by Optimus Prime on Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:47 am
The idea is interesting, but it would put into effect the same problem that there was when gibbom won the Battle Royale. He gained over 2000 points and jumped immediately to the top of the scoreboard. His score really wasn't a direct reflection of his skill at that point.
I think the idea of putting up a "point ante" to join a tournament would be interesting and most definitely would make the tournaments more meaningful for the winners, but in the end it has a couple of flaws.
1. If a player were to win a single tournament they could jump up the scoreboard in quite a hurry which isn't a reflection on something they actually did. In some tournaments you get lucky if you win and getting a reward that takes you straight to the first page of the scores seems a little unbalanced.
2. Programming that type of a system would more than likely be a bigger hassle than it is worth. Keeping track of that sort of thing I can only imagine being some kind of horrific nightmare.
3. If you look through the tournament forum at the different tournaments available there are already very many that take multiple rounds, sometimes up to 20-25 games to actually win. In the end, by the time the winner is determined they have already accumulated enough points to make this "wagering" system somewhat irrelevant. For example: In the Point Grabbers Series of tournaments, the winner of the tournament has had to win at least 4 games to get there. In doing so you can estimate that he has earned at least 15-20 points per win (sometimes more if they were involved in some upsets) which puts them at roughly 70-80 points of increase to their score in the end. Nobody else will have gotten that many points because they didn't win the whole thing.
