Tournament Interest Thread

Right. "With some minor restrictions", a minimum number of games being one of them. Having a limit on how many times you can replay someone in a league might be another, in case some butthurt noob starts feeding or some scumbags start boosting. I like league format because it would be very casual; you wouldn't have problems with people getting bored and leaving as you would with round robin or knockout tourney formats because it can continue without them no problem.

Knockout has that hardcore factor, but with how random KAG can be I can see it causing a lot of butthurt, more than league or round robin where even if you lose a few games you can keep playing.

If someone decides to host a tournament with set matches, I really recommend that they use WhenIsGood (credit to Trelawney for posting about it).

 

Double elimination <3

 

It is funny, but now I need the most important, a team xD

 

Why?

Poll Results: Would you be interested?

 

This sounds pretty sweet, I'd really like to see something like this going on.

 

I voted No cause i didn´t want to wait half year for play a tournament, change it for only if done soon

 

Yeah here's my input, since I tried to organize the last one:

• I think doing regional tournaments would eliminate most ping discrepancies, and talking to Stevedog (from Australia) He's said there's a sizable player base for Australians and South Koreans -- so we might be able to separate tournaments without alienating a ton of people.

• Next: I would ask that any entrants get a good idea of what their ping on servers is, so we could easily match pings (this is assuming that we do a global tournament, not a regional one). We would also need to pair this with WhenIsGood to get a gist of who will be facing who and what weeks or days to hold the tournaments.

• For efforts towards balance of teams and lives, spawn items, maps, etc -- I'd say we need a heavy trial and error period, to create and test maps specifically for the tournament, and establish good guidelines for arrows or bombs and so forth.

• Contrary's concept of a league would be terrific for getting people to be more punctual, and I think it'd allow us to streamline the process a bit more (e.g. It'd become common place to meet in a large IRC channel, then set up a game right there, which would allow for things like tournament games to run much smoother).

• However, with that being noted, I still enjoy tournaments and I think we should strive towards them - that being said, a Swiss system will probably be the most acceptable. Though, (and I could be totally wrong about this, I need to ask Stevedog, heh) but I don't think we power-matched teams that often, and in addition, we might want to do a process of seeding the allow teams a much fairer chance (especially once we get to doing any form of elimination rounds).

Ultimately, I believe the most intelligent this would be to do a league, per Contrary, but constantly work towards new tournaments, as well as work on them; Seeing what fits and what is efficient for the community.

 

Or we can go old school boxer match style and have random matches to advance in rank. The undefeated teams can all duke it out and we can have an informal ranking system based upon # wins, # losses, # draws, and who you defeat. They can be reset per four month season or something. The undefeated champion can get posted on the wiki and be immortalized or something.