155 replies to this topic

[Teralitha]

This is not how the best pilots win a tourney, its how the marathoners win tourneys.

PGI you need to make tourney a set number of matches played. Not the "10 best" I suggest 50-100 for a full weekend would suffice for all kinds of players and give much more accurate results for who is really the best pilots.

Any serious competitions only give you 1 chance at winning. Not an endless number of attempts over a 4 day span.

All your other rules are fair, but this one is still pee in the punch bowl. Make it real.

Edited by Teralitha, 19 April 2013 - 07:17 AM.

[Deathlike]

"We're still refining the rules." - Future PGI statement.

[LordDante]

there should be a enter tourney button or something OR simpley sign up and the next 10 matches Count !
( im on the way to testing ground to pull off another 8:0)

[Trickster Jurai]

It's pretty common to do the average of your top X% matches to prevent this sort of gaming of the system.

[shabowie]

100 matches is probably a good sample size.

[Jonathan Paine]

Ok, first we do a bunch of matches to get rid of the chaff (ie. me). Then the top 32 or 16 square off in 1 on 1 matches, knock out style. Streamed:)

[Teralitha]

Jonathan Paine, on 18 April 2013 - 10:35 PM, said:

Ok, first we do a bunch of matches to get rid of the chaff (ie. me). Then the top 32 or 16 square off in 1 on 1 matches, knock out style. Streamed:)

That would be real.

[Bagheera]

I haven't read this one (I can't assaultmech), but the heavy tourney (also flawed) used the lower number of total matches played as a tie breaker? They not doing that this time around?

[Naja]

Jonathan Paine, on 18 April 2013 - 10:35 PM, said:

Ok, first we do a bunch of matches to get rid of the chaff (ie. me). Then the top 32 or 16 square off in 1 on 1 matches, knock out style. Streamed:)

10 bucks says a PPC stalker wins without breaking a sweat. Slow, giant targets will get cored in about 6 seconds

[Teralitha]

Naja, on 18 April 2013 - 10:46 PM, said:

10 bucks says a PPC stalker wins without breaking a sweat. Slow, giant targets will get cored in about 6 seconds

yes but, the score is weighted for damage... your not gonna do much damage if you kill them too quickly.

[Devil Fox]

Personally... I'll probably avoid assault mechs altogether this weekend, then avoid assault gamemode... why because I'm already sick of the poptart cheese that is my elo ranking matches, no tactics, no gameplay, just up and down cheese hill to hill. I suspect we'll see how bad alpha shot builds are and how prevalent they are... so don't be surprised if there are assault only matches coming!

[Roadbuster]

The OP forgot to add "I don't care about tournaments" to the poll.

Edited by Roadbuster, 18 April 2013 - 11:42 PM.

[King Arthur IV]

the Kenyans would be the best in all sports if sport went by those rules.

[Johnny Reb]

Care less! I want mc sales or no more money for PGI!

[MadPanda]

You are suggesting that players need to play 50-100 games during a weekend? That's unrealistic. Last event I thought I no-lifed it and I had about 40 games played. Expecting 50-100 games is cutting out majority of the players, only the basement dwellers will participate. These "tournaments" after all aren't some World Cup of mechwarrior, nobody cares who is the "best", they are about having some fun in a form of competition. Normal people don't play 100 games in a weekend.

[shabowie]

MadPanda, on 19 April 2013 - 12:30 AM, said:

You are suggesting that players need to play 50-100 games during a weekend? That's unrealistic. Last event I thought I no-lifed it and I had about 40 games played. Expecting 50-100 games is cutting out majority of the players, only the basement dwellers will participate. These "tournaments" after all aren't some World Cup of mechwarrior, nobody cares who is the "best", they are about having some fun in a form of competition. Normal people don't play 100 games in a weekend.

Run the competition from the start of one weekend to the end of the next weekend.

[MustrumRidcully]

10 best matches is okay. Getting 10 times lucky isn't that easy.

I would probably make it the best string of 10 subsequent matches, since that would imply some consistency.

[bookwood]

guys, PGI isn't able to fix bugs which are as old as the game is and YOU want them to create a fair tourney? even that it would be nice... desperate intention!

[Ari Dian]

Best 10 out of all is at least better than the first one they did (counting all).

But the best was would be the average from the whole time. So all matches are count.


But what we will see this weeking, are some damage dealer over kill . ripping the armor instead of killing to get out more damage done. A full weight on damage with only 5 points for a kill, means heavy damage without any smart aiming.

You get more points when you deal 1200 damage without any kills instead of 1000 damage with 8 kills, surviving and win.
It will be a really interessting weekend and we might see some strange damage races with insulting why some are killed and still have armor .
Hell, i can already see it. 16 assault standing against each other and fighting for every points of damage dealt. Even teamkills will be possible to "remove" competition...


Calculated max from the matches i saw so far (max damage around 1100) would mean max points of 11,900. i will not be surprissed when we see some with more than 12,000 points this weekend.

I guess i will play light mech, and just try to cap.

[Arete]

Best 10 matches out of a series of 50 would be nice and resonably fair.

Not sure that I like damage done as the prime stat, but what the hell. I'll play some awesomes this weekend :-D