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And chance that some of these matches (good player against good player in fisrt round is)

will be really big.

if im not wrong with my math (whitch im not going to describe here , it will took some place , if somebody will want that math then tell me i can tell you my thoughts , and you can correct me if im wrong.)

The chance is horrible 51,56027 % cca

And that is more than a lot

Hmm, show me the math then! How do you reason through to that answer?

So you'd rather the top players knock each other out in early round Best-of-1's instead of in the late rounds?

The chances of that would be: The bracket in question/Number of brackets in a round, aka if the tournament has 100 players, then the chance of that happening, in the first round, is: 1/50 = 2 percent. It is 4 percent for the second round and so forth. Sooner or later, the "best" players will meet. But, it is random, and should it happen then I am fine with it.

Not that I am against seeding, Ami. But the scenario you describe has a low chance of happening. I presume the monthly cups will have seeding to avoid such scenarios though.

You'd rather see top players crush new players in the late round Best-of-3s?

Assuming it happens, then yes. The system is random and thus fair to them. It is a tournament and they should expect to lose if they are new at the game, at some point. The seeding would not change that; a new player could still make it up there and get crushed.

I can't stress enough how important seeding is for single-elimination events. I guess if you think "random seeding is ok," then we will see the results of this approach first hand.

You are talking about the worst cause scenarios, they may happen, or they may not. The results should be random as x approaches infinity. Where x is the number of tournaments. Sorry to get all Mathematical about it. And by "random" I mean that the best players will rise to the top, most of the time.

There's even more to it than that. It's about fairness. Say the randomizer puts DevM in the top half of the bracket, and puts Aimstrong, Jove, Luvnest, Jesulin, PauL & HelpingHans in the bottom half of the bracket. The latter bunch tire each other out struggling through insanely difficult early rounds, while DevM cruises through his entire bracket without even breaking a sweat. Then DevM meets say an extremely tired and exhausted Luvnest in the finals and utterly destroys him. Do you wanna see that? I don't.

Hold on, let me calculate the chance of that, using the previous 100 players.

I am not sure if my math is rock solid here, but since the system is random:

• There are 100 spots.
  
• A player is equally likely to be selected to any of them due to the random selection.
  
• The chance of any particular spot to be chosen is 1 percent, 1/100.
  
• The chance for every spot after that choice is 1/(100-n), where n is the number of spots taken.
  
• Thus, for Ami's scenario, the chance is: 1/100 × 1/99 × 1/98 × 1/97 × 1/96 × 1/95 × 1/94 = 0.0000000000000124
  

Also known as a 0.00000000000124 percent chance. In common speak: Ridiculously small. But as I said: My math may not be rock solid here. Statistics is not my field.

Anyway, sorry again, Ami. If that were to happen then the players can be given a break of half an hour to an hour, so that they may rest and recover. You know, get some food and water, lay down on the couch for a little while, gather their thoughts, and/or formulate a plan or strategy.

A rank 800 usf beating a rank 70 Ostheer.
What was the probability of that ? Less than 0.1%

Psst: I actually don't play a lot of 1v1 Automatch, been like 2 months since I last played. But somehow, the ranks refuse to hide.

Just a little fun game against Hector. I'm afraid he failed to size me up, and he went a rather interesting strategy.

Say what? What you're saying doesn't make any sense and suggests something that the game can't even do, as far as I know. So with a password, there will be no delay (it's an online event so casters can't use this because players could cheat), and without a password, there will be a 15m delay? As far as I know, COH2 can't even do that. You set one delay... it can't have two different delays.

The game can do that, Ami. The battle servers stores the replay for the match as it is being played. If it has a delay, then the servers will wait x number of minutes before sending any information to an observer. You can think of it as subtracting x from the game time. When a password is specified for the observer mode, the servers store this password. If anyone has the password and types it in for the observer mode, then they get to observer the game with an x of 0. In other words: in almost real time.