This is something I have been looking into recently. But from all I've read, I think there seems to be a lot of over complication occurring here.
The biggest issue is really a matter of coding. In that, do you want to create a full fledged system, or do you want it to be relatively non-automated and smooth. Eg: You goto a site, signup with your friend ID, your username, check your schedule, etc. Or come to the boards, and look through a thread, etc.
When it comes to the videos, I am hoping two things:
1) We can choose when to start recording
2) There isn't a unanimous desire from people to require a recording (minus maybe tourney play)
I would hate to see a time limit restriction placed on matches due to a shoddy video record design.
At any rate, not requiring a recording is quite simple, really, and I don't see a need for matches to require a referee (although I imagine one could be requested). It could work really quite simply- when the match is over, the winning player reports the victory. The defeated player confirms it. It's worked online like this for a while now.
Second up is the league itself:
I personally would like to see multiple tier leagues. A kind of starter league, intermediate, and pro (broken into timezones). The pro league there would be prize money, however, as far as I understand it it wouldn't be able to work in the same fashion as a pot (since it's technically gambling, if I recall). There is a pretty easy work around for this, but I won't get into it right now.
From what I have seen with online leagues in the past, schedules are really the biggest issue. I personally prefer the method where you are given the whole seasons schedule in advance. etc.
Having an online system also opens up a number of other doors (for example a more statistically sound and tracked method of determining tiers, rating top players, a convenient list of friend ID's and their experience, etc)
That's just my .02c. I would love to see online competitive play. I'm up for helping. And for those who like real tournaments, the pro league could quite easily lead to a real tournaments. But you've got to start somewhere
The biggest issue is really a matter of coding. In that, do you want to create a full fledged system, or do you want it to be relatively non-automated and smooth. Eg: You goto a site, signup with your friend ID, your username, check your schedule, etc. Or come to the boards, and look through a thread, etc.
When it comes to the videos, I am hoping two things:
1) We can choose when to start recording
2) There isn't a unanimous desire from people to require a recording (minus maybe tourney play)
I would hate to see a time limit restriction placed on matches due to a shoddy video record design.
At any rate, not requiring a recording is quite simple, really, and I don't see a need for matches to require a referee (although I imagine one could be requested). It could work really quite simply- when the match is over, the winning player reports the victory. The defeated player confirms it. It's worked online like this for a while now.
Second up is the league itself:
I personally would like to see multiple tier leagues. A kind of starter league, intermediate, and pro (broken into timezones). The pro league there would be prize money, however, as far as I understand it it wouldn't be able to work in the same fashion as a pot (since it's technically gambling, if I recall). There is a pretty easy work around for this, but I won't get into it right now.
From what I have seen with online leagues in the past, schedules are really the biggest issue. I personally prefer the method where you are given the whole seasons schedule in advance. etc.
Having an online system also opens up a number of other doors (for example a more statistically sound and tracked method of determining tiers, rating top players, a convenient list of friend ID's and their experience, etc)
That's just my .02c. I would love to see online competitive play. I'm up for helping. And for those who like real tournaments, the pro league could quite easily lead to a real tournaments. But you've got to start somewhere
It'd be perfect for online mode