So I won a BR yesterday, and I guess this means I picked up 2 Championship Points. Here are a couple observations I had:
1. We had enough players to reach our "kicker", so 3rd and 4th place each got a point as well. In my opinion, 1st and 2nd place should get a bump in points here as well. It is much more difficult to win a BR with 40ish people than it is to win one with 16 people (I've been to both).
2. I searched the rankings today and found that my ELO rating had been updated. However, I couldn't even find a reference to my "Championship Points" anywhere on pokemon.com. Am I just missing it or something? If Championship Points are the new standard and ELO is just a tie-breaker, why would the ELO be on the website but not my C.P.'s?
3. My friend Ryan went 4-1 and bubbled, finishing 5th because of tiebreakers. That's pretty good at a 40 person tourney, yet he got NOTHING for his efforts. In the past, he could've at least taken some consolation in the fact that he improved his rating that day, but now he didn't get rewarded at all for a solid showing. I think combining ELO and some sort of Championship Point system would have been the way to do things.
1. We had enough players to reach our "kicker", so 3rd and 4th place each got a point as well. In my opinion, 1st and 2nd place should get a bump in points here as well. It is much more difficult to win a BR with 40ish people than it is to win one with 16 people (I've been to both).
2. I searched the rankings today and found that my ELO rating had been updated. However, I couldn't even find a reference to my "Championship Points" anywhere on pokemon.com. Am I just missing it or something? If Championship Points are the new standard and ELO is just a tie-breaker, why would the ELO be on the website but not my C.P.'s?
3. My friend Ryan went 4-1 and bubbled, finishing 5th because of tiebreakers. That's pretty good at a 40 person tourney, yet he got NOTHING for his efforts. In the past, he could've at least taken some consolation in the fact that he improved his rating that day, but now he didn't get rewarded at all for a solid showing. I think combining ELO and some sort of Championship Point system would have been the way to do things.