Organizing Armagetron Advanced (final part)

After some time and after quite a few tournaments have already been started or are starting these days it may be time to finalize things with the most unique of all gaming competitions in this gamefest; Armagetron Advanced tournament.

What I will propose here is based from what I picked up from the previous very long discussion, on the AA forum itself and a bit of common sense I believe I might still be attuned to.

Assuming we have 12 players (most likely).

Qualifications

- 3 groups each with 4 players play 3 matches together
- 2 from each group are disqualified afterwards leaving only 6 players moving forward

Final stage

- 6 qualified players play two times together after which two weakest are disqualified
- 4 remaining players play 2 times again - determining the winner, second, third and fourth place.

Match configuration

- LMS Arena
- In qualification matches, two times played on low rubber (5) and once on high rubber (15 or more) and in the final stage once low and once high (alternatively, we can let those involved in a match simply vote whether to play high or low, perhaps even vote on the exact number).
- Match winner is the one who gains 10 in-game points first
- Light cycle: 0.1 (still can be discussed)
- Infinite trails

Points

- 4 points for the overall winner
- 3 points for second best
- 2 points for third best
- 1 points for the rest
- Tie: 3 points to both of the tied players

For those concerned about balancing the chances an AA tournament winner has to win the whole game fest compared to other tournaments note that most other tournaments in this gamefest involve 6 to 7 games at most for the tournament winner while AA allows 7. In all these a player has a fair chance to earn 4 or 3 points (chances are the tournament winner wont become one by being third or fourth). This just means that there is plenty of chance for an AA player to rack up enough points to stand a great chance for winning the whole gamefest. Of course, it is always recommended, if you're shooting that far, to participate in some other tournament as well.

Cheers

Nice way to solve the low/high rubber conflict.
I don't know why it's 2 times low and 1 time high in the qualifiction matches, but I suppose that's the ratio of those who want low vs those who want high, no?

But there seems to be a problem here:

Shouldn't it be 8=4*2 instead of 6?

I think I am misunderstanding something about these 10 points which a winner has to reach first. I'm trying to clarify this with AA people, but in the mean time I'm thinking it might be simplest to just have like 10 or so rounds and then count the number of times someone wins. The one who wins most rounds wins the match.

This at least makes it really straightforward to explain and understand, it's not really ambiguous.

I suppose the way the current way can be seen though is playing rounds as long as someone doesn't win ten of them. Once someone wins his/her 10th round he wins.

ok, do that

EU/Paris

Replied
US East

So far we have these replying..

goodkoen
epsy
ender
drågøn
mkzelda
free-zombie
zion
MaZuffeR

And MaZuffeR wont be available till January 2nd 2008. :\

So that means that if we're starting next week we have only 7 players.. Well, 8 is the minimum to do anything. We'd then at least have 2 groups of 4 players. We need one more or ideally five more.

Good Durka.

Here is how things stand, and I apologize for missing to count Lackadaisical in my previous post. We have 9 players who can play now and 10th is MaZuffeR who can play only after January 2nd. Number 9 is a bit awkward here because we can't split it into groups of 4, only 3 which is a bit low. If we had one more we could split into groups of 5 which is already easier to manage.

Another issue is that there are so far only 2 people from US meaning they inevitably end up in a group with europeans which further means we'd have to do something about the ping issue (like play a match on two servers, one US and EU).

However I don't have the info on ender and drågøn which, even though they were asked to in my last email (the final call) they didn't provide their location (really guys, it's such a small thing to do and you omit it :S )..

Here they are:

goodkoen - EU
epsy - EU
free-zombie - EU
zion - EU
Lackadaisical - EU
Durka - US
mkzelda - US
ender -
drågøn -

MaZuffeR - EU (only after January 2nd)

So, this is a bit tricky. Any suggestions? If not I'll probably end up doing something ugly with this (a way to balance out bad pings or forming weird groups of 3), but something is better than nothing I suppose.

Sorry about being late. I neglected this thread not realizing it was asking for confirmation.

USA east coast

Who signed up and is still missing? Can someone new join up?