An idea arose to follow the current #Poliac competition with a new tournament. Let's use a working name of "Poliac - Champions League". This post outlines the rules.
The competition is designed for 16 participants of the Poliac league. Any mention of "Poliac standings" refers to the final standings (as of 31.07, 22:00 CEST) The following participants will qualify:
top 7 players of the Poliac league
They shall be called, respectively, p1, p2, p3, ... p7 further down.
8 winners of qualifiers
Participants who finish the Poliac league on places 8-23 will be paired for a play-off (2 legs) according to the following scheme:
p8 vs p23
p7 vs p22
p10 vs p21
p11 vs p20
p12 vs p19
p13 vs p18
p14 vs p17
p15 vs p16
The winners will be further down called, respectively:
q1, q2, q3,... q8
1 wild card awarded to the Poliac participant with the highest total number of steps (column "for" in Poliac final standings) who has not qualified thru one of the above ways.
The player will be further down called:
wc
Eligible players, who do not wish to take part in the new competition, should declare so by 31 July, 22:00 CEST by commenting this post "I do not wish to participate in #POLIAC-CL". Should this happen, the eligible will be shifted up one place to fill the empty slot.
The eligible players and will be decided on 31 July, 22:00 based on the final standings of the Poliac league. An example, as of writing (49-50 rounds played), is provided at the end of this post
Points are awarded based on ActiFit app reports published by participants for their "matches". Each "match" is played between two players and the score is decided the following way:
Comment: the goals concept will introduce an interesting dynamic in both group stage and play-offs.
Group phase will consist of 4 groups of 4 players. Competition will be held in double round robin mode (6 match days). The final standings will be decided the following way:
These rules apply to qualifiers, quarterfinals and semifinals
These rules apply to the final
1 Aug - leg 1
2 Aug - leg 2
3 Aug, 22:00 CEST - final list of the group phase published (@merthin)
4 Aug - Match day 1
5 Aug - Match day 2
6 Aug - Match day 3
7 Aug - day off
8 Aug - Match day 4
9 Aug - Match day 5
10 Aug - Match day 6
12 Aug, 22:00 CEST - final results of the group phase published (@merthin)
13 Aug - quarterfinals, leg 1
14 Aug - quarterfinals, leg 2
16 Aug, 22:00 CEST - final results of quaterfinals published (@merthin)
17 Aug - semifinals, leg 1
18 Aug - semifinals, leg 2
20 Aug, 22:00 CEST - final results of semifinals published (@merthin)
21 Aug - FINAL game (1 match)
22 Aug, 22:00 CEST - final results of published (@merthin)
Participants will be allocated to groups according to the following scheme:
Group A: p1, q1, q2, wc
Group B: p2, p7, q3, q8
Group C: p3, p6, q4, q7
Group D: p4, p5, q5, q6
Top two players of each group advance to the play off stage. They will be called A1, A2, B1,... D2 further down.
QF1: A1 - D2
QF2: A2 - D1
QF3: B1 - C2
QF4: B2 - C1
SF1: QF1 - QF4
SF2: QF2 - QF3
F: SF1 - SF2
8 Participants who finished group phase on places 3-4: 1 HIVE
4 Participants eliminated in the quarterfinals: 2 HIVE
2 Participants eliminated in the semifinals: 3 HIVE
Runner-up: 3 HBD
Winner: 5 HBD
Valid Reports shall be submitted by EoD of the match day. They should have the phrase "My Actifit Report Card: August NN 2021" (NN being the day of the month) and should use the hashtag #POLIAC-CL
Should we decide to carry on with the Poliac - Champions League formula, players from the first edition will receive the following benefits:
Example of eligible participants:
Automatically qualified:
p1: @browery
p2: @manuvert
p3: @practicaleric
p4: @venan
p5: @flaxz
p6: @masoom
p7: @bucipuci
Qualifying play offs
p8: @sk1920 vs @asia-pl
p9: @cezary-io vs p22: @racibo
p10: @davidesimoncini vs p21: @kiel91
p11: @merthin vs p20: @ervin-lemark
p12: @ilodz24hd vs p19: @davidthompson57
p13: @ptaku vs p18: @pjansen
p14: @homesteadlt vs p17: @ykretz.sports
p15: @grecki-bazar-ewy vs p16: @giulius
To decide the player who would get the wild card, I will assume that the qualifiers are won by the higher ranked player in each pair. In that case, @racibo would get it.
As it stands now, the following players would not be eligible:
@guurry123 @krakonos @cryptospa @notak @fredkese @akumagai @soluce07