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Beat the Odds! Many sequential 2 player tournaments are frustrating because a series can be decided by who goes first in the most games, not by which player is the most skilled. Beat the Odds attempts to remedy this by rewarding players who go 2nd and still manage to win.
Signups All are welcome to join, freemiums keep in mind you'll need to dedicate 3 spots to this tournament for the entire duration, turnaround should be pretty quick though since it's only 2 player games. Signups will last for two weeks, then I will start no matter how many players have signed up. Expect your first games to come sometime around Wednesday, November 9.
Each player starts with one life. Lose all your lives and you are eliminated. The tournament will be structured in rounds. Each round you will fight a random person in a series matchup, as described below. The loser of the series loses one life, while the winner remains at his/her previous life total. This keeps going until all but one player is eliminated. To reward those who advance far into the tournament, a bonus life will be granted to any player who manages to win 4 games going 2nd. This can occur multiple times, so if a player gets to 8 wins going 2nd, they will gain a 2nd life, 12 wins gains a 3rd life, etc. If there are an odd number of players when a round starts, a player will be randomly selected to get a "bye" from the players with the most amount of lives.
Each series is to 5 points. If you win going first, you get 1 point, while if you win going second, you get 1.5 points. The games will come in sets of 3, although this pace may need to slow down as players get closer to 5 points, to prevent both from crossing 5 in the same set.
All games will be sequential, automatic, escalating, chained, sunny. Each round maps will be picked at random from the selection below. Most of these are large but not overly complicated maps, to provide for even and exciting games:
At the start of Round 5, lives are as follows: (New life every 4th 2nd turn wins) Round 5 additional 2nd turn wins are shown as at the latest position.
First to 4 points wins. One life every four second-turn wins. Enormastitz has a bye as a result of a random selection between him and Swifte, who both have the most lives.
First to 4 points wins. One life every four second-turn wins. Bones2484 loses his last life Swifte needs to gain 12 points Enormastitz needs to gain 20 points (plus any additional lives won during the round)
One rule that was not covered in the thread was the situation if one player reaches 5 points and there is stillone or more gamse yet to finish. My interpretation is that the points and away wins will be finalised as soon as one player has reached 5 points irrespective of the number of games that may still be ongoing between the two players.
What I will try and ensure from now on though is that after the initial 3 games, I will only send out a further 1 game (rather than 2) if the 5 points could be achieved by one game's result. This would then avoid the above situation.
Just a quick petition to remove "England" from the list of maps for this. It is very likely the most imbalanced 1v1 map on this site... hate to have this be the deciding game (like it is in my match with Ishi).
Hopefully we can at least change this for future rounds!
Just to log the pm's that have been sent and received and publish the conclusions;
England will not be on the list of maps for the next round as its use has been more than average in the previous rounds. I will randomise the map list then all players will receive the maps in sequence. The target for winning the round will be 4 points We will not change the number of second turn wins from 4 as that would disadvantage those players who have accumulated different numbers of them so far.
Round 12 and Bones just hangs on to keep in the running. American theme thrown up by random selection for the three games! Quad Cities, Montreal and Land and Sea to follow if needed.
Congratulations to Enormastitz and Swifte for making the finals! I will keep topping up the number of games as you guys have 7 lives between you which will take you a few games to complete!
i.e. Enormastitz needs 4 x 4 points; Swifte 3 x 4 points (plus any additional sets of 4 points according to the second turn wins.
