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This year Nats will be even bigger. That means if they do T32 again even more 7-2s will miss SE. This is the biggest tournament in the WORLD! Going 7-2 is an incredible acheivement. For someone to miss SE because more of their opponents dropped than someone else is not fair.
 
If all you do at Origins is Pokemon, your missing out. There is so much to do, and not only at the Con. I understand preparing for Nats, but have some fun, Nats is stressfull enough as it is, lol.

I also do belive a top cut with a higher amount would be nice.
 
Hiro said:
If all you do at Origins is Pokemon, your missing out. There is so much to do, and not only at the Con. I understand preparing for Nats, but have some fun, Nats is stressfull enough as it is, lol.

I also do belive a top cut with a higher amount would be nice.
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I am not really a "gamer" so I don't really care about the other stuff at Origins. I enjoy playing the pokemon TCG but really don't have any interest playing another game like it. Obviously some people go there for just Nats and others go there for Origins too. I really don't think that they will have Nats anywhere else and don't mind it in Ohio much anyway.
 
^Me too!

Edit: Okay, maybe I won't be yelling "64!" (due to the strain it may have on the staff), but I will be yelling something along the lines of this: "Do whatever you can in your power to legitimize this game again, please!!!"
 
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I understand the pros and cons to each side of the T-32 compared to T-64. However, I think that there are 2 possibilities:
1) There could be a non-rating effected play in for the 7-2's (Somewhat like World's Grinder).
2) All 7-2's make top cut, but the higher seeded players get a first round bye (Basically T-64, but w/o 6-3's making it)

Although I've never been to Nat's, I understand how important the side-events are to the full Nationals' experience, so moving away from Origins would just be wrong!!!
 
rerisenphoenix said:
I understand the pros and cons to each side of the T-32 compared to T-64. However, I think that there are 2 possibilities:
1) There could be a non-rating effected play in for the 7-2's (Somewhat like World's Grinder).
2) All 7-2's make top cut, but the higher seeded players get a first round bye (Basically T-64, but w/o 6-3's making it)

Although I've never been to Nat's, I understand how important the side-events are to the full Nationals' experience, so moving away from Origins would just be wrong!!!
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Higher seeds getting a bye would work, except that none of the other tournaments work like that. I really don't see POP doing something so different from the rest of the events they hold.
 
I propose an alternative solution:
Get rid of National Championships and replace them with more Regional Championships. Think about how big the United States is. There is a National Championship in Denmark, but that's about the size of a US State, so Denmark and other countries usually don't have this problem.
 
Hmm no US nationals and only allow players to take part in their local regional? Hmm that wine smells tasty... Its not that it isn't a decent enough idea it is just that even some good ideas wont work :(
 
On the topic of who should make the cut at tournaments like Nats and Worlds, my opinion is that nobody who wins more than 70% of their games should miss the cut. This means that if there were ten rounds, all 8-2s would make it, and 7-3s would have to live and die by the computer. If there were nine rounds, all 7-2s (77.8%) would make it, and 6-3s would live and die by resistance. Eight rounds would mean that all 6-2s (75%) make it, and 5-3s have to pray for a good tiebreaker. That sort of thing.

Run however many swiss rounds you want - just pick a win percentage and make the cut large enough that all those who exceed that percentage make it in, with the leftovers at the mercy of the computer.
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This makes the most sense to me. Establishing a definitive measure of who "deserves" to get in is most easily accomplished in this way, I think.
 
Doing a system like the would work but if they wound up
with say 48 players they would have to do byes for some people or you would wind up with top 3.
 
drmario said:
Doing a system like the would work but if they wound up
with say 48 players they would have to do byes for some people or you would wind up with top 3.
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Nah, you don't do a weird cut. You just do a top 16, 32, 64, whatever it takes to get all the people over 70% in there, and the rest live and die by the computer.
 
Yeah, I could see this working. I do think all X-2's deserve to make it...everyone over .700 win % should make it. However, do you think POP is gonna listen to our desperate pleas?
 
since this is essentially the same discussion going on in more detail HERE, i'm closing this to keep the debate in one place. feel free to continue the discussion in the other thread.

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