9th Trials - Phase 2: The Battle Round

[Zawadx]

A note for off-element bans: Shard of Focus may be banned, as it isn't a non-shard creature. Sorry for any confusion caused.

[CrockettRocket]

So we could ban it against ?

[JonathanCrazyJ]

You could ban it as a shard, AND ban a non-creature card also as I understand it

[deuce22]

I am requesting an extension of the duel phase. 24 games in 7 days against several different opponents is...A LOT. I see a lot of matches not getting done. If this is the intention of the TrOs, then so be it.

I think another 7 days would be sufficient, but any extension would be helpful

[Vangelios]

I think another 7 days would be sufficient, but any extension would be helpful

+1

[dawn to dusk]

I think another 7 days would be sufficient, but any extension would be helpful

+1

+1

while i stated in chat that i should be able to get them done, it would be so much better to have the extra week

[CrockettRocket]

I think another 7 days would be sufficient, but any extension would be helpful

+1

+1

while i stated in chat that i should be able to get them done, it would be so much better to have the extra week

so far at +3 (including myself)

[RootRanger]

Make that +2. If Trials is delayed a week, so is the start of Trenzalore, and perhaps elk's event as well.

[JonathanCrazyJ]

Personally I think that it is doable if you get organised. Some times are harder to connect up but isn't high organisation a mark of a good master?

Having said that, a lot of people probably have far more opponents than I (6) so whatever the crowd / TrOs want is fine, but when I saw the phase I thought "24 games in 2 weeks? wow, that's a lot with 2 jobs..." But actually organising them around my schedule, and powering through them is giving me a sense of accomplishment and keeps the event fresh. The longer it drags on, the less of an 'Epic Trial' it is in my opinion.

Dat my 2 

[CrockettRocket]

Personally I think that it is doable if you get organised. Some times are harder to connect up but isn't high organisation a mark of a good master?

Having said that, a lot of people probably have far more opponents than I (6) so whatever the crowd / TrOs want is fine, but when I saw the phase I thought "24 games in 2 weeks? wow, that's a lot with 2 jobs..." But actually organising them around my schedule, and powering through them is giving me a sense of accomplishment and keeps the event fresh. The longer it drags on, the less of an 'Epic Trial' it is in my opinion.

Dat my 2 

Some times are harder to connect up but isn't high organisation a mark of a good master?

-1 game could be worth lots of points. -1 opponent is worth too many points to be argued against the organization of a master. If you couldn't meet up with me, and only I was active and trying hard to find a time for us both to meet up, should I be denied the points of the games I could've potentially won against you? Are you trying to answer that question with "Yes, because high organization is a mark of a good master,"? Or would it be more fair to give trialists more time to get out the games, and award the points respectfully?

That is how I perceived your stance. If that is the case, then TrO's could've given trialists a very short amount of time, 3 days (an example) and then made matches more important so a trialists time and organization has more value. However, if my argument is also taken to an extreme, then phase 2 could never end until everyone finished their matches, but would probably stop after 1 month max.

So my conclusion/suggestion is that TrO's could come up with an arbitrary number of unfinished matches, and if 1 day before the end of the deadline the number of unfinished matches is equel to their arbitrary number, the extend it by however long that think the remaining matches should take. This is just my idea/conclusion/suggestion, but I'll let the TrO's do their job. I'm not trying argue with jonathan, I'm just speaking my thoughts and would love if jonathan PM'd me if my perceptions were right or wrong.

[mathman101]

I don't think a full week more is needed, but  24-48 hours extra would be nice.

For most people in Americas the timer ends in the early AM (6AM local for myself) on a Sunday. For some people with large spread time zones between opponents it may be useful to have that extra Sunday morning/afternoon to play the match if the opponent can only play in their local afternoon/evening time.

Just my thoughts on the extra time discussion.

[JonathanCrazyJ]

I don't think a full week more is needed, but  24-48 hours extra would be nice.

This, I could get behind