FYI I tried to register for MARTI dice server with gmail this week and it no longer works. protonmail seems to work well.
AA50-41 Tech Tourney sign-up (sign-ups CLOSED)
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1. DarthMaximus
2. DutchmanD
3. DY
4. DesertJournalist
5. Zygmund
6. Telamon
7. Bigbadgoo
8. SgtBlitz
9. Pin
10. Questioneer
11. TimTheEnchanter
12. Omega
13. Bardoly
14. Gargantua
15. Lynxes
16. Perrys!
17. Joe Cold
18. KGB
19. Todd7912
20. HannibalSW
21. katfishkris
22. souL
23. Apollo
24. DemolitionMan
25. a44bigdog -
I’ll play :-)
1. DarthMaximus
2. DutchmanD
3. DY
4. DesertJournalist
5. Zygmund
6. Telamon
7. Bigbadgoo
8. SgtBlitz
9. Pin
10. Questioneer
11. TimTheEnchanter
12. Omega
13. Bardoly
14. Gargantua
15. Lynxes
16. Perrys!
17. Joe Cold
18. KGB
19. Todd7912
20. HannibalSW
21. katfishkris
22. souL
23. Apollo
24. DemolitionMan
25. a44bigdog
26. Mistergreen -
1. DarthMaximus
2. DutchmanD
3. DY
4. DesertJournalist
5. Zygmund
6. Telamon
7. Bigbadgoo
8. SgtBlitz
9. Pin
10. Questioneer
11. TimTheEnchanter
12. Omega
13. Bardoly
14. Gargantua
15. Lynxes
16. Perrys!
17. Joe Cold
18. KGB
19. Todd7912
20. HannibalSW
21. katfishkris
22. souL
23. Apollo
24. DemolitionMan
25. a44bigdog
26. Mistergreen
27. P@nther -
1. DarthMaximus
2. DutchmanD
3. DY
4. DesertJournalist
5. Zygmund
6. Telamon
7. Bigbadgoo
8. SgtBlitz
9. Pin
10. Questioneer
11. TimTheEnchanter
12. Omega
13. Bardoly
14. Gargantua
15. Lynxes
16. Perrys!
17. Joe Cold
18. KGB
19. Todd7912
20. HannibalSW
21. katfishkris
22. souL
23. Apollo
24. DemolitionMan
25. a44bigdog
26. Mistergreen
27. P@nther
28. Botider -
1. DarthMaximus
2. DutchmanD
3. DY
4. DesertJournalist
5. Zygmund
6. Telamon
7. Bigbadgoo
8. SgtBlitz
9. Pin
10. Questioneer
11. TimTheEnchanter
12. Omega
13. Bardoly
14. Gargantua
15. Lynxes
16. Perrys!
17. Joe Cold
18. KGB
19. Todd7912
20. HannibalSW
21. katfishkris
22. souL
23. Apollo
24. DemolitionMan
25. a44bigdog
26. Mistergreen
27. P@nther
28. Botider
29. JWW -
And I am player 30…and oh how I would like to be 30 again.
1. DarthMaximus
2. DutchmanD
3. DY
4. DesertJournalist
5. Zygmund
6. Telamon
7. Bigbadgoo
8. SgtBlitz
9. Pin
10. Questioneer
11. TimTheEnchanter
12. Omega
13. Bardoly
14. Gargantua
15. Lynxes
16. Perrys!
17. Joe Cold
18. KGB
19. Todd7912
20. HannibalSW
21. katfishkris
22. souL
23. Apollo
24. DemolitionMan
25. a44bigdog
26. Mistergreen
27. P@nther
28. Botider
29. JWW
30. PGMatt -
1. DarthMaximus
2. DutchmanD
3. DY
4. DesertJournalist
5. Zygmund
6. Telamon
7. Bigbadgoo
8. SgtBlitz
9. Pin
10. Questioneer
11. TimTheEnchanter
12. Omega
13. Bardoly
14. Gargantua
15. Lynxes
16. Perrys!
17. Joe Cold
18. KGB
19. Todd7912
20. HannibalSW
21. katfishkris
22. souL
23. Apollo
24. DemolitionMan
25. a44bigdog
26. Mistergreen
27. P@nther
28. Botider
29. JWW
30. PGMatt
31. hoboWheeee :lol:
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1. DarthMaximus
2. DutchmanD
3. DY
4. DesertJournalist
5. Zygmund
6. Telamon
7. Bigbadgoo
8. SgtBlitz
9. Pin
10. Questioneer
11. TimTheEnchanter
12. Omega
13. Bardoly
14. Gargantua
15. Lynxes
16. Perrys!
17. Joe Cold
18. KGB
19. Todd7912
20. HannibalSW
21. katfishkris
22. souL
23. Apollo
24. DemolitionMan
25. a44bigdog
26. Mistergreen
27. P@nther
28. Botider
29. JWW
30. PGMatt
31. hobo
32. YashaI’ll take a stab :-D
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Great! We finally made it to 32. Maybe we can get started soon. The signups have slowed down lately, so perhaps if any more sign up, then they could be alternates or something.
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I think we will go with a 32 person bracket, but I think one or 2 of the players that signed-up would prefer to be alternates, so I’ll keep the sign-up open for a bit longer for additional alternates to sign-up.
If we end up with 33 or something, I can always move myself to an alternate slot so a member can play.
I may wait until after the 4th of July to start though, we’ll see if we get any more alternates by this weekend. So for people that want to manage the number of games they play in you can probably assume early July for a start date.
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Add Jennifer to the list if there is room, if not, add me to the alternate list please!
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Drats! Add me to the Alternate list as well. I’d really like to play in this one.
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If we do start next week, around the 4th, I may be on holidays until at least Friday or Saturday. I hope this is OK/won’t cause any problems. I’d really like to play in a tech tournament.
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Yes, and I would like to be “in” as well. I mentioned I would sub because I was #17, thinking it might stop at 16, but I’ll happily let someone pound me.
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Whoops, missed this thread earlier. Alternate list too please. :-D
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Is there enough people asking for alternate slots to just open up more regular slots?
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1. DarthMaximus
2. DutchmanD
3. DY
4. DesertJournalist
5. Zygmund
6. Telamon
7. Bigbadgoo
8. SgtBlitz
9. Pin
10. Questioneer
11. TimTheEnchanter
12. Omega
13. Bardoly
14. Gargantua
15. Lynxes
16. Perrys!
17. Joe Cold
18. KGB
19. Todd7912
20. HannibalSW
21. katfishkris
22. souL
23. Apollo
24. DemolitionMan
25. a44bigdog
26. Mistergreen
27. P@nther
28. Botider
29. JWW
30. PGMatt
31. hobo
32. Yasha
33. Cmdr Jennifer
34. bongaroo
35. anchovyIs there enough people asking for alternate slots to just open up more regular slots?
Well, I hope that everyone who wants to play in the tournament can play, but when you get into odd numbers, it can really mess with the brackets. Maybe if this tourney were double-elimination, then it could work out better, but double elimination might make the tourney go too long.
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I’d hate to have 3 or 4 Alts (or more), that seems like a lot and a I’m not quite ready to start so if another player or 2 signed-up I’d feel bad if they never got in to play.
So, we have a few options:
1) Everyone plays, and if odd number I’ll roll for a random Bye. The Bye will also be an Alt for a No-Show that round, and a No-show only. Once all games start and G and R go the game is official, and if someone leaves after R1 then the other player advances via default and the Bye person would advance as well. This would happen for each round that has an Odd number of players. So each round the match-ups would be randomized and we’d have no set bracket to start. You wouldn’t be eligible for multiple byes.
2) Everyone plays and we set up the bracket and get every bye out of the way in rd 1. This means less round 1 games, since I think I’d have to base it off a 64 person bracket, but we could probably start sooner. This also means a small number of people will play an extra game. We’d have no Alts (unless some sign-up after we started), so a No-Show means automatic advancement. Inital Byes would be based on AA50-41 (No-Tech tourny) for at least the first 8 byes, then probably random roll for the rest. I can exclude myself from a bye.
3) We go with 32 and have 3+ people waiting around. Not a big fan of this option.
4) Other?
Feel free to share your opinion, I’m leaning towards 1 or 2 and if people don’t mind fewer rd 1 games and a slightly longer wait to play for the vaste majority of players then #2 might be the easiest. I think if we end up with 35, that means only 6 players (3 games) for rd 1. That way we get to 32 for rd 2.
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I’d say option #2 is a friendly and simple solution :-)
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If I understand correctly, I don’t think the “give a bye whenever there’s an odd number of players in the round” approach would be very good.
Assuming there were the current number - 35 players - you’d have the following:
Rd 1: 17 games + 1 bye = 18 advance
Rd 2: 9 games, no byes = 9 advance
Rd 3: 4 games+ 1 bye = 5 advance
Rd 4: 2 games + 1 bye = 3 advance
Rd 5: 1 game + 1 bye = 2 advance
Rd 6: 1 gameThat means there’s a bye in almost every round including someone getting a bye into the final game! That does not seem like the best approach to me. I would think you wouldn’t want byes beyond the quarterfinals. I think of the choices you’ve listed, you have to either run a normal 64 team opening round with most people getting byes into round 2 (your option #2), or keep it to 32 with alternates.
However, maybe there’s some other way to get it down to 8 teams with intermittant byes in the first 3 rounds that keeps more people involved throughout each round. I’m just vamping here, so this isn’t really well thought out, but maybe something like…
Round teams games byes Through to next round
Round 1 35 13 9 22
Round 2 22 8 6 14
Round 3 14 6 2 8and from that point, you have a normal 8 team bracket. I think you could even set the brackets up in advance if you really worked at it.
Or maybe there’s even a way to get the byes all out of the way in the first two rounds, so nobody gets a round 3 bye. (11 byes the first round, 9 the second round?)
just some ideas…
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