Kalvirox wrote:
Rating Range sounds iffy too me, I get why you want it but I don't think it should be there.. AIx will sign up for it though.
I will argument a little :
- Almost no one will launch games with <75% game balance why should we do that for a clan tourney if the purpose is to showcase teamwork and clan skills ?
- The point is not to see which clan is the best, if you want to know that, just check player listing + ratings. The clan with the most players above 2k is the strongest. (unless you think rating is uber shit and a clan of 1400-1600 can defeat them in multiple matches)
- I won't even bother playing a game with a 1600 clan mate against a team like Voodoo + Luxy. I like the challenge from time to time but you have to be reasonable. Losing more than 50% of your tourney games badly and having only SFO/BC/RA/OS standing a chance of wining is not the point of the tourney, it is not fun, and it wont get people very excited. We had that tourney once already and the result was as expected.
The rating range per match needs to be quite large so we can have all clans playing but if you can just put your bests players every time it ruins the suspense and you can restrict this to the bests clans only before it even started. Again i wont bother training & playing dozens of matches if i know the result in advance.
In BFA we dedicate A LOT of our time to train noobies, teamwork and improve the average level of all of our players and they are all excited about playing in team in a tournament. If the bests clan have to send their lowest rated players then they also have to coach them and it's more fun IMO.
If a clan like BFA/ToP/Aix play a 4v4 game against OS/SFo with 80% game balance stacked in their favor and we know they are coached by some of the best players of the world at that time, it is already a really nice challenge in my opinion and winning a game like that would already be an accomplishment. If you imbalance it even further than that it start sounding impossible when you think of the number & variety of matches per round.
If some clans only have players so high rated that they can't even participate, then maybe we need different rating ranges like for WWPC.
In my opinion you can completely remove the rating argument. For me its as simple, as "add a rule saying something like : all matches need at least XX% game balance."Statistics: Posted by Poch — 17 Oct 2014, 18:45
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