486 Tournament: Winter Edition

luciffer, on 19 January 2017 - 12:46 PM, said:   Yes this. We started only play group stage take good for first place and we just do not show up on playoffs. Because playoffs starts at 1024 or 512 and you need to get to top 16 to get some more gold so that is 5 or 6 more battles you need to win (and draw is so easy in 3v3 encounter) to get some more gold. It is usually time sink to play playoffs for a small chance to get extra gold.   Because it is so easy to draw games in 3v3 encounter due to long cap time and short time matches teams in the playoffs (if they are weaker) can decide to troll better team and just draw games making them both drop out ("We will not go further but neater will you&quot. So you need to include some reward for winning each battle in playoffs starting from 1024 round, just example like 50 gold per player per won match in playoffs. If you need to reorganize gold distribution in group stage and playoff stage so you do not give out more gold then you currently do then so be it but make it worthwhile to play playoffs, not like it is done now, my team was first in group stages meny times but we just do not want to bother another 2 hours with low chances of winning more.   So again my proposal would be something like following: Ditch the gold for third place just first and second that are going further and make it lower (200/100). And each won game in playoffs is another 50 gold per player. And then when 16/32 teams remain stop 50 gold per won match and keep your current system or lower rewards a bit if you want to keep total given gold same as now (cant be bothered to do math).   Or if you want to reward third place because they did something but are not moving on this might also be solution. Third place gets 100 gold per player, first and second place get exp/free exp/crew/credit boosts and maybe also some maller amount of gold then now, this seems low but you are moving to playoffs where you are getting 50 gold per player per win.   I mean there is so much variations you can do to actually reward participation in group and in playoff stages to make people want to play and advance but you have this bad system at place now. Example give anyone from 3-10 place in group one exp/free exp/crew/credit boosts for one hour if they participated in tournament (not just signed up and not shown up at matches, meaning they had three players and play the turnament).   I will stop now but if you need some ideas or even some math done so you do not give out more gold then you currently do ask me and i will gladly provide it. This small tournaments have a great potential but are so poorly executed.