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Tournaments and Events / Re: Dutch/Belgian Dominion championships 2014
« on: May 14, 2014, 04:48:57 am »
I would just like to add my 2 cents:
2p vs 3p or 4p:
I feel that the only way to (try to) determine the best Dominion player in a real-life setting is via 2p games. In 3p or 4p it's simply not possible to play enough games in a day to filter out the (much bigger) luck factor.
Qualifiers
To my mind, it has become clear that there are not enough players in the Netherlands and Belgium to hold live qualifiers. Maybe this will change in the future, maybe it won't.
I for one would like to see a Championship that is open to all, instead of a small gathering of players who qualified in online prelims. Because of the unknown number of players who show up this could mean having a number of rounds with a knock-out system instead of round-robin or Swiss. That's not necessarily a bad thing in my opinion; it's something that happens in a lot of tournaments, from tennis to chess, from Magic to soccer. A nice thing about a real-life tournament is meeting fellow players; if you're knocked out of the main event, you can just start up a game with some people you might have only met online.
An added possibility is organizing tournaments (either online or live) where people can earn byes for the first round (or couple of rounds).
Material
Material only seems to be a problem if we want to have the same board on each table during a round. Maybe we just have to accept that this is not feasible.
2p vs 3p or 4p:
I feel that the only way to (try to) determine the best Dominion player in a real-life setting is via 2p games. In 3p or 4p it's simply not possible to play enough games in a day to filter out the (much bigger) luck factor.
Qualifiers
To my mind, it has become clear that there are not enough players in the Netherlands and Belgium to hold live qualifiers. Maybe this will change in the future, maybe it won't.
I for one would like to see a Championship that is open to all, instead of a small gathering of players who qualified in online prelims. Because of the unknown number of players who show up this could mean having a number of rounds with a knock-out system instead of round-robin or Swiss. That's not necessarily a bad thing in my opinion; it's something that happens in a lot of tournaments, from tennis to chess, from Magic to soccer. A nice thing about a real-life tournament is meeting fellow players; if you're knocked out of the main event, you can just start up a game with some people you might have only met online.
An added possibility is organizing tournaments (either online or live) where people can earn byes for the first round (or couple of rounds).
Material
Material only seems to be a problem if we want to have the same board on each table during a round. Maybe we just have to accept that this is not feasible.