DIY league within the tournament

Well,

After this long discussion before the tournament even started i wonder how u all think about the diyleague (injuryleague ^^) thing....

Before the tournament I was a little bit positive... now: POSITIVE

I have to admit i didnt have that much of injuries but still

What do u prefer for next years tournament: DIY league again or every match played as a friendly match??

i dont really know, i agree with eleven about the injury thing, cause my mussi was injured in the 2nd match, en he had a black cross... so whole tournament without my playmaker
on the other hand, diy league was fun, u can just keep playing, you dont have to set up a lot of stuff and import teams again and so on

I remember Greg shouting endless times after the second match: PAIDER - IT WAS YOUR FAULT!!! ;D

My opinion: I was lucky with injuries becuase my forwards missed only one or two matches (toi toi toi for next year )
However, I think that the DIY-Leagues didn t take less time than friendlies. In my group we often needed 10-15 minutes to get the controllers working - but who cares: I have been there to play SWOS all the time so this wasn t a problem for me!

I want to write down my opinion in 2 views:

1. The DIY-League Gameplan

I played with friendly matches at the CentralGermanyCup. And I created a gameplan to ensure that everyone plays his matches in time. And it worked perfectly.

One of the reasons for a DIY-League at the SensiDays was to ensure a straight playing where noone must wait too long. But unfortunately that happened: Sometimes a player played the first match of round 1 for example, but his next match was the last of round 2. So it happened that sometimes one player played 2 games in a row and another player had to wait too long

So I see no advantage for a DIY-League in this case.


2. The Injuries in a DIY-League

I saw a lot of players loosing one or more of their best players. Sometimes they were missed 1,2,3 or 4 matches. But we had ? and even black crosses (myself from the 3rd Groupmatch on ;D). I mean, when this happens (when u foul a player I mean and he s hurted) not every player relaxes cool. Sometimes u could feel it that your oppo is angry about it (it galled me too). So it s a bad touch in a tournament for me, which is not needed. And to play such a huge and great event with so much great players without one ore more good players because of injuries is a pity for the affected players. It s a dream of everyone to play with his beloved team all the time (I think so) to play the strongest way.


Conclusion (only for me): There is no advantage to play with DIY-Leagues. With self created gameplans (doesn t take very long to do it) it s not needed to save after every match. When u stick a resultsheet on the table where the groups are played, noone will forget to enter a result and there is a gameplan where everyone can see who s next (also not possible in DIY-Leagues). And if u have bad luck because of an heavy injury in one match it doesn t matter for the next matches and players take it more relaxed. And finally noone must wait too long for his next match when the gameplan is well created.