An idea I've been thinking of implementing is a dueling ladder feature on the website and need some feedback on the best way to go about it. Was thinking of something like this:

A section similar to UFL where you will see the current "season" stats/standings. You'll be able to challenge other players at any time and maybe post a date/time for it to happen. Players can choose to either accept or decline the challenge and I'll probably make it so you have to actually opt into it in order to avoid spam and stuff.

Your wins/losses will be tracked and there will probably be a point system. In order to avoid padding I will probably put a cap against how many times you can challenge a certain player or how many times you can challenge players overall in a week.

The tricky part will be how we can track every duel. We could either have refs sign up to ref them or I could try and implement dueling referees or something. The whole idea of this is to try and promote more activity during the week and to add a new element to the league. Now obviously the league matches will always take priority over this but if there's free time between matches on Sundays and you have a duel challenge setup and a ref is available then it can add some more excitement to Sundays as well.

At the end of the season players can get awards/recognitions added to their profiles and we could add the dueling ladder stats to profile pages as well.

As far as rules go it will be pretty simple:

- Either best of 5 or first to 5 (whichever people think is better)
- Dueling Marine class only
- S2S for the first duel. Winner of first duel gets bottom after and then it alternates.
- Map/dueling area undecided right now but it could either be the A1 dueling area with the barricade or we could easily get one made up with a blacktop and no barricade.

Thoughts?

Are there duels for bans?

There is currently a big blacktop area in isctos that palm put in for dueling. Sometimes people will duel at a1 or b4 in ec, or c7 on the tarmac in kr but that red and yellow line can really distract some players.

First to 5. 3 duels can be won on a fluke, 5 duels is a solid victory. I'd play.

sounds fun but yeah there def needs to be a cap to how many times you can challenge a person per week otherwise you will have the same group or 4-5 players dueling each other every night.

would there be a way to challenge someone via profile? and then each player can click on whether they won or lost and it would be submitted for a duel ref to confirm the results

I was thinking there would be a challenge section with a drop down list of players you can challenge. In order to be on that list you need to opt in. Just so there isn't a bunch of spam going around for players who don't want to do it.

Idk how anyone could confirm results without physically watching it.

Well yeah I mean a ref would have to be present and they would have to manually confirm the results on the site.

Oh, yea. I'll grant refs or whoever the ability to submit the results on site.

Just implement a rating system that takes into consideration how bad or good the opponent is

Idk how I would go about that based on just duels alone. People would probably have to be rated by the community or something. Could try to make it so if you beat someone that has high points you get more points for a win and if you beat someone with low points you get less points for the win, etc..

1 point for a win against low tier
2 points against mid tier
3 points against top tier

Maybe try a season without the rating system, and use the first season's results to determine the rating system for the second season?

id opt in

Is there a way to make a command lets call it *startduel which will give each player a maximum of 3 deaths and they are specced out? So lets say me and champ duel I kill him twice he kills me three times so I am specced out and the records, like a usl match, are put on the site as Hiro 2-3 One Loss Champion 3-2 1 Win. This will be a command that USL staff or select personnel have so its not abused and puts a strain on too much stats coming in. Plus they need to be planned so when the stats come in we know they will be legit.

Just an idea but something along these lines would be pretty cool. Also maybe make it to where Player 1 and Player 2 cannot duel each other for 8 days like the wait period so its not abuse. So Champ cannot challange me for 8 days and I cannot challange him in that time.

If this works out maybe we could only allow these duels at certain times so it encourages more players to get on at prime time. This could help encourage more peeps online to also SB. Only at say 8-12 EST so for 4 hours you got plenty of time to duel people and that would give the community a window of a possible 4 hour activity to get on and play.

ooooohhhhhhhhhh yeah im in

I don't normally duel but I'd even be down for this.

usl's version of SLDL

wow tldr, but ill still opt in

I'd ref duels.

I'm going to get a rough beta of this interface made up by tomorrow and we'll start from there.