Adv1sor said:
When you lose a round you should be out.
I don't like single elimination. If you get knocked out of a single elimination tournament, all that proves is that
one person was able to beat you. I would reccomend you do some research on swiss and think about why we have it. Swiss is about finding the best player in the shortest amount of time. The TO gets you to play as many people as is practical. It is a mathematically sound idea, because the larger the sample size, the more accurate the results. The less people you play (or as in single elimination, sometimes, just one), the less reliable the results of the tournament being able to show how good a player you are.
In sinlge elimination, you're using an extremely small sample size to determine a player's ability. If you play someone in the first round that has an advantage over you (due to deck or playing style or whatever). How much does that really prove? All it proves is that one person was able to beat you. If the tournament was a 7-round swiss tournament, you could've gone 6-1, collecting 6 wins after your first round loss. But in single elimination, a first round loss always gets you last place (not literally, as there are tiebreakers in single elim to determine one's final ranking).
Everyone has an autoloss. Everyone has some person they can lose to, even Martin Moreno.
Larger sample size = more accurate results. If you want a format aimed at decreasing the workload for the TO, then single elimination (one out of one) is the way to go. If you want to find the best player in a short amount of time, then use swiss. Swiss has been around since 1895; It is not just some silly format invented by POP (maybe
age modified swiss, but not swiss). To say that it is league play is extreme. I take swiss tournaments seriously, as should everyone else. There are strict guidlines to abide by when organizing a swiss tournament, so
this is not league play at all.
And as others on this forum have pointed out, who wants to drive 3 hours to play in an event just to lose first round. This is sure to not make -10 parents happy!
We should never have to look to the software to determine who won.
This is something I don't like. Some people talk about swiss tournament results as though they are random or the computer "determined the winner". The computer doesn't determine anything. All it does is radomize parings and calculate tiebreakers. It's just doing math.
Tardiness
OP Win%
OP OP Win%
Head to Head
Standing of Last Opponent
These things are not random. They are totally legitimate attributes of one's tournament record and are reliable in determining how good that player is (though a bit flawed, some seem to think, as far as OP Win% goes).