Pathfinder - Questions & Answers

matte40, on 04 April 2018 - 01:57 PM, said: First thing I'd like to say is that CLRG, you seem like a reasonable person to your job. Something I couldn't say about Karlie and Soov unfortunatly.   Me and my team haven't played these tournaments for over 3-4 months, but we decided to give a chance to this second week to try out the new maps. I can give more feedback after the tournament.


matte40, on 04 April 2018 - 01:57 PM, said: Things I said before the first tournament seemed to happen, it was tournament against own teammates. And which made it even harder, you still had to win almost every battle to have a chance to the top prizes (so fighting against teammates while trying to win every battle). Like Juyhou said, his team got a month of premium and DRL is likely the best team in 3v3 format. This tournament had nothing to do with teamplay and indeed was probably the worst format you have ever featured. Then again, I understand that you are trying out new things but I hope you are never using this damage-based ranking anymore.


matte40, on 04 April 2018 - 01:57 PM, said: What comes to these one-week-tournaments, they are a really nice change to weekly tournaments that has been running now for what, 1-2 years with a very small amount of other tournaments. You just have to organize them in the right way. Firstly, make the tournament for teams, not for players. So, same team registers for the whole week and we need to have one reserve player. Also rewards should be for top teams, not for top players.


matte40, on 04 April 2018 - 01:57 PM, said: Secondly, there are too many teams that got maximum points (which causes to decide winners by damage dealt, which is a really bad thing). If it just is possible with your tools, team rank shouldn't come from these points you gave from the group rank (12-10-8...), and instead you should count team's gained points / maximum points possible. So, for example, if team won 25 battles, drawed 1 and lost 1 battles, their points would be 76/81 = 0,938. If there is a team that had 9 teams in one of their groups (means one less battle), their gained points would be divided by 78. Do you get the point? This way there wouldn't be so many winners, when you can't even draw any battles to get the full 100% points. In this format you had here, teams could lost in total like 3-5 battles and still were able to get 36 points.


matte40, on 04 April 2018 - 01:57 PM, said: Those are the main things I wanted to say. But I'm gonna keep going: for this kind of multi-day tournament you should have 5 days of group stage to minimize the part of luck. And after every day, something like 20% of the bottom teams should be eliminated (so 20% of teams are left in the 5th day) to prevent afk-teams from ruining the tournament. Especially when you are rewarding only like 10% of the teams there would be MANY technical victories on days 3, 4 and 5.   After the week prize pool could look something like this (prize per every team member): 1st: 15 000 (gold) 2nd: 10 000 3rd: 7 500 4th: 6 000 5th: 5 000 6th: 4 500 7th: 4 000 8th: 3 500 9th: 3 000 10th - 20th: 1 month premium 21st - 40th: 1 week premium 41st - 70th: 3 days premium 71st - 150th: 1 garage slot   In this prize pool there is (for 3+1 team size) about 150% more gold than you now had per one week but I hope you realize that the current prize pool is really low with the expection of the very first places. But, in my prize pool there's almost same amount of premium time given out than you had per one week, if that makes you feel any better. In that example there obviously is alot more garage slots but they really are worth almost nothing so I don't think it's too bad to reward many teams with atleast something.