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**devonin** · 08-5-2019, 03:59 PM

All of these ideas amount to basically the same real conclusion:

The flaw isn't divisions, or the size or range of the divisions. It's that our flagship tournament can be entered by literally anybody.

Trying to come up with a system that would make it so a group of 5 buddies who play basketball at the gym on Wednesdays could compete in the NCAA tournament is just a losing effort.

In basically every other place where there is competition, there is a season, or qualifiers, or seeding that takes place ahead of time and weeds out all the inferior competition.

If we put everybody into divisions by skill rating, and then did a preliminary event purely for qualifying for the ACTUAL tournament, and then made the actual tournament only be between the top 8 in each division, it would be pointful.

As long as the format of our tournaments is "Here is a song, play it and get the best score you can" then 95% of people who enter the tournament have 0 chance to win it. It would probably be more productive and interesting for people to come up with ways to do user-run or staff-supported events at other times, using songs already in the game, under novel constraints to give the general population something to do and have fun with. The FFR TCG is a -fantastic- example of something that gives you recurring content to take part in that doesn't punish you for being low/mid in a division.

08-5-2019, 03:59 PM	#147
devonin Very Grave Indeed Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada Age: 40 Posts: 10,098	Re: D8 Deb8 All of these ideas amount to basically the same real conclusion: The flaw isn't divisions, or the size or range of the divisions. It's that our flagship tournament can be entered by literally anybody. Trying to come up with a system that would make it so a group of 5 buddies who play basketball at the gym on Wednesdays could compete in the NCAA tournament is just a losing effort. In basically every other place where there is competition, there is a season, or qualifiers, or seeding that takes place ahead of time and weeds out all the inferior competition. If we put everybody into divisions by skill rating, and then did a preliminary event purely for qualifying for the ACTUAL tournament, and then made the actual tournament only be between the top 8 in each division, it would be pointful. As long as the format of our tournaments is "Here is a song, play it and get the best score you can" then 95% of people who enter the tournament have 0 chance to win it. It would probably be more productive and interesting for people to come up with ways to do user-run or staff-supported events at other times, using songs already in the game, under novel constraints to give the general population something to do and have fun with. The FFR TCG is a -fantastic- example of something that gives you recurring content to take part in that doesn't punish you for being low/mid in a division.