[Online] 2016 Peasant Play-Offs Jan 8, 2017, 8:53 PM
Manudesbois Following the idea of sister morphine (here ) , I suggest to the top 8 players of 2016â??s league to take part in a special tournament only between them.

The aim is to make the league more appealing for players, by giving access to a tournament between the best at the end of the year. Also, it is interesting for spectators to watch the best players of the year play together.

So people of the top 8 (rankings here ), please register in the following doc :

2016 Peasant Play-Offs

If you are not available or do not wish to play for any reason, please notice me, and the 9th player will take your seat (and so on). If I have no answer, it will be automatic.

Since there is no perfect way to choose which system to use, sorry for those who donâ??t like it or would have preferred it some other way. Here is what I came with for the details :
- Allow spectators, but do not allow them to see hands or to chat
- Play with the new banlist
- Aether revolt allowed
- Free choice of deck, give hash as usual
- One full month to finish (in order not to disturb the other tourneys and to deal with unavailabilities)

Phase 1 : the pools are meant to be balanced, and at the same time to give easier pairings to people with higher rankings in the league.
- 1st, 4th, 5th and 8th play together, and 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th.
- 1 hour per game, donâ??t slow play
- The winner of each pool accesses to phase 2
- Tie breakers : 1) game wins â?? game losses (all matches included)
2) game wins â?? game losses (counting only matches between tied players)
3) play again against tied opponents (1 game only, pre-sideboard)

Phase 2 :
- No draw, so unlimited time but donâ??t abuse
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Manudesbois Jan 29, 2017, 7:08 PM For the finals, I will also add something : it will be best of 5 games (so 3-0, 3-1 or 3-2 wins you the match)!

- The first 2 games without sideboard
- the rest of the games with sideboard
Manudesbois Jan 29, 2017, 7:10 PM You can play the match in two times in case it's too long, just don't forget what you need to bring in/side out in the meantime

Manudesbois Jan 29, 2017, 8:33 PM

[quote]But if it's the same for the three of you, you 3 will have to play one more game (not match) against each other, and we will add up the results to the goal average count. It's the only issue I can think of.



wtf[/quote]Any other idea? There is a perfect tie, and nothing can be done except replay (or coin flip, but for this kind of tournament, I'm not in favor!). So the shortest possible replay is preferable. But I guess if you play a complete round between the three of you, it will be easier to decide the 2nd.
zombie33 Jan 29, 2017, 9:07 PM My idea : We choose the best in the 2016 ligue
Manudesbois Jan 29, 2017, 10:28 PM Seems fair to me, good idea!
Manudesbois Jan 29, 2017, 10:29 PM So I adopt this rule! Toufmade you'd better win that one!
Manudesbois Jan 30, 2017, 6:56 PM To be clear, the updated rule is:

- Tie breakers : 1) game wins â?? game losses (all matches included)
2) game wins â?? game losses (counting only matches between tied players)
3) ranking in the 2016 league
GalacticPresident Jan 31, 2017, 1:51 PM 2) Why would you only count matches between tied players? I don't mind, I'm just curious because that's not how we usually do it. Is there a reason behind it?
Manudesbois Jan 31, 2017, 2:25 PM I think we always do that - to be confirmed by zombie. If you have same number of points and same goal average between two players, you look at the score of the match between the two, so in a sense it's like if you played an additional match between the two to determine who makes it out, but since we are short of time, we don't and just simulate it.

Rule extended to 3 or more players.
Max2070 Jan 31, 2017, 5:00 PM galac and me will play this evening. Don't know the hour but I'll try to be online between 19H - 20h (not sure to be there at 19h)