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Vanilla Test Draft (lemon twist Willy Wonka Edition)

shortpitched713

International Captain
I've got a golden twinkle in my eye!

Only the first 5 people to post in will be able to join!

Here are the rules:

12 hour timeouts
No Bradman
please @ the next player up, but it is only required when making a challenge for their player

Snake order every 2 rounds, randomized, with round 11 also being randomized.

Each player will start with 7 points, and will gain an additional 4 points after the completion of round 5.
What do you do with these points? You can challenge, or override the challenge of another drafter. It costs 1 point to challenge for another drafter's pick, but you must do so before the next person makes their pick. It costs 2.5 points to override the challenge of another player. You are not eligible to challenge if you have already made a selection for that round, but remember challenging can allow you to skip the queue! Points for all unsuccessful challenges are simply lost, so do keep that in mind as well.

When using your points to challenge, please also include what your current point total is, and always @ the member who made the pick. So if you made a challenge at the beginning of the game your post could look something like this:

Challenge for Mark Ramprakash
Current point total: 6
@billybollocks ( the player who made the initial pick )
 
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shortpitched713

International Captain
Making two small rule tweaks.

Want players to be able to feel a bit freer in going for early steals, so changing it to 7 points that you start with, with only 4 being added at completion of round 5.

Also, don't think first round draft order is as big as a factor in this, given the rules and format, so making round 11 draft order randomized as well.
 

JOJOXI

International Captain
To clairfy say the order was me, Himannv, Shortpitched - I pick Crawley, Himannv challenges for Crawley, Shortpitched then picks Bairstow - at what time would I make my pick now I have lost Crawley?
 

shortpitched713

International Captain
To clairfy say the order was me, Himannv, Shortpitched - I pick Crawley, Himannv challenges for Crawley, Shortpitched then picks Bairstow - at what time would I make my pick now I have lost Crawley?
I can't make the Bairstow pick, until you either 1) overrule to pick up Crawley, 2) make another pick, conceding Crawley, 3) time out

Every new challenge or overrule resets the time out clock, btw. But I think that is pretty common sense there.
 

JOJOXI

International Captain
I can't make the Bairstow pick, until you either 1) overrule to pick up Crawley, 2) make another pick, conceding Crawley, 3) time out

Every new challenge or overrule resets the time out clock, btw. But I think that is pretty common sense there.
Gotcha, thanks
 

shortpitched713

International Captain
Basically, you can steal other people's picks higher up than you in the round order, but it will cost you. That is the main premise.
 

shortpitched713

International Captain
Just thought experimented this out a bit more. Way too many points here. 4 for the first 5 rounds.With an additional 3 after that, is how it will go.
 

shortpitched713

International Captain
One last ruling to mention, which I think is essential. Once a drafter has been stolen from in a given round, his follow-up pick in that round cannot be stolen from them.

Thought at first to allow multi stealing from a drafter in the spirit of fun, but I think it puts too much pressure on an early round drafter to get stolen on repeatedly, to the point the are cursing getting an early draft order in the first place.

I will put up the complete updated rules in a little while.
 

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