International Team Championship - season 1

Straszyk

Maybe just wait for 256 players? Willa be easier to handle tournament ladder

zadokk

Good suggestion, however not many new subscriptions. i am now matching the single sign ups and we will be close to 128. Let's see what this day bring. Anyway, it is a Swiss system, so as long as I have an even number of teams, we are good!

Straszyk

zadokk
as long as I have an even number of teams, we are good!
But in later stages of tournaments some teams won't be able to compete
FE if we start with 120 teams, nex stage 60 , next 30, next 15 - so at this point there will be 7 games and 1 team without opponents

Straszyk

I brought 4 more Polish teams 🙂

zadokk

Straszyk OK great! did they register on the google doc yet? or do you have their names?

Straszyk

I suggest, maybe add something like "NO PACTS" in games names to make sure noone will miss this rule 🙂

Goldan

Straszyk that's a great suggestion! That's a rule that WILL be overlooked otherwise.

zadokk

I would invite them asap, so they can accept asap...

Straszyk

I meant those last nicks on google doc :p sry for confusion, have no more playeres willing to join

zadokk

Straszyk well, it's a swiss system. So all people stay in the tournament. So all teams will play 7 games. It is of course possible that some teams will drop out during the tournaments. In that case it is possible we have an odd number of teams. In that case the last team will have a bye. So no opponents. This means they got 3 points, and do not have to play that round.

Straszyk

Oh man! Shame to me , Facepalm etc
The words "single elimination" stuck in my head and i didnt see it reffers to last 8, oh man,
I feel stupid, I know what it swiss , but somehow my mind didnt see those words in description....
Sry for confusion....

zadokk

And there we go...gl all!!! an amazing 122 teams from 36 countries

Goldan

zadokk this is a great effort, thanks for organizing! Super excited about the tournament!

Goldan

Curious what's the reason for the no-team-pacts rule? To mitigate potential imbalance caused by randomness in military cards? So that one team gets all the pacts and gets a big advantage?

zadokk

Goldan Hi Goldan, well there was a discussion on the discord channel about pacts. First i was thinking to allow them, but after good arguments from very good players, I decided to forbid it.
The main arguments:

in fact we play a 2p game (2 teams) and in 2P there are no pacts.
pacts from the point of design give you a bonus, but also something to an opponent. With pacts however in one team, you got double bonus, which seems too strong
some pacts will really be way too strong, so the luck factor will be too deterministic. fe. open borders, scientific corperation, international tourism...

Jerome_Eiffel

Thanks for the organization !

zadokk

Jerome_Eiffel tx...it is a challenge, but so far so good :-)

schwam

So our opponents have already offered and accepted a pact during our first match, Group 17. Is there anything that we need to do? I'm guessing there is no way to revert this?

zadokk

schwam Ow that is unfortunate. Reverting is not possible. Maybe if they cancel the pact immediatly and it did not effect the game a lot and you are ok with that...if not, it is a game loss.

FoLKeN91

schwam Thanks to this comment I realized that there is this new rule, which was different when the tournament was first created. My guess is that there will be many people thinking it's allowed as they will not re-read the tournament rules..

zadokk
is there a way to push a communication to all participants?

Also somehow I don't see my current opponents in the gdoc. Is it complete?

And thanks a lot for creating this tournament, I'm anticipating lots of fun! 😊

zadokk

FoLKeN91 Hi, the only way to communicate is via this board, or via the google doc or in discord.
On the google doc, i see your teams and opponents. on the tab pairings round 1, you see your match on table 37. Then on the teams tab, you see team 111 team plitch with the two members.

But the pact issue is a tough one...probably one thing to improve. Pajada asked if cge could remove the pacts from the draw deck, but that was not possible so easily...