The (beta) forum draft series!

[dvdlesher]

At least I'm not going to choose Nature because I killed "well"

[holepercent]

And do remember even if all 6 elements are drafted, periodics are removed from the pool by draft host (this is in the opening ruleset).

[m0rph1ing]

Water 2

[Guest DevouringOne]

LIGHT 2

Hmm there is a problem for me..no one will pick extra pure...shit

[dvdlesher]

Fire2

[DDRKirby(ISQ)]

so far, $FFLLWWED

looks like lvl 2 windstorm is in.

10th: INTEREST

11th: INTEREST

who thinks i can pull it off?

[dvdlesher]

@kirby : Me and Holepercent have predicted that you'll be choosing triple $, and we're right

OKay:

12th Pick : Earth2

[DDRKirby(ISQ)]

@kirby : Me and Holepercent have predicted that you'll be choosing triple $, and we're right

triple $ is a lot more limiting than double $, since you only have 8 picks as opposed to the 9.

You want at least one pure, so that's 3 picks gone. Then you want to have at least one of every other element, so that's another 4 picks. If you do triple $, then you only have ONE addition pick on top of that.

Another option is to do a 4-element build, going for $$$AAABBCCD, but again, taking that third interest pick precludes you from having lvl 2 in 'D', which can be pretty crucial.

[Guest DevouringOne]

oooooh hard to choose...hmmm what to be or not to be...ok I will choose light 1 and thats all.

My last pick is LIGHT 1

So now someone must pick pure or I am dead HAHAHAHAHA...

[m0rph1ing]

Water 1

[holepercent]

As expected we have $$$LLL... lol!

[dvdlesher]

Hah, this'll be fun, more variable build

MORE CHALLENGE!!

[jolin012]

Darkness 1

[m0rph1ing]

$$$WWWLLLEEFFDD is the total? Seems like 3, 4 or 5 ele builds could all work. Variety ftw.

[holepercent]

Tower removal summary

Duals removed: Gunpowder, Well, Electricity, Trickery, Hydro.

Triples removed: Oblivion, Corrosion, Laser, Gold, Nova, Zealot, Tidal.

ELEMENTAL DRAFT SUMMARY:

in draft order:

$ f3 l3 w3 d2 e3 w2 l2 f2 $ $ e2 l1 w1 d1

giving us

$ X3

F X2

L X3

W X3

D X2

E X2

All drafters have 168 hours (7 days) from the time of this post to submit your final replay by PM. Replay files can be attached! So no external filehosting sites are needed anymore

You can submit replays early and replace it with another replay anytime until draft closes.

Scoring and winning replay

Replay with LOWEST score wins. Final score will the sum of each component below.

Leaks (least to most) : 1,3,4,5,7

Time taken (fastest to slowest) : 1,3,4,5,7

Networth (highest to lowest) : 1,1,2,2,3

Ronalds killed (most to least) : 1,1,2,2,3

explaination: eg. for leaks, the replay with the fewest leaks will score one point. the 2nd lowest leaks will score 3 points and so on. therefore, replay with most leaks scores 7 points. in case of ties, all will receive the lower score.

Time taken is until victory message appears. This excludes the ronald hunt.

Best build design will have 2 points subtracted from the replay's total score. best build design will be picked by me. ( as per draft traditions where best build design is picked by host). This condition may not be used if there is a clear winner.

[m0rph1ing]

It should be Wx3 not Wx1.

[holepercent]

It should be Wx3 not Wx1.

Corrected. Thanks for pointing that out..

[Guest Sancdar]

I decided to try this to see how bad I have become...died in the low 50s. Since when is ice a weird AoE tower?!?

Clearly I haven't played much in a long time...

[holepercent]

Draft isn't designed to be easy.. with the tower and elements restrictions..

and yes.. quite a number of towers have changed.. other tower changes include new disease, jinx, ice, golem, quark and (...) since 4.0pb at least.. much has changed.. we nearly have a set of fully working towers now.. no more 'useless' towers now..

[dvdlesher]

Play on 16b or 16c? I'm confused...

[holepercent]

b16c..

[holepercent]

First completed (almost no-leak) replay submitted already..

players are playing by different strategies.. this draft features choice not seen in #2..

[dvdlesher]

I almost done no-leak... Aw man...

EDIT : BTW, I'm not the 1st submitter, so it should be someone else...

[Guest DevouringOne]

And I haven't sent my too. But it won't be without leaks...and I will recieve 9 I think extra points for summoning 3 pures but I'll definitly earn 1 point for networth(360 000)...

[holepercent]

And I haven't sent my too. But it won't be without leaks...and I will recieve 9 I think extra points for summoning 3 pures but I'll definitly earn 1 point for networth(360 000)...

hey.. that'll defeat the purpose of playing this draft.. really.. shall i DQ you now?