Response to Tourney 4: new ideas

While it seems that we'll have a two months rest before T4 (and that's a great piece of news !), I wish to focus on a few other isseues.
I can't figure how to find out more than 10 categories, as Lagavulin says; MAMEnu has a number of predefined categories (11: misc., action, drive, exploration, fighting, maze, platform, puzzle, shooter, sport, vector), but most of them are redundant (exploration games could be considered mazesor platforms, most of vectors are shooters, and action games are fighting). So far, platform, maze, shooter, fighter, puzzle, sport, drive and miscellaneous are the 8 reasonable categories to divide games into.

On the other end, I don't agree with gb9 to shorten the tournament if playing less than 10 games: doing so, it will happen that every player will go for the games he's already good at, and will not have the time to learn and improve in the others: the more you shorten a tournament, the closer you go to the regular LB, which could be considered as an infinite number of individual tournaments one a single game. Giving players the time to learn new games will make the competition more intense, and scores will reach higher.

I'll give you a few examples:
In my opinion, T1 was the best from this point of view: I personally had the chance to reach the first positions in 5 games I had never seen before, while in T2 and T3 I'm in the first places in the 2 or 3 games I already knew, and in all the others I only had the chance the make decent (sometimes even less !!!) scores...
As far as I know, the only other great site hosting Tournaments is Ron's Snipercade; there are 2 kinds of competitions there: one is called "Challenge", a different game each month, where points have to be scored with the 1st life only; the second one is the famous "Deca", it lasts 1 year (!!!) with 10 games to be played.
Well, challenge is played by an average of 10 players, while Deca2000 has more than 160 partecipants, with +/- 45 players already qualified.

To end this flood, let me disagree once more with gb9 (nothing personal, my friend :-))) on his new proposal for a new tournament: first of all because with so many tournaments, the reagular LB will be more and more ignored, second because such a kind of tournament (close to the so called "Leagues", or "Mobile Standings" in sports like tennis or squash) technically is nothing different from our LB: I mean, do you want to challenge, or "attack", the player above you ?!? ok, start playing the games that worth points to him....that's it !!!

So far, let's have our tournies (3 a year) with max 8 games, keep one LB (you'll have 4 more different LB in my stats:-), don't change the scoring system (it will make more difficult, and even senseless, to make a "championship LB" which would consider scores for all the tournamnts (as I'm planning to do in the stats), and pls, don't forget, as many of us are doing (me included) the old dear Marp LB.


Thanks for reading

Just my 2 (thousands!) cents
Cicca

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