Profile of AmiPolizeiFunk

Oh please, Ami. If you cared about players "fatigue" or their "easy route," you wouldn't do things like invite players to skip an entire qualifier weekend and go straight to main event in OCF (where they have to just win just a few games to earn some money). This style hardly seems fair to me. And as we saw with Jesulin (whose performance isn't what it once was), these invited players are not guaranteed to make it to the finals.

I do indeed care about player fatigue. When we established the rules and format for OCF, there was no way we could ever guess that we would have 596 players signed-up and 276 players checked in and playing on the day. In hindsight, we should have made one more of the rounds a Best-of-1, but we resisted doing that because we know how much players dislike Best-of-1's. I'm sorry that the Open Qualifier went late, but we took all comers, and we're very proud of that.

As for the seeds, I don't know whose side you are arguing when you bring up Jesulin. He showed that his privileged "invite" spot actually meant nothing, as he finished out of the money. DevM proved that a player from the open Quali could win it all. The double-elim format insured that the Main Event pitted the best two players in the finals, and they put on a helluva show.

I'll mention it to him that you think so

The points that I am making will become painfully clear this Sunday if we have a randomly seeded single-elim tourney. Some brackets will be much harder than others. Those brackets will have long and difficult games that will fatigue the winners, while other brackets will give an isolated top player an easy route through. The players in easy brackets will have a strong advantage in the later rounds playing against players that have struggled through the difficult brackets. You don't need to do a bunch of math to figure out the chance of this happening. It simply will happen, and you'll see what I mean this Sunday.

I'll immediately be able to tell you the tough brackets compared to the easy ones and show you how that is not fair to the players that got stuck in the tough brackets. If there are only 4 tourneys per month before the reset, then the effect will happen over and over again. Arguing in favor of a randomly seeded single-elim just boggles my mind.

If you want fairness and no seeding, then run Swiss or at least double-elim, where the tournament format itself accounts for the lack of seeds, and ensures that the best players fight one another at the end of the day.

This doesn't make any sense to me. So you are choosing to risk the chance of HelpingHans vs. Jove in Round 1 (which imo would completely ruin the entire tourney, and as a fan, I wouldn't want to watch it after that happens), to also have the chance of two new players fighting each other in Round 1 instead of fighting a top seed? And the reason is that you feel this may discourage new players? I think you're putting the integrity of the whole event at risk just to cater to new players. And it's not like new players are really gaining anything, it's just totally random.

If I was a new player, I wouldn't want that. Everybody here simply assumed that the point of a no-prize Swiss system kick-off cup (which is an excellent format for new players) was to get the seeds for the actual Single-elim prize events.

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