Winter World Cup WINNER - poweewee (Philippines)

[GreatGonzales]

(01-31-2013 04:38 AM)awpertunity Wrote:  Well it seems that general consensus (consensus of 4 people anyway) would prefer top 2 of each group to advance, which I understand and I definitely wanted originally. As GG pointed out the reason I didn't do option 2 in the end is exactly what he said there.

A big motivator for everything I decided in the end was the issue of time, we wanted this tournament done by late May. I'll see if I can think of a good way to incorporate top 2 of each group though... What I'm scared of with the 32-person bracket is really the time issue. When it gets to that point the games take a lot longer for two reasons. Firstly because the games are a lot tougher, but also secondly the games are worth a lot more, so people take more time to make their moves. Consider the Super-Duper-Titan Tournament, this was a 16 person tournament that started God knows when and it's still in its second round. This cannot happen with this tournament.

I think the main problem with the Super-Duper-Titan tournament was that it was an invite-only. And invariably, people got invited who weren't really "tournament people". Also, there were no time restrictions in that tournament, which you could apply here.

The more I think about it, the more I think option 3 is the way to go. Yes it will be a longer tournament, for two reasons: 1. Twice as many pools, and 2. An extra round in the elimination bracket. But what you gain from this change, I think, outweighs that cost; namely the added inclusiveness and therefore legitimacy for this important tournament.

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Another option might be to analyse every replay from the first round of pools to extract the number of turns for every player, and use that data to inform seeding into a direct elimination bracket, therefore skipping the second round of pools altogether. But that might be crazy talk.