Hi there! I’m old in here and playing fighters in general, but this existed probably until before I got around here and it’s probably a US thing only, but I’m curious about it. Can someone explain me what’s this about? Thanks in advance!
Don’t create fake tournaments.
Basically it was a good tool in theory, not in practice.
It assigned points to tournament winners to keep a ranking of all players from everywhere. But more points were awarded for larger tournaments of course so people started adding fake names to turn a 12 man tournament into a 32 or a 64 man one. From what I’ve been told this resulted in scrubs being at the top of the rankings. Kinda like XBL/PSN.
This time I do believe they have a way around that and I’m guessing it’s going to be restricting it to large tournaments (Evo, Devastation, NCR, etc).
The updating of the APEX should be restricted to Admins( and or selected individuals) and should be in direct correlation to the original Tournament event / result thread.
I remember the original APEX, but I only lurked back then.
It wasn’t restricted to just scrubs who were abusing it, but people who didn’t even go to tournaments a lot were ranked. It was also hilarious that many people didn’t want to be ranked by Apex, because that means that they were seeded, so some people actually liked the randoms doing that so they could have easy brackets. The whole thing was a mess.
That’s how it was back in the day. I think the problem is having a balance; if you restrict it only to admins, what about tournaments for smaller areas with people who don’t post much on SRK? How do they gain legitimacy? APEX 2 probably has a system worked out to deal with the kinks of the old one, so we’ll just have to wait and see.
The other issue was that there was no player skill variant in the system it was all by number of entrants. The winner of a 24 man “tournament” in north dakota got more points than the winner of a 16 man tournament between the best players in Cali.
Lots of flaws in the old APEX system. Great theory though I really hope the formula is right this time around. They used to also count weeklies and stuff so if a random place keeps having 6 man tournamnets every other day and the same guy keeps winning he would be near the top. I really hope they don’t count RANBATS (that is for that areas rankings anyway), weeklies, bi-weeklies, and hell even monthlies.
Reoccuring/Frequent tournaments (not annual or semi annual) I think shouldn’t be allowed in the formula and for a game to get some points that tournamnet must have a set amount of players to qualify for APEX points I’m not talking tournament as a whole I’m talking about the individual game at a tournament.
I’m surprised a thread hasn’t been made in Fighting Game Discussion or the Tournament Listings about the APEX system.
-DJ-
this sounds pretty cool. looking forward to seeing it implemented.