Plenty of people have good points in here. There is NO way that PGI is ever going to satisfy everyone, it is just not possible. I have been waiting for a tourney like this since the inception of the game. No one will be able to give up every weekend, or even, 3 nights every week, it is just not possible. What they need to do is use something like the back end of MRBC where we are able to schedule each week as many matches as we can get, as long as we are over the amount of matches we should be by that point we should all be in the green.
There are tools available to get this done, and, I'm not trying to put MRBC on the spot, but I suspect that they would help to some degree with a back end scheduling system or at least info on how to put it together.
this is sheer lunacy and will lead to mass defections in the tournament, maybe not right away, but as soon as someone plays half their games and is sitting at 500 they are gonna just walk, and not come back, further mangling this, I have no desire to make the time to play and not have a team show up three times in a row, and that is what we are gonna have, it will end up being just the hard core teams left, long before the end of the round robin portion, this is supposed to be for everyone, and this is certainly not going to do that.
I do appreciate the effort to even put this on, happy with the money put up, happy with the map and 2,2,2,2 set up, even happy we have 4 months to get through 80+ drops, not happy with being told that I have to give up 3 evenings a week, leave work early on a couple of them, and never do anything but this on a saturday.....just not going to happen.
To me the fix is three fold
1. Use a backend similar to MRBC for scheduling purposes
2. set it up on a two week basis, give us two weeks to play our scheduled matches within that time frame, use the scheduled time as a fail safe if one team or another does not schedule.
3. Allow another 4 players per team, making it a cool 16 players, giving much more flexibility to scheduling concerns.
barring that I dunno.........
Maybe just give us all 4 months to just take care of our own thing, and just get it done, at this point, that actually might work best......
also, if you want teams to finish the tourney, don't post results.....I'm telling you now that some teams will lose 15-20 and just disappear way to soon for this to be entertaining, nothing like an 80 + drop slog while getting thumped to completely destroy some peoples thoughts of ever becomming a comp player. And this last part is just IMHO
Thank you for listening!!
Lp
Edited by lpmagic, 24 May 2016 - 08:46 AM.