Tournament Survey

Please fill this out.

This is to gather feedback and possible suggestions on the next tournament to improve the user experience. I'll be attempting to maximize enjoyment and participation. I think we had a pretty nice base line for the tournament despite the mess and drop outs, etc. That said, there will definitely be a better one coming up, but I need to gather information for a date and time that maximizes participation. I'll be announcing the date and time on Sunday (Sept 9) or Monday September 10th. Please note the survey is completely anonymous and shouldn't take more than a minute or two of your time.

Thanks and have a resignful day <3

-- @_Shaman

The next flyers will be made with Inkscape in SVG format for easier resizing and storage.

Done. Option was not selectable but was my favorite: best of 1 except silver and gold

An ffa comp is complex, but could be quite achievable.

things u have to consider.

-easy for a top ffa player to get knocked out, so u need rounds.
-games are long, so u need time limits
-placing in games can be made, by who last the longest\who has most [whatever formula you can create on premature game end].
-you could easily make a ffa tourney with a fair few players with only 3 rounds + finals.
-variance is high, even moderate players could win.

Survey results will be posted on Sunday along with announced next tournament day.

sound like we can just designate an independent WHR system [called "Tournament" say]

copy paste most of the team/1v1 matchmaking code over.

only allow people to join queque at a specific time [ or even all the time like a tournament ladder [just a normal MM then]]

the after timer run out get top 4 teams for final

Instead of making tournaments more frequently, it'd be better to incentivize players to play the matchmaking more, build more social stuff around it, add awards for whoever holds the top spots, etc..

Imo periodically doing a full reset would be bad, too grindy, but a soft reset might be nice.

Results time!

22 respondents answered the survey. Here are the results:

Format style: People were pretty much indecisive on this with a slight majority answering "Don't know / No preference" in terms of individual response. However, when we break it down by style, Swiss had an overwhelming majority with 9 respondents voting for some format of Swiss. The next popular format was Double Elimination and Round Robbin (3 votes each) with single elimination getting 0 vote.

Map pool:

Ravaged v2 was a pretty popular response. This will definitely be in the next tournament.

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Least popular response:
CCR and Geko Island had 4 votes each and as such, we're probably not gonna see many games on them. Titan duel was another unfavorite along with Hide And Seek, Icy run and Speed metal (You know who you are, and whoever you are I'll get you one day you snooping a new plants unlocker.. :P).

Other unfavorites:
- Red Comet
- Shimmershore
- Zed
- Adamantine Mountain
- Isis Delta
- Small Supreme BattleField Dry

Favorite Format:
Here's where things get interesting. Most of you voted for 2v2 and 3v3 with a sizable minority in 1v1. Few wanted to experiment with 4v4, so we probably won't be doing that for some time. In likelihood I'll be rotating 3v3, 2v2, and 1v1 out with the occasional weird format now and then to spice things up.



Tournament hosting:

By overwhelming margin, most of you wanted Saturdays at 59.1% (13), along with minorities in Friday (22.7% or 5 people) and Sunday (13.6% or 3 people). One insane person wrote down Monday and nobody voted for Tuesday through Thursday.

A pretty good majority voted for 18:00 UTC at 7. 2 people voted for 8:30, 2 people voted for 5:00/5:30, and the rest were random times. About 5 people said no preference. With this in mind, 18:00UTC on Saturdays wins.





Frequency:
Majority said 4 weeks average at 54.5% (12 people). Minorities in 2wks (4 or 18.2%) and 8wks (3 or 13.6%) also popped up. With this in mind, we're gonna stick to monthly tournaments.



WHR Caps:
Nobody voted no here, so they're gonna stay in all future team events. We will be experimenting with several different caps (probably around 2150-2200 per person) until we find values that are just right.

54.5% (12 people) voted yes, with 10 voting no preference.




Time limit:

This is where the polls get interesting. 31.8% voted for a time limit while 45.5% voted to not have a time limit. 22.7% said no preference. In the time limit category, 30 minutes was the most popular at 3 votes, 45 at 2, and 40 and 15 getting 1 vote each. I don't think we will be enforcing a strict timelimit in the future, and instead opt to try to save time in the intermission period. I'll be experimenting with this next tournament.





Who should choose the maps?
Here we find people a little more indecisive on who should choose the maps. A slim majority exists in Totally random (at 8 votes) and Random First->Losers at 7 votes. If we count in "Losers", we arrive at 10-8 in favor of losers. Likely this will stay the same in future tournaments, but random only may be experimented with in the future.




Other rules:
There weren't any suggestions that stood out here aside from pre-tournament checkin. This would solve the attendance issue most likely, so I will definitely be including this next time.

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Participation:


12 Respondents

WHR Cap Fairness:
Majority chose yes, with a sizable minority in no preference / don't know. 1 person chose too high.


Swiss Enjoyment:
1 person said no, 1 person didn't participate. Rest said yes. This kind of fits with the idea of swiss being a preferred format.



Finals:

A slight majority said they were too short at 5. One person voted for double elimination finals (staying Bo1 except finals) and the rest said make them Best of 3. 4 people were indifferent, and 3 want to keep the current system.



Enjoyability:
Average seemed to be 7.9. Nobody voted below a 5 so that's good. 1 person said 6, 4 said 7, 3 said 8, 3 said 9, and 1 said 10. This establishes a strong base line and may be hard to top in the next tournament.



Returning voters:

Nobody voted no. Majority said yes (8) with 4 saying possibly.



Improvements:
Faster intermissions was a frequent suggestion. One person said more balanced matchups. I'll be attempting to work on minimizing intermissions in the future. (Especially now that I'm getting some tools)

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Detriments:

Here we got a few joke responses. My favorite was "constant awareness of the inevitability of universal death and meaninglessness of all human existence". Most people agreed that the messy organization and waiting time was horrible. So we'll be trying to cut that out.

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Balance:



This is where things get a bit shakey. Some of these votes make me a bit nervous. I think experimenting with the tournament format may help improve this.

Preliminary length:



Most people seemed to say the preliminaries were just the right length. I think I'll see about trying to cut down in initial start up and increase the rounds to 5 next time, along with a custom tailor made format for zk.

Overall length:



A slight majority people complained that it was slightly too long, while a sizable minority said it was just right. Some outliers in the too short field.

No Participatory Survey:

A majority said that the reason they didn't sign up was because it was on a bad day for them. A sizable minority said not enough time, one person said they were a sub and wasn't selected (Aww, really? Who didn't I assign? :( ). One said they were on vacation.



To convince:

Convincing people seems to be easy: select a better day. Half would probably sign up if the date was better. One said they would, 2 want a better time, 1 said predetermined maps.



Finally, the result everyone was waiting for.

RESIGN!?



Resignateers in service to our Queen, we must resign!