Any interest in a new SEIV tournament?

[geoschmo]

I was thinking about setting up a new tournament. It would be a straight forward single elim, head to head bracket with random seeding. Games would be small KOTH style battles. If the players can agree to non-default settings that would be fine, except for the quadrant size. I'd want to keep those smallish so the games don't take for ever. Can we get 8 players? I don't guess we could get 16 probably. Anyone interested?

[Parasite]

I would go for it. Would they be rated games? Please?

[Renegade 13]

How would this be different from KOTH? But in either case, I'm interested http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[kerensky]

I'd like to try it out. Never played gainst another human before though...

[geoschmo]

I'd have no problem with them being rated for players who are part of the SEIV ratings. I'd hate to disuade someone from playing though by insisting that all the games be rated games.

The individual games would be very much like KOTH games, but KOTH is an ongoing league. When you lose you go to the bottom of the hill, and if you win and make it to the top of the hill you have to defend your title from the next guy to come along. Players come and go but KOTH never ends.

This tournament would be a finite event. You lose and you're out. You win all your games and at the end you are the tournament winner.

[Ragnarok-X]

Say you dont want the games to take much time...how do we achieve that ? Simply by playing a very small galaxy with only a bunch of systems ?

[Fyron]

Half the size of small stock quadrant makes for a fast-paced game.

[geoschmo]

Yes. Of course the time the games take will still be determined by how fast the players play, and there isn't a lot I can do about that. But all things being equal, a game played in a quadrant with 25 systems goes much faster than one with 125.

[Alneyan]

On an aside, I doubt the games can be rated, since the Ratings have closed down this summer. I suppose you could always take the last rankings and update them with the results of this tourney, though.

[geoschmo]

Oh, I wasn't aware Slynky shut the ratings site down. I hadn't visited it in a while. I guess that eliminates that problem. No ratings then. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[Alneyan]

Technically, he didn't snut down the site: he didn't renew the subscription instead, letting the Ratings die off. Slynky posted a message in the Ratings thread to this effect, after Fyron had brought up the topic.

[Slynky]

geoschmo said:
Oh, I wasn't aware Slynky shut the ratings site down. I hadn't visited it in a while.

And that pretty much sums of the decision to save the money on site renewal. It's taking months for people to notice. I guess between being burned out on SE4 and waiting on SE5, interest dropped. Kind of like KotH did.

I'd be interested in playing. As far as the ratings go, if there are any of those players who opt for this tourney, perhaps rankings could be used as a seed (with unrated being placed underneath).

Otherwise, how would you stack...purely random draw?

[geoschmo]

Random draw was my intent for the pairings.

[Atrocities]

We don't even know if the last one is over with?

[geoschmo]

Which last one are you refering to AT?

[Slynky]

geoschmo said:
Which last one are you refering to AT?

Might be the great ratings bash one. Maybe http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Renegade 13]

Perhaps the race to SEV tournament?

[geoschmo]

Didn't we finish the ratings bash a couple years ago? There was one tourney that kind of withered out. I don't think it was the ratings bash though. It's been so long I can't remember.

I thought he might be asking about the "Race to SE5". That was the last big tourney. Tesco was running that one, but I think it's about wrapped up. In the final game or something if I'm not mistaken.

The last Survivor also ended a few months back. That one finished up with the last two players agreeing to a draw and co-survivorship if I recall correctly.

[Slynky]

And there was one where I made it to the second round but I don't think the round ever took place. SJ was in that one, too. And Samuari Programmer, I think.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Havn't seen SP for a while.

[geoschmo]

Slynky said:
And there was one where I made it to the second round but I don't think the round ever took place. SJ was in that one, too. And Samuari Programmer, I think.

I think that's the same one I was thinking about. That was the one called 2003 PBW tourney or something like that. Had a bunch of first round 4 player games and intended to have a second round head to head bracket or something. But one or two of the first round games took so long to finish a lot of people just drifted off so I scrapped it.

[Slynky]

Off to Ohio. IF the tourney gets set up, please get me entered. I'll be back Saturday night.