Welcome to the Netrek Draft League 2002 (DL2002). The Draft League is a place for Netrek players of all skill levels to play together in a competitive environment. The DL provides newer players a chance to learn about league play in a friendly environment while offering competive and exciting games to the experienced netrek players. The Draft League is organized much like regular league netrek (www.netrek.org/leagues.html), where each team will have 1 captain and several roster players. The difference is that the captains will draft the roster players, guarenteeing that everyone who joins the draft will be on a team and that each team will possess a wide range of experience. As such, people who have never played in league netrek are encouraged to join! If you have experience playing on continuum or other "pick-up" netrek servers, you are probably more than ready to contribute to a DL team. Some basic skills that you should possess is an understanding of the galactic and tactical maps, knowledge of reading a player list to identify players and the ability to read and send messages to individuals and your team. Basic piloting skills such as changing speeds, turning, bombing planets and info'ing ships and planets should also be possessed before joining the DL. All these skills can be picked up with a few hours of "pick-up" netrek play at a netrek server, as well as by reading the various help files available to newer players (http://www.netrek.org/info.html). If you possess the above skills and are ready to join the DL2002, go to http://draft.netrek.org/ and select the "sign up" link. You will be required to provide a contact email, as well as information about your skills and availability. Finally, you will be asked if you wish to captain a team. If you are an experienced netrek player, please consider captaining a team, especially if you never have in the past, since the more captains we have, the more teams will be formed. We are looking for at least 6 captains, based on the estimated number of people joining the Draft League. The registration period will be TODAY, March 28th to Friday, May 3rd. Captains will be decided upon on May 4th-5th and the draft will hopefully take place on May 11th or 12th. The games will be autoscheduled for every other Tues. or Sun. at either 9:00/9:30 PM eastern or 3:00 / 3:30 PM eastern on Sunday. Games will be 60 minutes in length, with a potential 20 minute overtime period. Continuous scoring will be used with a cscore delta of 3.00 (http://www.netrek.org/vanilla.docs/README.scores). All teams will also have 1 to 3 games autoscheduled for Sunday at 3:00 or 3:30 PM eastern and are encouarged to scrimmage on these and other days to allow everyone a chance to play (i.e. some people may have difficulty making weekday night games, so by scheduling scrimmages on other nights, they are given the chance to enjoy in the Draft League experience). Exact details will be provided prior to the actual draft process. The complete DL rules are listed at draft.netrek.org. If there are any questions feel free to contact us at wnl-organizers at lists.netrek.org. -DL Organizers http://draft.netrek.org SIGN UP NOW! [sponsored by the WNL]