I'm really impressed Dnes, I'm definitely looking forward to this. I've read most of the rules, alot more than I had expected. If theres anything we can do to help like coming up with chat ideas or advertisement, you should let us know, this seems like alot for one person to organize.
I have quite a few ideas for chatting. Chatzy is a great choice because it only requires that you know a link and you can pick a username on the spot… such as your mii name. More on this will come up later.
As for advertising, I’ve posted some forums on a couple site… feel free to invite people to this thread if you see them talking about online tournament play. We really should let them come to us if they want to.
Also, is anyone interested in coming up with like a power ranking system?
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=100427&highlight=Ladder+System
-This thread appears to be working quite well on a power ranking/leader board type setup. I would consider looking there before you try to start your own setup.
I see a cap on entrants as imperative as well. Otherwise groups will be horribly bulky. Conceivably we could tack on another day to go through round robins, which would allow us to add more users...but only to a point. Obviously a given user can only play a certain number of matches a night.
Group size and extending the tournaments are two main topics of consideration. My thoughts:
-If we keep the groups small enough for everyone to play their opponents in one evening... there's a nice window of time for organization of the second half of the tournament (the elimination bracket), without the hassle of gathering results on the second day just prior to the start of the elimination bracket starting.
-How big do we let the groups get in size?... well... I think around 20 players is a good number to aim for... maximum.... how about 30. If you say each match takes ten minutes to create/join/finish/find another... then you're looking at 290 minutes or almost a solid 5 hours....... this leads to the important question of what starting time should we plan the tournament for...?
In the round robins, maybe we should track by how many stock each player won, in the off chance of a tie. With a tournament like this, do we really want to have a tiebreaker match? It would slow things down considerably.
genus, tiebreakers are something we definitely want to avoid. My hope is that by keeping the percentage that qualifies to roughly the top one or two per group, the chances of a tie should be very slim. If a group has 20 members I would hope at least 2 members demonstrate superior skills. Even if it's just by a match or two. That's the top 10%. If the group is increased to 25 members that's the top 8%. Worst case scenario if a lot of people are tied with second place... we could just have the top person in each group qualify. I realize people want to qualify... but it should be something that you really earn. The whole point is to quickly work with big numbers. The other idea is to cut off the people who qualify by going down the list of scores till you run across the first tie. This may cause some problems.
The nice thing is that it’s truly possible to run these tournaments every weekend if we really wanted to. I personally am not willing to dedicate every Friday/Saturday to this (plus, I don’t think my gf would want that either) , but ultimately other people can attempt to host similar tournaments if they would like so ultimately every weekend whether you did well in the previous tournament you have something to look forward to. Furthermore, we can have OPENS versus ranked tournaments where the only people allowed to register are those who have already successfully competed and qualified/obtained a certain number of points.
What I really just need is one or two more people who would be interested in helping tally results. Even one person cuts the time roughly in half… with 500 people submitting results… that’s probably 16 groups of 31-32 people per group… it would be nice to have someone help me sort all those wins and losses.
