Elements PvP Tournament - Suggestions and Feedback

[ddevans96]

The alternative is tournaments like the one we have this week, where a specific shard is featured.

[mega plini]

The alternative is tournaments like the one we have this week, where a specific shard is featured.

I think it is certainly a step in the right direction. But it is difficult to check if they are balanced when you never combine two or more shards in the same deck.

[Jen-i]

It would be appreciated if the rules were all included in the OP of the tourney thread.

This last week the I played a deck with upped SoG's the tourney rule was:
Upgraded cards and shards are not allowed (except SoG).

This rule is unclear - now it it important to note the T.O.'s did a great job answering the question later in the thread about exactly this issue, and if I had been deckbuilding more than 5 minutes before the tourney started I would have had time to read the thread.

However I don't find in unreasonable to assume that the rules would be included in the 1st two posts of each tourney thread, that it should not  be necessary to read the entire thread to find the rules.

It's not a significant change - just something small that would prevent similar problems in the future.

[Vineroz]

It would be appreciated if the rules were all included in the OP of the tourney thread.

This last week the I played a deck with upped SoG's the tourney rule was:
Upgraded cards and shards are not allowed (except SoG).

This rule is unclear - now it it important to note the T.O.'s did a great job answering the question later in the thread about exactly this issue, and if I had been deckbuilding more than 5 minutes before the tourney started I would have had time to read the thread.

However I don't find in unreasonable to assume that the rules would be included in the 1st two posts of each tourney thread, that it should not  be necessary to read the entire thread to find the rules.

It's not a significant change - just something small that would prevent similar problems in the future.

I did made a few critical mistakes in this tournament. Please accept my sincere apologies, and I will try my best to ensure they won't happen again.

[Jen-i]

No apologies needed - if I'd have planned on coming to the tourney or woken up earlier I'd have had a chance to read the rules more fully - just making a note to help the tournies run more smoothly in the future

[dragonsdemesne]

Is there any chance that we could get some sort of sticky thread listing the start times of the next few tourneys?  I know that there is a set rotation, and if I went and dug through all the threads I could find it, but I was just thinking that some sort of sticky with, say, the next 2-3 tourney time countdowns might be handy to have around.

[Vangelios]

I think you guys forgot the trophy icon of someone....

[Vineroz]

I think you guys forgot the trophy icon of someone....

Sorry! There you go.

[Embrada]

tournaments sound fun I hope to play in one playing other players is more fun then playing the AI it can be so dumb some times

[Vangelios]

The idea of voting is great, but only 4 cards per element was very limited, RGN just was king, and coin has never been so valuable

[dragonsdemesne]

Yeah, the meta was really limited in that tourney.  Of the 7 games I played, 13/14 times monowater, the strongest deck, was used.  (my opponents did it 7 times and I did it 6, using monofire once to try and be different :p)  The idea behind it was great, though.  The biggest problem is that like 95% of the cards that were legal were creatures, so it meant that the one element that could actually do something about creatures (yesterday, water) was the strongest.  The next strongest, fire, was such because it had the best creatures remaining.  I think probably every single player built the 6 dragon 6 seraph 18 quanta deck and the 6 icebolt 6 dragon x dry spell deck.

If this idea is done again, something should be tweaked in the rules so that a mix of creatures, spells, and permanents are available.  Those few that were available this time were almost all unusable competitively in the meta, aside from water.

[Blacksmith]

The idea of voting is great, but only 4 cards per element was very limited, RGN just was king, and coin has never been so valuable

I agree the idea was good. Maybe if we wore able to see what others have voted for it would have been better. I know that many people would change their votes when they see how it evolves but I think that would be better.