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Here is a link to the main page, for rules and details:
http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/tournament/17
The 2013 tournament will look more like the tournament from a couple of years ago. One of the changes this year is that we are going back to a larger number of events (5), and the traditional 2 round playoff. In the playoff, the top 36 managers will play in 3 twelve team leagues. The playoff teams from those 3 leagues will become eligible for the final 12 team league. The champion from that final league becomes the tournament champion, and the other finalist becomes the runner up for the tournament.
I am going "back to the future" in this way - the score for the "round robin" will be the sum of the best 4 scores out of the 5 events. This provides several benefits for the tournament:
-if someone misses event 1 but still wants to join up for event 2, they can do that, and still have a very realistic chance of making the playoffs.
-if someone joins for event 1 but misses one of events 2-5, they aren't completely "sunk".
-if someone enters all 5 events, but just "boots" one of them, they aren't sunk by that either.
-As a side-bar to the above, this will allow me to invoke closure on entering events with a little more of an iron fist. When you have only 4 events and they all count, it's hard to do that, since it effectively eliminates that manager from the tournament. With the best 4 of 5 counting, you still have a realistic shot at making the playoffs even if you miss an event.
-By invoking closure on the time to enter events, we should be able to herd us cats into a more compressed group, with everyone more or less completing each event at pretty much the same time. Many managers said to me that they would prefer it if there wasn't such a time lag for events to be completed. It should be mean needing fewer fillers for events, also. With just a little extra maintenance by strat-o-matic and myself, this should make the leaderboard on the main event page more interesting and meaningful, as well.
I will publish details on event timelines in a separate post. The overall goal is to start the tournament soon, and to keep the events rolling more like clockwork this year.
So - if you're ready to join, sign up below!!!! A simple "I'm in" will work just fine!!!
GBrookes/commissioner
*****UPDATE**** - Please read for more information at the link posted below:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=632993
http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/tournament/17
The 2013 tournament will look more like the tournament from a couple of years ago. One of the changes this year is that we are going back to a larger number of events (5), and the traditional 2 round playoff. In the playoff, the top 36 managers will play in 3 twelve team leagues. The playoff teams from those 3 leagues will become eligible for the final 12 team league. The champion from that final league becomes the tournament champion, and the other finalist becomes the runner up for the tournament.
I am going "back to the future" in this way - the score for the "round robin" will be the sum of the best 4 scores out of the 5 events. This provides several benefits for the tournament:
-if someone misses event 1 but still wants to join up for event 2, they can do that, and still have a very realistic chance of making the playoffs.
-if someone joins for event 1 but misses one of events 2-5, they aren't completely "sunk".
-if someone enters all 5 events, but just "boots" one of them, they aren't sunk by that either.
-As a side-bar to the above, this will allow me to invoke closure on entering events with a little more of an iron fist. When you have only 4 events and they all count, it's hard to do that, since it effectively eliminates that manager from the tournament. With the best 4 of 5 counting, you still have a realistic shot at making the playoffs even if you miss an event.
-By invoking closure on the time to enter events, we should be able to herd us cats into a more compressed group, with everyone more or less completing each event at pretty much the same time. Many managers said to me that they would prefer it if there wasn't such a time lag for events to be completed. It should be mean needing fewer fillers for events, also. With just a little extra maintenance by strat-o-matic and myself, this should make the leaderboard on the main event page more interesting and meaningful, as well.
I will publish details on event timelines in a separate post. The overall goal is to start the tournament soon, and to keep the events rolling more like clockwork this year.
So - if you're ready to join, sign up below!!!! A simple "I'm in" will work just fine!!!
GBrookes/commissioner
*****UPDATE**** - Please read for more information at the link posted below:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=632993
Last edited by gbrookes on Sun Jun 09, 2013 1:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.