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

[Belac]

Originally Posted by Micah

WRT the uneven bracket size, maybe you could assign first round byes to people, either based on HoF win status or just randomly or to the last people that sign up instead of excluding people?

Better to have an even number of people, and assign second-round byes based on impressiveness of victory (speed, thoroughness, etc) in the first round.

[WraithLord]

If there would be a future tourney like this I suggest to make the pairing randomly and not according to order of sign up. For starters this is more interesting and secondly this will prevent possible misuse of the current pairing system (for example, no sane player signs up after Micah expresses interest )

[chrispedersen]

LOL.. In the intersts of protecting the sanity of players, AND to have micah have to wait until there asre 63 players to sign up, I'll offer to switch places with whoever gets micah in the draw.

[Micah]

Ha, given this pairing scheme you really think I'd sign up in an odd slot and have a mystery pairing instead of poaching a noob so I could get a better shot at scoring a viable nation before I run into a good player? =)

[WraithLord]

Originally Posted by Micah

Ha, given this pairing scheme you really think I'd sign up in an odd slot and have a mystery pairing instead of poaching a noob ...

I could make that ultimate sacrifice for you and allow you to switch places with me vs. Baalz

[Squirrelloid]

The advantage of swiss-style is we'd only need an even number, not powers of 2. After say 3 preliminary rounds we could run a top 16 elimination bracket or somesuch.

[Micah]

Which has about a 25% chance of being a good game and a 75% chance of being a nation mismatch, which is why I'm not so enthused about this format and hence haven't signed up.

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by Micah

Ha, given this pairing scheme you really think I'd sign up in an odd slot and have a mystery pairing instead of poaching a noob so I could get a better shot at scoring a viable nation before I run into a good player? =)

Why damn Micah
I thought as the preeminent Dominons player you'd be above such petty concerns as... placement.

[Micah]

As I said in my other post, I don't fancy being stuck into a match where the nation selection determines the outcome if the players are anywhere on par, and with purely random selection I think that will describe a lot of matchups.

I'd much rather play a duel format where one player chose two nations and the other player picked which one they'd prefer to play, or some other method that provided a relatively level playing field.

[chrispedersen]

Yeah, thats what I said. Its the standard reverse auction.

I pick two nations - you pick which one you want to play.
You pick two maps, I pick which one.