Weekend League Qualification is a joke!!!
June 13, 2017 10:47AM
edited June 2017
Does anyone else think the recent weekend league qualifications have been stupidly hard to qualify?
I don'y consider myself a great fifa player. When I do play weekend league I usually finish around Silver 1/Gold 3. Which statistically is around 17/40. Like I said it's not a great record however... I don't think these qualification tournaments open up enough people to be able to play weekend league regualrly. If I were to win a tournament it would mean winning 4 games in a row. Which means if I were to do that in weekend league it would return a record of around 35/40 or more. Which is totally unrealistic. I also think the recent TOTS rewards for this competition have ruined the qualification process for Weekend league. Players who wouldn't normally play this tournament as they will already have qualification for Weekend league are now playing the tournament and knocking out players who haven't qualified just for these rewards
I don'y consider myself a great fifa player. When I do play weekend league I usually finish around Silver 1/Gold 3. Which statistically is around 17/40. Like I said it's not a great record however... I don't think these qualification tournaments open up enough people to be able to play weekend league regualrly. If I were to win a tournament it would mean winning 4 games in a row. Which means if I were to do that in weekend league it would return a record of around 35/40 or more. Which is totally unrealistic. I also think the recent TOTS rewards for this competition have ruined the qualification process for Weekend league. Players who wouldn't normally play this tournament as they will already have qualification for Weekend league are now playing the tournament and knocking out players who haven't qualified just for these rewards
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As said before I'm not a great fifa player.. however my win percentage is around 35-40% which would put me around Silver 3-Gold 3. But players like me with a similair record aren't able to even qualify because of the TOTS rewards. EA need to get rid of the rewards for Weekend Daily Knockout match asap
It hasn't. I'm assuming lots of players who wouldn't bother previously are after the reward card.
I happen to agree with the OP here, but I can't see it changing, and to be honest it's just a reflection of how poor the playing options for FUT are with the removal of the online cups
Exactly my point. Players who normally wouldn't bother are just after the reward card. If EA put the reward card in a separate tournament then the qualification would be progressively easier because those who already qualified for the Weekend league through achieving Gold 3 or higher wouldn't be entering these Daily Knockout tournaments and the only players left to play these would be those who hadn't qualified
That's far too much sense for EA Sports to process.
It's even worse that they make it possible to win it twice as good people are doing that just to discard/SBC it
I do agree the tournaments should be separated out for rewards and qualification. I'll be curious what EA do in 18.
I do think EA should have an alternative to weekend league for players who can't qualify. Call it casual league with reduced prizes and weekend league proper qualification for the top tiers
I do agree that winning 4 games in a row before hasn't bee n that difficult. However I recently find that due to the TOTS reeards it has been increasingly more difficult. I've reached the final for the tournament numurous times. I do lose on the final and just don't have the time during the week to start the tournament again and give it another go.
They just need to do a seperate tournament for the TOTS rewards. I think maybe a knockout tournament that has the restricitions for the specific league would have been a better idea. I.E if you want to win the TOTS pulisic you have to have a full sqaud of Bundesliga players. Rather than merging the TOTs rewards to weekend qualification. That way you're either competing for the Card or Qualification
You only have enough time during the week to play four games?
Just because you're being matched up with easy wins, it doesn't mean everybody is. Somebody with a high ELO rating isn't generally going to get matched with someone who doesn't know how to play.
Again, matchmaking plays a part, and many don't have the time to sit through 20 attempts.
Your first point is exactly the problem here though. There are people who just want to qualify for the weekend league, and aren't that bothered by the card. The pats become very difficult for many. It would have been fairer to make the cards available via a separate tournament in my opinion, but they removed the provision in game.
Before some scrub tells me to git gud, and tells me they stroll through the tournament, I write this as somebody who generally has had no issue qualifying when I choose to do so. I do sympathise with those still toiling away, trying to get their foot in the WL door. Once you're in, in my experience, getting 18 wins is no more difficult than the daily tournament.
I also have far too little time in the week to try and try again, so it is often the case that if I can't qualify in the first 7-10 games, I'm forced to miss out that weekend.
It's a shame because I love the competitive league aspect and obviously the potential rewards.
It'd be better if they sacked off the standard league, brought back cups and ran the champions weekend league as a fully ranked system.
More often than not had very tough games in the earlier rounds. Even poor players who go ultra d and counter from the off are tough to beat. In fact I found the DKT harder than the WL itself (usually finish anywhere from E3 to G2).. there's just no room for error. In WL you can have a few bad games and shrug them off.. in these competitions one bad game and you're out.
With the game the shambles it's in getting any consistency over four straight games is a tough ask.
Not tried for the Nacho Fernandez card and doubt I will. Would probably win it eventually but I just can't be bothered with this game right now. Every time I give it a chance and come back the gameplay is as bad as ever.. can't remember the last time i had a match and actually enjoyed It, even when winning.
Yeah, I've not been enjoying recently either, win or lose. I think the lack of consistent game play is a big part of that. I'm hardly playing at all at the minute
For me need to merge seasons/FUT Champs.
Leagues run Monday-Sunday say 50 or 60 or however many games.
Then based on wins you qualify for respective KO tournament the following week for then respective prizes.
You have say upto I dunno, 8 entries in KO and your best performance gives you respective prize (like draft) but along with that from week 2 you also have to play leagues for next weeks KO.
Therefore whatever level you get to in week 2 you then play similar opponents in the league and maybe have a bit more coins per game (like difficulty on single mode challenge) for playing at that higher level and you just keep going like that.
This way everyone has lots to play for all of the time.
You only have enough time during the week to play four games?[/quote]
I have time in the evening to play a fair few games. But each game takes around 20 minutes to play. If you play 4 in a row its around 1 hour 20 minutes. If I lose just 1 game you have to start the whole process again. If you are lucky and win the tournament on your 1st or 2nd attempt. You can finish in reasonable time. It basically leaves me no room for error to complete a tournament in the evening.
Bang on the money.
Before TOTS I think I'd played the DKO once before. Since TOTS I've been playing it every week just for the cards.
They really should've done a separate tournament for these cards. Whether that tourney gave you WL access is up for debate but they should've left the DKO as it was I think.
I agree practice does help massively. Since the introduction fl the WL it took me a good few months before I was able to complete the Knockout tournament and qualify. Spamming divisions helped me get better. My issue is with the new TOTs rewards which make it harder. However as these are not going away, the only way forward is to keep at it.
Change your location to US, it may help you.
You're just bad at the game. In WL you're not taking into account that you face players based off your ELO rating. If you're currently in Silver 1, you're likely to face others also at Silver 1. The DKO tournament is ❤️❤️❤️❤️ easy to win. I tend to face weak opponents in every round because you get crap players beating other crap players to get through each round. WL is the best of the best. You still get a few crap players, but not many