I’m not seeing a problem here. I’ve been a member of this site for going on 2 years. I didn’t start playing tourneys until about 3-4 months ago. I only started because the number of tourney’s that interested me increased. The tourneys run by Darrin, mg, HA, JR, b00060 and others may be simple in format but are great fun. They’re easy to understand, not overly time committing, have great organizers, are well run, well communicated, and have quality players. I have not been in one of these guy’s tourneys that I have not been up against a quality opponent from round 1 through finals. I have not seen one of these tourneys get pulled due to lack of interest or poor management. Great job guys. Keep up the great work. I tool around the tourney page every day looking for one or more of these guy’s tourneys and I look forward to getting the invites. Is there a problem with these not filling? I doubt it. They always seem to fill fast and that’s because of the reasons I stated above, not because searchers are too lazy to weed through these tourneys to find another more interesting tourney so they settle on one of these.
As for them being too rudimentary or simple, since when has the format of these tourneys failed us? The March Madness and the NFL are set up as a bracketed, one and out. MLB, NBA, and NHL are set up as a best of 3, 5, or 7 bracketed formats. Not sure what’s wrong with that. It’s simple, effective and fun.
To those who complain about having to search through all these tourneys to find the one that they want…really? Are you serious? I look at the tourney’s forum every day…front to back. I know the franchises that I like and the tourney titles that I don’t recognize, I take a second to look through and if interests me, I join. 5-10 minutes max. Is there another way that we can set up the forum? Maybe set the forum into sub forums like 1 v 1; singles multiplayer, doubles, trips, quads, assassin, terminator, speed, etc. I’m no expert at computers and programming, but is there a way that we could search through tourneys by selecting various criteria including age, game type, organizer, special features, space available, etc. Could we set up these standard bracketed tourneys, 1 and out or best of 3, 5 or 7 in its own sub-forum and the “special or unique” tourneys in another?
To continue on my rant, in the last few weeks I’ve seen a lot of complaining about “volume”, too many tournaments, regulating the number of maps over in cartography (can’t remember the exact details), too much farming, record number of clan challenges, number of players in whac a mod, the Battle Royals…volume, volume, volume. Since when has this been a problem? I say the number of tourneys, the number of maps in production, and the number of games being played are all indicative of an increasingly popular site. That’s a good thing. What next? Too many clans, too many games, too many medals, too many members, too many Mods?
I say let the people play! Let the people like HA, JR, Darrin, mg, bart, b00060 (and all the others…sorry if I forgot anyone) who take the time to set up and manage these tournament s, go forward with as many tournaments as they can manage. Stop trying to restrict the site to conform to tourists and the weak. Let the site grow and flourish. Let it be fun for those of us who like the way things are run too. Make the players responsible for themselves. It takes 5-10 minutes a day to look over the Tourney page. Join a clan. Post to forums, make maps, set up tourneys. This site continues to grow…use technology to help make things easier, don’t restrict us. Stop trying to be like the US Federal Government, trying to get involved with too many issues which are important to too few. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
My 2 cents. Keep up the good work tournament organizers. What you do does not go unrecognized.
Sorry if I reapeated some issues that were already brought up...I was too lazy to read through 5 pages of posts....
That's irony incase you missed it.
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