The "ins and outs" of the Heroic change!
(focus on the VRS impact)
This Heroic lineup change is a good opportunity to showcase the new roster change rules in effect.. lets dive into it.. (if you're in for another "essay" 😉)
Current lineup: Alkaran, nilo, LNZ, yxngstxr, tN1R.
Future lineup: Alkaran, nilo, LNZ, yxngstxr, xfl0ud.
So what happens when Heroic plays their first game with the new lineup after ESWC?
First of all.. Heroic will keep all their VRS points!!
Thats because the same rule applies as has always applied:
All the matches will count where at least 3 players from your latest lineup overlaps with the lineup from past games.
In Heroics case (and why they had to bring back xfl0ud) all their previous matches have at least 3 players from the new lineup. You can "mix and match" as much as you'd like in the previous matches.. there just has to be 3 players overlapping with the new lineup for it to count.
So what will actually change then?
The ranked lineup will change with the new code changes and thats it!
The ranked lineup is the 5 man lineup that is listed in the VRS ranking, to be invited based on the ranking.
With the old code the ranked lineup would immediately after the first game be listed as:
Alkaran, nilo, LNZ, yxngstxr, xfl0ud
With the new code the ranked lineup will keep being the previous lineup until the new lineup has played 5 matches.. so:
Alkaran, nilo, LNZ, yxngstxr, tN1R
I think we will actually see this play out live in the September 1st ranking, because I don't think Heroic will get to play 5 matches between ESWC and September 1st. They only have Blast Open and thats a maximum of 4 games with a lower bracket run.
So on the September 1st VRS invitation ranking, Heroics ranked lineup will most likely still be..
Alkaran, nilo, LNZ, yxngstxr, tN1R
..despite having played perhaps 4 games since the player change.
This is the reverse scenario of the substitute issue (the "FaZe scenario") that the change was designed to fix.
Its not a huge deal though, but there is probably some scenario where it could become an issue for a team like Heroic that they are ranked with an old lineup they dont intend to field anymore..
And it will just look kind of silly that a "dead lineup" will be listed on the ranking when the new lineup has already played a few games.. but thats about it.. I think :)
Disclaimer:
Let me know if I have misinterpreted the codechanges.. but I'm pretty sure the above is correct.
Otherwise I'd like to be enlightened 😉