NEW THINGS: Team Tournaments, Pilot Rankings, Wiki Pages

[Schooly D]

So, thinking back to a conversation I had with aniking a while back, I decided it could be neat if we had team tournaments in addition to the regular monthly solo ones. Of course, to keep Team anikingMOOSE D from just sapping the fun out of it, I decided we would need some sort of rules regarding team formation that would prevent all the good players from gravitating to one team. This is predicated on establishing the skill levels of players. So, I decided to kill two birds with one stone and create the USITS Rankings.

It works like this: you get points based on how well you do in USITS (US-International Tournament Series, the ones we're hosting monthly. Wiki link is at the bottom of the post) tournaments. For competing in a given tournament, you are awarded points equaling 1+ the number of matches you won in the tournament. Your USITS Ranking is a running total of these points.

So, these rankings will partly be used to enforce how much skill can be on one team. Here's how it works: depending on the sizes of the teams in the tournament, a team will have a "point cap" that the total points of all people on the team added up cannot exceed. The point cap for a given tournament will be calculated like this:

point cap = (number of points held by #1 ranked player) + ([n-1]/2)*(average number of points held by all ranked players)

Where "n" is the size of the teams (2, 3, 4, 5). Players who have not played in a USITS tournament have 0 points and are essentially free to add (this should encourage people to bring in newcomers). But hang on, it gets better. A problem arises if someone doesn't compete in USITS tournaments and wants to play in team tournaments because he or she will not have accumulated points to count against his or her team's point cap. To remedy this, I've created another player value called Team Worth (TW).

TW is calculated like USITS Ranking, except that for USITS tournaments the player does NOT compete in (after their first tournament), he is awarded points for that tournament equal to the number of points he received in the previous tournament he played in. Here's an example:

Say Player A competes in USIT1 and earns 3 points. Player A does not compete in USIT2 and USIT3, but competes in USIT4 and earns 2 points. Player A's Team Worth is now 3 + 3 + 3 + 2 = 11, and a team that adds him to their roster loses 11 points from their point cap. Simple, eh?

Team Worth ONLY matters in the context of point caps.

This may change, but right now I see Team Tournaments progressing like this: teams are randomly seeded in a single-elimination bracket. When two teams face, one person from one team plays one person from the other team. The team that wins the most individual match-ups wins the match and advances. Tie-breakers may be needed for even-numbered teams. The team with the lower Team Worth gets to choose who fights whom in a given match.

Because this is a lot of information to keep track of, I've made some additions to the awesome VOOT wiki. Incoming links:

http://voot.wikia.com/wiki/USITS - US-International Tournament Series (our monthly tournaments)
http://voot.wikia.com/wiki/USIT1 - US-International Tournament 1 (the one we just had last week)
http://voot.wikia.com/wiki/USITS_Rankings - The rankings
http://voot.wikia.com/wiki/Schooly_D - My player page. Use this as a template to make your own! (this will make keeping track of points and TW much easier)

[Sixfortyfive]

I'm game, but I wonder if you're making this more complicated than it needs to be.

I also hate to be a downer, but I dunno if there would be enough people committed to something like this in order to sustain it.

Why am I awake?

[Schooly D]

Yeah, it's a lot of information very quickly. Hopefully after some simmering time it won't seem to complicated. But if you can suggest another idea for how to have team tournaments, I'm all ears.

[Schooly D]

I also hate to be a downer, but I dunno if there would be enough people committed to something like this in order to sustain it.

Also, I think that a team competition would draw more players than an individual tournament. Someone who otherwise wouldn't bother to compete can be coerced by someone who wants him on his team.

[Tieria Arde]

Im liking this whole team setup, now i just gotta find a tournament that matches my schedule. <_<