[quote author=Xenaero link=topic=134.msg1042#msg1042 date=1251220788]<br />Anyone who&#039;s hung out in #intldoomleague knows I have beef with how homefields work. I still don&#039;t think that seeded teams in the conference playoffs should play on their selected homefield. I really have no good idea on how to address it, only one that I sort of pulled out of my ass. Everyone seems to be fine with the fact that conference-seeded teams have not only their homefield, but also have proven they&#039;re pretty strong on any given map during the regular season, having been seeded in the first place. To me that seems like too steep of a slope in their favor, even despite some upsets in IDL history like BBC defeating BSK this year. Here&#039;s my idea: If they won so many games then why not have the maps shifted around a bit? Teams still pick their homefields, but in the wildcard playoffs, if the team has the homefield advantage wins, the losing wildcard team in that conference&#039;s homefield is used in the conference playoffs. However, if the disadvantaged team wins, they could choose to use their homefield or the conference seed&#039;s homefield. To put it in example of this season&#039;s IDC wildcard playoffs: KGB v EBL on EBL&#039;s homefield of map07. If KGB won, they could either play map08 (SUC&#039;s HF) or map20 (KGB&#039;s HF) against SUC. If EBL won, they would play map20 against SUC. This is probably not the best example since no one in their right mind would willingly pick map08 against SUC, but you get the picture. I&#039;m still working this out in my head, but as far as I can see, this gives no incentive for players to play poorly, as was constantly argued in #idl. If you play poorly intentionally to be the lower seed in the wildcard as to get your homefield, you have a significant chance of losing on a different team&#039;s homefield and also have to go through another game to work your way to the Masterbowl. At the same time, this does not disadvantage teams that have been seeded in the conference playoffs, considering that they have proved their might in the regular season to &quot;adapt and overcome&quot;, and pretty much every team practices maps to begin with anyway. This adds even more excitement and competition into the league&#039;s final weeks, IMO. My system might not get implemented, but damn if I didn&#039;t try. 8)<br />[/quote]<br /><br />The #1 seed only gets to use their homefield once, though. Saying &quot;it&#039;s not fair, it&#039;s not fair, the #1 seed is too good on the map they played&quot; is just childish to me. 