@Bacala:
Hi All,
For the next tournament i would suggest changing the format. The double elemination is fun but has too many games on the loser side, it takes a very long time to finish a tournament. Maybe we could do a poule system(4 players), then all games in the first round can start at the same time. With the top two going to the konckout fase.
As for throwing a dice for the sides: i think bidding for which side to play would be fairer and more fun.
If we start a game every month or three weeks maybe we could start in january (at least 8 players in a tournament).
Let me know what you think.
Greetings, Bacala
Thanks for the input, Bacala!
First of all, I don’t like bidding for tournaments. It makes the game too one-sided – you should have to be good at both sides, and that’s my only complaint about league. That’s why If someone thinks a game is out of balance, then the balance should be found, then flip for sides. An example of this: Classic 3rd edition A&A should have a fix bid of 18, then flip for sides. Now, if you wanted to make a Swiss System tourney out of that, I’ve done that before too. But then you are waiting for all sides to finish for a long time.
You know what, guys? We have now been in business exactly one year, and look at how far we have come! Take a look at league if you question that. There are playoff brackets of 8 players, single elimination, and none of the top brackets have finished. That would have started November 1 (give or take) of 2015. So, I don’t think that double-elimination is the problem. Not having a bump rule slowed us down, yes, which will be a correction for future tourneys.
Bacala, if you want more games, you need to lose more. Just sayin’. :-D
Going to a different system of “pools” isn’t a bad idea either, but we won’t finish any quicker. Let’s say you have 4-player pools. Okay, that’s 3 games you start with for the first bracket. There are 7 others. So, 24 games? :)
If you guys like all of the different games, I really think this is the best format for that. We could also consider concurrent swiss system bracketing, but the problem with anything other than the double elim brackets is that you have to wait for all games to finish to begin the next round. In our scenario here, we can start as soon as the games ahead of us in the bracket finish up. And, if you have 8 games going at once, at least they are all different games – the variety is what I think we are all here for, right? Other than the few who only signed up for one or two brackets of course…
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