June Tournament Format Poll
Posted: 26 May 2010, 17:41
This thread is for discussion of the format for the June tournament. Options 1 and 2 are the way we ran things in April and May, except that we'd insist on keeping to best of 1, or best of 3, to keep things more even in testing.
Explanation of elimination style tournament:
Finkel, Budde, Rosewater, and Justice each submit a deck. The tournament coordinator (me) randomly determines who they will face in the first round, and finds that in round 1:
Finkel plays Budde
Rosewater plays Justice
For the Finkel-Budde matchup, everyone would play a best of 3 duel with a human Finkel and AI Budde, and a second duel with an AI Finkel and human Budde. (so that both decks are played by both sides) The same concept applies to the Rosewater-Justice matchup, and any other matchups (for more players than this example). There would likely be a two day window for everyone to play a particular matchup, i.e. the Finkel-Budde matchup would be June 1-3 and the Rosewater-Justice matchup would be June 4-6. Everyone reports the result of their best of 3 duel, both with AI finkel and AI budde. Whichever deck accumulates the most wins (for the human) advances to the next round.
So, for the Finkel-Budde matchup, the four players each play with Finkel's deck in a best of 3 duel, giving Budde's deck to the AI. The scores are:
Finkel 2-0
Budde 2-1
Rosewater 1-2
Justice 2-1
total: 3 humans win (out of 4)
They also play with Budde's deck, giving Finkel's to the AI and get:
Finkel 2-0
Budde 2-0
Rosewater 2-1
Justice 2-1
total: 4 humans win (out of 4)
(if there had been a tie, we would then look at the number of game losses. If one deck had all testers go 2-0 and the other deck had all testers go 2-1, the one with 2-0 is the winner. If that's still a tie... I'll think of something later :p)
Budde's deck wins 4-3 against Finkels, and Finkel's deck is eliminated from the tournament, while Budde's deck advances. (though Finkel may continue to test decks)
The same procedure is then followed for the Rosewater-Justice match. Suppose that Rosewater wins. Then, scheduled for June 7-9, would be the Budde-Rosewater match, and the winner of that would be the tournament winner. Then, all players would test Budde and Rosewater in exactly the same manner.
This could be modified somewhat, such as best of 5 games, or whatever, but the basic idea is there. Other ideas, or modifications of this or the gauntlet format done in the last two months, are welcome, and will be added to the poll.
Explanation of elimination style tournament:
Finkel, Budde, Rosewater, and Justice each submit a deck. The tournament coordinator (me) randomly determines who they will face in the first round, and finds that in round 1:
Finkel plays Budde
Rosewater plays Justice
For the Finkel-Budde matchup, everyone would play a best of 3 duel with a human Finkel and AI Budde, and a second duel with an AI Finkel and human Budde. (so that both decks are played by both sides) The same concept applies to the Rosewater-Justice matchup, and any other matchups (for more players than this example). There would likely be a two day window for everyone to play a particular matchup, i.e. the Finkel-Budde matchup would be June 1-3 and the Rosewater-Justice matchup would be June 4-6. Everyone reports the result of their best of 3 duel, both with AI finkel and AI budde. Whichever deck accumulates the most wins (for the human) advances to the next round.
So, for the Finkel-Budde matchup, the four players each play with Finkel's deck in a best of 3 duel, giving Budde's deck to the AI. The scores are:
Finkel 2-0
Budde 2-1
Rosewater 1-2
Justice 2-1
total: 3 humans win (out of 4)
They also play with Budde's deck, giving Finkel's to the AI and get:
Finkel 2-0
Budde 2-0
Rosewater 2-1
Justice 2-1
total: 4 humans win (out of 4)
(if there had been a tie, we would then look at the number of game losses. If one deck had all testers go 2-0 and the other deck had all testers go 2-1, the one with 2-0 is the winner. If that's still a tie... I'll think of something later :p)
Budde's deck wins 4-3 against Finkels, and Finkel's deck is eliminated from the tournament, while Budde's deck advances. (though Finkel may continue to test decks)
The same procedure is then followed for the Rosewater-Justice match. Suppose that Rosewater wins. Then, scheduled for June 7-9, would be the Budde-Rosewater match, and the winner of that would be the tournament winner. Then, all players would test Budde and Rosewater in exactly the same manner.
This could be modified somewhat, such as best of 5 games, or whatever, but the basic idea is there. Other ideas, or modifications of this or the gauntlet format done in the last two months, are welcome, and will be added to the poll.