2001 Players Tourney

[SlowwHand]

What happened to Wonderdog? Disappeared?

[Alexander's Horse]

F*ck I'm good - just ask me

[SIZE=1]

The best players right now are

Nappy,
arii,
mark e,
me

How modest.

[markusf]

Look if it isn't UBER chicken horse

I came second in the tourny last year, so i have more then enough credability. Also i have played nearly everyone so i know thier weaknesses and strengths. Top tier players can make the best out of any situation no matter how bad...

[Alexander's Horse]

Tis better to have others sing your praises

Don't you think so?

[Berzerker]

May I suggest we (Cavebear ) have a tournament open to everyone? Perhaps MarkG can announce the tourney in one of those sticky threads to be placed in every forum so Apolytoners will see it. People can be given 2 weeks to confirm their desire to participate.

Btw, I see Markus has discovered Mark E

[Species8472]

Just a view tips

We have all seen a lot of attempts for making tournaments, its very hard. So lets look back on it and see what went wrong.

1. communication
2. no show ups
3. scheduling
4. continues

Players are chosen based upon skill. This is for itself an admirable start point to shorten the number of games that have to be played. However: i think for every tournament, everybody has to sign up. If you do not signup and consider the player in the tournament because he is good, the chance is big he will never show. Better have a tournament with newbies where games are played, then an inactive tournament with the best players.

If you really want to seperate the better from the worse, you can make pouls with stronger and weaker in the same poul after the signup. that way the good players end up in the finals.

MP games: if you want MP games in the tournament, make them PG games. continues will never happen. So let us say a 4 hour powergraph decission.

Duels: 1x1x games, preferably Deity. This will eliminate most of the luck. If you want 2x2x games, do a best of 3, and customize 5 billion years, so the land is harder accessable.


Organizing:

1. A sign up system. everyone should sign up before a certain date.

2. Set a date on which all first round games are played and have 1 or 2 tournament leaders around. Preferably in a chat room, where everyone should report their games. I always found the way that gameleague organized tournaments perfect. In a chat room, there was decided who plays against whom. After the time is up, next round is done.

This system has its merrits and its wrongs. The merrits are: games are played and the results are derived and processed fast. the disadvantage is, that not everyone can play on this day, so maybe the quality of the competition goes down a little.


Extracting to the points that can go wrong:

1. a bad communication: can be avoided by a sign up system and a homepage where the first rounds are posted. with the signup, ICQ is a MUST. The date of the first round is posted on this website, and all players need to go to 1 chat room at the start. In this chat room, 1 or 2 tournament leaders are avaiable.

2. no shop ups: can be partly avoided with a signup system. also after signup, members can be send a reminder via ICQ or email. If they do not show up then, they are disqualified, no rescheduling, to prevent the tournament from crashing.

3. Scheduling: Scheduling should not be done by the players themselfs, that hardly ever works. Make rounds and set a date/ time and place for these rounds.

4. Continues: they should not take place. continue dates will destroy your tournament. If a game does not end within a certain time, powergraph it.



Conclusion:

Ofcourse we want a tournament with only the best, and games that can be played on the time that suits you best, and play untill someone surrenders. However, in a tournament where the games of maybe 20 players must be coordinated, this is practically impossible. To secure the tournament outcome, games must be set on a strict time and place, where communication lines are small (chat) rather then long (email or schedules). Also the games should have a time limit to avoid saving/ continues.

A combination of powergraph/ time limit games in rounds that can be on different days would be the most flexible system as it can get and still save for getting an outcome. All dates of the rounds should be posted from the start of the tournament though

[Rasputin]

Only 4 hours of play for a MP game,,, No way, if thats the standard set then you may as well paly SP. Civ 2 MP needs time to develop, The Powergraph is not a true indication of how game will end up , especially not after 4 hours, you will simply encourage Quick Pop growth which is a big part of thePG.. No need to develop a civ becuase that only comes into effect later i ngame

[SlowwHand]

I'm not into power graph games.

[SmartFart]

If you guys continue to discuss about 'what if...' and 'yes,but...' we shall never even start.
In my expirience,most MP games end in 2nd or 3rd session and that's not too hard to schedule.

I suggest that everyone interested just do a signup and wait for Cavebear to do the rest

I will gladly participate.

SF

[Deity Dude]

I'd like to see a tournament open to everybody as opposed to 10 or 15 people nominating each other. I think there should be a small entry fee - maybe $10 - this would seperate the serious players from the rest and also add a little motiviation to show up and continue when you are suppoesed to. You miss a time you forfiet your fee. In addition, the winner would get a few bucks and he/she could truly call themselves a professional civer.

PS I don't think powergraph games are indicative of who would eventually win - but they are a good indicator of who wins the race to the Pyramids.

[Species8472]

These were just suggestions, nothing more, nothing less. if you do it any other way, the tournament will not end or take 5 months again, its your choice.

For your information Slowwhand, i have no idea what the preferences are fo the players, i really dont care. i do not play in this ladder, i merely support it.

And why not let gameleague organize such a tournament? Gameleague is the ladder supported by apolyton. they have lots of experience with this, and im sure they could use the attention.


by the way slowwhand, what is your problem? why do you have to put everything i say into a negative sense? are you paranoid or just autistic?

[SlowwHand]

If a tree falls at League, and only the League Officials are there, does the tree falling still make a sound?

I'm a paranoid autistic. Thanks for noticing.

[cavebear]

Re: Just a view tips

Originally posted by Species8472
We have all seen a lot of attempts for making tournaments, its very hard. So lets look back on it and see what went wrong.

1. communication
2. no show ups
3. scheduling
4. continues

Thank you for the detailed thoughts on the tourney. I do appreciate it, and I read each of them with care.

Players are chosen based upon skill. This is for itself an admirable start point to shorten the number of games that have to be played. However: i think for every tournament, everybody has to sign up. If you do not signup and consider the player in the tournament because he is good, the chance is big he will never show. Better have a tournament with newbies where games are played, then an inactive tournament with the best players.

I should have been more thorough on the tourney name, but I thought most everyone remembered the one from last year. While League tourneys are designed to be completed in a weekend or so, mine is designed more to really get players a chance to match their skills against each other as in regular games. It is my experience that the top players won't generally play in an "open" tourney. The participants are individually confirmed before the list is finalized.

If you really want to seperate the better from the worse, you can make pouls with stronger and weaker in the same poul after the signup. that way the good players end up in the finals.

Actually, this is the "Nominated Players Tourney, 2001". The whole point is to start with the best players, as identified by other players. Apolyton runs some tourneys for everyone.

MP games: if you want MP games in the tournament, make them PG games. continues will never happen. So let us say a 4 hour powergraph decission.

Duels: 1x1x games, preferably Deity. This will eliminate most of the luck. If you want 2x2x games, do a best of 3, and customize 5 billion years, so the land is harder accessable.

MP games do continue, with some occasional help by the tourney director (me). PG games are faster, but not the best way to determine real winners. Some players are just simply deadly in the end game and it is the final outcome that counts.

Organizing:

1. A sign up system. everyone should sign up before a certain date.

No rush. Settling the list may take a couple of weeks, but I have time. And some of the top players do not read the threads all that often. It takes a while for word to spread.

2. Set a date on which all first round games are played and have 1 or 2 tournament leaders around. Preferably in a chat room, where everyone should report their games. I always found the way that gameleague organized tournaments perfect. In a chat room, there was decided who plays against whom. After the time is up, next round is done.

One secret of the success of last year's tourney was to be flexible about schedules. As far as pairings, I will handle that. As a tourney director, I am an enlightened tyrant, not a secretary. It works well that way.

This system has its merrits and its wrongs. The merrits are: games are played and the results are derived and processed fast. the disadvantage is, that not everyone can play on this day, so maybe the quality of the competition goes down a little.

The quality of competition is the entire point of this exercise, so I will stay flexible on the game dates/times.

Extracting to the points that can go wrong:

1. a bad communication: can be avoided by a sign up system and a homepage where the first rounds are posted. with the signup, ICQ is a MUST. The date of the first round is posted on this website, and all players need to go to 1 chat room at the start. In this chat room, 1 or 2 tournament leaders are avaiable.

With individual participant confirmation, signup is not needed. Limiting participation to a set starting time and day limits the participation.

2. no shop ups: can be partly avoided with a signup system. also after signup, members can be send a reminder via ICQ or email. If they do not show up then, they are disqualified, no rescheduling, to prevent the tournament from crashing.

I go to great lengths to accomodate participation and schedules. Its my time, so no loss to anyone for it.

3. Scheduling: Scheduling should not be done by the players themselfs, that hardly ever works. Make rounds and set a date/ time and place for these rounds.

When there are difficulties scheduling a game, I make whatever adjustments required. It worked last year.

4. Continues: they should not take place. continue dates will destroy your tournament. If a game does not end within a certain time, powergraph it.

Without continuations, it is like a speed chess tourney. Interesting, certainly, but not the purpose of this one.

[deity]

I agree that the Tourney needs a positive energy buzz to get going.

Cavebear has the track record for organising this stuff so count me in.

Some of species ideas are good as a fall back position.

I think only use the pg AFTER a certain time period or number of sessions has lapsed - written into the rules up front.
Let's let anyone nominate, see who's keen and then break it up into two groups if necessary. So, to this end I think it's been a worthwhile exercise for everyone to grade each other to get a sense of our relative strengths.

Species, if interested, might be a good 2IC for Cavebear to help organise and communicate games info.

EASTHAVEN, drake and Zylka are good new players who I hope nominate for the Tourney and should certainly be in the top group.

I'd also love to see Slowwhand, Deity Dude and others in the Tourney too. Some of them are bound to be surprise packets!

I like cavebears new points system.

GMT 10pm Sat night might be a good time to get North Americans/Europeans and Aussies in the same game session.
IE, USA Sat afternoon/evening;
European Sat evening;
Aussie Sunday morning.

My preferrred settings (much the same as last Tourney):
* 1x1x Deity - no huts or barbs??
* Equal map starts
* turn based but maybe simul till 1AD - turn based wars
* No alliances
* No tech trading
* No city bribe

It would be great to have maps though that no one has seen before nor revealed to anyone but I guess this is asking a bit much!

[cavebear]

Originally posted by Deity Dude
I'd like to see a tournament open to everybody as opposed to 10 or 15 people nominating each other. I think there should be a small entry fee - maybe $10 - this would seperate the serious players from the rest and also add a little motiviation to show up and continue when you are suppoesed to. You miss a time you forfiet your fee. In addition, the winner would get a few bucks and he/she could truly call themselves a professional civer.

There will be no entry fees. However, there will be a handsome (and unique) home-made trophy for the winner.