2015 Ottawa Foosball Championships - June 12th - 14th

[Jester]

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[deliverance]

Carmello Anthony .... ahahaha


I like the red.

[Jester]

Lol, didn't have a clue about his last name.

[rustyspurs]

Is that FarmBoy 1???

[deliverance]

That's the tier 1 clutch Carm.

[5barwarrior]

I would use the swiss system instead of your round robin stage. It is better because it is auto correcting for rank and such. You can then take the top 8 players for open, the next 8 for SP and the remainder for Amateur playoffs.

Biggest challenge would be the find the right software to drive it. I have some tournament software. I'll check what it can do and bring it tonight.

As for expalining it to players, we can draft something up that makes it clear.

Chris

What about using the swiss tournament system?

I'm considering it, but I'm hesitant because a lot of players are not familiar with it.

Points/ranks also have to be spot on or your match ups wont be fair. Some swiss formats have no playoffs but I want to have playoffs. I then have to decide if I'm going to run multiple playoff brackets so no one is eliminated, or eliminate a set # of teams and run one bracket. Then you run into the possibility of a pro team who goes .500 against the strongest teams being eliminated and an amateur team who goes .600+ against amateur teams making the cut, I think players would take issue with this.

[Jester]

I wasn't doing Round Robin for certain, it was just one of the options listed. I will talk to Chris A and Casti tonight at foos.

With a 2 page flier your right though it shouldn't be difficult explaining it.

[Pixel]

I would use the swiss system instead of your round robin stage.

Biggest challenge would be the find the right software to drive it. I have some tournament software. I'll check what it can do and bring it tonight.

Rob will be passing some FAST software (I think it's FAST?) on to Jesse shortly that uses the Swiss system.

[Jester]

Thanks.

[PACKER]

Love the poster! I like the red version as well.

I'm pumped for this event and will help out wherever you need me. I've got some ideas for promotion, and getting swag for the merch table.

[deliverance]

Hey guys, remember when I said I am working on some software for this, I shit you not it's well no it's way and I have a team of 3 of us now building this. I have 2 domains registered, we will have working tournament software that we can use for this tournament too if you want.

I am in the process currently of determining what I need in terms of possible formats (think not just foos, this can be any kind of event):

- single elim
- double elim
- RR groups
- Swiss
- ETC?? what is the ETC

[SilentSam]

ETC = Sean Lee style double elim

[PACKER]

I played a Handicapped DYP here in Calgary that was pretty interesting. I'm not exactly sure how the math worked but teams were ranked and depending on the difference between the two teams, the higher ranked team had to get more goals than the lower ranked team, in the second game. For instance, my team was ranked 9.5, and our opponents were ranked 11, so based on whatever equation they use, they determined that the higher ranked team had to get 6 goals in the second game (the other games were normal at 5 goals each).

At one point we were matched up against a team that was ranked 4, and it meant that we had to get 7 goals in the 1st and 3rd games, and 8 goals in the second. It made it very interesting and we lost the first game! we switched and I went up front and lit it up shooting 14 long pulls in a row then ended the match with a slingshot set up from pull position haha. It was awesome.

Anyways, the handicapped DYP can work and would be a cool option. It definitely evens the playing field and makes for an interesting DYP.

[Jester]

Handicap is good for local stuff but at our big tournaments I don't wan't to handicap events because it requires your system to be spot on and can create a lot of complaints. We have different ranks and different doubles events to take care of that.

[garbaggio]

There are other ways to make the DYP a bit more even. You can do a pro-am. I also once suggested a simplified version of a handicapped DYP where players either had a 0, 1 or 2 "rating". The ratings can loosely be based on tier (tier 3 = 0, tier 2 = 1, tier 1 = 2). The team with the lower rating needed less goals (based on the difference in combined rating). So two players with 2 ranking playing against two players with 0 ranking means that the two players with 0 ranking only need 1 goal. Really have to be on your toes!

Taha