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Edheler
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Posted - 2006.12.19 22:11:00 -
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Ok, first you need to have a league for qualifications for a "tournament" at some later date. So, you have your 256 teams in 32 divisions of 8 teams each. It's gonna have to be big, lots of corps are going to want to participate. Every team in a division plays every other team in the division twice. (14 fights) Each team has one fight per week and thus CCP would have to manage 128 fights per week. (Or less than 20 per day.) Given the 14 weeks of qualifications and 3 weeks for the tournament you can do this 3 times a year and get one week off. :wink:
The top two teams in each division advance to the tournament. The system for managing a 64 team tournament seems to work well so I wouldn't fix it.
Teams who place in their division in the bottom half are not allowed to participate in the next qualification series. (But are allowed back after that.) This keeps things mixing so that everyone can get involved at some point.
Any member of the corporation or smaller alliance is allowed to participate in a match so long as they have been in their corporation and alliance for one month.
Change the point system slightly, 3 points for complete destruction, 2 points for point win and 1 point for draw.
Make the qualifying divisions somewhat time-zone dependent so that it's easier to get people around to fight each other. This will make scheduling easier and mean fewer forfeits. This also allows for scheduling of fights during the week.
Don't show all of the matches on EVE-TV, until the finals, just ones which are decided to be good enough for the weekend broadcast. Thus you don't have to worry as much about individual forfeits. It would also allow the commentators to interview the teams after the fact and get the teams themselves involved in describing their fights for added color.
Edheler
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Edheler
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Posted - 2006.12.27 21:43:00 -
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To speak on the size issues...
Limit participation based on some fixed size. It shouldn't matter if you're an alliance or not. Only the ultimate size of the largest in-game defined entity which you are a part of should matter. The same should be true, obviously in reverse, for the larger tournament.
There are plenty of corporations whom are larger than many alliances. I don't believe that small alliances should be relegated to only play in the big leagues. I also feel larger individual corporations should be allowed into the high-end tournament too. (If they aren't part of an alliance.)
Edheler
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Edheler
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Posted - 2006.12.28 17:06:00 -
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 Originally by: Edheler
Limit participation based on some fixed size. It shouldn't matter if you're an alliance or not. Only the ultimate size of the largest in-game defined entity which you are a part of should matter. The same should be true, obviously in reverse, for the larger tournament.
After thinking about it a bit, I think I am going to change my mind slightly. A smaller entity should always be allowed to move up a category at their discretion. (Perhaps after proving themselves.) Larger entities should not be allowed to move down though.
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