Requesting Opinions on NPWC Season 2

[Sky]

Hello all,

As you can tell, Super Aniversario is mere days away, and so it's time to take in opinions on NWPC Season 2, which will begin with an event to take place on the weekend of July 4-6, 2025. I'll be taking into account all suggestions on how to improve your predicting experience. I'd especially love to hear your opinions on:

• Format: I feel the current thing with the Free-For-All gives everyone something to do, as opposed to the previous format which I feel alienated non-title holders. Are there any ways you could think of that could add more meaning (that isn't just adding extra championships, we can barely sustain 2 with current numbers)?
• Breaking ties: I've had some complaints about the earliest submission rule as a last-resort tie breaker. Do you have any better ideas?
• Sorting the rankings: Having "right predictions" as the second sort, instead of tiebreaks, was designed to reward regular predictors, but since regular predictors rack up TB points at a rapid rate, this seems moot. How would you sort the rankings?
• Recruitment: I'm always looking for new predictors. I want to make it clear that YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR A NEW SEASON TO START TO PREDICT. This is something that certain regulars here have expressed, and I want to tell you that's not the case. Any other ways recruitment could be improved?
• Any other issues you had over the course of the season, feel free to express them here.

Gonna tag all the current and former regulars here in order of their current ranking, to canvass for thoughts.
@Chris @Kairi HoHo @Roy Mustang @Rosie @Tommy Shelby @Jimmy King @Dubb @Deadd2009 @Comrade Khan @Samoa Looch @R-Troop @Lady Redfield @O-Blaze @Lethal @The Gipper @Y2Jayne @Unbesiegbar @DameDollar @Dirk Dickbutt @Crocker @Barry Poppins @Spitfire

 

[Deadd2009]

For HUGE shows like Mania, All In etc there should be a multi man match for like a #1 contenders match at a future show, for whichever title they wanna go after.

I also feel a tournament format for certain shows could be fun. The top 8 point getters or what have you could be "qualifiers" into said tournament and then we go from there.

 

[Barry Poppins]

This is just a minor suggestion but add a third title, and run it akin to a division system based on rankings.

Players can move up or down a division based on how well they do in their respective division.

There's the world title, the middle title, and the lower title. What if the world title could be held indefinitely, but the middle and lower title can be held for a maximum time? What if they could defend the title a maximum of 5-8 times, and if they reach the max, they'll move up the rankings into the next division. When this happens, the lowest ranked member of that upper division is moved down to the lower division.

This allows everyone to at least compete for something, even lower ranked members. They have opportunities to challenge and move up the better they do, and members who get taken to a lower division have the opportunity to compete for a title immediately!

 

[Spitfire]

This is just a minor suggestion but add a third title, and run it akin to a division system based on rankings.

Players can move up or down a division based on how well they do in their respective division.

There's the world title, the middle title, and the lower title. What if the world title could be held indefinitely, but the middle and lower title can be held for a maximum time? What if they could defend the title a maximum of 5-8 times, and if they reach the max, they'll move up the rankings into the next division. When this happens, the lowest ranked member of that upper division is moved down to the lower division.

This allows everyone to at least compete for something, even lower ranked members. They have opportunities to challenge and move up the better they do, and members who get taken to a lower division have the opportunity to compete for a title immediately!

Sort of sounds like my old system.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Barry's basically said what I was going to say. Makes it more interesting. Not that you haven't done a great job though Sky. All up for this happening.

Also maybe have a tag team randomiser once a month or every big card as long as there's enough of us doing the game.