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[Enig]

So I was reading feedback and it struck me that it might be a good idea for a future tournament(s) to better level the playing field between time played and quality of matches by saying:

Over the course of the weekend we will take your X best matches as measured by match score or some other measurement and then match them against the best X matches of everyone else competing.

That way someone who wants to compete in the tournament but has a limited period of time to play can still be in the running to win through quality of effort rather than quantity.

So assume that players can put in about 6-8 matches in an hour on average, and we have three hour sets in an evening, for the tournament most major competitors will have a targeted 12-24 matches according to PGI.

Well instead they could just say 'We'll take the best 20 matches of all competitors for this given evening ending at 12:00am PST'

If anyone understands this brain-dump then could they format the idea in a manner that doesn't look like I just threw up on my keyboard? I'll edit this post with revisions and others' ideas.

Broceratops, on 08 March 2013 - 09:12 AM, said:

what they need to do for it really to be called a tournament (they're calling it a challenge atm) is to actually have a tournament where people beat each other and the last ones left are the winner. the thing they have now would be best described as a race.

and yes taking average over a minimum amount of matches would be better than this.

Edited by Enig, 08 March 2013 - 09:18 AM.

[Broceratops]

what they need to do for it really to be called a tournament (they're calling it a challenge atm) is to actually have a tournament where people beat each other and the last ones left are the winner. the thing they have now would be best described as a race.

and yes taking average over a minimum amount of matches would be better than this.

Edited by Broceratops, 08 March 2013 - 09:12 AM.