I agree that tournaments do need an overhaul. I don’t mind having different ranks of players, but have them all compete in the same tournament… If I was running a tournament I would do both singles and doubles, and start by having a round robin, teams in groups of 4 seeded into pools like the champions league or euro draw in soccer. Lets say there is 80 teams, the top 20 ranked teams are group 1, next 20 are group 2, etc. No two teams from the same group can be drawn with eachother. If it doesn’t work out that exactly enough teams join for groups of 4 then have some groups of 3 to compensate. Each of the 4 teams that are drawn into the same round robin group plays each other and the top 2 move into winners bracket, the bottom 2 into losers bracket. In the groups of 3, the bottom team moves to losers, top to winners and 2nd plays another groups 2nd place team – winner goes to the winners bracket loser goes to the losers bracket. If you end up in the losers bracket it already means you have lost twice and can not move into the winners bracket at any point, but it at least seperates the beginners/rookies into another pool. The winners bracket can still be double elimination. From this point on run it just like a normal tournament. Because there would not be 50 events going it would simplify a lot of things, players couldn’t be competing in 10 events at a time, so calling players would be easy. Round robin format would mean you could schedule actual start times for games – and stick by a schedule for the whole tourney. Also people would still get to play a few games no matter what, even the losingest team at the event would play 3 round robin games and then one to get eliminated from losers side. If that isn’t enough we could even make the losers bracked double elimination, with a losers and winners side of the losers bracket. The main thing this accomplishes is that all the money is in the same pool. Now you could still keep rookies happy by giving tables/trophy/jackets to the TOP ranked rookies, top semi-pro’s etc. The payouts could go VERY DEEP. If registration was 100 bucks each it would mean 1st pays 5000, second pays 2000, third 1000, 4-8 pays 500, 9-16 pays 300, 18-32 pays 240. I think this format would work better, as a rookie, I would rather go to a tournament which I can play against the best(getting drawn in a group with a pro/master team, semipro team, and another rookie team) and would still win some games, I would get to play 1 or 2 other beginner/rookies in the losers bracket. It would be good because the teams could all end up ranked and you would know if you were in the best groups of rookies to play the tourney. I think this would keep everyone happy and would be the best to get new players out to tournaments. If you NEED to have an ULTRABEGINNER group then have that too, but make it for people that are hackers and with a 10 dollar entry fee from which none gets paid back to them.
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