Collecting Match Play Time Data from Premier Events

[Ness]

Regarding the discussion of 60 vs 75 (or longer) minute Top Cuts, I'd like to gather some data from those of you that made Top Cut in a Premier Event recently. This information will help us collectively determine better ways to improve the game! If you remember the results from several Premier Events you attended, you may tally the totals for all of them. However, if two or more tournaments allowed different amounts of time for match play, please answer them separately so we can help distinguish which time allowances allowed more games to complete.

If you recently made the TOP CUT at a Premier Event...

1) How much time was allowed for your Top Cut matches? (45m, 60m, 75m?)

2) How many matches (A 2/3 series is one match) did you play in the Top Cut? (For example, if you made Top 8, won to advance to Top 4, then lost in Top 4, you played two matches).

3) Of the matches, how many were not yet completed when time was called?

4) Of your Top Cut matches, how many went to a Game 3?

5) Of the Top Cut matches that went to a Game 3, how many were not yet completed when time was called?

 

[SHPanda]

I recently attended the Florida Marathon so I'll just throw in my 2 cents from that.

1) 75m

2) I played in 8 top cut matches.

3) All my matches finished within the time limit.

4) 4 matches when to game 3

5) All my matches completed within the time limit.

 

[Ness]

Florida Marathon

1) 75m
2) 7
3) 0
4) 4
5) 0

 

[GodBlessAmerica]

I've top cutted 3 of the 5 cities I've played in so far. So I'll just count those

1) 60m
2)6
3)1
4)3
5)1

 

[Prodigiosus]

1. 60 minutes.

2. 3

3. 1

4. 1

5. 1

 

[PhadedPhione]

The three CCs I made top cut:

1. 60 minutes

2. 4 (played Reshiram/Typhlosion into 2 top cuts against Vileplume)

3. 1 (played Gothitelle)

4. 1 (Gothitelle went to three games in the finals)

5. 1 (Gothitelle went into sudden death in the finals)

 

[KazamBolt]

1) How much time was allowed for your Top Cut matches? (45m, 60m, 75m?)
60m, in Michigan

2) How many matches (A 2/3 series is one match) did you play in the Top Cut? (For example, if you made Top 8, won to advance to Top 4, then lost in Top 4, you played two matches).
2 Matches

3) Of the matches, how many were not yet completed when time was called?
None

4) Of your Top Cut matches, how many went to a Game 3?
Just the Top 2 one.

5) Of the Top Cut matches that went to a Game 3, how many were not yet completed when time was called?
None, we were fast enough.

 

[z-man]

As of today's cities

1) 60m in Georgia
2) 3
3) 1 match -- called in Game 3 when he had 3 prizes and I had 5
4) Just top 8 (1)
5) 1

 

[Dual_Draw]

1) 45m
2) I played 2 matches in Top Cut.
3) One match(top 8), was not completed.
4) Both of my matches went to game 3.
5) One of them(top 8), was not completed. It was called when the prize count was 6-4 in my favor.

 

[Pidgeotto Trainer]

2 recent events

1. 60 m
2. 4 matches
3. 3
4. 3
5. 3

All 3 of these top cut game 3s were sudden death, as in we only got 1 prize into game 3 by time. Actually, I had one where game 2 wasn't over, but the result led to a game 3.

 

[Luby]

1) 60m
2) 3
3) 1
4) 1
5) 1

 

[Zarmakuizz]

1) 60
2) 3
3) 1
4) I suppose this means the match is 1-1 and we start a game 3.
1
5) 1
The same match for questions 3,4,5.

bonus : how many matches finished with a score like 2-0 ? : 2.

 

[HypnosProjectHQ]

Here's data from my only Top 4 thus far.

La Crosse, WI
1) 60 min

2) One

3) Zero

4) One

5) Zero