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

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[WraithLord]

Originally Posted by 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.

I second that suggestion. This way AoE won't really need to administer the nation assignments, so long as each pair of duelers can thus make it's choice of nations and report it back to AoE.

[Alpine Joe]

I agree with wraithlord and Micah. Lets avoid any possibility of unfair matchups.