Scoring Points at the Videogame Tournament

[LukeG]

Depending on the number of people the overall points will change but here's the basics. There will be two ways of organising the game results, a Head to Head chart and a Leaderboard.

Leaderboards are easy enough, the results are compiled and then the top people get the top points.
e.g.
1st 10points
2nd 9points
3rd 8points

The Head to Head chart looks like a cup flow chart. I can't even bring to mind what they're called! Anyway, they work slightly different to the leaderboard. At each win points will be earned, the higher up the chart the more points. A winner going through every single step will then have the sum points of a leaderboard 1st place win.
I'll explain in full in person, where I can give a visual example. But as it has worked out, a Head to Head board gives more chances for points while a Leaderboard gives out a larger total of points.

[LukeG]

Here's how the overall points per bout wrok out based on attendence.

16 Participants

Head to Head
Awards:15
Total Points: 26
1st Place: 10 points

Leaderboard
Awards:10
Total Points: 55
1st Place: 10 points


32 Participants

Head to Head
Awards: 31
Total Points: 57
1st Place: 15 points

Leaderboard
Awards: 15
Total Points: 120
1st Place: 15 points


and in the unlikely case of
64 Participants

Head to Head
Awards: 63
Total Points: 88
1st Place: 21 Points

Leaderboard
Awards: 20
Total Points: 190
1st Place: 20 points

Anything over 64 (God forbid, I'm organising it!) will follow the pattern for 64 participants with no change to the Leaderboard and a series of qualifying rounds for the Head to Heads.

If we are just under a capacity, some people will get throught the first round of a Head to Head (drawn at random) avioding the first round but missing the chance at the first point. Insignificant (a win at that point is worth 2) but a definate drawback for walking through the first round of play.

There may be some harsh knock out qualifiers to fit in people slightly over capacity. For preference I would just move up to the next capacity band and allow a load of random walkthroughs but it may not be practical.

[Laharl]

sorry, don't get much of that, but i don't really care, i just want to play, i've a PS2 and GC to use

[El Capitan]

What exactly do you hope to achieve with the video game tournament? Its not going to define who the best video game player is, only who is the best at the relevant games selected. To be a OGC Tournament it needs to be a level playing field, eg 40k & fantasy has a points cap and Magic is sealed deck so no-one can invest lots of money to win (preparation is the only real advantage).

To get a better range of games you should select those not based on your personal opiniopn but on the best seller lists. That may well mean that games you think are crap are played over others but we cant have a tournament based on someones opinions. This will also eman that the most popular games will be in it, so more poeple are liekly to be experienced.

As for some game amendments, Halo 2 should replace Killzone and Battlefield should replace Battlefront.

The best way I can see this working is having insular game tournaments, ie best at soul calibur III etc.

At the moment im very sceptical, and will bb until you can prove what the aim of this tournament is and how that aim can be defined as equal and fair.

[LukeG]

Halo 2 should definately replace Killzone but we need a XBlock Donor. Battlefield for Battlefront is also a better pick.
I'm aiming to find the best overall player on a variety of skills, and I also want to celebrate each individual winner. I can't explain this much, I'll have to come out, log off and log back in again. I'm being bombarded with porn pop ups after spelling ogc.org.uk wrong

[Laharl]

I just want to have fun, hammer people at the stuff i'm good at and get hammered at everything else!!