Hey everyone, the last tournament was good and fun, but it had some big flaws that i want to address and recap here for possible future tournaments.
Starting with the format. Single map double elim wasn't a bad idea, especially with 9 teams, however even the best teams only played against 3 or 4 teams, and some teams were out after 2 matches. Personally i didn't liked it, and i also think there were too many teams that didn't liked waiting for matches. That's another flaw of the format: the long waiting for matches. Cm8t had to wait 2 (or 3?) matches, crown even more. Terrible. I think the best solution here for future tournaments is to create a „league“ system that was made in JMR‘s Anniversary Tourney, where every team played against every other team, and the winner is rank 1 of the table (or with playoffs?).
This will most likely be more work for the hoster, but a much better alternative for teams (and will also lead to a longer tournament).
I really like this idea, mainly because it gives the hoster the possibility to penalize teams that misbehaved with „penalty point's" (e.g. not posting sshots, delaying the matches and so on).
15 minutes for each map. Yep, i will change it to 20 minutes. Intention behind 15 minutes was to keep it as short as possible, but i have to admit that 15 is too short and 5 minutes more can really change the outcome of a match.
Maps. This was another big flaw in my opinion. Some teams („unintentionally“) played on the same „boring“ map, because both sides eliminated all the other maps, where the enemy team has a better performance(?). Out of the 9 maps i gave „only“ 6 were played, and 3 of those were played three or more times. The map elim. Rule also wasn't that handy for matches, teams were not really sure who would start with the elimination, sometimes maps were eliminated 2 times (which was ofc corrected) and naming 9 maps in the short dp-chat isn't that good.
I think i will add a bigger mappool next-time (with more „unused“ maps) and the rule that the bottom of the bracket will name 3 maps, that will be played. The top bracket can choose then one of those maps. If the top don't like one of the firstly named maps, they can once skip all three of them (or 1 or 2 specific maps of the list) and also can choose the teamcolor. I will also try to get weaker to the top of brackets and favourites to the bottom, so the weaker ones have the possibility to play on their preferred maps. I hope to see more intense and interesting scores, because i think there are various maps that each team prefer.
(I honestly don't like to “force” maps as a hoster, but if this will be seen as the best way, I will be more than happy with it).
I think those were the main flaws of the Spring Tournament. If you remember another one, feel free to name it. I am also open for every idea and will add those If I like them. The final format will be announced in future tournament threads.
