So for the last 5 weeks my local game club has been running a Warmachine/Hordes League that has been escalating. While it took some ideas from the Privateer Press Journeyman League, it had very different and separate rules for it. It was really simple: you received 3 points for a victory, 1 point for a loss, and -1 if you didn't get a game in for that one week, and each person could only submit 2 game results per week (max). This week is the last week of the league and when I was in there on Friday I felt some real malaise about the end of the League since the player at the top had such a huge lead over everyone else (he had 10 points more than I did) and with only 2 games allowed, there's almost no incentive for anyone to play anymore. This got me thinking about the goals behind these escalation leagues and the goals behind them. With those goals in mind, might there be, perhaps, a better way of doing it? And thus, I propose:
The Gentleman's League! But first, some background.
