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Re: Upsets
« Reply #100 on: December 20, 2012, 05:32:19 pm »
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Yeah, knock out adds to the drama. Upsets are awesome for non involved parties!

Otherwise might as well just give the award to the highest level play on Iso (yeah i know thats ot stictly right, but its the closest i can be bothered to come up with )
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #101 on: December 20, 2012, 05:36:21 pm »
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In my mind, there are probably 8-12 players that I would consider worthy of winning, with basically no differentiation between them as far as "deservingness".  So long as the finalists (and ideally, division champs) are among those 8-12 I think we will have done enough.
And if someone wins that's not on that short list, they'll deserve it too. There's enough really good players in the tournament that you have to play really well and beat some really good players to win.

EDIT: Wow, you changed that number a lot. I first read 10-20, then quoted 8-12, now it says 12-16...
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #102 on: December 20, 2012, 05:37:50 pm »
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I put down 10-20 arbitrarily, then re-read the list, then changed my mind a second time :P
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #103 on: December 20, 2012, 05:39:59 pm »
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I put down 10-20 arbitrarily, then re-read the list, then changed my mind a second time :P
you must have done all that quickly, before you crossed that line-in-the-sand (timewise) that triggered the "Edited" flag.  Or do you not get those, because you are....theory?
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #104 on: December 20, 2012, 05:44:54 pm »
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I put down 10-20 arbitrarily, then re-read the list, then changed my mind a second time :P
you must have done all that quickly, before you crossed that line-in-the-sand (timewise) that triggered the "Edited" flag.  Or do you not get those, because you are....theory?

The "edited" flag is disabled for my own posts (though it will still show up if I edit other people's posts).

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Re: Upsets
« Reply #105 on: December 20, 2012, 06:22:55 pm »
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I put down 10-20 arbitrarily, then re-read the list, then changed my mind a second time :P
you must have done all that quickly, before you crossed that line-in-the-sand (timewise) that triggered the "Edited" flag.  Or do you not get those, because you are....theory?
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #106 on: December 20, 2012, 08:11:07 pm »
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Of course, the one person who didn't lose in an upset was Stef. Of course.
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #107 on: December 20, 2012, 08:16:29 pm »
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Of course, the one person who didn't lose in an upset was Stef. Of course.
Unfortunately for -Stef-, any loss to anyone would be considered an upset, though losing to someone like Rabid would be much less upsetting than losing to FEEDMEMORE....
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #108 on: December 20, 2012, 08:41:10 pm »
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Of course, the one person who didn't lose in an upset was Stef. Of course.
Unfortunately for -Stef-, any loss to anyone would be considered an upset, though losing to someone like Rabid would be much less upsetting than losing to FEEDMEMORE....

I hear that guy is good.
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #109 on: December 20, 2012, 09:20:30 pm »
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It makes me feel better that my name was misspelled in the OP since the player who beat Marin was also misspelled.  :)
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #110 on: December 21, 2012, 06:58:58 am »
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I see it like golf, if you wanna see who's the best right now, check the leaderboard and it's gonna give you a pretty accurate idea of who's doing well.
And then you have this tournament, which is sadly our only Major, " almost " anybody can win it, it's for the glory, and even with whatever luck factor involved, the field is pretty deep ! It's a nice achievement you can be proud of if you manage to pull that off...

So my point is, let's do this more than once a year, it's too much fun ! : )
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #111 on: December 21, 2012, 08:24:29 am »
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Of course, the one person who didn't lose in an upset was Stef. Of course.
Unfortunately for -Stef-, any loss to anyone would be considered an upset, though losing to someone like Rabid would be much less upsetting than losing to FEEDMEMORE....

http://www.councilroom.com/games_by_opponent?player=-Stef-

I think this makes me favourite :)
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #112 on: December 21, 2012, 08:58:01 am »
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So my point is, let's do this more than once a year, it's too much fun ! : )

we sort of do already. the following tournaments organized by theory and/or this community have all taken place since last years DS.com championship:
Isodom 3
Isodom 4
Isodom 5
BGG Store Tournament
Dominion World Master's Online Qualifier
3 separate 1 day tournaments
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #113 on: December 21, 2012, 10:21:29 am »
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Of course, the one person who didn't lose in an upset was Stef. Of course.
Unfortunately for -Stef-, any loss to anyone would be considered an upset, though losing to someone like Rabid would be much less upsetting than losing to FEEDMEMORE....

http://www.councilroom.com/games_by_opponent?player=-Stef-

I think this makes me favourite :)

I'm 5-0 against the favourite! Does that make me the new favourite?
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #114 on: December 21, 2012, 04:07:03 pm »
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Reminds me of the Unofficial Football World Championships.  Currently the Unofficial Football World Champion is ... North Korea.
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #115 on: December 21, 2012, 05:41:57 pm »
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Ok, now I kinda want to write a script for councilroom to keep track of that... but the title list would be so long for something like Dominion...
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #116 on: December 21, 2012, 05:54:48 pm »
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Ok, now I kinda want to write a script for councilroom to keep track of that... but the title list would be so long for something like Dominion...

Probably it will just die, unfortunately, as someone stops playing or changes their name.
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #117 on: December 21, 2012, 06:00:18 pm »
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Ok, now I kinda want to write a script for councilroom to keep track of that... but the title list would be so long for something like Dominion...

Probably it will just die, unfortunately, as someone stops playing or changes their name.
We could probably have a grace period of a few months, if that player doesn't play within that time he gives up his title to whoever had it before.
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #118 on: December 21, 2012, 06:02:05 pm »
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Over the number of games and title changes we're talking about, yeah, pretty likely. Of course, you could just revert to previous holder in that case.

[ninja'd by Axxle - I wouldn't even make it a few months though, I'd make it the same week that it takes to fall off the leaderboard]
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #119 on: December 21, 2012, 06:12:47 pm »
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you'd need it to be recursive.  If A beats B, and then B beats C, and then B/C never play again, does it go back to A?
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #120 on: December 21, 2012, 06:26:11 pm »
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Reminds me of the Unofficial Football World Championships.  Currently the Unofficial Football World Champion is ... North Korea.

I can't believe N Korea have been unbeaten for a year!!
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #121 on: December 22, 2012, 04:32:21 am »
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In Asia they are quite decent team, one of the 5-6 strongest. Out of the title defence games only Australia was an opponent at a similar level, other teams were weaker.
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #122 on: December 22, 2012, 11:04:17 am »
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you'd need it to be recursive.  If A beats B, and then B beats C, and then B/C never play again, does it go back to A?

I think you mean B beats A and  C beats B, but either way, that's what I was thinking... basically, any time you reach a dead end, back track to the previous title change match, mark it as ignored, and then proceed as normal. So here, it would go back to the C vs. B match first, mark it as ignored, and then try to go forward with B as a champ, but when it dead ends again it would then back track to B vs. A.
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #123 on: December 23, 2012, 09:45:22 pm »
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mrdudesir number 48 in his bracket defeated Manzi!
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Re: Upsets
« Reply #124 on: December 23, 2012, 11:11:36 pm »
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So now all of last year's top 3 are gone. However, all of the top 5 seeds based on leaderboard ranking (Stef, Rabid, ObiWan, Mic Q, and jonts) remain.
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