Exclusion Tournament

This message was edited 5 times. Last update was at 10/10/2009 06:54:24

Bracket info removed

Shoot, sorry everyone. I just realized I forgot to factor in the timezones when constructing the brackets. I will do so and post the new info tomorrow.

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 12/10/2009 22:48:26

Here's what I did. I'm splitting the 17 players into two brackets with nine (Bracket A) and eight (Bracket B) players. Players from the US and Canada is in the first bracket. Everyone else is in the second. Sorry for those in Argentina as you probably fit better timezone-wise with the people from North America. I wanted to keep the brackets about the same size so I put you with the Europeans.

To choose the excluded cards for each bracket I constructed a histogram like before only for just the people in the brackets. I wanted twelve cards to be excluded so I took the top three cards from the histogram for Bracket A. I then went through the nine players' lists and took one more card that wasn't already chosen. Similarly, for Bracket B I took the top four from its histogram and then took one more card from each of the eight players' lists.

Doing it this way ensures that both that the most popular cards are excluded and that at least one card from every player's list is excluded.

I'm changing the format slightly. Each player will play two opponents in each round. Two games against each opponent. Each player goes first once. First player should be decided ahead of time and you can change decks as you see fit at any time.

After the first round, three players from Bracket A and two players from Bracket B will be eliminated. After the second round, three players from both brackets will be eliminated. At that point the remaining six players will be merged and play two more rounds. Three will be eliminated after the first and the final round will determine first, second and third place.

Jump to the first post in the thread to see the brackets and exclusion lists.

wow this will be interesting my brain will burn making the deck hehe for me there is no problem with the timezone i usually dont have problem playing with europeans so it's ok

this should be fun

Calaxo informed me that he is from the UK and not the US (I thought his location of "Ny" meant New York). I have moved him to Bracket B.

As a result some of the pairings have changed. Please check back with the first post to see if your opponents have changed!

I am not changing the exclusion lists since that's a pain in the ass to redo.

I moved the brackets and exclusion lists to the first post in the thread. Please refer back to that for current tournament standings.

There seems to be some debate over tournament games counting for ELO scores. I have set the "k" value for this tournament to be zero. Meaning that matches played here will not count towards your ELO score when you enter them in the system.

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Just a quick question:
What happens after the first round and in the elimination stage? Will the exclusion list be recalculated at some point?

sjabth wrote:Just a quick question:
What happens after the first round and in the elimination stage? Will the exclusion list be recalculated at some point?

It is recalculated when the two brackets merge after round 2.

@adgori and internallydeluded... My deck is ready, so I am good to go whenever you see me online. I'll be keeping an eye out for you two

Can't wait for my first matches! @internallydeluded and tribeofmany, when are you available to play? I may have availability tomorrow night or Thursday night, then not until Sunday afternoon. This is all Eastern standard time.

Thanks,

Jeff

sorry but where I disagree with my opponent to play?

thanks

cedro wrote:sorry but where I disagree with my opponent to play?

thanks

not sure what you mean cedro, no games have been played/reported yet so i am assuming you are not talking about a result

are you talking about the cards to be used?
are you talking about which opponent(s) to play?
are you talking about when to play a particular opponent?

no offense, but your phrase kind of reminded me of this

I'm wondering how do I organize the game against my opponent

where I write to agree on the date and hours for the match????

cedro wrote:I'm wondering how do I organize the game against my opponent

where I write to agree on the date and hours for the match????

best is to add your opponent(s) to your psn-list

then send them a pm here and/or on psn to agree on a fixed date & time