OK, I know it would be horribly complicated and involve a lot of work for someone, but we've taken on more insane tasks than this and won before now...
Anyway, wouldn't it be cool to have a player seeding system? I'd love to have my World Player ranking in my sig (even if I was at the bottom of the list=-)
I know there was that tournament Last year (Askan won, didn't he?), and I'm just thinking of extending that premise. Perhaps it could be tied it into PBW somehow. Tournament/ league games could be played and each players' performance tracked and scored. Eventually (after enough playing had gone on to get decent statistics) each participating player would have a "world ranking".
On the plus side...
+It would be cool! Come on, wouldn't you like to be a world seed at something?
+It would encourage ppl to finish their games rather just than abandon/ surrender them.
+The standard of human players would get better and better.
+Massive corporate sponsorship deals and TV rights to the championships could bring some money into the game
On the minus side...
-People might start cheating / taking it all far too seriously (It IS only a game.)
-It would cost someone time and/ or money to organise it. Perhaps a nominal admin charge could be levied on players who wish to be seeded, and that money used provide PBW for free for everyone else.
Anyway, there it is. Anyone approve? Anyone have any idea how to go about it? Anyone prepared to try to organise it?