International Team Championship - season 1

zadokk

stripe999 Hi Your team is in the list with 6 points.

stripe999

Great, thank you!

zadokk

Round 3 has started. Good luck and enjoy. Also remember to announce if you like to play with or without pact at start of the game...

maximpodg

Hi, suggestion: what about give different points for winning with more culture advantages. Example: 1-49 culture advatage - winner take 3 point, loser 2; 50-149 - winner 4, loser 1; 150+ and also timeout/resign - winner 5 loser 0.

mm34nn

maximpodg "Win" is "win". "Lose" is "lose". The rule to distinguish between a GOOD win and a BAD win is not suitable for TTA at least.

maximpodg

I suppose in this tournament will be many pairs with 5 win and 2 lose - that apply for TOP 8; and for that short distance i don't think buchholz coefficient will be good decision; But making games for more culture advantages will create this games more interesting in last ages for the lagging team and for the advanced. Also i suppose with more points difference, will be less command with same points, that apply for TOP 8.

zadokk

maximpodg Well, it is a Swiss tournament and upto 128 people/teams, they recommend 7 rounds. Also resistance points are calculated and they will make the cut off if necessary. In short resistance points are the final standings of your opponents. The better your opponents score, the more resistance you had and thus points.

maximpodg

65-128 players and 7 rounds - this may be good for chess, where the probability of a draw is high, and you want find a winner, but in this tournament the probability of a draw is approximately zero, and you want to find the TOP 8 not exactly one winner, so my opinion is that it will be difficult to determine the teams with 5 wins who will go on.

mm34nn

maximpodg The "culture" rule you offered is not a really better solution to the tiebreak issue compared with the "resistance" rule. And the "culture" rule implied one guideline that teams should try their best while they know they will surely lose. So resignation is unacceptable in some scenarios. It is a too high requirement for all players' sportsmanship.

Rockoccodrillo

Hi. In Group 59 our two opponents timed out... I think there's no reason to continue... What we have to do?

zadokk

Rockoccodrillo Hi, Well you can choose to play it out against AI or to resign. Anyway your team has won this one.

maximpodg

mm34nn: of course i think that teams should try their best while they know they will surely lose - is very good. In pair vs pair game situations when agressive strategy don't leave catches for win for other team already in age II is very often. But much mastery appeared exactly in Age III, so I think a good idea get stimulus for good play in age III, and culture difference it's exactly what needs.

mm34nn

maximpodg I know why you think it is "very good". Your rule is a “rational” rule for a bunch of clinical players. But I think it depends on whether most of the players in 2v2 enjoy "teams should try their best while they know they will surely lose ". At least, I will not enjoy it. One reason is that it is not a multiple-teams game. In a 2-sides game, if my team wants to concede but your team forces my team to carry on for the sportsmanship in your mind, I won't enjoy wasting my time on improving the gap from 60 cultures to 30 cultures. Maybe you can set a poll to survey the general idea of players.

Ralf-TtA

Hallo 🙂
Bug in International Team Championship - season 1 group 29 game1.
In the lobby it's Hunty93's turn, in the game it's my turn (Ralf-TtA).
It's possible to choose my actions, but it's not possible to finish my turn, the game doesn't react.
There are still 40 h reserve left.
I told this the support right now.

zadokk

Ralf-TtA Ok, hopefully support can fix it asap.

Goldan

zadokk

BTW, personally I like the pace. No stress to make moves. And for me a yearly team tournament is fine. It's fun to play once in a while as a team.

100% what I'm thinking as well. For me, International & Intermezzo is already quite a lot, so I have very little time for extra tournaments. But having 1 team game at a time at a slow pace is exactly what works for me.

maumastoks

When's the next round?

zadokk

maumastoks Hi, I am just home from holidays. Will start up asap.

zadokk

Hi all! Round 4 has started. Good luck to all. Do not forget the Pact rule!

Xterm

zadokk

question ? Why do we have 0 points in the first round?

I honestly thought we won since we played another round so I didn’t check

Its all about how you interpret ressegnation vs abandon a game. The way I see the rules is T1 score vs T2 score. If 1 member from T1 resign his points are set to 0 ie very hard for last player. Then a player in T2 runs out of time abandoning the game which was grounds for disqualification…..

zadokk

Xterm Hi Xterm, I do not know what happened. When I take a look at that game in round 1, indeed you should have won that game. Strange. Probably a mistake of my side. I will correct the scores. Add 3 points to you and detract 3 points from the other team. Good luck with your game and tournament!