Elements PvP Tournament - Suggestions and Feedback

[dragonsdemesne]

Can we get a more varied time zone schedule for tourneys?  The vast majority of them are not at good times for North America.  This last one was at 3am for me, for instance, so I missed it.  Usually they're at midnight, 3am or 6am, with the occasional friday evening 6pm one (which I also miss due to work).  Pretty much all I'm ever able to make is the occasional midnight one if I'm still up by then.

[Higurashi]

It's basically impossible to have a more varied schedule, and the "vast majority" is an illusion of yours. We rotate by a set of 3 where the next tournament is 8 hours after the previous one. After three tourneys, that time jumps forward one hour. This continues endlessly so that we actually cover all the hours of the day. This is largely why tournaments have been missing organizers more lately. It comes at a cost I warned people about long ago when we were discussing changing schedules. I'm still not convinced this is best, but it's what we're running.

[majofa]

It's basically impossible to have a more varied schedule, and the "vast majority" is an illusion of yours. We rotate by a set of 3 where the next tournament is 8 hours after the previous one. After three tourneys, that time jumps forward one hour. This continues endlessly so that we actually cover all the hours of the day. This is largely why tournaments have been missing organizers more lately. It comes at a cost I warned people about long ago when we were discussing changing schedules. I'm still not convinced this is best, but it's what we're running.

The earliest time of the three has been at midnight GMT for the last several rotations.

[Higurashi]

Nope. This was at 1 GMT. http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,42610.0.html
If the rotation hasn't been followed, however, I'll see that it does.

[dragonsdemesne]

All I know is that every tournament thread I've clicked on since the new schedule started has been at one of those times.  Granted, there will have been a few I didn't check when I knew I couldn't make it no matter what time it was held at, but I've checked most.

[regen2k9]

Figured this was the place to ask this, but is it true that tournaments are on hold (due to a lack of codes)?

[Higurashi]

No. We still host tourneys if we don't have codes, then hand them out later. If a tourney's not up, real life has likely intervened and you can expect speedbuilding.

[regen2k9]

No. We still host tourneys if we don't have codes, then hand them out later. If a tourney's not up, real life has likely intervened and you can expect speedbuilding.

Oh, I'm not trying to rush anyone!  Sorry if it came out that way.  Pika's on my brawl team, so believe me, I understand that tourney posting won't always take precedence.  I just heard it as a rumor floating around in chat, that's all.

[dragonsdemesne]

I've never had more than about a week to a week and a half delay in tourney codes, and usually they're given within hours or less after the tourney ends.  I think the league codes take longer (they haven't been issued yet, anyway, and it's been about that long) and that might've been what they were discussing in chat, but I wasn't there so I can't say for sure.

Also thanks for the tourney tomorrow being at a time North America can actually play without suffering sleep deprivation   It's at 11am for me, so it'll be 10am-early afternoon for the rest of the continent; the last few have been at times I didn't want to be awake for :p

[blueberrymania]

This last tournament wasn't exactly fair, as Trident was allowed, but earthquake wasn't, and regular nymphs weren't allowed, but Nymph's Tears was.

[Cheesy111]

This last tournament wasn't exactly fair, as Trident was allowed, but earthquake wasn't, and regular nymphs weren't allowed, but Nymph's Tears was.

How is that not fair? *confused*

[n00b]

This last tournament wasn't exactly fair, as Trident was allowed, but earthquake wasn't, and regular nymphs weren't allowed, but Nymph's Tears was.

Not banning NT might've been an oversight on our part, but Trident was intentional. It has never been one of those overly-used cards and we did not expect much of a problem from it in the tournament. Also, unless I'm mistaken, neither of those two cards played a major role in deciding the winner. (This is referring to the Sept 15 2012 tourney for all future readers)