I agree… not everyone works… which is why I first said $1, but the main reason behind the entry fee it to encourage participation with the anticipation of an award at the close of the season. Playing with pressure does help your game, no matter how much you wager, however I’m not so sure how bad you want to win .25 or how bad you don’t want to lose .25 I’d take losing $5 a lot more serious as opposed to a quarter. That’s a 2x Chicken sandwiches, 2x apple pies, small fries, and maybe a small drink!
Damn you, Demarcus! It if wasn’t for my babel software, I wouldn’t be able to translate that page. Good shit, but that’s an old system that they don’t use anymore… 3S, I haven’t seen it used for SFIV or later fighting games.
The problem with that system is the negative points… people in the negative will be turned away from participating more if they feel their skill level isn’t on par to get from under that negative score. Round robin will take up a lot more time to run and having people do make up matches seems non consistent. 1) make up matches only works with the round robin system 2) if the brackets that is created with all the players involved are near 20, that’s a lot of fucking games they have to play to catch, not to mention the time to get them done and report them at which by that time, we would probably be in the middle of running another one! 3) everyone doesn’t have the same schedule, and if people have to wait for them to become available it will prolong their ranking status. (ex: Chris and Sean are 4 days on/off, so for them, you’d have to wait until they become available, but after work, they have personal life errands to run, get some sleep and etc…)
Online is a huge problem Lack of connection integrity and online integrity. Ex: if player A is losing to player B, they can simply unplug/rage quit and say it was their internet connection (not saying anyone would do that) and you don’t have that one on one physical interaction. Hell… I can have Rudy over one night and have him play for me online and people would assume I’d had a good night online on my matches (not saying anyone would do anything like that either) but those are the problems with the online match makeups.
I’m hitting up the spreadsheet now and playing with numbers… I’m also currently converting the last ranbat system into excel as a beta to see how easier I can adjust the points and such.
In order for this to take place, I’ll need a list of every active player. So I’m going to make another post after this as a hold spot for the names. While going through the front page, I’ll go down the list and add who are the regulars, then will add people I have seen maybe once or twice. That way, if I missed anyone, I can be corrected and adjust the list. Following that, I’ll use that list to create a new overall bracket/template on excel.
The point for scheduling things is for people to show up for them. If they miss it, they knew ahead of time to make adjustments and plead their case or whatever. Think of Lawrence… when was the last time he showed up for anything? Been a while because he’s been hitting those books and working hard. So to say it wouldn’t be fair is not relevant as some people simply do not have that sort of time to make up tournaments or matches. Gootecks, Justin, Arturo, and other well known players do not make it to every ranbat or major tourney themselves. Well… maybe Gootecks because his life is SFIV right now, lol. [I <3 U Ryan! -no homo-] but its true.
