General Discussion

[Memorystick]

Amazing how I called the winner's bracket perfectly (up to this point), but failed with the loser's (namely, blonde's match)

[Malduk]

I'm sorry to say, but I'll have to withdraw from Trials. I'll have to travel a lot for the next few weeks, and I doubt I'll have enough spare time to devote to trials. My girlfriend is a violin player, and she has series of concerts in a region and I finally decided to tag along, and maybe seal a business deal or two on those fancy dinners after concerts. 
I will carry a laptop with me, and follow up whats going on here when I get connection, so good luck to all participants!

[xdude]

Coinich and Malduk have quit the Trials.

[truddy02]

Hey, I won the predictions.  Nice job by kevkev coming all the way back to win after losing round 1. 

[Dm]

Half the people betting got it wrong because they bet on GG. Massive fail bets are win.

Coinich and Malduk have quit the Trials.

So did Phantom Fox, 

[Pineapple]

patchx94 or aznkid66 has quit the trials.
i hope that someone with less score than me didn't turn away from air trials because i was in

[Dragoon]

I think for next trials, if you're going to have the Master's Tourney run during Phase 1, you should give the Masters time through the end of Phase 2 to finish their articles/card ideas/HB decks/etc.

[Kael Hate]

I think for next trials, if you're going to have the Master's Tourney run during Phase 1, you should give the Masters time through the end of Phase 2 to finish their articles/card ideas/HB decks/etc.

Would have been nice.

[ak65ala]

Interesting, how voting was moved to 3rd phase... I will be curious to see how many people will make it to the final battle with placing second in the PvP stage.  40% is a huge amount to make up...  I figure most people with now only vote for the master and the winner of the PvP event... making the vote between the other losers to be throw away votes.  Could be wrong though. 

He're hoping I get a massive influx of votes (hahahaaa, I will cry laughing if that happens.  Never in a million years.)

[TheonlyrealBeef]

Voting could make a big difference if not all people scored equal points in phase 1. For example the person getting first in the battles got only 5 points in phase one and the person getting second got 10 points from phase 1. In that case voting does decide who gets to face the master.

But just that the challenger would already be pretty much set does not mean you shouldn't vote on her/him! (or specifically, me ) Amount of upgrades can make the difference between a victory and a loss in the final battle.

[SpikeSpiegel]

Voting could make a big difference if not all people scored equal points in phase 1. For example the person getting first in the battles got only 5 points in phase one and the person getting second got 10 points from phase 1. In that case voting does decide who gets to face the master.

But just that the challenger would already be pretty much set does not mean you shouldn't vote on her/him! (or specifically, me ) Amount of upgrades can make the difference between a victory and a loss in the final battle.

I (almost) quote TORB.

But after thinking about it, I would to suggest a modify for next trials...

This time what makes the difference for challengers is, above all, battle phase (in this case, phase 2). Phase 1 was not selective, because a challenger received a score not for the quality of his work, but only to have done it.

And community vote phase (phase 3) unlikely will be decisive and able to overturn the results obtained so far. (After this, I will be kicked out from time trial by community vote...lulz...)

So, my suggestion is: to mantain the spirit of phase 1 (a proof of worthiness helpful for the community), but all challengers works should be evaluate by a jury.

How? Every challenger will be submit his work by PM to an organizer member (or to his master, why not?), and a jury will evaluate all works (without knowing who did it, just a way to mantain things...honest...)

The jury could have formed by all masters, and a master couldn't vote for his element works...


I hope I wasnt' too...intricated...

 

[Dragoon]

That's an interesting suggestion Spike.  I think current Masters would be best but even the Council could possibly do it.  You could possibly split Phase 3 into 2 parts, a populist vote and an "elite" vote.  I do like the idea of people looking at the quality of work both in the writing done in Phase 1 and the deck-building done in Phase 2.