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Vouching for the legitness of this message. :bigthumbuHey guys, so T-block, Kuraudo, Alphicans and I had this idea to host a regional or national tournament sometime during the winter (probably dec or jan). We want to first get an idea of how many people would be willing to travel to Edmonton, Alberta to attend this tournament so we can get a rough idea of the amount of interest in such a tournament.
Combined we all have very good experienced at running and promoting tournaments, Firefly can vouch for us haha. We'd likely (about a 90% chance) be able to get a free venue, meaning no venue fee, just an entry fee. The tournament would be at the University of Alberta meaning there would be plenty of places to go eat such as Edo, Subway, etc. that are close by.
I'll stay tuned into your thread for a while here hoping to hear the amount of interest BC has in this idea. Also if you could possibly spread the word around to the rest of BC (becuz i think ur main area is vancouver?) and direct them to this thread or to just PM myself or T-block that would be great.
We're hoping to get both BC and Sask in on this and we've also heard the east coast could be interested in travelling down as well! It would be awesome to get ally down here!
You suck.Off one event? Nah, let's wait. =D
I used him everytime someone took me to delfino, (except for when I faced Breez)D=
How much Ike did you use at Phoenix 3 BTW?
Dat's cause Ganon da bess and you all know it. :Dhe used moar ganon than ike
that son of a *****
...42_ said:This PR is based upon personal opinion, not tournament placings.
I just stole the system from the New England PR.I made a post in an islander's group, and decided to post it here as well, as it applies to both. Hopefully there is no hard feelings, but I'm posting this in the hopes of getting a more accurate PR in the future. Anyways... the post:
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We all complain that the BC PR is not done properly at all. They basically take the last tournament results, then use those as the now PR. Ties are determined biassedly. This is a horrible way to produce a PR, and causes many inaccuracies. This is one extreme to making a bad PR.
Now, what you guys are saying, personal opinion (aka bias) is determining the PR, not tournament placings at all... speaks for itself. I'd consider this another extreme to making a bad PR.
A PR is meant to rank the top 10 players as accurately as possible. The easiest way to see how people rank amongst each other is by tournament results. Obviously, tournaments rank players by itself due to the nature of tournaments. However, tournaments should not be taken as the only source of making a PR (this is exactly where the mainland PR fails).
The best PR's take into account many things, in order:
1. Tournaments
2. Money Matches
3. Friendlies/recent performance inside/outside the tournament
1. Tournaments. Sure, tournaments may be by far the easiest way, and after 3/4 tournaments, you could make a PR based simply off of those results. Therefore, tournaments should, for the most part, be the largest contributing factor to the PR. However, different brackets may cause different results (e.g. an overpowered bracket vs an underpowered bracket, as seen in Phoenix 1... yes, Trevor's bracket was much easier to go far in. Not discrediting Trevor's placement at all, he definitely deserved 5th... but that doesn't change the fact that his bracket was much easier than the other brackets until later on). So as nice as tournaments are in creating PR's, there are downsides to tournaments as well. Also, say a Fox player had to play against a Pikachu player early on and got eliminated earlier than he should have because of this, this shouldn't cause his position to drop significantly in the PR. Yes, it should be taken to account (and maybe he should have chosen a different character), but that should not cause a major significant drop in the PR.
2. Money Matches. Ok, maybe we don't do many money matches in Vancouver Island or BC, but these can be considered as legitimate serious sets (well... unless people go random characters or something... with the exception of me and Brian who both main random anyways, back on topic). If Player A and Player B tied for 5th in a tournament, where Player A was eliminated by the guy who eventually came in 2nd, while player 2 got eliminated by the guy who got 4th, if Player A later money matches and wins against the guy who got 4th, 3rd, and 2nd (wins the revenge match), then Player A should obviously get a higher PR placement then player B. However, not only that, but (in my opinion), having beaten 4th, 3rd, and 2nd in money matches, his placement should maybe go up to 4th, or maybe even 3rd (logic here being if he had beaten 2nd place, he would have potentially gotten 2nd himself). So... although tournaments make a somewhat accurate list for a PR, money matches can be used to fine-tune the list to make it more accurate (which can be useful in separating ties for 5th or 7th, as previously described).
3. Friendlies/recent performance. Ok, yeah, friendlies, not everyone tries their hardest, so quite obviously, these would be at the bottom of the list. However, recent performances can be used to help with possible 'problems' that might occur if tournament results were used raw. For example, say something happened (e.g. family member sent to the hospital a few days before) and someone gets a lower placement than they usually get (e.g. 9th compared to an average of 3rd). It wouldn't be fair to just drop that person's rank to 9th. This is where recent performances can be used to help in the making of the PR. If this person could, say, before the family member being sent to the hospital, consistently beat the people who got 7th and lower on the PR, lose to the people who got 4th or better, and go about even with the 5th placers, then his position should be around 5th/6th ish. Similarly (especially in 42's case in the BC PR), if someone is unable to attend a tournament, but would easily place in the PR, friendlies/recent performances against people should be used to try to semi-accurately place him into the PR where he may fit.
So... yeah... I believe both the Island PR and the mainland PR are being done wrong in a way (not saying they are completely inaccurate, but there are flaws). Each is wrong in a completely different way (Island being because it's based off of bias, while mainland because it focusses way too much on the tournament results). Hopefully both can be improved such that they both become much more accurate in future releases.
lol? someone's taking themselves seriously in an area where pretty much nobody but clouderz would make it on a PR in any actually good areaI made a post in an islander's group, and decided to post it here as well, as it applies to both. Hopefully there is no hard feelings, but I'm posting this in the hopes of getting a more accurate PR in the future. Anyways... the post:
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We all complain that the BC PR is not done properly at all. They basically take the last tournament results, then use those as the now PR. Ties are determined biassedly. This is a horrible way to produce a PR, and causes many inaccuracies. This is one extreme to making a bad PR.
Now, what you guys are saying, personal opinion (aka bias) is determining the PR, not tournament placings at all... speaks for itself. I'd consider this another extreme to making a bad PR.
A PR is meant to rank the top 10 players as accurately as possible. The easiest way to see how people rank amongst each other is by tournament results. Obviously, tournaments rank players by itself due to the nature of tournaments. However, tournaments should not be taken as the only source of making a PR (this is exactly where the mainland PR fails).
The best PR's take into account many things, in order:
1. Tournaments
2. Money Matches
3. Friendlies/recent performance inside/outside the tournament
1. Tournaments. Sure, tournaments may be by far the easiest way, and after 3/4 tournaments, you could make a PR based simply off of those results. Therefore, tournaments should, for the most part, be the largest contributing factor to the PR. However, different brackets may cause different results (e.g. an overpowered bracket vs an underpowered bracket, as seen in Phoenix 1... yes, Trevor's bracket was much easier to go far in. Not discrediting Trevor's placement at all, he definitely deserved 5th... but that doesn't change the fact that his bracket was much easier than the other brackets until later on). So as nice as tournaments are in creating PR's, there are downsides to tournaments as well. Also, say a Fox player had to play against a Pikachu player early on and got eliminated earlier than he should have because of this, this shouldn't cause his position to drop significantly in the PR. Yes, it should be taken to account (and maybe he should have chosen a different character), but that should not cause a major significant drop in the PR.
2. Money Matches. Ok, maybe we don't do many money matches in Vancouver Island or BC, but these can be considered as legitimate serious sets (well... unless people go random characters or something... with the exception of me and Brian who both main random anyways, back on topic). If Player A and Player B tied for 5th in a tournament, where Player A was eliminated by the guy who eventually came in 2nd, while player 2 got eliminated by the guy who got 4th, if Player A later money matches and wins against the guy who got 4th, 3rd, and 2nd (wins the revenge match), then Player A should obviously get a higher PR placement then player B. However, not only that, but (in my opinion), having beaten 4th, 3rd, and 2nd in money matches, his placement should maybe go up to 4th, or maybe even 3rd (logic here being if he had beaten 2nd place, he would have potentially gotten 2nd himself). So... although tournaments make a somewhat accurate list for a PR, money matches can be used to fine-tune the list to make it more accurate (which can be useful in separating ties for 5th or 7th, as previously described).
3. Friendlies/recent performance. Ok, yeah, friendlies, not everyone tries their hardest, so quite obviously, these would be at the bottom of the list. However, recent performances can be used to help with possible 'problems' that might occur if tournament results were used raw. For example, say something happened (e.g. family member sent to the hospital a few days before) and someone gets a lower placement than they usually get (e.g. 9th compared to an average of 3rd). It wouldn't be fair to just drop that person's rank to 9th. This is where recent performances can be used to help in the making of the PR. If this person could, say, before the family member being sent to the hospital, consistently beat the people who got 7th and lower on the PR, lose to the people who got 4th or better, and go about even with the 5th placers, then his position should be around 5th/6th ish. Similarly (especially in 42's case in the BC PR), if someone is unable to attend a tournament, but would easily place in the PR, friendlies/recent performances against people should be used to try to semi-accurately place him into the PR where he may fit.
So... yeah... I believe both the Island PR and the mainland PR are being done wrong in a way (not saying they are completely inaccurate, but there are flaws). Each is wrong in a completely different way (Island being because it's based off of bias, while mainland because it focusses way too much on the tournament results). Hopefully both can be improved such that they both become much more accurate in future releases.
Interesting way of summarizing the process. First off, this implies we take the raw placements (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.), copypasta that into a list and call it the Power Ranking. While there is certainly a fairly strong correlation between placements and PR spots, especially at the top, that isn't what we do. We look at who each contender wins/loses against (mainly in brackets, but also in pools to a lesser extent), weigh the pros and cons of their performances, compare players with similar achievements, and make decisions based on what the tournament data tells us. In the past, we have done an update after every large tourney (essentially meaning every event with a good attendance from the islanders), which led to very one-dimensional views of how some of your players do, even though we have several tournaments of data to work with for the mainlanders. Hopefully, including both Phoenix 3 and Phoenix 4 in the next update will give us a better idea of where everyone should really go.We all complain that the BC PR is not done properly at all. They basically take the last tournament results, then use those as the now PR. Ties are determined biassedly. This is a horrible way to produce a PR, and causes many inaccuracies. This is one extreme to making a bad PR.
Alright, I'm going to go through each of these one at a time.A PR is meant to rank the top 10 players as accurately as possible. The easiest way to see how people rank amongst each other is by tournament results. Obviously, tournaments rank players by itself due to the nature of tournaments. However, tournaments should not be taken as the only source of making a PR (this is exactly where the mainland PR fails).
The best PR's take into account many things, in order:
1. Tournaments
2. Money Matches
3. Friendlies/recent performance inside/outside the tournament
Your entire argument here is based on the assumption that we look at what number each player placed at, and used that to rank them in the PR. As I have stated earlier, this is not true. Take Trevor at Phoenix 1 for example. This tournament did contribute heavily to his rise on the 2nd PR list. We did not go "hurr durr he got 5th move him up"; we looked at who he beat and who he lost to, and compared that to who other people beat/lost to. From what I remember of the Phoenix 1 bracket, Trevor beat Blunted_Object10 (who took 1st seed in pools, beating me, Ewic, and LFL), then beat me (consistanly beats everybody outside the top 3, with a few scattered exceptions, most of which happened at Phoenix 1, lol), then lost to bundtcake in winner's semis, then lost to breez (?) in losers. These are good wins and solid losses, very fitting of a player ranked 7th, maybe even higher, and that's why we bumped him up.1. Tournaments. Sure, tournaments may be by far the easiest way, and after 3/4 tournaments, you could make a PR based simply off of those results. Therefore, tournaments should, for the most part, be the largest contributing factor to the PR. However, different brackets may cause different results (e.g. an overpowered bracket vs an underpowered bracket, as seen in Phoenix 1... yes, Trevor's bracket was much easier to go far in. Not discrediting Trevor's placement at all, he definitely deserved 5th... but that doesn't change the fact that his bracket was much easier than the other brackets until later on). So as nice as tournaments are in creating PR's, there are downsides to tournaments as well. Also, say a Fox player had to play against a Pikachu player early on and got eliminated earlier than he should have because of this, this shouldn't cause his position to drop significantly in the PR. Yes, it should be taken to account (and maybe he should have chosen a different character), but that should not cause a major significant drop in the PR.
This argument is also heavily based on the assumption that we clone tournament "number placings" into a PR list. If player A only lost to the player who got 2nd, we treat him as such; we don't arbitrarily rank A lower than, say, the guy who got 3rd simply because he encountered the guy who got 2nd earlier in the bracket. As mentioned before, we look at wins/losses, not #th place rankings.2. Money Matches. Ok, maybe we don't do many money matches in Vancouver Island or BC, but these can be considered as legitimate serious sets (well... unless people go random characters or something... with the exception of me and Brian who both main random anyways, back on topic). If Player A and Player B tied for 5th in a tournament, where Player A was eliminated by the guy who eventually came in 2nd, while player 2 got eliminated by the guy who got 4th, if Player A later money matches and wins against the guy who got 4th, 3rd, and 2nd (wins the revenge match), then Player A should obviously get a higher PR placement then player B. However, not only that, but (in my opinion), having beaten 4th, 3rd, and 2nd in money matches, his placement should maybe go up to 4th, or maybe even 3rd (logic here being if he had beaten 2nd place, he would have potentially gotten 2nd himself). So... although tournaments make a somewhat accurate list for a PR, money matches can be used to fine-tune the list to make it more accurate (which can be useful in separating ties for 5th or 7th, as previously described).
This is a non-issue if panelists do their task properly. That being said, giving people the benefit of the doubt when they can't attend/drop out early becomes an issue of activity, which is important when being considered for a Power Ranking in the first place. The idea of ranking somebody in a competitive environment based off how they do in friendlies if laughable if you ask me, and I'm sure most competitive players would agree.3. Friendlies/recent performance. Ok, yeah, friendlies, not everyone tries their hardest, so quite obviously, these would be at the bottom of the list. However, recent performances can be used to help with possible 'problems' that might occur if tournament results were used raw. For example, say something happened (e.g. family member sent to the hospital a few days before) and someone gets a lower placement than they usually get (e.g. 9th compared to an average of 3rd). It wouldn't be fair to just drop that person's rank to 9th. This is where recent performances can be used to help in the making of the PR. If this person could, say, before the family member being sent to the hospital, consistently beat the people who got 7th and lower on the PR, lose to the people who got 4th or better, and go about even with the 5th placers, then his position should be around 5th/6th ish. Similarly (especially in 42's case in the BC PR), if someone is unable to attend a tournament, but would easily place in the PR, friendlies/recent performances against people should be used to try to semi-accurately place him into the PR where he may fit.
Oh snap. I liekz yew.actually I think it's because the panel has a minimum age requirement.