Elements PvP Tournament - Suggestions and Feedback

[dragonsdemesne]

Today's tourney was a very interesting idea, but the classes were imbalanced.  The barbarian class was much weaker than the rest, partly because it could only use six noncreature cards (2 spell 4 permanent) but also because in such a meta, the creature decks are simply weaker.  The mage could use eight nonspell cards (4 creature 4 permanent) and so could the artificer (2 creature 6 spell).  I think that everyone's off-type cards should have equaled the same number. (either 6 or 8)  Mage probably should've been 2 creature 4 permanent, and artificer should've been some other combination of 2 and 4, or 3 and 3 creatures/spells.  That would've helped the barbarian a little by giving everyone the same degree of freedom.  It would probably also have been a very good idea to ban discord and earthquake, because of the 14 quanta card cap and the impracticability of nova or immo based decks under these rules.

[Jenkar]

*making a note that i heavily dislike the penalties for forfeiting finals*

[kisking11]

I don't know if it's possible, but could you make some of the tournaments other time? Because every of the tourneys are at dawn for me, and my work doesn't let me to apply to them. I really wanna be part of at least one, but it's impossible for me in these times. Could you make some of the touneys 2-3 hours later?

Thanks for your answer: Kisking
 

[Jenkar]

I don't know if it's possible, but could you make some of the tournaments other time? Because every of the tourneys are at dawn for me, and my work doesn't let me to apply to them. I really wanna be part of at least one, but it's impossible for me in these times. Could you make some of the touneys 2-3 hours later?

Thanks for your answer: Kisking
 

Tournaments are regularly rotated, if i recall correctly.

[CuCN]

This week's tournament: 03:00 GMT
Last week's tournament: 18:00 GMT
Next week's tournament: 11:00 GMT

If all these are at dawn for you, you have bigger problems than being able to attend the tournaments.

[w4sh1ng7on]

This week's tournament: 03:00 GMT
Last week's tournament: 18:00 GMT
Next week's tournament: 11:00 GMT

If all these are at dawn for you, you have bigger problems than being able to attend the tournaments.

You live in Alaska?? hauahaha of 3GMT up as18GMT is 15 hours difference. How can dawn on where you live last so long?

[Fippe94]

Each week the tournament is 8 hours later than the one before. Every 3 weeks (or every 24 hour interval) another hour gets added so the next 3 tournaments are 1 hour later than the 3 before. This means that after 24 weeks, every hour have had a tournament. As others have said, if every hour for you is dawn, you live in a weird country :p For future reference, look at this link: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,50138.0.html

[kisking11]

Oh, sorry then, this was my fault. Thanks for the answers.
Next time I will think before I post, you are right. I didn't see they are other times, just saw this and I thought every tourneys at the same time. Thanks  

[RootRanger]

Half-Prizes
The Problem: It's really unfortunate for a tournament to be cancelled. People who wanted to participate, who perhaps event spent hours preparing decks, are not given the chance to play because there aren't quite enough people who show up. A dozen people, or even more, are denied the enjoyment of playing in a tournament, even after the time they have put into deckbuilding. Cancelled tournaments are a problem because people lose out on an experience they would have found entertaining.
The Solution: I understand that we can't simply have a tournament with <16 players and still give out the normal prizes. It would devalue the prizes to give a forum icon to someone who won only three matches, or a mark to someone who won only two, because those players received byes in the first round of a tournament involving fewer than 16 players. But is there a way to allow a tournament to continue without devaluing the prizes we hand out? I say there is. We make the prizes smaller, so that it is no more difficult to win a prize in a >16 player tournament than in a regular tournament.
The Implementation: If a tournament has between 8 and 15 players, we instead reward Half-Prizes. 1st Place in a Half-Prize tournament receives 5k electrum and a Nymph/Mark. This is the same prize given to a 2nd place player in a regular tournament. 2nd Place in a Half-Prize tournament receives 3k electrum, the prize given to a 4th place player in a regular tournament. 3rd Place receives 1k electrum, the prize given to a 6th place player in a regular tournament.
The Results: In a tournament with 16 players or more, a player must win a minimum of 3 matches to receive 5k electrum and a Nymph/Mark, and a minimum 2 matches to receive 3k electrum. In a Half-Prize tournament, these rewards are the same. Half-Prizes allows tournaments to continue without rewarding prizes unfairly.

The new prizes would look like this.

	16 Players or More	8 to 15 Players
1st	7,000 electrum + Nymph/Mark + Trophy	5,000 electrum + Nymph/Mark
2nd	5,000 electrum + Nymph/Mark	3,000 electrum
3rd	4,000 electrum	1,000 electrum
4th	3,000 electrum
5th	2,000 electrum
6th	1,000 electrum

[DANIEELA]

Supporting idea of RootRanger

And some of my ideas....
Postponded Tournament should not ever be at the same time.
If there is lack of participants,and it causes postponding,there is high probability that it will happened again (at the same time).

My idea is also to skip starting time of tournament,if it is postponded allready at this time.
E.g. if last one was at 03.00 gmt,it should NEVER more be at the same time,and we should erase 03.00 gmt as starting time for future tournaments.
So,when rotatoin comes to 03.00 gmt,starting time should be changed to one step ahead-11.00 gmt (if that time was not erased before).

Reasons for that...
Most players are from America and Europe.
So,we can expect that most participants will join at the time that responds to players from those 2 continents.
Must not be true,but i would try...
Not saying that Asia and Australia dont play this game,but there are fewer players,especialy on tournaments.

[dawn to dusk]

We would have had enough people joining the tourney today, but someone came an hour late... we also have another regular customer who was found on chat so that's more people to join.

[w4sh1ng7on]

Thursday, and no news of the tournament this Saturday, is this normal?