On January 16 2012 17:31 LaLuSh wrote:Nooooo, not another tournament that thinks it has hot enough prizes to have players show up on ~12ish different occasions during a 2 month period.
If I realized this when signing up I would have boycotted this tournament on principle.
Didn't you learn anything from the GeForce tournament, which might I add, had about 5x to 10x of your total prizes (and still people didn't show up). Look at
the post I wrote before the GeForce tournament had even started for proof of my disdain of tournament organizers who think organizing these type of prolonged tournaments online is a good idea.
There are more posts from me in that thread, but I can't be bothered digging them up. The most important of which, is me complaining about something that is very common among tournament organizers who schedule games on a million different dates:
Outsourcing the rescheduling process and inter-player contact to THE PLAYERS.
Show nested quote +Plantronics mail: The times listed on the tournament bracket are the DEFAULT times that your match should be played. However, we understand that there are a number of time-zones in the European region, and one particular match time may not be good for everyone. We encourage you to please contact your opponent to schedule your match at a time that works for both players. In the event you and your opponent agree to play at a different match time other than the one listed on the bracket, you will need to open a support ticket to let an administrator know. You have until 4 hours before the next round's match-up to play your match. Failure to adhere to these rules may result in a double forfeit! Please remember to keep an event administrator in the loop as to when your match will be played if other than the default match time listed on the tournament bracket.
To pull off a tournament of scale successfully with these kind of rules requires a world class admin team. With increasing prize pool, comes increasing incentives of reporting opponents absent and requesting undue walk overs (how does one as an admin know who's telling the truth?); increased conflict over scheduling and the (un)availability of opponents. Let's hope your tournament isn't big enough for this to occur. With decreased prize pool, comes the increased likelihood of no shows. Often times both players from a series will be absent, leaving extra work and confusion for admins. But I liked that you've got a roule for a "double forfeit". Because you'll probably need to use it a lot.
Good luck with your tour. Hasn't been one instance in the history of history thus far where a tournament with a million scheduled dates -- and with rules outsourcing scheduling and walk over reports to players -- has been successful. But I hope yours will defy nature and be the first one.
I've coined a law that describes how these types of tournaments usually play out:
Goody's law: As online tournaments grow more prolonged, the probability of Goody being the only top player to show up on all scheduled dates approaches 1. 
EPT
