Jackofalltrades wrote:the one thing i don't like and perhaps i'm not reading the OP right but during the qualifying rounds each "match" between two people is one round. if per chance as happened recently in one of the 1v1 tourney's i'm currently in you load a map at random say Supermax, Pearl Harbor, or City Mogal. first person to play wins the vast majority of the time... by playing groupings or games of 3-5 you get a better show of which person between the given match pairing is "superior". Admittedly the extra games mean extra work but i've been on both ends of the above situation and don't prefer it either way. Winning by starting with an 8 or 9 troop differential out of the gate when base deploy is 9-12 just doesn't feel like a true win. just my thoughts.
I don't disagree with you.
So, in the satellite tournaments, we purposefully set it up for less games, because we wanted to have them be over a little quicker. There will definitely be a little more luck involved there. In all the ones that I ran manually, people did play at least 3 games per round, but not necessarily against one person. But, because bigWham and I both agree with you, we upped the ante quite a bit for this tournament. The least anyone plays in one round is 7 games and the finals are 51 games between two players.