Mega-Dueling Tournament - Rules, Settings, Check List, and Sign Ups

[Zeldor]

Hmm... why do you want to go with different nations anyway? It'd be more fair to use same nation. X vs X, ex. Ashdod vs Ashdod. Nation for each round could be random. It's quite easy to clone nation with a mod afaik.

Also - why eliminate defeated players? Let's do it like in normal tournaments in other games [I think MtG uses that] - first round can be random. Next round people with 1 victory play against random opponent with 1 victory, those with 0 play against 0. Repeat every round, winner is the one with highest score at the end. You can always use that as preliminary sorting [3-4 rounds?] and play elimination ladder later to determine winner.

[WraithLord]

AoE, when will we know our final nation assignment?- Would it be private or public knowledge (until first round at least)?

And hey, why only Baalz, Lingchih and me get mentioned? What about MB, Psycho, WingedDog and chridpedersen?- Should be some hype to go along with these names as well

AoE, do you think it would be interesting to make a vote on who ppl think be the winners and at the end compare it to real results?- It will also help hype the tourney.

[WraithLord]

Originally Posted by Zeldor

Hmm... why do you want to go with different nations anyway? It'd be more fair to use same nation. X vs X, ex. Ashdod vs Ashdod. Nation for each round could be random. It's quite easy to clone nation with a mod afaik.

It's more fair? but is it more fun?- Is it more interesting?

Currently, This is kinda like the free all style fights, you know, like UFC and MMA. It helps answer not whose the best player neto but who is most deadly when wielding nation X. There's close corelation between the two but they're not neccerily the same answer.

[Squirrelloid]

Originally Posted by WraithLord

AoE, when will we know our final nation assignment?- Would it be private or public knowledge (until first round at least)?

And hey, why only Baalz, Lingchih and me get mentioned? What about MB, Psycho, WingedDog and chridpedersen?- Should be some hype to go along with these names as well

I did say the upper bracket was rougher, and that list of names mostly explains why i thought that.

If people were really that interested I could post my predictions for all round outcomes based on current arrangement, and my estimated likelihood of the predicted result.

[Aethyr]

Ha! Squirrelloid's odds eh?

[Trumanator]

Can you act as a bookie too?

[Meglobob]

Zeldor everyone having the same nations would be completely fair but extremely boring.

The round robin? I think its called, tourney type would be good but of course it adds alot of complication for AreaofEffect which I think he is trying to avoid. Probably the reason something like this never been done before is because its very complicated to organise all the way from start to finish.

How about, seeing its a knockout tournement calling it Dominions, the World Championship or Cup? Inspired by the football world cup to be played in South Africa this year and which as a similar format.

[Apsophos]

It's not round robin, it's the Swiss system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_system

It has the same amount of rounds as a knock-out tournament, can have any number of players (not just powers of two) but requires more bookkeeping.
I would prefer not eliminating losers but I'll play anyway.

[Ink]

I don't see your system for setting-up pairing beyond the first round. Do you plan to collapse the list of remaining players after each round (keeping the relative ordering) and then simply matching up just like you do now? (1 vs 2, 3 vs 4, etc).

Also, may I suggest Challonge for generating the bracket. It can also randomize seeds, so we don't have the sign-up order issue some are complaining about (frequent players tend to be frequent posters and were the first to sign up, making the bracket top-heavy, talent-wise.)

[Lingchih]

Snapz Pro X is a great movie screen cap app, if you are on a Mac.

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/

The free demo even works quite nicely.