January's Map of the Month was not that successful, only a few matches were played on Emyn Arnen II and less were submitted to achive the MotM bonus. However, more matches were played on Tournament Anorien and according to its popularity it will be the MotM for this month, February.
New Map of the Month: Tournament Anorien
If you win a Map of the Month game, you may AM the game as a MotM game to receive additional points for the win (no need to attach the replay). However, your opponents will not lose any points for the loss (if they are in the power win range).
If you win a MotM game against a clan in the clan power win range, you will receive double points for the game. If you win against a clan not in the clan power win range, you will receive only +50% points. The reason for this change is that the last time we did Map of the Month, the maps were used primarily when lower ranked clans were involved in the game. We want to encourage alternative map usage at every level in the league. In addition to that we usually check the AR/AM forums for reports that are confirmed already every day, simply to proceed those more quickly. If you file an AM to achive the MotM bonus there is no confirmation needed, so we can do those very quickly. The anent match should be updated within 24 hours!
I'd also like you to check the Admin's News Posts more often from now on as we are planning to use those to inform you consistently. We aware of the fact that you have to scroll down a lot, but it will be useful for you.
Good Luck and Have Fun on Tournament Anorien.
January was an exceptionally competitive month for ClanWars. Despite odd fluctuations in activity (80 games last Tuesday, just 43 the next day) the league has remained overall very active. The competition was incredibly close, perhaps the most competitive non-set clans month in a year or more. The top five clans were all mere games away from each other. Divine stands victorious with 19,081 points, closely followed by second place iL| with 18,317 points and third place Fuego| - a clan returning from RotWK's past - with 17,894 points. Both iL| and Fuego| were lucky to make it into the top three considering the close pursuit of new clan H|D (fourth place, 17,787 points) and long-lived EL^ (fifth place, 17,242 points). The sixth place clan, EoA|, is a ways behind with 11,145 points, but barely 600 points separate it from ninth placed clan |E|, which has 10,567 points. This means nearly every clan in the top ten was just one or two games away from losing its position to another clan.
The warrior ladder was also extremely competitive. Divine|Elladan wins Gold again, with 13,294 points, followed by H|D player ExTeRm1nAt1onS` with 10,900 points and iL|Blackout with 9,104 points.
Best of luck to all clans for February! Play fair and have fun.