[Official] New Association Tournaments - Live Now - What's new

[khris]

I don't know about you guys, but speaking for myself, my association did great on the first day of the new format. In fact, we are first in the world
I think it's a good idea to end the season now!

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We have to open a Sticky thread where to track the Top 100 inside the FAs subforum...

[Jani0608]

Next season we’re bringing changes to Association tournaments. New, more competitive, more prestigious tournaments are coming. Read all about it below!

Don’t forget! To participate your Association needs to have at least 4 members before the first tournament kicks off. Hurry up and gather your teammates before the in-game timer expires.

Divisions

From Season 144, Football Associations will be competing in a new division system which brings a new layer of competitiveness and prestige into FA tournaments. With a new division system, somewhat changed promotion/demotion mechanisms will be introduced.

The number of divisions will increase from 10 to 11. With Bronze 3 and Bronze 2 being merged into one Bronze 2 division, we’ll be adding two prestigious divisions on top: Diamond and Ultimate.

Progress through divisions all the way to the top! Higher divisions offer higher tournament rewards.

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At the beginning of each season, your FA is placed in a group of 64 FAs from the same division. In the leaderboard of 64, you will be trying to surpass other FAs by collecting points from winning matches, tournaments, and special limited-time events. The points your FA earns during the season will determine your place in the group leaderboard. Your position on the leaderboard will indicate whether you will promote to a higher division, relegate to a lower division or stay in the same division.


Note Division groups will be made on the 4th day of the season and all Associations will play in the division they qualified for this season with Diamond and Ultimate waiting for the first FAs to grab a spot. With the new system in place, points collection will start with the first tournament. Tournaments are made by matchmaking same-size FAs across the whole Division. At the start of a new season, points will reset and new groups will be made.

Are you and your teammates ready to climb all the way up to Ultimate?

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FA Points Multiplier


New Association tournaments will also bring a new points calculation system with an introduction of FA Points Multipliers.

Every member of the Association will have an FA Points Multiplier that will be multiplying all their points during the season and determine tournament rewards eligibility. The FA Points Multiplier will be calculated based on the Manager's success in the previous seasons and will last throughout the whole campaign.

Your League performance from last season determines the multiplier with which your FA points will be calculated and determines if you’ll be eligible to claim rewards after every tournament.

If you’ve finished 1st-3rd spot in the League the season before you will be eligible to claim tournament rewards and will have x3 Multiplier
If you’ve finished in the 4th-8th spots in the League the season before you will be eligible to claim tournament rewards and will have x2 Multiplier

However in case you’ve finished below 8th spot in the League the season before you won’t be eligible to claim tournament rewards and you will have x1 Multiplier.


In addition to this. In order to participate in the FA competition, you need to earn promotion in the League at least once in the previous two seasons since the new tournaments started. Otherwise, you will be disqualified from FA competitions until you get promoted again. Disqualified members don't contribute any FA points to their FA and all their matches are counted as 3-0 victories for the opponent.

FA Points Multiplier will start taking effect from the season the new FA Tournaments are introduced so no team will be disqualified during the first campaign.

Example: Multiplier 3X

A win gets 3 points. 3X3 = 9. This member will add 9 points to your FA tally.
A draw gets 1 point 1X3=3 This member will add 3 points to your FA tally.


Multipliers will be recalculated at the beginning of every new season.

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Rewards

With the new system, you will be earning 2 types of rewards. Tournament rewards that will be claimable after every Association tournament and Division rewards at the end of every season.

Make sure your Association is teamed up and ready to take a spot in the Division group on the 5th day of the season to be able to fight for division rewards.

Tournament rewards will be claimable for all participants with a FA Multiplier higher than x1 despite the position in the division.


New prestigious divisions Diamond and Ultimate will be offering better rewards than ever. So fight your way to the top and secure your spot!

With the new progression system in place, leaderboards of Top 100 will continue to exist however every season leaderboard will reset and FAs from the highest divisions will initiate a new battle for glory.

Other

In addition to this, with new FAs we’re bringing

• Visual improvements to the FA home, tournament, and schedule screens.
• Improved FA search option that will ease your search for new members and Associations. With the improvement of the search engine, we also added additional options and search filters.
• Improvements to Association training sessions. Max out those bonuses!
• Added a green button next to the player's name for the easier arrangement of FA friendlies.

Follow this thread for timely updates as new features start appearing in the game. We’re looking forward to hearing your thoughts Managers. Thank you for your support!


Gather your teammates and start getting ready for the new season NOW!

Fraud or mistake? I finished 9th in the league, but deducted 1 star. And at FA it is x1 because I became 9th. How is this? I would like an answer to mobydick@hdsnet.hu

[HeavensAAA]

Fraud or mistake? I finished 9th in the league, but deducted 1 star. And at FA it is x1 because I became 9th. How is this? I would like an answer to mobydick@hdsnet.hu

Read the league rules. It is clearly stated that sometimes 9th or lower-placed teams could also be promoted to fulfil the needs of draws into a new season.

Also read the association rules. League position in top3 gets a x3 multiplier; top4-8 gets a x2. Anything else gets a x1. Never was the promotion factor being included in the multiplier allocation as well (It is your own presumption to link these 2 together, but not suggested in any criteria as stated).

Read again if you are still confused.

[hitman0013]

Look the stars of a subs in the first teams in top 100. Guess what happen beforе the draws!
BALLERSVILLE is the same! Tell me what you do with 1 star players?

[HeavensAAA]

Look the stars of a subs in the first teams in top 100. Guess what happen beforе the draws!
BALLERSVILLE is the same! Tell me what you do with 1 star players?

Before you start going on with our results, which are fairly won with our asso against another 2 asso in 2 rounds like everyone else, you may need to check the definition of ‘subs’ and ‘reserves’. None of our 6 teams in our asso had put any of the 1* players onto the bench as our sub (Note: subs can only be made when on the 7-men bench, not within the max 10-men reserves).

To complete special sponsor tasks of changing role and SA every season, it is more than reasonable to keep a minimum of 6 reserve players to train on mandatory positions that the task will require (namely DC, DMC, MC, AMC & ST, if you do not know), plus another one on SA with all ideally on 49/50 to be ready when task requires completion. Is it unreasonable to both keep another 2x reserve players to be on the backup of 2 of the 5 roles on 49/50 when they get too old to train for a full 50/50 before the start of next season and for a resource-efficient manager to spend 8x 1T to possibly cover 10 seasons of role & SA tasks (instead of 2T per season plus greens to complete part of x/50)?

Let me know a more resource-efficient way in both T and money to do that 2 tasks, and I will gladly listen to your suggestion.

[HeavensAAA]

Look the stars of a subs in the first teams in top 100. Guess what happen beforе the draws!
BALLERSVILLE is the same! Tell me what you do with 1 star players?

And for the matchup, I will also gladly share my 2 matchups in both matchdays for your references.

Semi-final against a 4% better opposition. Won both.
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Final. Same quality opposition. Won 1 Drew 1.
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As clear as daylight, my matchup draws are not favourable nor unfavourable (4% is negligible). And 3 wins & 1 draw out of 4 is easily 80%+ of max possible points gained, as per my usual ratio.

So you can save your whole ‘matchup is favourable to you’ argument for another decade.

[hitman0013]

Sure, sure! Believe yourself with theory of 1 star!

[HeavensAAA]

Sure, sure! Believe yourself with theory of 1 star!

As said, I would like a more resource-efficient in both T and money suggestion for the special sponsor roles & SA tasks from you, and I am still waiting....

[hitman0013]

Move a bar forward with 25T Here you go!

[HeavensAAA]

Move a bar forward with 25T Here you go!

That is not quite a ‘T and money’ resource-efficient suggestion at all, with 25T spent in just 1 season.

It is quite clear you do not understand much about what the word ‘efficiency’ means. And so this would also be reflected in (the lack of) your squad building and improvement ratio, which would obviously impact your team’s win rate in all competitions, including the new FA.

You can keep your pipe-dream of others having a good point tally ‘just because’ they have some 1* players in their squads and can easily draw easy FA matchups to win. Cannot be bothered for any reply to any of your threads anymore when all heard are excuses-blaming (Yes, look, some other teams must have easy draws with 1* players in their teams.....no...their same-quality opposition just did not turn up....no....that team is just lucky this time.....no....the whole association always flukes......etc.......)