5th Official FFR Tournament - SIGN UPS NOW CLOSED!!!

[Plan_Bsk81127]

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Why do you need to tell them that? Let alone publically?


As an aside: I suspect it might be fair to suggest that people that are -very- close to the 150 game minimum are more likely to be put higher than they should rather than lower. I'm quite positive enough people might consider making a new account and trying to play 150 games "poorly" to get into a lower division. If I were Sprite- I'd choose the 'better safe than sorry' approach, and risk overranking people who are new. If you've only played 150-250 games I'm not sure you're dedicated enough to the site to get an indepth analysis of your skill.

He can just IP check them to look for alts then if their main isnt entered, he can put the alt into the higher division that way. But the IP check could determine if they are BS'ing it or not.

[One Winged Angel]

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Way to crush everyone's hopes and dreams, dev

[Quigly]

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Way to crush everyone's hopes and dreams, dev

He has a point though.

Most people who have never been in a tournament have a very vague idea of what good PA is. Thus they overestimate their skill by an extreme amount, setting themselves up for failure.

Hell a year ago I thought being able to FC a VC put me into D4. =S

[dragonmegaXX]

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He has a point though.

Most people who have never been in a tournament have a very vague idea of what good PA is. Thus they overestimate their skill by an extreme amount.

Hell a year ago I thought being able to FC a VC put me into expert. =S

Iloveyous tourney, signs ups, I thought I was easily advanced, and I couldnt AAA the first song in beginners, which was a non-bs lv.3....

[One Winged Angel]

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Self-serving bias will ensure that almost everyone that reads dev's post will put themselves within the 20% that stand a chance at winning. I know he's just trying to minimize the complaints, but they're gonna happen regardless, unfortunately.

[devonin]

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Well, that and they expect to be put into a division they have a chance to win. Which isn't what happens at all.

I mean, it's an awkward concept. I'll go into D2, but I don't even have a chance to win D1. (My first official tourney, I was eliminated in round 3 of D2 I think, but continuing to play the D1 songs on my own, I would have been eliminated in round I think 6 of D1)

So I can see why people might think it odd that I woudln't be put into D1, but it's the nature of accomplishment based ranking, and the need to size categories appropriately while letting every single person who signed up get in.

[iironiic]

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He has a point though.

Most people who have never been in a tournament have a very vague idea of what good PA is. Thus they overestimate their skill by an extreme amount, setting themselves up for failure.

Hell a year ago I thought being able to FC a VC put me into D4. =S

That is one reason why I'm so nervous considering that this is my first tournament ever played on FFR. I don't know how I will do compared to anyone else.

[Quigly]

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That is one reason why I'm so nervous considering that this is my first tournament ever played on FFR. I don't know how I will do compared to anyone else.

Don't sweat it. Just try as hard as you can here and if you get out early, practice some more and join a smaller tourney. One that gives a higher chance of winning.

[bubblechamber]

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So I can see why people might think it odd that I woudln't be put into D1, but it's the nature of accomplishment based ranking, and the need to size categories appropriately while letting every single person who signed up get in.

Well, it's also that placement in smaller tournaments is different. Because true beginners tend not to join smaller tournaments, placement tends to be skewed toward higher skills in lower divisions. People like me get put in beginner brackets by necessity, while people who are in D4 here would probably be in D2 or D3 in smaller tourneys.

[Ghakimx]

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My butt has been dragged into the tourney. Huzzah!

[devonin]

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Well, it's also the case that the top end has fewer people and still a wide skill differential. The quality of player who is in T0 and D5 versus someone in T1 even, can be pretty wide in terms of directly competeing against one another, so what ends up happening is the size of each bracket also gets bigger the lower you go. D5 might have only 16 people in it, while D1 will have 400

[MP3 player]

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:OO I'm so in please.

[fo3h4mm3r]

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Probably going to be lower D3. Oh well, I'm not in it to win just to have fun.

[Wineandbread]

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I spy -Laggy- =O

[MetalAtlas]

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Devonin, across 5100 gameplays, has 34 AAAs, and 239 FCs, with 54 skill tokens. My best AAA is a 6, with some 5s, and my best FCs are a couple 8s, and a bunch of 7s. I am most likely going to be placed somewhere around the middle to lower/middle of division 2. This should help you gauge where you are likely to end up.

Also, if you have -any- tier points, it's pretty much a given that you are D2/D3 minimum.

ok so based off of this- i have about 15 aaa's my best an 8 most lvl 5s about 150-200 Fcs those rangin basically any song ive ever played from 5-s -8s- 10s - to even 12's- im not that great of a player i would say higher inter now than like a month ago where i was lower- im probably the most inconsistent player ever lol and if i got D3, well itd be a shame to get knocked out of my first official tourney first rd