New rules and Best of 3 Swiss?

[Pidgeotto Trainer]

The simplest way to put it, more games means more legitimate tournaments. When games are not finishing, we aren't using our time well to make the tournaments more legitimate. Bo1 30 minutes or Bo3 60-75 uses more of the time towards games that will finish so more games overall. (Bo1 30 would imply more rounds) 4-prize rule would also mean more of our time is spent on games that will count. (We can disagree whether 4 prizes is enough of a game to be worth counting, I think it is, especially since it decreases wasted games that add nothing to the match score. Fact is 99+% of games that aren't donks are decided by prizes, I don't care about catering to the 1% Durant decks.)

I wouldn't mind so many ties if ties were worth half a win. However, I'd rather a system with less ties. The better player will win 2/3 a lot, but 2/2 is always hard.

 

[Qzin]

I strongly dislike with an idea of a draw in tournaments.

With new rules about not being able to attack in first turn, games wouldn't end up with early game donk that often. Whole idea of playing swiss Bo3 makes tournaments last way much longer and become more and more tiresome on Saturday. I really wish we could go back to single games in swiss and 9 or 10 rounds if necessary.

Also with draws allowed some players will definitely stall after winning first game of 3 and therefore wasting rest of their remaining time (stalling within the rules limit I mean) So basically the guy who lost the first game has very little chance of winning 2-1. He's just fighting to get one point.


Getting to top8 is now much much harder in my opinion, yet also way more rewarding. I would love for it to become top32 or at least top16 again, but on that idea those are just my personal feelings.


Sorry for being realistic but I don't have much faith in humanity, I wouldn't suspect Juniors or Seniors to do it, but in Masters division it's gonna be regular thing to happen.

 

[JandPDS]

I strongly dislike with an idea of a draw in tournaments.

With new rules about not being able to attack in first turn, games wouldn't end up with early game donk that often. Whole idea of playing swiss Bo3 makes tournaments last way much longer and become more and more tiresome on Saturday. I really wish we could go back to single games in swiss and 9 or 10 rounds if necessary.

Also with draws allowed some players will definitely stall after winning first game of 3 and therefore wasting rest of their remaining time (stalling within the rules limit I mean) So basically the guy who lost the first game has very little chance of winning 2-1. He's just fighting to get one point.


Getting to top8 is now much much harder in my opinion, yet also way more rewarding. I would love for it to become top32 or at least top16 again, but on that idea those are just my personal feelings.


Sorry for being realistic but I don't have much faith in humanity, I wouldn't suspect Juniors or Seniors to do it, but in Masters division it's gonna be regular thing to happen.

Just go back to 1 game 30 min. The tourneys take waaay to long now and I really do not see a point for best of 3 other then to waste a lot of everyones time. I did not have a single match flip when I played, I did turn a loss into a tie but no wins turned into losses or losses into wins. Just play one game and move on. I don't want to play best 2 out of 3 unless I get an hour to do so.