Ranking updated - 9 players have still the ability to reach the prize ranks of season VI.

On the top head to head Sturmgott and Nastaboi followed close behind by Payron - these are the players with the best chances to pick up place no. 1.

Since i'm not able to talk to Kassow-Rossing (still grey on ICQ, and doesnt respond my PM) i´m wondering if anyone has his messenger, or if anyone has seen him on ICQ, and if so, please tell him to add me

Thks in advance :)

Same with payron... never responded to my messages and is still grey in my list. So If you read this, please add me and tell me a date when we can play our match.

Yea I don t got oyu in my list ... Is the ICQ  number right posted in the pairings because there is another name then yours ... thats kind of confusing for me .. and I did write you a PM ... so I hope now we can settle up our match ... thx 4 writing here .. just post me a PM and we see the rest :)

For all who ask me for my Icq-number: The Number is totally right and my name on Icq is Marsupilami Huba  ;).
Sensenmann or Sensemann were already taken on Icq, so I chose my second onlinenick ::). I hope I didn't confuse you all too much.
So I'm looking forward to our enjoyable games.

Hi,

just wanted to ask Outlaw if he could reply something to me when we wanna set up our match ... I wrote you from time to time but never got an answer so just wanna ask you for a short answer :)

thx

Will kassow-rossing add me on msn: jgmatos at gmail dot com. because i always see him grey on ICQ.
Either that or PM here.

Thks

Season VI ended this sunday (Final Ranking has been updated).

89 matches / 223 games have been played during the last weeks. (in comparision Season V: 96 matches / IV: 73 matches / III: 41 matches).

This time it has been quite! close again, places 1-3 are seperated by 8% in games-%, places 4-8 by only 6 points!!!


Congratulation to all of them!

The prices are:

5 Boosters, Phyrexian Arena, Oros, the Avenger for Goblinpiledriver
3 Boosters, Kodama of the South Tree, Voidstone Gargoyle for Payron
2 Booster, Shivan Wumpus, Seeds of Innocence for Sturmgott

Prices donated by Sturmgott (Boosters) and myself (cards) this time.


Goblinpiledriver and Sturmgott get their prices next TNM Karlsruhe, Payron will get it via mailing .

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Season winners history:

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)

Well I did expect that I wouldn t reach the first place :) ...I guess I was just to unlucky against my worst hated enemy Outlaw because I rather screw or flood gainst him or he has awsome draws ;), so I lost my last game ... well doesn t matter and thx for the prices ... congrats also to Goblinpiledriver ... I am happy to join the next seasion great for testing serious decks and also see nice decks :)

Congrats to the winners! Glad to see that the top is becoming more and more closed. :)

Looking forward for the next league :)

Ladder updated

Payron is the best [HLL]Player actually with a rating of 1678 (59,25 games-%). Like our last season so is the ladder...quite close.

Runner-Ups are Mercator (1677, 61,54 games-%) and Nastaboi (1677, 60,82 games-%) with one rating point behind Payron.

I'm the first guy with totally more than 100 games won, Georg B the first one reached the "100-losses-benchmark"  ;).

Prices for next Season -> 5 Booster for the highlander

sponsored by Vazdru

thx again for sponsoring prices ... so great that you kind of keep the league intresting without any benifits

I've missed one registration (Teko). We are already 20 participants - that's a new record  ;D

Please note that the pairings have been changed for this reason:

2. Sturmgott - TeKo
20. pyyhttu - Teko

Pardon me.

At the moment I'm practicing for German Nationals next weekend. That's why I only play T2 and do some drafts. Therefore i won't play any [HLL]games until coming week. I'm looking forward to play some Highlander matches then  ;D

First [HLL]Ranking for season VII has been posted. We have some freshmen on top (Peeler, TeKo and SirGalahad) together with actually the front-runner of our [HLL]ladder Payron. Nastaboi and Mythrandir are undefeated as well.

New pairings will be posted tomorrow evening. From then there won't be any updates until next monday.

In one and a half weeks 17 matches have been already played, 16 participants had at least 1 match. Great thing!

Ranking has been updated (30 matches and 73 games were already played).

Veni Vidi Vici !?!

Firestarter started hot in season VII with a 5-1-record now standing on the top of our list.

Payron (3-0) and Nastaboi (edit: 3-0) are the guys with still a clean record! Peeler and SirGalahad are also in an excellent position.

Pairings no. 4 will be posted this Friday. Ranking will be updated this weekend.

Pairings no. 5 will be posted Wednesday next week.

I'm abroad from 27.08.09 to 06.09.09 (holidays in Italy). There won't be any updates (pairings, ranking, ladder) until 07.09.09.

As at least two guys wanna join our running season I reopened the registration for just 2 days. Wednesday will be the final closing day.

Quote from: Vazdru on 24-08-2009, 10:29:03 PM
As at least two guys wanna join our running season I reopened the registration for just 2 days. Wednesday will be the final closing day.

Dunno, if one of those was coldcrow, but he wanted to join.

registration closed

pairings for week 5 online

49 matches, 121 games have been played during season VII so far

no guy has been able to stay with a clean record - thx to Kavu24! Nastaboi and Payron each suffered their first defeat

turn your attention to this season's top games

* firestarter (5:1) - payron (4:1)
* Sturmgott (3:1) - Nastaboi (4:1)

this matches will set the course for this season


I'm abroad for a while!

Have a good time, cya.

Hey guys,
due to the lack of time i'm gonna have to resign from this season.

Sorry for any inconvenience that i may have caused.  :)

Quote from: Outlaw on 27-08-2009, 07:29:45 PM
Hey guys,
due to the lack of time i'm gonna have to resign from this season.

Sorry for any inconvenience that i may have caused.  :)

Ok.

To minimize the "inconvenience" coldcrow replaces Outlaw.

This are the new pairings:

Vazdru - coldcrow   
Payron -coldcrow   
coldcrow - TeKo
coldcrow - Zool
Peeler - coldcrow
pyyhttu - coldcrow
lio123 - coldcrow
SirGalahad - coldcrow

Ranking updated. Pairings will be posted tomorow.

72 matches, 176 games have been played already.

Firestarter (7-2) is still in the pole-position! marchhare (6-2) is the new face in the top 8! Nastaboi (5-2) and Sir Galahad (4-1) are still in an excellent position.

There is a time schedule for season VII as well:

Every participant must have at least 7 matches till 04.10.2009

Every participant must have at least 9 matches till 11.10.2009

Every participant must have at least 11 matches till 18.10.2009

Every participant must have at least 13 matches till 25.10.2009


Season ends 31.10.2009

If anyone do not reach the benchmark he will be excluded.

[HLL]Ladder updated 11.09.09

First time a player from outside Germany is standing right on the top: NASTABOI (1699).

Runner-Up is an old stager and creator of our homepage: STURMGOTT (1684).

MERCATOR (1677) dropping just one place without playing a match. PAYRON (1672) dropped from 1st to 4th place. Winner of our last season GOBLINPILEDRIVER (1660) climbed on 5th. From naught to hundred in just half a season: FIRESTARTER(1652) on place 6.

This season match Sturmgott vs Nastaboi is still to come - the winner is not only the first persecutor of our actual season-leader firestarter - he is also (maybe) our overall [HLL]leader.

Ranking updated.

In front we have the usual suspects.

Nastaboi took the lead by a short head, Firestarter is following behind.

Our last season-winner Goblinpiledriver reached place no. 3.


Following guys need some matches or rather one match in the next two weeks to avoid from beeing excluded:

PuTe (4)
SirGalahad and Mean_Tutor (6)

The benchmark is 7 matches till 04.10.2009.

New pairings have been posted...and it's "crunch time":

Nastaboi - firestarter
Nastaboi - Goblinpiledriver
firestarter - SirGalahad
Sturmgott - Goblinpiledriver

That are the matches of the top-3-players Nastaboi (33 pts), firestarter (30 pts), goblinpiledriver (24 pts).

The determination of first places is near. Gl to all competitors.

Ranking updated.

PuTe has been excluded. New pairings have been posted.

Players with less than 9 matches (benchmark for 11.10.09):

SirGalahad (7)
pyyhttu (7)
Mean_Tutor (7)

Quote from: Vazdru on 04-10-2009, 01:57:31 AM
Players with less than 9 matches (benchmark for 11.10.09):

SirGalahad (7)
pyyhttu (7)
Mean_Tutor (7)

Season ended for this player because they do not reach the benchmark in time.

New pairings have been posted. There will be the last pairings for this season next week - rematches are possible.

Players with less than 11 matches (benchmark for 18.10.09):

coldcrow (9)
Zool (9)

Quote from: Vazdru on 04-10-2009, 01:57:31 AM

coldcrow (9)
Zool (9)

Coldcrow and Zool are out. Last pairings for this season have been posted. In the end everyone has 17 pairings (except sensenmann and me having 16).

Nastaboi has 12 wins, firestarter 11, goblinpiledriver, marchhare and peeler each 9 wins.

Season VII ended, Final Ranking has been updated.

134 matches / 331 games have been played during the last weeks (in comparison Season VI: 89 matches / V: 96 matches / IV: 73 matches).

This time we've had a neck-and-neck-race between Nastaboi (best online HL player from outside Germany) and Firestarter (actually the most succesful German HL player).


Congratulation to all of them!

The price for Nastaboi as Highlander are 5 Booster.

Prices donated by myself this time.


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Season winners history:

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)

[HLL]Ladder has been updated recently. Nastaboi is still on the top of our ladder as single player with a rating above 1700. Firestarter is already No. 3 after just one season! Marchare made it also to the Top 8 in just one strike. These guys are obviously absolute favorites for season VIII which has just begun. Pairings for week one have been posted.

And have a look what we have here (in brackets = [HLL]Ladder-Rank):

Firestarter (3) - Nastaboi (1)
Firestarter (3) - marchhare (7)
Sturmgott (6) - Payron (4)

Right from the start we have a clash of favorites. Lets see who will be first off the mark!

22 matches have been played during the first week. The_Ocean was able to play his 4 matches in the first 48 hours of his league-participation - good job  ;D He is actually the only one who played all of his matches already.

The favorites firestarter and Nastaboi each started with a 1-2 defeat -- good news for all other participants  ;)

Sturmgott and Mythrandir are standing on the top with a clean record of 2:0 matches and 4:0 games.
There are 8 players alltogether still undefeated.

My internet connection has been down since last Wednesday. Just sayin'.

Registration has been closed today.

Ranking updated. Still 4 undefeated guys:

Mythrandir (15p) / Sturmgott (12p) / Goblinpiledriver (12p) / -jfk- (9p)

and two other guys with 70%+ games percentage:

No Stress (12p) / Mr Green (9p)

Ranking updated.

Still 3 participants w/o any losses:

Mytrandir (18 pts), Goblinpiledriver (18 pts), Sturmgott (15 pts)

One month before the invitationals (http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=329.0) we have following Top 8 of our [HLL]Ladder:

1. Goblinpiledriver
2. Nastaboi
3. Sturmgott
4. Mercator
5. firestarter
6. Payron
7. marchhare
8. Mythrandir

The invitational tournament is going ot take place if 5 of the Top 8 are willing to participate. The winner also get the title "HL Online Champion 2009"  ;)

After solving some mayor problems regarding my Windows XP and a new installation of Windows I am unable to open MWS. I get following error code: 0xc0150004. I tested my system with several Programs (hijackthis, ccleaner, chkdisk, testdisk...) deinstalled (including all registry entries) and reinstalled MWS with no success. Finally I typed the error code in google and found no solution I've not tried yet, except formating the whole disc and make a new installation of Windows which I just did >:(.

If any of you have a solution for my problem I would be delighted to hear it. I will search for a solution in the upcoming week, but if nothing helps I will have to drop out of the league for this season, as I'm not willing to format my harddrive and make a clean install of windows for now.

Thanks for any help!

What's the whole error message? I guess you are getting: 'The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150004)'? If so, have you by any chance re-installed an OEM version of Windows that was pre-activated with your computer? In that case your OS is likely pre-loaded with crapware and MWS might have a conflict with them.

If not, then I can't suggest anything else that your mws installation file (setup.exe or something) was corrupted during download.

Hey pyyhttu,
the case you are describing is totally correct. I had several computer problems (USB-Root-Hub had driver issues which couldn't be handled whether by updating the driver nor deinstalling and re-installing them) so that I re-installed my OEM version of Windows. Do you have any experience which crapware is causing this problem? If you like, I'll send you a  HijackThis-log for further details of my system.

No need, it could be any one of them and I have no experience what-so-ever when it comes to faulty OEM windows, so I would be of little help. Your best bet is just to see and try to uninstall them all and see if that helps. If not, go further and use some crawler to clean the registry of their last remnants, as I doubt they are not well-behaved software (they leave the registry contaminated with all sorts of crap, remember to backup the registry).

If that doesn't help, well... then you either have to get somewhere a "proper" retail Windows which you are allowed to install on any hardware platform without the OEM bundle crap, unless you google some other root cause for that error message.

Or then you could dedicate some (2 Gb is plenty) free disk space, get, say VirtualBox, install Ubuntu or whatever modern Linux distro on it, and run MWS through Wine in there (pervert installation, but this works fine). This way you don't have to uninstall your current OEM Windows.

Or if you are an oddball, you could try another no-cost operating system that is binary compatible with Windows, so MWS *should* work (no guarantees). See: http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html

Sorry, I don't have any easy fixes to offer in your case.

Thanks for the quick response!

I won't do it with virtual box. You are right, that is pervert: Running Linux in a virtual environment and than emulate windows ;D.

I will search for another solution. When I find one, I will come back and post it here. Till then I won't be able to play any MWS-Games, sorry.

My internet connection is back, beware.

uuuuh  :o



;)

So I didn't come across any solution not involving the command "format c:". So, for the time being I will drop out of the league. Sorry lads, maybe I can fix this in time to participate in the next league.

See you,
Sensenmann

Quote from: Sensenmann on 10-12-2009, 12:20:12 AM
So I didn't come across any solution not involving the command "format c:". So, for the time being I will drop out of the league. Sorry lads, maybe I can fix this in time to participate in the next league.

See you,
Sensenmann

sry mate, but anyway thx for your info

hope you'll solve this it-problem in time to take part in next season

pairings will be updated soon

GccG is back online. This is another free magic online programm which I have always prefered to MWS. This could be an opportunity for you.

There is a time schedule for season VIII as well:

Every participant must have at least 8 matches till 08.01.2010

Every participant must have at least 10 matches till 15.01.2010

Every participant must have at least 12 matches till 22.01.2010

Every participant must have at least 14 matches till 29.01.2010


Season ends 31.01.2010

If anyone doesn't reach the benchmark he will be excluded.


It's still close on the top of the field. We have following guys with at least 15p and less then 3 defeats:

Goblinpiledriver 27p (9-2)
Sturmgott 24p (8-0)
Mythrandir 24p (8-1)
No Stress 18p (6-2)

In an excellent position too:

The_Ocean 24p (8-3)
MrGreen 18p (6-3)
-jfk- 12p (4-1)

Quote from: MrGreen on 14-12-2009, 09:52:57 PM
GccG is back online. This is another free magic online programm which I have always prefered to MWS. This could be an opportunity for you.

Could you post a link to this? Although I have been satisfied with MWS for years, few can deny that there are problems intrinsic to it. [The other one that was highly recommended to me, Octagon, I spent pretty much a full day trying to figure it out, and finally gave up in disgust.]

Quote from: grizzledmage

Quote from: MrGreen
GccG is back online. This is another free magic online programm which I have always prefered to MWS. This could be an opportunity for you.

Could you post a link to this?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gccg

(No pun intended with that). Gccg is nice as it's cross platform but it has a huge learning curve, even greater than OCTGN. But do try, you might like it. You'll have to play around with .bat files though and "earn" your card images.

QuoteThe other one that was highly recommended to me, Octagon, I spent pretty much a full day trying to figure it out, and finally gave up in disgust.

Yeah, it requires a ton of tweaking and configuration, and even then it lacks some vital functionality. See: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=299.msg2556#msg2556

I plan to rebuild octgn's db in some near future, and could share & document my configuration files along it if it helps you. That way you don't have to spend _all_ day figuring it out.

The project has been putten on ice some years ago. But now there is a new group of fans who are going on. I have just downloaded it last week and played a game. It is very easy to install and to use. A lot is discribed on this domain:
http://gccg.sourceforge.net/
It just take you some time to download all the files especially the card images.
Try and enjoy!

Ranking updated:

Mythrandir (9-1) took the lead followed by Sturmgott (9-1) as runner-up, Goblinpiledriver is also at 27pts with a record of 9-2. The_Ocean, No Stress and -jfk- are still in a good position to reach one of the first places.


Reminder:

Plz report at least 8 matches till 08.01.2010 or write at least a short message that you are willing to play at least 14 matches till the end of the season.

Following players have actually less than 5 matches:

Payron, pyyhttu (3)
firestarter, Pennywise, Pute, r4nd0m1z3r (4)


Ladder Tourney 2009:

Actually we have following Top 15 ranks:

1   Sturmgott   1707
2   Goblinpiledriver   1698
3   firestarter   1677
4   Mercator   1677
5   Payron   1672
6   marchhare   1661
7   Nastaboi   1657
8   Mythrandir   1655
9   Guardian   1640
10   Kavu24   1637
11   The_Ocean   1634
12   Outlaw   1628
13   Helle   1624
14   No Stress   1623
15   -jfk-   1622

Merry xmas to you all from Portugal!  ;D

Quote from: Vazdru on 14-12-2009, 10:44:08 PM
There is a time schedule for season VIII as well:

Every participant must have at least 8 matches till 08.01.2010

Season ends 31.01.2010

If anyone doesn't reach the benchmark he will be excluded !

The benchmark lowered to 6 matches till 10.01.2010.

Guys with less than 6 matches:

pyyhttu (3) - even your matches vs Nastaboi and derStefan82 are still open  ::) EDIT: thx !  :)
PuTe (4)
r4nd0m1z3r (5)
Firestarter (5)
Pennywise (5)
Utopiaman (5)

The benchmark lowered to 8 matches till next Sunday.

Guys with less than 8 matches:

pyyhttu (6)
Payron (6)
Irenicus (6)
Pennywise (7)
Cadaj (7)

Hopefully i do not have to exclude all of you  ::) ... come on play some matches  ;D

Last pairings of Season VIII will be posted 24.01.2010. (Last) Benchmark is 11 matches till 24.01.2010, only pyyhttu and Payron have less (-8-) - all other participants are "saved".

In the end everybody will have 16 maybe 17 parings - it depends if someone drops till 24.01.2010.

Probably 36(+) points will be enough to win this season. Best chances to reach the top/The Abyss  ;):

Goblinpiledriver (11-2)
Sturmgott (10-1)
Mythrandir (10-3)
marchhare (8-3)
-jfk- (8-3)
Payron (6-2)

But there are many guys still in reach of the Top-3-price-ranks.

Actually we have 8 players with 27 - 33 pts. It's still quite close on the top ranks! Let see who will reach the prize-ranks in about 1 1/2 weeks.

33 pts: Goblinpiledriver?
30 pts: Sturmgott, Mythrandir, The_Ocean?
27 pts: marchhare, Helle, -jfk-, Tabris?

Season ends 31.01.2010 (evening/night).

Top pairings:

Sturmgott (2) - -jfk- (6)
Goblinpiledriver (1) - Sturmgott (2)
Goblinpiledriver (1) - machhare (5)
Sturmgott (2) - The_Ocean (4)
Mythrandir (3) - -jfk- (6)

Quote from: Vazdru on 21-01-2010, 09:01:01 PM

33 pts: Goblinpiledriver?

Season ends 31.01.2010 (evening/night).

Top pairings:

Goblinpiledriver (1) - machhare (5) 2:1

Goblinpiledriver have had already 36 pts now having 39 pts giving him a comfortable leadership in this season.

It will be hard to outrun him this time - but it's still possible (e. g. -jfk- 27 pts + 12 pts of the remaing 4 matches) 

Preliminary result 4 days before season ends:

1. Goblinpiledriver (13-2) -> The Abyss (sponsored by derStefan82)

2. Sturmgott (10-3) -> 4 rare lands (sponsored by Vazdru)

3. Mythrandir (10-5) -> 2 Booster (sponsored by Vazdru)

4. The_Ocean (10-6)
5. marchhare (9-4)
6. -jfk- (9-4)
7. Payron (9-4)
8. Helle (9-6)
9. Tabris (9-7)

places 2-9 still quite close


best chances to get a pack of foils (sponsored by Nastaboi)

16 matches: The_Ocean, Tabris
15 machtes: (Goblinpiledriver, Mythrandir), Helle, Seveneyes, Vazdru, derStefan82


Registration for season IX starts as soon Ladder Tournament 2009 has begun.

Goblinpiledriver did it - he won't lose top position in the last 12 hours.

-jfk- is actually runner-up with 36 pts (one match left vs Sturmgott)

On third pos. we have The_Ocean now with 33 pts - he played all his matches already.

Still in good pos. to reach prize-ranks: Sturmgott and Payron with 30 pts each and 3 matches left.

Mythrandir and Helle with outside chances: both are standing at 30 pts with one pairing left.  

Season VIII ended, Final Ranking has been updated.

159 matches / 394 games have been played during the last weeks. This is again a new record!


Congratulation to all of them!

First price is an Italian The Abyss this time! Congratz Goblinpiledriver and special thanks to derStefan82!
-jfk- as runner-up gets 4 rare lands, Payron as 3rd-placed player 2 Booster-Packs (both sponsored by myself)

Candidates for the special price of Nastaboi and all with 17 matches played: The_Ocean (4th), Tabris (first who reached 17 matches) and derStefan82 (main-sponsor   :))



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Season winners history:

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)

I'd like to lower the threshold for my door prize to 14 or 15 completed matches, because season was so long, and players who are unable/unwilling to do all their matches also make it more difficult to those who'd like to. Winner to be announced soon.

Congrats Goblinpiledriver! that was one heck of a league! Good going.
Also congrats to JFK for playing with only one deck! ;)

*brass horns*

Announcing: THe special prize for random player who played it to the bitter end. Every player with at least 14 matches completed, excluding myself and top 3 performed, had a change to win. Those with 16 or 17 completed matches had more changes to win (1/20, 2/20 and 3/20 respectively). We have rolled the die and the winner is...

*drum fills*

Marchhare with 15 matches! He will reserve an assortment of highlander playable foils. Please contact me on how to get your prize.

Thanks everyone for playing season VIII!

i have to leave the current hll season because i have no time for playing. sorry for those who have to still play me.

I am sorry ... but I think I will asign my first matches in about 2 weeks, I was pretty busy the last weeks and now I move back to study in a differnet town, so I need to get my internet working right there and will have not enought time on the weekends ... I try to play a lot of games after I set up everthing there ... thx anyways

hi everyone,

I also am sorry, because I didn't have that mucht time to play in the last weeks. My first son was born recently so there was muchmuchmuch stress. Now we're back home and I will try to make up for the not yet played matches.

Quote from: -jFk- on 29-03-2010, 12:17:57 AM
My first son was born recently

Congratz ! :)

Quote from: -jFk- on 29-03-2010, 12:17:57 AM
My first son was born

name = Urza?  ;) Congratulations!

don't have much time neither for [HLL]matches nor the league itself

no - just having one little boy at home yet  ;) but it's "busy season" for me as auditor actually so working av. 50-hours/week + family don't give me much room for magic in general

I try to update things this week and play a match or two some time around Easter


also i've hadn't time to introduce derStefan82 as new moderator of [HLL] so far
he offered some help and i try to coordinate further steps asap to keep things running

Well, i think i speak for all when i say your effort is hugely appreciated.

If you need anything, let me know.

There is a time schedule for season IX as well:

Every participant must have at least 6 matches till 30.04.2010

Every participant must have at least 8 matches till 07.05.2010

Every participant must have at least 10 matches till 14.05.2010

Every participant must have at least 12 matches till 21.05.2010

Every participant must have at least 14 matches till 28.05.2010


Season ends 30.05.2010

I'm dearly sorry, but I cannot find time for online play currently, probably not until the middle of September. So I'll have to drop from the league this seasons and skip the next.

I probably won't find time to play the matches, either. I'm sorry for causing organisational problems.

Ranking updated - peeler is leading the field followed by six players with "tied" second place (12 points: marchhare, Goblinpiledriver, Mythrandir, Coldcrow, Nastaboi, Tabris).

Next pairings probably Wednesday, Thursday.

Has been quite busy lately, doing 55-60 hours of work each week. Won't be much better the next 2 weeks too so I won't play many games or update [HLL] related stuff in time  ::)

As a matter of principle RoE will become legal for [HLL] starting with May, 8th  ;)

But if both players agree -before the match has been started  ;)- on using RoE cards in their match it is ok!

The_Ocean and r4nd0m1z3r have been excluded due to not reaching the benchmark of 6 matches

new pairings and ranking will be posted briefly

Quote from: Vazdru on 10-04-2010, 12:42:47 AM
There is a time schedule for season IX as well:

Every participant must have at least 6 matches till 30.04.2010

Every participant must have at least 8 matches till 07.05.2010

Every participant must have at least 10 matches till 14.05.2010

Every participant must have at least 12 matches till 21.05.2010

Every participant must have at least 14 matches till 28.05.2010


Season ends 30.05.2010

Payron actually at 6 matches
Noviomagus and -jfk- at 7 matches

plz have another match this weekend or leave a note that you are willing to play the missing matches asap

I've played against Mythrandir yesterday and as far as i know he reported the game right away. (he won 2-0).
I will try to keep on playing all my matches.

Quote from: -jFk- on 10-05-2010, 12:48:40 AM
I've played against Mythrandir yesterday and as far as i know he reported the game right away. (he won 2-0).
I will try to keep on playing all my matches.

hmm.. vs me? yesterday as in 9th april? yesterday i only played vs Marchare and he won 2-0...

Noviomagus is out

@ rest - plz try to reach 10 matches till next week

(re-)pairings available soon

sorry.. i got that mixed up. I played against Marchhare, not Mythrandir.

Quote from: Vazdru on 10-04-2010, 12:42:47 AM
There is a time schedule for season IX as well:

Every participant must have at least 6 matches till 30.04.2010

Every participant must have at least 8 matches till 07.05.2010

Every participant must have at least 10 matches till 14.05.2010

Every participant must have at least 12 matches till 21.05.2010

Every participant must have at least 14 matches till 28.05.2010


Season ends 30.05.2010

at 7 matches:

MrGreen


at 9 matches:

Payron
Mythrandir
Buddaq
derStefan82


I'll post repairings next week. I won't exclude more than two additional participants this time. Nevertheless try to play your matches till end of the season.

Quote from: Vazdru on 15-05-2010, 04:56:22 PM

Quote from: Vazdru on 10-04-2010, 12:42:47 AM
There is a time schedule for season IX as well:

Every participant must have at least 6 matches till 30.04.2010

Every participant must have at least 8 matches till 07.05.2010

Every participant must have at least 10 matches till 14.05.2010

Every participant must have at least 12 matches till 21.05.2010

Every participant must have at least 14 matches till 28.05.2010


Season ends 30.05.2010

at 7 matches:

MrGreen


at 9 matches:

Payron
Mythrandir
Buddaq
derStefan82


I'll post repairings next week. I won't exclude more than two additional participants this time. Nevertheless try to play your matches till end of the season.

I'm sorry. I'll try to play my matches this week.

MrGreen is out

Repairings will be posted next days



ps. I would like to play as many [HLL]matches as possible on Thursday (training for GP)

Hi all,

I would like do join your online league. What I have to do?

Thanks for helping.

Wait for the current season to end, then there will be a new thread opened where you can sign in.

Quote from: Helle on 19-05-2010, 04:21:24 PM
Wait for the current season to end, then there will be a new thread opened where you can sign in.

OK, i´ll wait.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


  hi  ;)


  does anyone of you want to volunteer and translate the post of the grand prix winner into english ?
 
  http://blog.magicplayer.org/2010/05/24/hl-gp-7-winnerdeck-report/

  doesnt have to be too detailed, thanks for your support  :)

final pairings and pre-final ranking online

Scoreboard is opened till June, 2nd 2010!

Quote from: Vazdru on 22-04-2010, 08:53:50 PM
Has been quite busy lately, doing 55-60 hours of work each week. Won't be much better the next 2 weeks too so I won't play many games or update [HLL] related stuff in time  ::)

see above
workflow reached a critical mass

*off*

unfortunately, I didnt get a chance to play against you Vazdru. So I´ve missed a game which could be important >.<"

Season IX ended, final Ranking has been updated.

133 matches / 329 games have been played during the last weeks.


Remarkable that those three guys played all their 18 matches this season.

Congratz!

Special prices are going to Tabris and derStefan82 who reached 17 matches.

The prices are:

* Show and Tell
* Garruk Wildspeaker + Booster
* Back to Basics + Booster
* Tormod's Crypt + Booster
* Gilt-Leaf Palace + Booster

The prices will be picked in order of the final ranking (marchhare, Goblinpiledriver, -jfk-, Tabris, derStefan82).

You can choose between following Boosters: Zendikar, Tenth Edition X, Lorwyn, Morningtide (every Booster can only picked once).

Price funds: EUR 50 (cards av. price at magickartenmarkt EUR 38 + 4 Booster a EUR 2,5 + stamps).
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Season winners history:

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)

Congrats to the winners. :)

And i'm sorry that i was unable to play all games.. but i had a screwed up schedule this season.. sorry.

Grats from me too. Outstanding performance, esp by marchhare :o

Prepare to be assimilated next season, though - Resistance is futile  ;) ;D

I received an envelope from marchhare with some foils in it. Thx!

@ marchhare
should I add them to price-pool of this or next season?

mh, as u like, you could add the most playable ones to this season, and the rest to the next.

Quote from: marchhare on 06-06-2010, 01:23:50 PM
mh, as u like, you could add the most playable ones to this season, and the rest to the next.

ok - the top 4 players each gets a foil copy of Honor of the Pure
the fifth will receive an foil copy of Allied Strategies

muchas gratias @ marchhare for pimping up the price-pool  ;D

pls give all cards id receive except the show and tell to the fifth place   ;)

I pick the Garruk Wildspeaker + the Llorwyn Booster.(And the foil Honor of the Pure)

I pick Back to Basics and Zendikar Booster (THX for Honor as well.. that fits perfectly you know ;D)

Season X starts August, 1st.

Registration will be open from July, 15th till August, 8th.

If the Tormods Crypt is bb I´ll take this. If not I chose the G/B land and a Zendikar Booster (or M10 (or is it really Xth Edition?(in this case I´ll take the Morning Tide)) if the zendikar is gone). Thx.

Grats to all winners and thanks to all guys made it possible to get as much matches as possible.

I will pick wat's left (as I' have the last pick)  ;)

Quote from: Sturmgott on 12-05-2010, 05:30:08 PM
I already stated this position in the council discussions some weeks ago:

Since I seem to be the only guy who cares about editions becoming legal, we're going to omit that "peculiarity" from our rules in the next banning season.

just as clarification:

M11 is already legal

hi  ;)


its a bit off topic, buuut:

is anyone going to need a hotel for GP ghotenburg ? im searching for someone to share a room with during the weekend
if interested write me in icq.

good luck and fun for all participants

My goal for this season is to play different deck every time. Beware.

Ranking for Season X has been updated.
Pairings for week 4 are available soon.

37 matches have been already played! On place one and two we have the usual suspects.
Goblinpiledriver is actually leading Ranking Season X. He's runner-up in HL Online Championship 2009 and leader of [HLL]Ladder too. Nastaboi, the reigning HL Online Player, is on second place. On places 3-5 we have some HLL-"newbies" cedzoh, whisper and W0lf.

I'm gonna have loads of time this week, so i'd like to play some of my games this week, since afterwards i'll be more occupied.
If you see me on ICQ or MSN ring me.

Thanks

I'm busy (as usual  ;)) in the moment. Wednesday = game day; i'll try to be available tomorrow evening for one or two matches. The rest of the week i won't be online much.

New pairings will be posted next days. Plz note that there are already 10 pairings for each of us and there will be a max. of 15 pairings for each participant this time.
http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=447.0

Schedule for Season X

- 26.09. -> benchmark of at least 6 matches, pairings no. 13 + 14 based on standings

- 04.10. -> benchmark of at least 7 matches

- 11.10. -> benchmark of at least 9 matches, pairings no. 15 based on standings

- 18.10. -> benchmark of at least 11 matches

- 25.10. -> benchmark of at least 13 matches

- 31.10. -> end of season X


exclusions + repairings possible if someone doesn't reach benchmark

marchhare (3 matches) + Pute (4 matches) + Payron (5 matches) get some extra-time (till friday) to reach the 6-match benchmark

I'm going to be abroad for 1 week, so i won't be able to play any match till next sunday (10th october). Thanks

Also congrats on Nastaboi for his position on the council. Great player, great deckbuilder.

Quote from: Vazdru on 27-09-2010, 08:04:18 PM
marchhare (3 matches) + Pute (4 matches) + Payron (5 matches) get some extra-time (till friday) to reach the 6-match benchmark

PuTe has been excluded from this season.

Next week (9.-16.10) i will be on vacation so i cant play any matches...

participants with less than 7 matches gonna be excluded from this season at Sunday

at 6 matches actually:

whisper
W0lf
marchhare
nmless
e-san

Quote from: Vazdru on 06-10-2010, 10:15:21 PM
participants with less than 7 matches gonna be excluded from this season at Sunday

at 6 matches actually:

whisper
W0lf
e-san

...have been excluded

Final pairings (no. 15) will be posted at end of this week.

I try to play at least 2 matches till Friday. If i am not able to, i will drop.
Payron has to play at least 3 matches till Friday.

Season ends October, 31st. Afterwards the [HLL]Ladder will be updated for the 2011 Ladder-Championship Invitations. Next [HLL]Season will start January 2011.

Sorry guys, i have to drop from this season.

Too much work-load, too much family buisness.

Season X ended, final Ranking has been updated.

115 matches / 281 games have been played during the last weeks.


Congratz!

~fenry~ is receiving a special price for beeing the one and only player with 15 matches outside top 3.
Just one match behind are Mythrandir, Georg B and derStefan82.


The prices are:

* Argothian Enchantress (dt.) + 2 foil picks (see below)
* Volrath's Stronghold + 2 foil picks
* Gifts Ungiven + Winter Orb + 2 foil picks
* Foil Spectral Force + Child of Gaea + Dread + 2 foil picks

Foils:
* Moment's Peace
* Compulsive Research
* Bant Sureblade
* Rise/Fall
* Condescend (dt.)
* Coiling Oracle
* Careful Consideration
* Gruul Turf

The prices will be picked in order of the final ranking (Goblinpiledriver, Tabris, Nastaboi, ~fenry~).


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Season winners history:

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)

Thought i played all my games, anyway...  Congrats to Goblinpiledriver!

Also 3rd place with all different decks is very awesome!! Congrats to Nastaboi and his deckbuilding skills.

And I did not even got to play Battle of Wits or High Tide... Unfortunate for me not to be able to play the last three matches, just one win would've done it for me. Thanks again for the season.

Sooooooooooo? Piledriver any decissions yet ?

Okay I thought it over, and I am ready for my "Herablassen'de" decision:

I take the german Argothian Enchantress, Herablassen(german for Condescend) and Coiling Oracle.


My little Resume from this Season:

Goblin Piledriver:
5C-Alara-aggro 8:3
Blue-Bant-controll 1:0
Blue-5C-controll 1:0

Tabris:
RDW 8:3
MUC 0:1
UG-aggrocontroll 2:1

Nastaboi:
Jund-Valakut-Landfall 0:1
Wildfire-Swans 1:0
UGr-Heartbeat 1:0
RWB-aggro 0:1
Alluren 1:0
Time-Sieve-Combo 1:0
Owling-Mine 1:0
Hypergenesis 1:0
MonoG-Ramp 1:0
WB-Angel-Staxx 1:0
Grixis-Ramp(Wildfire) 0:1
Monoblue-aggro-Fish 1:0

thx for the summary:

I´ll take Volraths, compulsive research and carefull consideration

So I am left with... Would've loved Tabris's pile, but not everyone can win.

I'll take Gifts/WOrb/Peace/Turf.

I won't have any connection to internet at home for a while (3-5 days). So i will have a quick look what happened during lunch break but won't be able to play some matches in this time.

There won't be any exclusions for stage III and no specific pairings too. Everybody is free to challenge anyone else (once) till he has reached a maximum of 14 matches. Have fun!

Will there be an update in the hll-Ranking for Season 11, soon?

I just wanted to see how much matches I played, before I arrange new ones.

simply count them in the scoreboard

Quote from: GoblinPiledriver on 01-03-2011, 08:31:03 PM
Will there be an update in the hll-Ranking for Season 11, soon?

I just wanted to see how much matches I played, before I arrange new ones.

No access to internet at home - so it will take some time for updates.

Quote from: Helle on 01-03-2011, 08:36:23 PM
simply count them in the scoreboard

mhm...

counting would be easy. 9-4
But I have a problem. helle explained to me that the english 'must not' means the exact opposite of 'nicht müssen' in german.
So I didn't understood that  it's forbidden to play against other players of the phases before.
But this happened in 2 Matches with Tabris and in 2 with Cedzoh.

Game 40: Goblin Piledriver(5C-Alara-aggro vs Cedzoh(YingYang-BW-aggro) 2:1
Game 49: GoblinPiledriver (RB-Goblins) vs cedzoh (GWr tokens)          0:2
Game 65: GoblinPiledriver(5C-Alara-aggro) vs Tabris(BGW-PatternRector) 2:0
Game 16: Goblin Piledriver (Naya) vs Tabris (BWG Pattern Rector)       1:2

And when I look at the Scoreboard this happended to other players, too:

Game 34: Geth29 (Oath Staxx)     - Verik (BR Aggro)           2:0
Game 51: Geth29 (Pattern-Rector) - Verik (BR - Suicide)       2:0
Game 56: Tabris (Pattern combo) - Payron (4c recrussion)      0:2
Game 43: Tabris (Pattern combo) - Payron (Scapshift)          0:2

That's why a clarification and a hll-Ranking update would be necessary.

hmm - damned English  ???

I used the expression "must not" in a wrong way  :-\... obviously
"Groupmembers (= Participants of our league) are free to play vs eachother once". The "clarification" was crap  >:(

I have actually no idea how to rule this. I tend to annul all rematches. Opinions?

I'd say every played match counts.

I would think anulling the rematches would be the right decision.
The Mistake would just be erased and the rules would clearly come through.

As it was my fault all matches played count.

For the rest of the running season and for the future the rules have been changed:

Stage II
Groupmembers are free to play vs eachother once (as clarification: participants do not have to  play vs opponents of previous stages)

Stage III
Participants do not have to play vs opponents of previous stages.

Season XI ended, final Ranking has been updated.

73 matches / 185 games have been played during the last three months.


Congratz!

Tabris earned a price for most match attandance.


The prices are:

First Pot:
Solemn Simulacrum
Path to Exile
Ill-Gotten Gains
Mishra's Helix
Patriarch's Bidding (jap.)
Treetop Village (foil, Promo)
Skinrender (foil, Promo)
Mana Short (unlimited)
Bribery

Second Pot:
Persecute
Blood Moon
Armageddon
hymn to Tourach
Copperline Gorge
Phyrexian Arena
Gemstone Mine
Catastrophe
Spectral Force (foil)

The prices will be picked in order of the final ranking (Goblinpiledriver, helle, Nastaboi). Each one gets 3 cards of first pot + 3 cards of second pot.

Each one may choose the Draft Set on Modo sponsored by Nastaboi instead of their cards-prices.

Tabris will get the cards leftover in pot 1 and 2 (or the modo draft set).

All other or non-picked cards will be gathered in the price-pool for next season.


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Season winners history:

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)

I really overlooked this thread.
Now that I noticed it I can choose my Price cards:

First Pot:
Path to Exile
Skinrender
Bribery



Second Pot:
Catastrophe
Armageddon
Persecute

I'd like:

Solemn Simulacrum
Ill-Gotten Gains
Patriarch's Bidding (jap.)

Hymn to Tourach
Copperline Gorge
Phyrexian Arena

Thank you!

Well, I guess I'll keep my draft set then, as I'm pretty low on packs ATM.

yay leftovers for me :>

the current season will be prolongated till the end of august, anyone is still able to join
till end of september i'll reconsider how to revive our online league
next season starts october 1st and ends at the end of the year
Online Championship Invitational will take place, as usual based on online rating

Hello

im new to these forums and also new to Highlander Format. I was already planning to join for the next season of the online-League. Now I read this post, does that mean that I can join in the running season still ?

Greetings

Quote from: Szooth on 01-08-2011, 12:27:14 PM
Hello

im new to these forums and also new to Highlander Format. I was already planning to join for the next season of the online-League. Now I read this post, does that mean that I can join in the running season still ?

Greetings

Yes, you can. Just register and feel free to challenge some player in our league. Best option is to contact them via ICQ.

Season XII is over, we had 13 matches and Tabris won with a record 5:1

During the twelve seasons we had exactly 1.000 matches played !!! The 1.000th match has been won by Tabris (vs Goblinpiledriver).

@ Tabris - you'll get your price we meet next time

I will gather some ideas to "revive" our HLL Online Season.

I played the 1000th match? hooray

Will the rating system change to Planeswalker Points, too? :P

Quote from: Helle on 23-09-2011, 09:59:52 PM
Will the rating system change to Planeswalker Points, too? :P

good question  ??? ... no, we will be old-fashioned using the skill-based rating system also in the future ;D

Quote from: Vazdru on 23-09-2011, 10:34:02 PM

Quote from: Helle on 23-09-2011, 09:59:52 PM
Will the rating system change to Planeswalker Points, too? :P

good question  ??? ... no, we will be old-fashioned using the skill-based rating system also in the future ;D

I'm still not sure how I feel about the PW points, however, a bit when like the rules (DMG on stack) changed, I think this is one of the things we should pick up, though...

I didn't follow the discussion about PW-points in depth, but as I got it, the main reason was to encourage people to attend tournaments the couldn't have played with the current system without loosing lots of rating. I don't think we have this problem in our league.

On the other hand, rewarding people for playing games will maybe vitalize the league. So it may be rewarding to give it a try.

Hi everybody. I didn't know where to post this so i just did it here. I'm new and would like to participate in the online league, what should I do?
Cheers from Chile  :P

Quote from: Atq77 on 29-09-2011, 04:52:31 AM
Hi everybody. I didn't know where to post this so i just did it here. I'm new and would like to participate in the online league, what should I do?
Cheers from Chile  :P

There will be another season probably this year.

Season XIII starts November, 1st and ends December, 31th.
Registration will be online in a few minutes.
Donations to price funds are welcome but -as usually- not required; participation is free.
Price-funds is given away to top player (1-64 matches), top two players(65-96 matches) or top 3 players (97+ matches).
Furthermore one first-round bye at next HL Grand Prix in Hanau is granted to top player of season XIII if we have at least 8 participants with 4 matches (or more) each (as soon GP has been officially announced by JKEntertainment - as long no guarantee).

Enjoy!

Next ladder will include lifetime planeswalker rating, invitations to HL Online Championship 2011 based on "old" rating system. Season XIII gives ya the last chance to catch one of the top spots which are actually held by:

1. Nastaboi (winner of Online Championship 2009 and 2010, reigning Finnish HL Champion)
2. Payron
3. marchhare
4. Goblinpiledriver (reigning HL GP Champion)
5. Tabris (reigning [HLL] Season XII Champion)
6. Sturmgott (godfather of Highlander)
7. Helle
8. firestarter (reigning German HL Champion)

on 9th spot btw. MErcator (reigning German Magic Champion)  ;D

I have a problem with our scoreboard, as I entered the results it chanced the 2-1 in 2/1/2011 and I am not so used with this can maybe someone chance this back, I tryed and can t find the formation for dates and stuff!!

Quote from: Payron on 24-11-2011, 12:00:15 AM
I have a problem with our scoreboard, as I entered the results it chanced the 2-1 in 2/1/2011 and I am not so used with this can maybe someone chance this back, I tryed and can t find the formation for dates and stuff!!

fixed - just use c&p if any problems occur

Thx alot!

Season XIII is over, we had 18 matches and coldcrow won with a record 4:1

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Season winners history:

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)

Season XIV ended, final Ranking has been updated.

66 matches / 162 games have been played during the last three months.


Congratz & thx to all participants.


Prices:

Christoph0 for first place: EUR 20 voucher on Magic-Tutor + 2 Boosterpacks Innistrad
Syras for second place: EUR 10 voucher on Magic-Tutor + 2 Boosterpacks Innistrad
Vazdru for third place: EUR 5 voucher on Magic-Tutor + 2 Boosterpacks Innistrad

special prices:

malz77 for most matches outside Top 3: 2 Boosterpacks Zendikar
Tabris and Payron for reaching each 18 points: 25% discount on starting fee of the next ladder tournament


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Season winners history:

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)

HLL 15 was the last one of its kind. It seems time has come to try something new.
If there are enough participants (16+) HLL 16 will have following standing order:

Modus:
Double-Elimination / Doppel-KO-System
Best-of-three / best-of-five (see grid)
played on cockatrice
Grid: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At-ahxh_VoQPdDBxVExJZG0yRHZYQkExZEtOaktsc1E&authkey=COHGnbsD&hl=en&authkey=COHGnbsD#gid=1 (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At-ahxh_VoQPdDBxVExJZG0yRHZYQkExZEtOaktsc1E&authkey=COHGnbsD&hl=en&authkey=COHGnbsD#gid=1)

Fee / Startgebühr:
EUR 5,55 via banktransfer (reason for payment: Nickname on mp.org)
Registration is binding!
EUR 5,55 via Banküberweisung (Verwendungszweck: Nickname in diesem Forum)
Anmeldung ist verbindlich - also bitte vorher drüber nachdenken, ob man mitmachen möchte oder nicht.

Decklists:
No – after each round you are able to change / switch decks.
Nein – nach jeder Runde besteht die Möglichkeit, das Deck zu verändern bzw. zu tauschen.

Participants:
min. 16, max. 32

Seatings:
HLL Ladder Position on Sept. 30th
Players w/o rating in order of their registration.
Setzliste nach HLL Position zum 30. September
Spieler ohne HLL Rating nach Eingang der Anmeldungen

Pricepool:
16 players: 24 Booster of standard-legal set
For each player above 16 + 2 extra Booster
Additional price: 2 Booster Zendikar sponsored by Syras
(32 players:  56 + 2 = 58 Booster )
Bei 16 Spielern 24 Booster, für jeden weiteren 2 weitere einer standard-legalen Edition. 2 Zendikar-Booster als zusätzlicher Preis, gespendet von Syras. Bei 32 Spielern sind das insgesamt 58 Booster im Topf.

Division / Verteilung:
1st: 50%
2nd: 25%
3rd: 15%
4th: 10%
+/- 1 Booster (rounding)

examples
16 players:
1st:  12 Booster  + 2 extra
2nd: 6 Booster
3rd: 4 Booster
4th: 2 Booster

32 players:
1st: 28 booster + 2 extra
2nd: 14 Booster
3rd: 8 Booster
4th: 6 Booster

HLL K-Value:
16

Reports:
Winner has to post a short summary or post a vid.
Der Sieger muss einen kurzen Bericht schreiben oder ein video des Spiels posten.

Byes:
If there are 17-31 players there will be some 1st-round byes for the top seeded players and in the consolation round some for first round loosers  - see grid.
Bei einer Spielerzahl von 17 bis 31 gibt es Byes fü die topgesetzten Spieler und auch in der Trostrunde für Verlierer der ersten Runde – schaut euch hierzu am besten das Tableau an, bei einer Spielerzahl von z. B. 30 hat der Erst- und Zweigesetzte Spieler in der ersten Runde keinen Gegner und startet in Runde 2 des Sieger Brackets. Die ,,Verlierer"  werden in das Verliererbracket eingereiht wodurch sich dort auch zwei Byes in der Trostrunde ergeben.

Time-Table / Zeitplan:
Bascically Gameday Sunday 7 pm
The players are free to schedule a different date.
Matches have to be played within 2 weeks. If there are no match in this time, the guy who is rdy to play on following Gameday (7 pm) advance to next round.
Each player has the possibility to announce a (max. 2 week) vacation.
Sheduled matches can be played anytime.
Grundsätzlich ist der Sonntag, um 19.00 Uhr der Spieltermin.
Die Spieler können allerdings frei einen anderen Termin vereinbaren.
Die Spiele müssen innerhalb von 2 Wochen ausgetragen werden, wenn die zwei Wochen verstrichen sind, kommt derjenige Spieler als Gewinner in die nächste Runde, der am folgenden Gameday um 19.00 Uhr online ist.
Angesetzte Partien können jederzeit ausgetragen werden.

Registration opens Sept 17th and ends Sept 30th
as soon we have 16 players + i collect the starting fee
Tournament starts approximately 2nd week of october

Feedback is appreciated.
If anyone could re-check the grid would be nice.

Hey,

if possible I want to record as much games as possible from you guys. I think there is a demand for video coverage of our format and maybe the people get to see some other plays besides me ;) And also I try to get some guest commentary on the "show" so. If you guys will participate and settle a match pls contact me.

I'll launch the registration this weekend. I wonder if this experiment works and there are enough participants to start the first online tournament of its kind. But one thing I know for sure - HLL needs a relaunch and a nice price-support should attract those kind of players who participated in season XIV. With better price-support we've had 17 players and 66 matches in season XIV, with no price-support we have 9 players and 7 matches... ::)  If it works i will provide HL-staples for the next season as price-support if the community ask for.

Online tournaments have obv. some advantages and disadvantages compared to rl tournaments. One big pro is of course the cost and time factor for players to participate (no costs / time for traveling) and tournament organizer to launch such an event (no costs for the location and judges, no risk to have a loss).

open letter


Hi folks,

it's time to bang the drum for HLL 16  :)

Imo good opportunities to compete with HL-players from other regions and other countries are quite rare. HL Grand Prixs are hard to arrange and just once in a blue moon so the HL players tend to play in their local playgroups - like me.

The HLL online league could maybe offer an opportunity to bring those players together ?!

Looking back to the last 15 HLL online seasons you can recognize that there is some kind of correlation between price support and match count...
that's why i've added a starting fee (Eur 5,55 too much?, should i reduce it to maybe EUR 3,33  ;)) and simultaneously a suitable price support to attract people joining the tournament.

-> with e.g. 32 players winner takes 30 booster, runner-up 14 booster ... -
I don't wanna get rich as tournament organizer but push HL as tournament format a bit, so i tried to calculate the price-support fairly - not even attached a minimum wage for my job  :P maybe you don't like to have booster but some HL cards instead - if so let me know.

Cockatrice offers a nice stage for Magic Online and it is already frequently used for HL battles. Why not use that platform for bigger tournaments?

It would be nice if you can point out the online league to your local playmates and give me a feedback which things make you or your friends not to participate at the tournament (cockatrice/online-gaming, starting fee, prices, standing order of the tournament, time-issues, motivation/HL itself ...??) or even better: just join  :P

HLL Online League could die with this season (or died already with season 13 + 15  ::)) - maybe there can be a restart, i really don't know ... but maybe you do.

Vazdru

I think the biggest problem is the time (it's a huge hindrance for me). When I play at a local tournament I have to reserve exactly one day (mostly 6-7 hours). If I sign up for this league I've to play multiple Sunday evenings. In Magic Online tournaments are held like regular tournaments. When you are ready you've to wait until next round. Round times are fixed. So maybe something like this is possible for us, too. Then one could finish a tournament in one day.

Thank you very much for these evening's games, folks! Very entertaining and I really love that video coverage, keep going!

congratz pyyhttu, in the last two rounds of season no. 16 you've beaten the top-seeded players Syras and Payron in the finals - well-done

tournament-structure and -flow were nice imo, thx to all participants! there will be another tournament like this soon

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Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 15: Syras (1st)
Season 16: pyyhttu (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Syras (3rd)

Hi, its great to see the HLL still running. A few years ago, I actually played one season myself but didnt care too much ever since tho, tbh.

However, I always kept playing HL, so a couple of days ago, I happened to be on Cockatrice and found Payron vs pyythhu playing the finals. I joined the game as a spectator, and had a great time watching. Thanks Payron to enable spectators/showing handcards, I really appreciated it.

Also, kudos to Payron for the great deal of sportsmanship he showed. I cant say I would have managed to do the same.

Regards, r4nd0m

some minor notes to Cockatrice's legal dispute with Hasbro and the connected downtime of Cockatrice:

• time-table of HLL XVII and Laddder-Tournament will be paused for a week from now on because of the current troubles, however everyone is free to play a scheduled match whereever and whenever he wants to, HLL doesn't claim any restrictions how to play the sheduled match
• mws was the main platform for HLL-games for quite a long time, honestly I haven't ever used it since mid of 2011 - so I don't have an estimation yet if mws could work as platform for online games again
• if running tournaments have to processed back in any kind, esp. for reasons the games/tournament gets unmanageable i will do so as fast as i can to keep the inconvienence for all players as small as possible
• if running tournaments have to processed back in any kind, the end of cockatrice would seal the end of my support for HLL too

If this still continues I'd be interested joining.

Quote from: dsck on 09-03-2013, 11:12:53 PM
If this still continues I'd be interested joining.

if there is another season starting this summer feel free to join us
in the current tournament structure there is no option to join a running season though

new HLL season XVIII starts July 1st

participation is for free
donations of cards or a small starting fee is appreciated but absolutely voluntarily
donations will be completly rewarded to season winners

there won't be any fixed parings, every participant in the league is able to play vs anyone else during the season once
season XVIII uses an enlarged cardpool, you are allowed to play every card on unban watchlist!

registrations has been opened: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=928.0

season XVIII ends Sep. 30th


season XIX will have the same structure as current season (XVII) again (fee, fixed parirings, price-support etc.)

thx to all participants of season XVII!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At-ahxh_VoQPdDBxVExJZG0yRHZYQkExZEtOaktsc1E&authkey=COHGnbsD&hl=en&authkey=COHGnbsD#gid=3

registration for season XVIII will be opened till July, 14th
the HL League [HLL] may grant you a seat in the invitational 2013 based on ladder ranking
http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=887.15

[HLL]Ladder will soon be updated
http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=121.0
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 15: Syras (1st)
Season 16: pyyhttu (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Syras (3rd)
Season 17: Vazdru (1st) - hamsert (2nd) - Pacifist (3rd)

already scheduled for next week:

Ladder-Tournament 2013 Finals, Sunday 04.05., 9pm CET
hitman (4C-Blood-Midrange) vs Payron (Izzet-Control)


HLL Season XX, Semifinals, Wednesday 30.04., 10pm CET
K0d013e4st (BUG-Reanimator http://mtgpulse.com/event/16611#234139) vs Vazdru (Dimir-Tempo http://mtgpulse.com/event/16611#234136)

thx to all participants of recent HLL Seasons
decklists of season XX you'll find here: http://mtgpulse.com/event/16611#235585
decklists of Ladder Championship here: http://mtgpulse.com/event/16681#235168

registration for season XXI has opened http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1009.0
and will be closed at May, 25th if we have reach 8 player +
otherwise at Jun, 1st

[HLL]Ladder has been updated:
http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=121.0
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 15: Syras (1st)
Season 16: pyyhttu (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Syras (3rd)
Season 17: Vazdru (1st) - hamsert (2nd) - Pacifist (3rd)
Season 18: Goblinpiledriver (1st)
Season 19: ChristophO (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - hamsert (3rd)
Season 20: hamsert (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)

thx to all participants of recent HLL Seasons and congratz to the champion goblinpiledriver who played JUND-Aggro to first place
decklists of season XXI you'll find here: http://mtgpulse.com/event/17500#250545

registration for season XXII has opened: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1041.msg10473#new
and will be closed at Sep, 28th if we have reach 8 player +

[HLL]Ladder has been updated:
http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=121.0
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 15: Syras (1st)
Season 16: pyyhttu (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Syras (3rd)
Season 17: Vazdru (1st) - hamsert (2nd) - Pacifist (3rd)
Season 18: Goblinpiledriver (1st)
Season 19: ChristophO (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - hamsert (3rd)
Season 20: hamsert (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 21: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)

thx to all participants of recent HLL Seasons and congratz to the champion captain-kaiiak who played 4C Blood (http://mtgpulse.com/event/18730#263792) to reach the top spot, a first-round-bye in Hanau and 9 PP (http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1043.msg10837#msg10837)
at HL Cup Hanau he had a record of 10 pts (3-3-1) and reached place no. 44 (of 107) with same deck, ChristophO place no. 23 (13 pts) and MaQi place no. 4 (17 pts, semi-finalist)

[HLL]Ladder has been updated:
http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=121.0
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 15: Syras (1st)
Season 16: pyyhttu (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Syras (3rd)
Season 17: Vazdru (1st) - hamsert (2nd) - Pacifist (3rd)
Season 18: Goblinpiledriver (1st)
Season 19: ChristophO (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - hamsert (3rd)
Season 20: hamsert (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 21: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 21: captain-kaiiak (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - MaQi (3rd)

thx to all participants of recent HLL Seasons and congratz to the champion TaZi who played UGr-Scapeshift (http://mtgpulse.com/event/19651#278275) against MaQi (4C Blood) in the finals 3:2

[HLL]Ladder has been updated:
http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=121.0
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 15: Syras (1st)
Season 16: pyyhttu (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Syras (3rd)
Season 17: Vazdru (1st) - hamsert (2nd) - Pacifist (3rd)
Season 18: Goblinpiledriver (1st)
Season 19: ChristophO (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - hamsert (3rd)
Season 20: hamsert (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 21: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 22: captain-kaiiak (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - MaQi (3rd)
Season 23: TaZi (1st) - MaQi (2nd) - promole (3rd)

thx to all participants of recent HLL Seasons and congratz to the champion Maqi who was able to certify his GP title in the online league
after some close semis he has beaten Tazi's Scapeshift (http://mtgpulse.com/event/20949#299494) in the rematch of last season's final
his 4c Blood (http://mtgpulse.com/event/20949#302547) stayed undefeated
after MaQi's place 3 in his first season, place 2 in second one he managed to capture first place this time


timetable for Season XXV:

Sept. 23rd: standing orders for Season XXV get locked (http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1136.msg11745)
Sept. 27th: price pool gets locked (http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1135.0)
Oct. 4th: registration will be closed (http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1137.0)
Oct. 4th. till Oct. 14th:
* posting deck-codes
* sending deck-lists to judge
* transfering fee
Oct. 15th: pairings announced for first round of Swiss
Nov. 1st: game day round 1

notes:
* Battle of Zendikar will be available for season XXV (link for updating cockatrice cards will be added here)
* new bannings/unbannings (announced Oct. 1st) will be effective for season XXV


[HLL]Ladder has been updated:
http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=121.0
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 15: Syras (1st)
Season 16: pyyhttu (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Syras (3rd)
Season 17: Vazdru (1st) - hamsert (2nd) - Pacifist (3rd)
Season 18: Goblinpiledriver (1st)
Season 19: ChristophO (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - hamsert (3rd)
Season 20: hamsert (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 21: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 22: captain-kaiiak (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - MaQi (3rd)
Season 23: TaZi (1st) - MaQi (2nd) - promole (3rd)
Season 24: MaQi (1st) - TaZi (2nd) - dsck (3rd)

thx to all participants of recent HLL Seasons and congratz to the champion TaZi who played his third consecutive HLL finals in which he has beaten K0d013e4st in Izzet-Mirror in 5 games
Decklists of all participants are uploaded to mtgpulse: http://www.mtgpulse.com/event/22611#313397

funny side note:
TaZi and tollkroll played the same deck, one reached the top while the other had a bye and three losses at the end
same is true for Maqi and captain-kaiiak a season before :P ... deck-build is overrated ;)
TaZi has chosen Arid Mesa as price (PP 10) and safed the rest for next one

timetable for Season XXVI:

Jan. 24th: standing orders for Season XXVI get locked
Jan. 27th: price pool gets locked
Feb. 4th: registration will be closed
Feb. 7th:
* posting deck-codes
* sending deck-lists to judge
* transfering fee
Feb. 8th: pairings announced for first round of Swiss
Feb. 21st: game day round 1

notes:
* Oath oft he Gatewatch will be available for season XXVI

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 15: Syras (1st)
Season 16: pyyhttu (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Syras (3rd)
Season 17: Vazdru (1st) - hamsert (2nd) - Pacifist (3rd)
Season 18: Goblinpiledriver (1st)
Season 19: ChristophO (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - hamsert (3rd)
Season 20: hamsert (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 21: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 22: captain-kaiiak (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Maqi (3rd)
Season 23: TaZi (1st) - Maqi (2nd) - promole (3rd)
Season 24: Maqi (1st) - TaZi (2nd) - dsck (3rd)
Season 25: TaZi (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Payron (3rd)

Pairings for Round 1:

(http://i.imgur.com/kijZowy.jpg)


This round ends: Feb. 21th at 9pm


If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

Pairings for Round 2:

(http://i.imgur.com/ejeBlno.jpg)


This round ends: Mar. 6th at 9pm


Please check your points!

If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

Tazi has used his vacation week. Therefore there is a change concerning the round end.

The second round ends (no later than): March 13th at 9pm.

The pairings will be published as soon as the last result is available.

Quote from: TaZi on 18-02-2016, 11:00:42 PM

I'm on honeymoon in the carribean sea the next two weeks, so I will use my vacation extra time, as I already told Gerry.

Pairings for Round 3:

(http://i.imgur.com/hUakCBl.jpg)


This round ends: Mar. 27th at 9pm


Please check your points!

If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

Pairings for Round 4:

(http://i.imgur.com/wVQ31ZE.jpg)


This round ends: Apr. 10th at 9pm


Please check your points!

If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

Looks like I still miss some results:

dsck vs. Payron
Tweedel vs. Tobi R

This round ends: Today at 9pm


Edit: Updated list

Quote from: Dr. Opossum on 10-04-2016, 01:53:33 PM
Looks like I still miss some results:

dsck vs. Payron
Tweedel vs. Tobi R

This round ends: Today at 9pm


Edit: Updated list

I will be online as usual. Drop me a line if your opponent is missing.

The Swiss Rounds of the current Online League are finished. Here are the standings:

(http://i.imgur.com/KrkITPg.jpg)

Please check your points! If you notice errors, please notify me! On Tuesday the standings become final and I start the play-off games with the corresponding pairings and the deadline.

Greetings!

There are changings in the standings:

(http://i.imgur.com/WFwh1br.jpg)

Please check your points! If you notice errors, please notify me! On Tuesday the standings become final and I start the play-off games with the corresponding pairings and the deadline.

Greetings!

I added your decklists on MTGPulse. You can find them here:

http://mtgpulse.com/event/24146#327216


Standings after Swiss ranking order. If you find a mistake, write me a PM or correct it by yourself pls.

The standings are final now! Congratulations to Payron, dsck, TaZi and Peddy Frost. You are the play-off participants. The following pairings were determined for the play-off games:

(http://i.imgur.com/soe9Gt9.jpg)


The semifinals end (no later than): May 1st at 9pm


Reminder:

Quote from: Vazdru on 20-09-2015, 10:19:07 PM

Modus:  Swiss-Rounds best-of-three, play-offs best-of-five

Rules Enforcement Level: Regular

Matchplay – matches have to be played within a period of basically bout two weeks, if match hasn't taken place in this time, the guy receives the win who is online @ cockatrice on gameday Sunday, 9 pm CET at the end of matchplay-period – if both do not appear, it's a draw

Play-offs:
8-20 players: play-offs TOP 4
21+ players: play-offs TOP 8

Higher Swiss Standing chooses in g1 in play-offs who gonna start.

If you have any questions....

do we have the decklists of our opponents in the semi-finals?

Quote from: TaZi on 13-04-2016, 11:00:42 PM
do we have the decklists of our opponents in the semi-finals?

http://mtgpulse.com/event/24146#327216

The final match is between

dsck and Payron!


Finals end (no later than): May 1st at 9pm


@Payron: Pls add your report from semifinals. Thanks.

thx to all participants of recent HLL Seasons and to Dr. Opossum for the support
after 71 games in the books we have a new champion Payron who played Scapeshift-Combo to the top of the field with an awesome record of 14:3 games!!
after 4 times runner-up in the past HLL seasons he finally managed it to get the top spot :) congratz mate!

Decklists of all participants are uploaded to mtgpulse: http://mtgpulse.com/event/24146#327216

Ladder has been updated as well (http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=121.15) - 1298 matches / 3230 games have been recorded since the early days of this forum

Payron stays on the top of it
TaZi has climbed the ladder from 12th to 4th place since the beginning of this year - mainly because of his victory in the invitational where he played Scapeshift as well (http://mtgpulse.com/event/23165#318199)
dsck is on his way to the front seats as he advanced from place 48 to 24 while Peddy Frost made it from 50 to 31

looking forward to seeing you in next season!

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 15: Syras (1st)
Season 16: pyyhttu (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Syras (3rd)
Season 17: Vazdru (1st) - hamsert (2nd) - Pacifist (3rd)
Season 18: Goblinpiledriver (1st)
Season 19: ChristophO (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - hamsert (3rd)
Season 20: hamsert (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 21: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 22: captain-kaiiak (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Maqi (3rd)
Season 23: TaZi (1st) - Maqi (2nd) - promole (3rd)
Season 24: Maqi (1st) - TaZi (2nd) - dsck (3rd)
Season 25: TaZi (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 26: Payron (1st) - dsck (2nd) - TaZi (3rd)

registration has been launched for next season: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1208.0

timetable for Season XXVII:
May 18th: standing orders for Season XXVII get locked
May 19th: price pool gets locked
May 26th: registration will be closed
till May 29th:
* posting deck-codes
* sending deck-lists to judge
* transfering fee
May 30th: pairings announced for first round of Swiss
Jun 12st: game day round 1

the standing order hasn't changed much since last one
as reaction there were some reports missing during season XXVI we decided to use some stimulation to change this:
positive way (incentive): best report will be awarded with 50% discount for next season
negative way (sanctions): Each player that should have written a match report during the season and did not do so, will have his/ her (potentially acquired) prices reduced by one playerpoint (PP) at the end of the tournament.

we are also offer a "Modified Banned-List Season" just as an experiment. If you wanna try out, how Highlander would actually look like without fetchlands and/or with a more restrive banned-list you can join here: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1209.msg12702#msg12702

According to the standing orders, we play 4 rounds followed by top 4.


Pairings for Round 1:

(http://i.imgur.com/zteTA0z.jpg)


This round ends: Jun. 12th at 9pm


If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

Pairings for Round 2:

(http://i.imgur.com/erOjFeG.jpg)


This round ends: Jun. 26th at 9pm


Please check your points!

If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

Pairings for Round 3:

(http://i.imgur.com/J3OmKf6.jpg)


This round ends: Jul. 10th at 9pm


Please check your points!

If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

Pairings for Round 4:

(http://i.imgur.com/7UQH5P9.jpg)


This round ends: Jul. 24th at 9pm


Please check your points!

If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

Quote from: Vazdru on 11-07-2016, 08:54:10 PM
reminder:

please send your results of 4th round + report to Dr. Opossum via PM instead of posting it in this thread

Quote from: Vazdru on 15-05-2016, 10:02:02 PM

The results and match-report of the last swiss round will be gathered by Dr. Opossum. She will publish the results as soon all results are available.

Result + report already send:
Bat vs. Tazi
olii vs. Stefan82
iulus va. GoblinPiledriver
Payron vs. Vazdru

New deadline for Round 4!

This round ends: Jul. 31th at 9pm

Final Standings:

(http://i.imgur.com/gTg7np3.jpg)


Please check your points! The final standings (and therefore also the playoff structure) will be "locked in" tomorrow. As soon as the final standings are locked, the decklists will be uploaded and the first round of the playoffs will start. Please write me a PM, if you have any questions or have found an error in the final standings.

Final Standings are "locked in"!

Semi Finals:

1. Goblin Piledriver vs. Payron
2. Bat vs. iulus


This round ends: Aug. 14th at 9pm

Uploaded your decklists here: http://mtgpulse.com/event/25478#339382

If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

Finals:

Payron vs. iulus


This round ends: Aug. 21th at 9pm

Decklists: http://mtgpulse.com/event/25478#339382

If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

Thx to Dr. Opossum and all participants of recent HLL season, I enjoyed it like always.
After 61 games in the books of season 27 we have a new and old champion Payron who played Oath-Combo this time for back-to-back victory. Congratz mate!

Decklists of all participants are uploaded to mtgpulse: http://mtgpulse.com/event/25478#339379
All reports can be found here: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1212.15 - Dr. Opossum will award the best report. Its writer will receive a 50% discount for next season's starting fee.

As first price Payron picked Savannah (rev, ex) + Drowned Catacombs. Cards are in transit, have fun with!

Preparations (especially refill price pool) for new season are in progress. Stay tuned.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 15: Syras (1st)
Season 16: pyyhttu (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Syras (3rd)
Season 17: Vazdru (1st) - hamsert (2nd) - Pacifist (3rd)
Season 18: Goblinpiledriver (1st)
Season 19: ChristophO (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - hamsert (3rd)
Season 20: hamsert (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 21: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 22: captain-kaiiak (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Maqi (3rd)
Season 23: TaZi (1st) - Maqi (2nd) - promole (3rd)
Season 24: Maqi (1st) - TaZi (2nd) - dsck (3rd)
Season 25: TaZi (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 26: Payron (1st) - dsck (2nd) - TaZi (3rd)
Season 27: Payron (1st) - Iulus (2nd) - Goblinpiledriver (3rd)

derStefan82 is rewarded with 50% discount on next HLL season's starting fee for his forth round report:

derStefan82 (BUG-Combos) - Olii (Jeskai) 2:1

game 1:

Mulliganed a hand with 'Marsh Flats, Counter spell, Emerald Charm, Exploration, Brainstorm, Urborg, Darkslick Shores' as no business.
Kept hand with 'Noxious Revival, Marsh flats, Sultai Charm, Impluse, Mir's Guile, Evasive Action, Demonic Tutor', was a bit distracted and did not think long about this hand.
Normally I would have mulliganed this because of 1 lander. Kept it because Guile should be good vs control and DT for business.

- I play Flats, Bayou, Guile (which leaves me without blue, that's why I should have mulliganed initially)
- Olii play tapped Clifftop Retrea
- I'm still not in the game and forget my upkeep Mirri's Guile and draw Forest
- Olii plays Snow Island
- Me upkeep Guile seeing Spell Snare, Inquisiton, Dark Depth, draw Depth, DT to make sure my next land drop which get's negated
- Olii plays Mutavault
- Me upkeep Guile seeing, Spell Snare, Inquisition, and some none land card (still no blue and only 2 mana producing lands), play Inquisition seeing, 'Bloodstained Mire, Polluted Delta, Azorious Charm, Electrolize, Elspeth Tirel, Force of Will', discarding Charm as it stops Marit Large, EOT Olii plays Electrolize on me going to 17
- Olii plays Bloodstained and attacks with Mutavault
- I find again no land in Guile
- Olii is playing Delta, Elspeth creating 3 tokens, EOT I play Noxious Revival for Fetchland (should I probably have done one turn earlier)
- Me drawing Flats, playing Flats
- Olii playing Windswept Heath and attacking with soldiers and going to 21 with Elspeth life ability, I'm going to 12, EOT I fetch for U-Sea, Brainstorm finding another land
- Me playing land, finding no real business yet so go with counter + impulse on hand and 4 open mana
- Olii is attakichng me with tokens again bringing me to 8, Elspeth gets him another 3 tokens , me EOT Impulse getting Intuition but 1 mana short playing it
- Me finding Thespian Stage with Guile playing it
- Olii is attacking me for 6 so I go to 2, he goes to 27 because of Elspeth life ability, EOT Stage and Depth are creating a Marit Large
- Me attacking him with Marit Large to 7 playing Crop rotation Main Phase during my turn hoping that he keeps Force for something I might play afterwards and does not see Crop as relevant unfortunely he counters so I'm dead on board


game 2:
Mulligan a one-lander without combo potential. Keep a mediocre hand with 'Sunken Ruins, Emrakul, Remand, Counter Spell, Glacial Chasm, Intuition, Snow Swamp' cause I think double Counter + Intuition should be ok against control.

- I lead with Snow Swamp
- He plays Shvan Reef, Ancestral Vision
- I draw Mystical Tutor, play Sunken Ruins and have now the possibilty for eather counter or EOT Tutor
- He plays Serums Visions and tapped Clifftop Retreat, I play EOT Mystical for Demonic
- I play Demonic Tutor for Thespian Stage to hit my land drop
- He plays Mutavault
- I draw Urborg, play Urborg
- He plays nothing, I play EOT Intuition for Loam, Wasteland, Dark Depth getting Loam
- I play Delta go with double counter open
- He plays upkeep Ancestral Vision which I counter with Remand, he counters back whith Prohibit which I respond with my Counterspell, he plays Mountain (no blue Mana open)
- I play Loam for Wasteland, Delta, Depth, play Wasteland to destroy his only blue mana source, and play drawn Merchant Scroll to which he concedes


game 3:
I keep an aggressive hand with 'Doomsday, Counterspell, Remand, Force of Will, Tectoncic Edge, Personal Tutor, Scalding Tarn', I kind of like this hand against a slow deck as I have an early Doomsday with Force backup.

- He plays Misty
- I draw Mystical Tutor and play Scalding Tarn
- He plays Snow Island and I play EOT Mystical which he Remands
- I draw Spell Pierce and play Tec Edge
- He plays Flooded Strand and I play EOT Mystical for Dark Ritual
- I play Ritual, Doomsday fiddling with Cockatrice and Doomsday as I have played only 3 matches in Cockatrice during the last years and so I'm not that experienced
- He plays Mountain, Fact or Fiction seeing Absorb, Steam Vents, Councils Judgement, Spell Snare, Ponder taking Ponder, Absorb
- I play Brainstorm, Shelldock Isle
- He plays Ponder, Karakas
- I play Tec Edge -> Karakas, Shelldock into Emrakul -> extra Turn
- Play Tropical Island, attack with Emrakul destroy all his permanents and bring him to 3 to win with my next attack


Thanks for the games.

registration has been launched for next season: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1236.msg12980#msg12980

timetable for Season XXVIII:
Sep 15th: standing orders for Season XXVII get locked
Sep 16th: price pool gets locked
Sep 19th: registration will be closed
till Sep 25th:
* posting deck-codes
* sending deck-lists to judge
* transfering fee
Sep 26th: pairings announced for first round of Swiss
Oct 9th: game day round 1

the standing order hasn't changed since last season

Quote from: Vazdru on 08-09-2016, 08:54:29 PM

till Sep 25th:
* posting deck-codes
* sending deck-lists to judge
* transfering fee
Sep 26th: pairings announced for first round of Swiss

conclusion:

* league will use the current banned-list
* Kaladesh isn't legal for next season

Pairings for Round 1:

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This round ends: Oct. 16th at 9pm


If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

Pairings for Round 2:

(http://i.imgur.com/8gj6u9n.png)


This round ends: Oct. 30th at 9pm


If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

Quote from: Dr. Opossum on 14-10-2016, 12:29:49 PM

This round ends: Oct. 30th at 9pm

@ Tazi / derStefan82
plz keep in mind

Pairings for Round 3:

(http://i.imgur.com/rujhKMp.png)


This round ends: Nov. 13th at 9pm

The following reports are still missing:
K0d013e4st vs. Piepser
derStefan82 vs. Tazi

If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM. Please check your points.


Good luck and have fun!

there are some results of round 3 still missing
keep in mind that Sunday = gameday
if you haven't offered some dates for your match on meeting point and it doesn't launch in time for any reason it is a draw

Quote from: Vazdru on 08-09-2016, 08:42:41 PM

Matchplay: Matches have to be played within a period of about two weeks. The staff announce a deadline for each round at Sunday, 9 pm CET. If both don't appear, it is a draw. If only one player appears he gets the win if he used the "[HLL]Meeting Point" for match-dating, otherwise it's a draw. (Note: Thereby using the Meeting Point instead of PM or that kind is highly recommended!)

I'm on my way back from Rotterdam on Sunday and won't be available on cockatrice 9 pm probably. If there are any problems write a public message in Meeting Point. Otherwise have some fun!

back from Rotterdam

Goblinpiledriver used his vacation period.
He and Kodobeast will play their match today 22.00.

Pairings for Round 4:

(http://i.imgur.com/4JtwhNz.png)


This round ends: Nov. 27th at 9pm

The following reports are still missing:
derStefan82 vs. Tazi - Round 2
Piepser vs. derStefan82 - Round 3
GoblinPiledriver vs. K0d013e4st - Round 3


If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM. Please check your points!


Good luck and have fun!

Quote from: Dr. Opossum on 15-11-2016, 12:32:22 AM

This round ends: Nov. 27th at 9pm

reminder: this Sunday is game-day, if you can't play in time use your vacation period

Final Standings:

(http://i.imgur.com/m0Hx3gR.png)


Please check your points! The final standings (and therefore also the playoff structure) will be "locked in" tomorrow (29th Nov). As soon as the final standings are locked, the decklists will be uploaded and the first round of the playoffs will start. Please write me a PM, if you have any questions or have found an error in the final standings.

http://mtgpulse.com/event/26430#348341


Semi Finals:

1. Goblin Piledriver vs. Payron
2. Vazdru vs. Tazi


This round ends: Dec. 18th at 9pm



Edit: Added Decklists + Standings and Pairings are now fixed

Payron uses his vacation period

Thx to Dr. Opossum and all participants of recent HLL season!
After 54 games in the books of season 28 TaZi stands on the top. He scored already his third HLL title, this time with 4C Spapeshift again (http://mtgpulse.com/event/26430#348340). He is truely a Scapeshift-Master with two top 8 at 40 players+ tournaments recently (MGM, The One), Online Championship 2015 (http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1168.0), 2 Season-wins + a second place at HLL with this archetype. If you wanna see how the deck works you should definitely have a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZCYtaE288Q&t=926s

Decklists of all participants are uploaded to mtgpulse: http://mtgpulse.com/event/26430#348340
All reports can be found here: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1245.15

As best report we have chosen Payron (Izzet-Control) vs Senshuken (Azorius-Control) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh9AhmiB5qc
"YouTube-Reports" won't have a subsription for this title but we are appreciate the effort Payron made by revive this kind of game-reports.
So Payron is rewarded with 50% discount on next HLL season's starting fee.

HLL-Ladder has been updated as well: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=121.0
The invitations for Online Championship 2016 will be posted soon.

Preparations for season XXIX are in progress. Stay tuned.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
HLL - Hall of Fame:

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 15: Syras (1st)
Season 16: pyyhttu (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Syras (3rd)
Season 17: Vazdru (1st) - hamsert (2nd) - Pacifist (3rd)
Season 18: Goblinpiledriver (1st)
Season 19: ChristophO (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - hamsert (3rd)
Season 20: hamsert (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 21: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 22: captain-kaiiak (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Maqi (3rd)
Season 23: TaZi (1st) - Maqi (2nd) - promole (3rd)
Season 24: Maqi (1st) - TaZi (2nd) - dsck (3rd)
Season 25: TaZi (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 26: Payron (1st) - dsck (2nd) - TaZi (3rd)
Season 27: Payron (1st) - Iulus (2nd) - Goblinpiledriver (3rd)
Season 28: TaZi (1st) - Goblinpiledriver (2nd) - Payron (3rd)

timetable for Season XXIX:
Feb 3th: standing orders for Season XXIX get locked
Feb 5th: price pool gets locked
Feb 8th: registration will be closed
till Feb 12th:
* posting deck-codes
* sending deck-lists to judge
* transfering fee
Feb 13th: pairings announced for first round of Swiss
Feb 26th: game day round 1

Thx to hitman and all participants of recent HLL season!
After 66 games in the books of season 29 derStefan82 reached the top spot of our league and season's title. He played his own brew, a combo-control-deck in a BUG shell which has access to several combos feat. everyone's darling Fastbond, Channel, Emrakul, just to name a few. Here you can find his list: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1282.0
derStefan82 is no newie, he had already 190 league games till he reached top 3 first time and even won this series. Conrgratz mate!
Furthermore he climbed 52 places in HLL Ladder during this season (94 to 42)

TaZi - as new and old online player of the year - has meanwhile taken the top spot of our Ladder: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=121.0

Preparations for season XXX are in progress. Registration will open no later than May, 25th. Stay tuned.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
HLL - Hall of Fame:

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 15: Syras (1st)
Season 16: pyyhttu (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Syras (3rd)
Season 17: Vazdru (1st) - hamsert (2nd) - Pacifist (3rd)
Season 18: Goblinpiledriver (1st)
Season 19: ChristophO (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - hamsert (3rd)
Season 20: hamsert (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 21: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 22: captain-kaiiak (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Maqi (3rd)
Season 23: TaZi (1st) - Maqi (2nd) - promole (3rd)
Season 24: Maqi (1st) - TaZi (2nd) - dsck (3rd)
Season 25: TaZi (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 26: Payron (1st) - dsck (2nd) - TaZi (3rd)
Season 27: Payron (1st) - Iulus (2nd) - Goblinpiledriver (3rd)
Season 28: TaZi (1st) - Goblinpiledriver (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 29: derStefan82 (1st) - r4nd0m (2nd) - firestarter (3rd) 

timetable for Season XXX:

June 5th: standing orders for Season XXX get locked
June 7th: price pool gets locked
June 9th: registration will be closed
till June 11th:
* posting deck-codes
* sending deck-lists to judge
* transfering fee
Jun 12th: pairings announced for first round of Swiss
Jun 25th: game day round 1

Thx to hitman and all participants of recent HLL season!
After a second place back in 2009 !! (http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=293.0) firestarter won his first online league this time.
He lost only two games in the whole season.

Ladder has been updated: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=121.0

Preparations for season XXXI are in progress. Registration will open no later than September, 11th. Stay tuned.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
HLL - Hall of Fame:

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 15: Syras (1st)
Season 16: pyyhttu (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Syras (3rd)
Season 17: Vazdru (1st) - hamsert (2nd) - Pacifist (3rd)
Season 18: Goblinpiledriver (1st)
Season 19: ChristophO (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - hamsert (3rd)
Season 20: hamsert (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 21: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 22: captain-kaiiak (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Maqi (3rd)
Season 23: TaZi (1st) - Maqi (2nd) - promole (3rd)
Season 24: Maqi (1st) - TaZi (2nd) - dsck (3rd)
Season 25: TaZi (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 26: Payron (1st) - dsck (2nd) - TaZi (3rd)
Season 27: Payron (1st) - Iulus (2nd) - Goblinpiledriver (3rd)
Season 28: TaZi (1st) - Goblinpiledriver (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 29: derStefan82 (1st) - r4nd0m (2nd) - firestarter (3rd)
Season 30: firestarter (1st) - Vazdru (2nd) - Payron (3rd)  

timetable for Season XXXI:

September 11th: standing orders for Season XXXI get locked
September 13th: price pool gets locked
September 15th: registration will be closed
till September 17th:
* posting deck-codes
* sending deck-lists to judge
* transfering fee
September 18th: pairings announced for first round of Swiss
Oktober 1st: game day round 1

Thx to hitman and all participants of recent HLL season!
TaZi has struck back and won another season with UGrb-Scapeshift after 2 seasons without Top 3 rank. This is his forth title already; only oblinpiledriver (6) won more seasons than him.

Ladder has been updated: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=121.0
TaZi took the top spot of our ladder too and pushed Payron back on rank 2 of active online players.

Preparations for season XXXII are in progress. Registration will open approx. 2 weeks after ladder tournament has been started.
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HLL - Hall of Fame:

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 15: Syras (1st)
Season 16: pyyhttu (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Syras (3rd)
Season 17: Vazdru (1st) - hamsert (2nd) - Pacifist (3rd)
Season 18: Goblinpiledriver (1st)
Season 19: ChristophO (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - hamsert (3rd)
Season 20: hamsert (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 21: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 22: captain-kaiiak (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Maqi (3rd)
Season 23: TaZi (1st) - Maqi (2nd) - promole (3rd)
Season 24: Maqi (1st) - TaZi (2nd) - dsck (3rd)
Season 25: TaZi (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 26: Payron (1st) - dsck (2nd) - TaZi (3rd)
Season 27: Payron (1st) - Iulus (2nd) - Goblinpiledriver (3rd)
Season 28: TaZi (1st) - Goblinpiledriver (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 29: derStefan82 (1st) - r4nd0m (2nd) - firestarter (3rd)
Season 30: firestarter (1st) - Vazdru (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 31: TaZi (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - firestarter (3rd)

Ladder tournament has started: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1340.msg14088#new

All matches are best-of-5.
There is a double-KO-grid this time.
Decklists will be published on tappedout.net after round 1.
Results & Reports of round 1 have to be posted no later than Feb, 11th.

First decklists of Ladder Tournament 2017 are online.
Decklist r4nd0m / Izzet: https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/22-01-18-vMx-izzet/
Decklist Silberhase / Academy: https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/22-01-18-academy

Quarterfinal firestarter - Vazdru will take place this Sunday 9 pm CET probably.


Registration for next HLL season will open after first round of Ladder Tournament is in the books.

First round of Ladder Tournament is in the books.
Please finish second round no later than 02.03.

dsck & me play tomorrow 9 PM CET probably
Decklist Vazdru UB Necro: https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/ub-necro/ (almost same deck I played today @ Volcano Cup)
Decklist dsck UWb Control: https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/uwb-special-edition/


HLL - next season
Feb 5th: standing orders for Season XXXII get locked
Feb 8th: price pool gets locked
Feb 11th: registration will be closed
till Feb 16th:
* posting deck-codes
* sending deck-lists to judge
* transfering fee
Feb 18th: pairings announced for first round of Swiss
Mar 4th: game day round 1

Thx to hitman and all participants of recent HLL season!
firestarter reached his forth podium place in a row and got the title for the second time.

Ladder will be updated after 2017 ladder tournament has finished.

Preparations for season XXXIII are in progress. Registration will open in approx. 2 weeks after ladder tournament has been ended.
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HLL - Hall of Fame:

Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 15: Syras (1st)
Season 16: pyyhttu (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Syras (3rd)
Season 17: Vazdru (1st) - hamsert (2nd) - Pacifist (3rd)
Season 18: Goblinpiledriver (1st)
Season 19: ChristophO (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - hamsert (3rd)
Season 20: hamsert (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 21: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 22: captain-kaiiak (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Maqi (3rd)
Season 23: TaZi (1st) - Maqi (2nd) - promole (3rd)
Season 24: Maqi (1st) - TaZi (2nd) - dsck (3rd)
Season 25: TaZi (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 26: Payron (1st) - dsck (2nd) - TaZi (3rd)
Season 27: Payron (1st) - Iulus (2nd) - Goblinpiledriver (3rd)
Season 28: TaZi (1st) - Goblinpiledriver (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 29: derStefan82 (1st) - r4nd0m (2nd) - firestarter (3rd)
Season 30: firestarter (1st) - Vazdru (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 31: TaZi (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - firestarter (3rd)
Season 32: firestarter (1st) - TaZi (2nd) - Agent007 (3rd)

Update ladder & registration for new season will be online this Sunday.

Ladder has been updated.
firestarter climbed the top of it by winning last HLL and Ladder season.
http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=121.32

New Season won't start before we are at least 8 participants.
http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1364.msg14348#new
If we can't find enough players till end of June there will a summer break and we will have another try in autumn.

I will update price pool this weekend probably.

Quote from: Vazdru on 18-06-2018, 08:57:19 PM

New Season won't start before we are at least 8 participants.
http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1364.msg14348#new
If we can't find enough players till end of June there will a summer break and we will have another try in autumn.

We will have a summer break till September 9th.
Then i will try to launch a new season again as we have currently only 2 participants (firestarter an me).
As the future of the tournament series is unclear everyone is free to change back PP for EUR 3 each (or choose from current price-pool -> http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1344.0).

I try to lauch a new Online League next year.

DRAFT – Suggestions welcome!

Tournament Organizer: Vazdru

Judge: tbd

Modus: Swiss-Rounds best-of-three, play-offs best-of-five

Rules Enforcement Level: Regular

Starting Fee: EUR 5

One deck: The deck code (Cockatrice) has to be posted before the tournament starts. Decks can't be changed during the whole tournament (deck codes become locked as soon as the tournament starts).

Matchplay: Matches have to be played within a period of about two weeks. The staff announce a deadline for each round at Sunday, 9 pm CET. If both don't appear, it is a draw. If only one player appears, he gets the win if he offered target dates publicly.

Report: The winner of each match has to post the result as soon as possible. A (at least) short report or replays of the games are recommended.

Vacation: Each player can announce a vacation period of 1 week once during the whole tournament (Swiss + Top X). In that case the period for playing the match prolongates for everyone by 1 week. A matchplay-period can't be prolongated more than once. The staff will announce a new deadline for the round in case a vacation period has been requested.

Prices: 100 % of starting fee will be distributed as MKM-Coupons
Pricepool will be divided on top 4:
50 % winner
25 % runner-up
15 % third
10 % fourth

Rounds: Depends on number of registered players:
2: 1 round
3-4: 2 rounds
5-8: 3 rounds
9-16: 4 rounds
17-32: 5 rounds
33+: 6 rounds

Play-offs:
8-16 players: play-offs TOP 4
17+ players: play-offs TOP 8

Deck-Building: Current Banned List at the beginning of the tournament. Unban Watch List cards are unavailable.

Decklists must be send to the judge before the tournament starts. Top 4 rather Top 8 will be published before play-offs.

The results and match-report of the last swiss round will be gathered by the judge. He/she will publish the results as soon all results are available.

Higher Swiss Standing chooses the starting player in g1 in play-offs.