Grid - Suggestions and Feedback

[Calindu]

Post only result until all people send picks?
Will be an good idea,actually not too much people can play 1 month and half

About this, how about making a selection? Kind of Budokan style, and this applies to all long events.

Say an Event would go on for two months instead of one. Instead of having two flat out months and all dropouts etc. you can have a one-month phase, a system to eliminate about half to three quarters of players and the rest of the Event goes on from that. Also, if somebody lost interest and doesn't want to play or something, you can pass on to the next best player without Parasites at this moment. This is kind of general feedback, not only for Grid, but could apply here too.

Erm...i would say not a lot people can play 2 months,i can play until 14 July,so...2 months=i need a sub.

[coinich]

I too prefer our 3 day format.  Howsabout this:  you gain 2 extra relics if you turn in your picks within the first day, 1 relic within the second day, and 0 relics within the third day?

[truddy02]

I just want to say this has been such a great event and very well done.  I like the round length as it moves along fairly quickly and still gives time to get your matches done without much problem.  I think coinich has a good idea to encourage early picking.  This event has been a lot of fun and run very well.  My thanks to Gyro who has come up with some interesting round events and kept this running smoothly the whole time.  I also think you have proven that if you set hard deadlines for getting matches done and stick to them that most matches are going to get done in this time.  I was the last person to sign up because I was contemplating whether I wanted to play or not and I am very glad I decided to play because this has been such a fun event with lots of strategy and creative deckbuilding.  Gyro has been a great event organizer and I would be glad to play in any event you run in the future.

[kirchj33]

I reiterate what Truddy says 100%.  This has easily been the most fun event I have ever participated in.

I think there is a small problem with decks not being due until after some matches are posted.  This may be an unavoidable problem for grid #2, and it seems a deckbuilding phase is not the solution in the interest of time.  I fear this will be abused at some point without any chance to police it.

[SteppingStone81]

Best option: just send the decks to the event organizer, and he will post results after the round is complete.

[kirchj33]

Best option: just send the decks to the event organizer, and he will post results after the round is complete.

o.O I like this.  Good thinking!  He already has a ton of work to do with this event, but this shouldn't take too terribly long to do.

[Gyrodiot]

Actually, Grid organization involves a lot of tasks that are not terribly long to do. However, if you sum all of them... That's long. For every round, I have no less than 9 files to generate :

Round post itself, with the event.
Grid
HTML version of the Grid
Cards waiting queue
Matchups
Picks
Corresponding cards
Targets
Cards that disappear due to targeting

Most of the processing involves copy-paste, regular expressions and triple-checking. I could have prepared some programs to make the job easier, but I chose to enter the data manually and not force a precise formatting for your PM.

Hopefully next time I'll be even more prepared

[RavingRabbid]

The biggest problem I have with grid is: I am 0-4. If I lose this round too, I'll have no chance to play and win the whole event. Maybe I'll win a match or two. But knowing you're going to get hammered every match is not really fun. I'd already have quat the event, if there weren't parasites, because at a certain point it becomes just frustration.

[The_Mormegil]

The biggest problem I have with grid is: I am 0-4. If I lose this round too, I'll have no chance to play and win the whole event. Maybe I'll win a match or two. But knowing you're going to get hammered every match is not really fun. I'd already have quat the event, if there weren't parasites, because at a certain point it becomes just frustration.

This is a problem I can see with most events. Parasites punish people who drop out, but what about people who have little to no chance of winning? That sucks a lot, and I can see people dropping out for that... Maybe if two people agree to drop out, they can ask Event Organizer about it? That way there's no bye issue...

[Gyrodiot]

A way to solve this would be the auto-elimination of the last 3-4 players every round starting from the 3rd or 4th Round.

To make such drops happen for the current Grid... it's theorically possible, but I need other players' advice.

[kirchj33]

I think that would be ok.  I can see forfeits of matchups with these players as potentially ruining the event for leaders as well because missing a game with a disinterested player could affect one's chances of winning the event as well.  Would this totally screw up the grid and relics that are being put on it if people begin to be eliminated?

[Gyrodiot]

With some adaptation of the Target system, nothing I can't handle.