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What is the Draft-League.nl World Championship?
The Draft-League.nl World Championship is a yearly event in which we crown the best Draft-League.nl user at the time. To participate in this event, you have to qualify first. For which there are many ways of doing so (in total there are 96 tickets which grand access to the WC). The tickets are as followed:

• Previous Champion (1): can lock their spot until 2022-03-30
• CCS Route (32): ranking gets taken as of 2022-03-31. Coaches who qualify can lock their spot until 2022-04-07
• League Qualification Route (59): ranking gets taken as of 2022-03-31. Coaches who qualify can lock their spot until 2022-04-08
• Qualification Tour (4): coaches who don't have a ticket as of 2022-04-09 can sign up on that specific day only

The first WC itself is estimated to be starting around 2022-05-01. How each route works is explained on this page as well. Along with a virtual distribution of the tickets if all rankings would be finalized right now. It's also important to understand that the CCS Route and the League Qualification Route are Draft-League.nl exclusive. Given the workload and complexity it would be to accept other sources as well to qualify for each of those routes, the decision has been made to make these Draft-League.nl exclusive. The website itself is free to us (and also ad free) for every league and has numerous advantages over using Google Docs. It's also possible to import past seasons of your league if you don't want those to get lost and if you want to have the website display the full history of your league. You can join the Discord server with the link at the top of this table and use !newleague to find out more about adding your league. The final Qualification Tour, which give out the final 4 tickets, is free to enter for everyone, even if you have never played on a league on draft-league.nl Little side note: because there is no previous champion for the very first edition, the Previous Champion Ticket will be turned into a 60th League Rout Ticket.

If you want to find out more about the WC, be sure to watch this video.

Both the CCS Route and the League Qualification Route get updated daily. If it seems like some scores are missing, they daily update may have not gone into effect yet.

CCS Route
CCS stands for Coach Competitive Score. This score is a number between 1 and -1 that estimates the skill level of a coach. The score takes into account every battle a coach has played in any league on draft-league.nl, how well a coach does in playoffs, the competition the coach has faced so far and how they have done in the recent past. You can check out the base formula over here. In order for the a CCS score to be calculated, a coach must have at least played 10 games on draft-league.nl

After the base formula is applied, there are a set amount of score penalties if they apply to the coach. These stat penalties are multiplicative and serve to balance out the ranking (both at the top and the bottom). At this moment in time, coaches can receive a score penalty based on the following criteria:

• the amount of battles a coach has played
• how long it has been since a coach played a battle
• what the highest competitive season is they have played in so far
• the amount of seasons a coach has played
• the amount of mid season dropouts without a legit reason (and how recent they were)

As you can see, all these criteria are mainly there to prevent newer accounts from being either very high or very low if they only have been here for a little bit. Other then that, it also checks if a coach is still active. Since there are different penalty scores in each criteria, a coach that has been inactive for 1 year will see their score drop by less then a coach who has been inactive for 2 years for example.

Based on this score, 32 coaches will obtain a ticket when this ranking gets finalized on the date mentioned above.

League Qualification Route
The League Qualification Route gives the 59 (or in this case 60) best performing coaches in Draft-League.nl leagues during the qualification cycle a ticket to the WC. Since not everyone plays the same amount of seasons over the course of a year, your point total will be based on the best 4 results you got during the qualification cycle. Because in some leagues it's harder to do well then in others, the competitive score of a season determines how many points you are able to get. The website has 8 different competitive ratings it can assign to a season:

• 5: Super competitive
• 4.5: High competitive
• 4: Competitive
• 3.5: Above average
• 3: Slightly above average
• 2.5: Average
• 2: Slightly below average
• 1.5: Below average
• 1: Low skilled
• 0: Don't use (basically for fun and/or off- seasons that don't have to be included)

Each rating has their own requirement(s) that need to be met for a season to get that rating. Keep in mind that the rating is given to a specific season, not to a specific league. It is possible that a different season in the same league has a different competitive rating because the line-up is different. All requirements are based on the CCS score of the line-up at the start of a season.

• 5: at least 5% has a score of 0.55 or higher, at least 40% has a score of 0.35 or higher, at least 80% has a score of 0.15 or higher, at least 90% has a score of 0.0 or higher and no coach has a score below -0.2
• 4.5: at least 30% has a score of 0.35 or higher, at least 65% has a score of 0.15 or higher, at least 80% has a score of 0.0 or higher and no coach has a score below -0.2
• 4: at least 15% has a score of 0.35 or higher, at least 40% has a score of 0.15 or higher, at least 80% has a score of 0.0 or higher and at most 10% has a score of -0.2 or lower
• 3.5: at least 10% has a score of 0.35 or higher, at least 30% has a score of 0.15 or higher, at least 50% has a score of 0.0 or higher and at most 25% has a score of -0.2 or lower
• 3: at least 5% has a score of 0.35 or higher, at least 20% has a score of 0.15 or higher, at least 40% has a score of 0.0 or higher and at most 35% has a score of -0.2 or lower
• 2.5: at least 25% has a score of 0.0 or higher and at most 45% has a score of -0.2 or lower
• 2: doesn't fall into any other category
• 1.5: doesn't fall into 5-2.5 and more then 50% don't fall below -0.2
• 1: doesn't fall into 5-2.5 and more then 60% don't fall below -0.2

In order for the competitive rating of a season to be calculated, a line-up must have at least half of their amount of coaches with an actual CCS score. If a season can't be rated because of this, it will by default get a rating of 2 if they have at least 12 coaches. If a season can't be rated and has less then 12 coaches, they will by default be rated as 1.5. If a (new) league can proof their line-up for their season has a proven high competitiveness and/or acclaim (can also build up outside of the website), that league can be given a grace period by the website owner. In this period, the above requirements are ignored and a custom rating is given that fits the proven competitiveness and acclaim of the league. They can use this grace period to get in results on the website and build up a CCS score for their coaches. After this grace period, the standard requirements will be used.

Depending on the competitive rating of a season, you can earn the following points:

	1	1.5	2	2.5	3	3.5	4	4.5	5
Winner	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50
Runner-up	7	10	13	17	20	23	26	30	33
Playoffs	3	5	7	8	10	12	13	15	17
Game value	1	1.5	2	2.5	3	3.5	4	4.5	5

The points for winner/runner-up/playoffs do not stack. If you made it to either of these stages in the season, you will get those points added up to your game points. Game points are calculated with the following formula game points = ROUND(((game value * wins) / games played) * 10). The amount of games played matters because not every season is as long and coaches that make it to the playoffs also play at least 1 more game within the same season. By dividing the score by the amount of games played and multiplying it by 10, you get a score you would have been able to get, had you played 10 games in the season.