by fossunited on Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:33 am
I'll play, but I have to admit, I think I agree with Max too. This could take an insanely long time, and a demolition derby could be a lot faster than that. Unless you play about 4 games simultaneiously for the first round, which would get a lot of people down to low points reasonably quickly. Right now, if you played them all individually, it would take at least 5 games for some to get knocked out if they lost every game.
Assuming that that would take about a week per game (especially considering there are no cards, and very few ways of getting reinforcements), it is a fair amount of time, just to eliminate your first player.
I suggest you do what Max suggests and have a scoring system something like:
1st -1
2nd -3
3rd -5
4th -6
5th -7
6th -8
It's kind of similar to how forumula 1 racing does their points, so greater gains to the better finishers.
Then have the first round be a random player mix of 4 games, meaning that potentially a few players could be knocked out with a couple of 6th places and a couple of 4th places.
After this round you could probaby revert to a one game per round format, because they players should start dropping off reasonably quickly after this.
I dunno, I just think it would make for a more vibrant tourney that way, but I don't want to tred on any toes.