MArcomage

We should have a tournament. I would moderate it.

1v1 - Best out of 3 games (2 wins) - Single Elimination
You submit to me a deck with a list of 5 cards as your side board which can be substituted between games.

You play the games against the opponent I select (based on a bracket) and message me with the replays. We do it in rounds (each round must be completed within a certain time frame - 3 days?).

If you're caught using cards that are not in the deck or sideboard you submitted, your opponent automatically wins the round.

Would anyone be interested in this?

I'm not sure people would want to submit to all these deck-setting (and revealing) regulations.

Maybe not, but it would unfair for a person to switch out decks for each game.

Unfair to whom? If a player with an Undead deck has the misfortune of going up against a Holy deck (or any other similarly unfortunate pairing), is it better to have that person be steamrolled in the next match as well than to let both players choose any deck each time? If the result is going to be the same by design, why not just have it be one match rather than best of three?

I think it would be more interesting if each player had to use a different deck for each of the (potentially) three matches than to require that they reuse the same.

And I don't think having a sideboard makes it any better. It just complicates things since it's not an inherent part of the site.

These are just my personal opinions, though. Never been much of one for tournaments, myself. The last one took months to conclude. Could be that these conditions actually would appeal to everyone else.

I think it would be better if players were allowed to pick 3 DIFFERENT decks and they could use one once, then at the next game they should use another one. The decks should stay hidden until the tournament is over.

And yes i'd be quite interested in this :)

Although, as DPsycho mentioned, the last tournament lasted too long. Maybe we could all agree on a specific date and specific times for the matches and not stop until they are over (takes about 20 mins to finish a match this way, if we are constantly playing)

It would be even more interesting if we split up in teams. Like 3 player could consist a team and they could play in a tournament against a team of another 3 players. Then we would have a best-out-of-three best out of three tournament.

I would definitely be interested :)

I'd say just let people play whatever decks they choose, period. If they want to play the same deck for all three games, let them.

Any restrictions on decks aren't going to be enforceable.

What I want to say about this, aside that just picking a deck is just fine, is summerized in one word:
Timezones

Simple rules (I'm very interested btw):
-You choose whatever deck you want (you don't know what deck your opponent chooses anyways)
-Post win-stats+replay in a thread designated for this. Honor-system for not checking others replays to see what deck they're using. (Or if we doubt people have honor, we just write down win-stats)

Game-system:
-We take total players, divide into groups of 4. e.g. 20 players = 5 groups.
-Everyone posts "optimal game-time" (incl timezone), and groups are decided for optimal speed (coinciding game-time). So if someone in France plays 1 in the morning, they're paired with a New Yorker who plays at 7 in the evening.
-Everyone in the group faces off one match against eachother, and the 2 with most wins proceed (tiebreakers = 1 match).
-Once the groups have finished, we set up a bracket, best of 3 (2 wins) proceeds.
-Final = 3 games with different decks each game.

Whatcha say?

What if you have a player number not divisible by 4?

I probably play mostly in the evening around 20-22 in GMT+1
Note: DST makes me setup my timezone on this site to GMT+2.

Progressor wrote:
What if you have a player number not divisible by 4?

Don't be silly, ofc it's gonna be divisible by 4 *rolleyes*

No matter what system we choose, there's always going to be the problem of "what if it's not divisible by X". Unless we cap it at divisible by 4, so e g 23 = 20, and we remove the 3 with lowest score or whtvr. Otherwise we could solve with 3 5-ppl groups etc, it's a problem we'll solve when we reach it :P

There's a lot of things we could do if it's not divisable by 4. For example, we could use a lottery system, to choose 20 players out of 23 who apply. The 3 players excluded from the first tournament would definetely play in the next one if they want to, but the rest of the next tournament will be filled using a lottery system again.

We could also try playing in championship groups. 23 players could form 2 groups, one with 11 people and another with 12. The first 8 from each group can pass to the next phase. Or we could make more groups with fewer participants (more rigorous choosing of players for the next phase).

Another solution would be to announce that participants should declare their participation on a certain date. If we don't gather enough players, we extend the participation date to the next day and the first ones to sign in the tournament and fill the participant's numbers to a number divisable by 4 will be taken in.

Or you just toss in a bye. The person randomly assigned the bye in the first round moves up to the second round without having had to play a match. While unfair, it's preferable to excluding people, a solution that's also less than fair.

Even more fair would be if lowest ranking players played with each other in a knockout round (single game) before groups.
So if we had 23 players and groups of 4, 6 lowest ranking players would play for 3 positions.

Based on the rankings to decide players' qualifications is kinda unfair. Not everyone s just playing for a W each game.

Making some groups 5 somehow is a hel of a lot friendlier then excluding people, based on something like rank or whatever. (especially since rank primarily is: how much do you play)

Frankly, I agree with Dpsycho

What about this: We set a date, and people can sign up. When we reach that date, we see how it looks, and find a solution ;)

Sign ups are to be done from now until Monday, August 9th, at midnight Eastern Standard Time. Send me a message privately and I will place you on the list. We'll take it from there.

Why privately?