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Tournament DoD

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:39 am
by stile
Would you guys be down for something like this? Of course there wouldn't be any prizes other than bragging rights, but the thought of being eliminated after one or two matches would probably influence some teams to try a little bit harder. Since it would run shorter than a normal season it might result in different pugs being formed for the hell of it.

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:57 pm
by james-
Why don't we make a 4th league and everyone tag up [DoD4CPL]?

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:10 pm
by stile
Great input.

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:33 pm
by cassinoroyale
We tried to do this here in SA when we had 16-20 teams... It didn't work out because the losing teams ended up losing their interest on the game while they were waiting for another season to come. Not to mention that even if you have a good seeding match creation you will probably put low vs high which in most of the cases will make these low seed teams get spanked.

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:35 pm
by stile
You didn't do double elimination?

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:39 pm
by cassinoroyale
Not on the very first but we did on the following...

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:59 pm
by unpro
Just shorten tpg to 6 weeks and a fast playoffs between the top 4-6 teams and tournaments really wont be any different :p

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 7:00 pm
by cassinoroyale
unpro wrote:Just shorten tpg to 6 weeks and a fast playoffs between the top 4-6 teams and tournaments really wont be any different :p
8 weeks again would be perfect imo

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 7:03 pm
by hellfire
anything is possible

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 8:12 pm
by mogers
See what teams would be interested in playing. Rank them accordingly. Round Robin for playoff seeds. Double elimination. Whole process should take approximately 8 years.

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:52 am
by unpro
Seems like a reasonable expectation on the time frame.

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:18 am
by scorch-
everything is made from dreams

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:23 am
by toxinatoR
Matt Rogers is in my dreams.

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:08 am
by sevEN
i like the idea. it would take a lot of work, and structure, but it could work. if we had 6-7 servers up and running at once, with 4-5 "admins," we could knock it out in a weekend. i figure that is when we would have the most players and teams available compared to mid week. i imagine it being very similar to a lan tournament structure, only online of course.

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:19 am
by JaGGoNdd
im down

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:38 am
by rdk
we should do a tourni where every player is given a rank based on skill and teams are selected to even the odds so shitty pug players(like myself) get the chance to play with players better than themselves. might cause players to realize not every1 in this game is a fgt. just 99%.

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:42 am
by ryanemo
or could do a draft of some sort then a tourny afterwards, could be fun i suppose

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:59 am
by rdk
yea something like that, i think it be fun to play with a bunch of diff ppl

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:59 pm
by unpro
Thats like not expecting the same people to be together in 12mans over and over. You will end up with 1 or 2 teams that manage to get more of the better players. You have the mental stats, and the 12man knowledge of most of the dod community thats active. Why not have a group of active people arbitrarily make teams? Mixing the bad players like stamp and blackhawk in with the good players like tox and austin? That way you can basically force a relatively even playing field instead of hoping you dont get fucked in a picking order in a draft like system. Of course this would require a list of whos down and acknowledgement of "ill play regardless of who im with" from everyone. No switching, no refusing to play because someones 'so bad!', etc.


Personally i think that would be fun.

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:08 pm
by rymoz
unpro wrote:Mixing the bad players like stamp and blackhawk in
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Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:19 pm
by unpro
See, thats the issue. You cant have a draft system and expect remotely fair teams with that view on it. It would end up pretty much with the teams that exist now + maybe a good player mixed in with bad ones if they are lucky. The winning team would be known before it even started. Why bother going through the trouble if your just going to replicate current teams?

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:05 pm
by rdk
well youd have to have a set number of who would be down, then a roster limit like 8 or 9 to see how many teams there would be. really bad players would end up probably being backups,...or starters depending on who is down to play

Re: Tournament DoD

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:23 pm
by unpro
7 man teams, rotate the 6th betwen the 2 last picks. And i already said it would require a list.