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Re: What should the next tournament be? Vote here!
Posted:
Nov 28, 2006, 4:35 PM
> If you do speed tournaments, my suggestion is to > advertise those well in advance, but don't even open > the signups until perhaps 15 minutes before the > scheduled start time.
I think that is a pretty good idea, since we usually have a number of players who don't show, and you have to be there anyways when it starts. I guess the only downside is that players might not show up because they don't know if anyone else will, I view the list of signed up players as helping get more ppl to sign up.
> As for large tournaments, the reason for the rule > about being established, in general, is to weed out > players brand new to the site who just surfed in for > the day, saw that there was a tournament, signed up > on a whim, and then never return to DSG again. No > Shows ruin tournaments. However, there's always a > chance that someone could play 20 quick games in one > day and become established, then sign up for the > tournament before disappearing... but that would be > less common.
Right, it is to weed out players who won't play, but also to make the seeding work a little better, since provisional ratings are unreliable. I know of course its not perfect but it helps.
> However, for something like Connect6, it's clear that > there may not be very many players with established > status, even amongst the "regulars" on the site, > since it is a new game type. And a tournament may be > just the thing to spur more interest in new game > types.
Agreed that for c6 we could make an exception and maybe just do random seeding.
> You may want to try to implement a system that tracks > whether a player is an "active" player in general > rather than whether they are "established" in a > particular game type. For example, advertise the > tournament in advance and create 3 signup deadlines. > Players must sign up a month in advance to qualify. > Then, players must sign up AGAIN before the > e tournament is 2 weeks away. Then, players sign up > YET AGAIN before the tournament begins. This weeds > out web surfers who have no real interest in DSG but > allows provisional players to sign up. > > I love creating more work for Dweebo... You are insane, no way I'm spending time implementing something like that.
Oh yeah, I vote for C6, I probably will not play if it is Pente or Keryo. And another under 1700 tourney would be good I think.
Re: What should the next tournament be? Vote here!
Posted:
Nov 29, 2006, 12:50 AM
Ok here is what we're lookin at:
Early January, hopefully:
1) I win the Fall 2006 Pente Open. 2) I divebomb to a 1699 rating and sign up for the... 3) Spring 2007 Pente Classic (under 1700 only, Double Elim) commences. 4) Weekly Speed pente tournaments commence.
Around April:
1) I win the Spring 2007 Pente Classic. 2) Summer 2007 Connect6 Cup (Open to all players, Swiss) commences.
Sound good?
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Re: What should the next tournament be? Vote here!
Posted:
Nov 29, 2006, 6:36 AM
:/ don't know about all that winning... I'm guessing it would be too much to ask for a C6 tourney earlier? don't know if I'll be around here next summer, moving and stuff.
One other question: Could we do a turn-based tournament at some point? It would be much easier to schedule games, etc, although it would take forever and probably wouldn't work unless it was made swiss or round-robin and only have one or two rounds. just a thought
Re: What should the next tournament be? Vote here!
Posted:
Nov 29, 2006, 9:09 AM
I'm guessing it would be too much to ask for a C6 tourney earlier? don't know if I'll be around here next summer, moving and stuff.
It depends on how fast we get the other two tournaments done with. I definitely don't want to run 2 tournaments at once. Of course, some one could always step up and volunteer to run one of them :-D.
One other question: Could we do a turn-based tournament at some point? I just looked at the create tournament page, and there is no option to make it turn-based. We'll see.
Message was edited by: karlw at Nov 29, 2006 3:15 AM
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
