[R] Planning a $5/10/15 buy-in tourney poll+advice - Page 5

BR3AKR

United States46 Posts

December 17 2010 17:50 GMT

#81

I really believe in this and hope that it's just the beginning. I read the guy's post you used for inspiration and agree with a lot of his points. I will not be participating in this tournament as since it's the first of this type and will end up with a larger prize pool than most other tournaments some of the pro's play in it's going to attract a lot of really skilled attention

. I WOULD however be interested to know if you're going to try and get some casters because I would love to watch this thing (even if the first time will be rather bumpy).

Also, if you could use any help organizing I'd be - even excited - to give assistance. Please feel free to PM me here, or message me on Bnet (BREAKR.310).

Best of luck to ya!

pampelmus

Switzerland215 Posts

December 17 2010 18:50 GMT

#82

But that's why the top half get prizes, (Does anyone read the OP?) So even if you only get top %50 you break even, from there win again and you made some money, etc, etc, etc.

Yeah, but if I think that I am worse than 50% of the player, I won't sign up. I read the OP. The problem is, there is no luck factor. If I play SnG's, I will win occasionally, even if I am worse than 50% of the players.

Also If i were to divide it up into leagues, I would have to check everyones profile, it would be closed to lower players who wished to support this work or just try their hand in a tourney, on top of which with a tiered prize system (price wise) if I get to many lower tiered players joining and only one or two higher priced buy ins, if the higher priced buy in wins (which he is more likely too) I could very easily go broke from the prize pool being too small to allow his first place finish. And in chess they do have open tournaments all the time. I was actually thinking of later on doing more tournaments that are more money and only open to the top 200 or a semis or greater finish in one of my opens, thus drawing them away from the opens allowing more players to have a reasonable chance at winning. However to establish myself I need to host a few opens first.

Could be done automatically? Site like sc2ranks.com get the data from bnet, this is doable. But for sure, if it's not coded, it's a lot of work for you, so it's maybe something for the future...

Also I really love the swiss tournament structure, and I can't figure out why it isn't used more often.

Agreed

MechaCthulhu

United States136 Posts

December 18 2010 00:05 GMT

#83

One problem with Swiss in Magic: the Gathering tournaments is that the system is very open to collusion if intentional draws are allowed. For example, if you're guaranteed to be in the Ro8 (Top 8 in Magic tournaments) or whatever, regardless of if you get a win or a loss, and I can be in the Ro8 with a win or a tie, I can promise you the same favor in the future if we intentionally draw now. Or you could just choose to draw because we're teammates, or friends, etc.

I would hope any tournaments for SC2 don't allow for intentional drawing (through a draw is technically possible*), so that shouldn't a big issue.

Of course, the format is still open to less obvious collusion, such as throwing the game, etc. but you can't do away with that no matter what. A single elimination (or double elimination, even) tournament makes it much harder to collude in that way (especially a single elimination), since a loss is very detrimental to your ability to continue on in the tournament.

*I believe there was a replay Day[9] did on one of his Daily's that came down to the whole map being mined out, a Terran having floating buildings in areas not reachable on land, and the Zerg only having Queens and maybe Ultralisks.

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

December 18 2010 00:11 GMT

#84

I submitted a tournament request and it took them 8 weeks to respond. Good luck.

red_hq

Canada450 Posts

January 11 2011 02:03 GMT

#85

Good news everyone, I have gotten liscencing from Blizzard!
Meaning I am hosting a $5 Buy-in!
So if you support the idea of SC2 buy-ins show your support, and show how viable it is by signing up here:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=182313

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