Dear Yoshi & Team: About Current TT Tournament Model

[Starrywisdom]

Why do people feel the need to try to address a forum thread to a specific person or group ; seriously. Especially when it's not even formatted as an open letter.

[Illya]

This tournament is completely broken. Even allowing 1-star, 2-star, and 3-players to play each other completely randomly without players knowing how many cards the other has grinded out is an amazing lack of foresight.

All tournaments should have "weight classes" where players are separated into brackets based on if they hold <30, 30-59, or 60+ cards because of this game's arbitrary restriction where you aren't allowed to use 2-star cards until you have 30+ cards and 3-star cards until you have 60+ cards.

Future tournaments should separate players into "featherweight" (0-29 cards owned), "middleweight" (30-59 cards owned), and "heavyweight" (60+ cards owned) so 3-star players aren't beating up 1-star players for their lunch money. Even with Plus, the average 1-star player isn't going to beat a 3-star player, especially if the 3-star player knows how Plus works too.

Lightning should be added as a drop from NPCs or a Primal/dungeon after this tournament so everyone has a chance to get her if they want her at this point. The tournament is joke in terms of actually determining who the best 3 players on the server are and awarding them a prize they deserve.

[Lyrinn]

Honestly, I was expecting divisions. Something like dividing up players into groups A, B, C, D, E, ..., and then using the current format to determine who moves on to the next stages and repeating until you have your top players from each division. Forcing pairwise matchmaking doesn't work because of time zone/play time differences, but breaking the players up and letting them play only against other players in the same division would greatly slow down cheaters trying to use friends/alts for win feeding.

[Spawnie]

Honestly, I was expecting divisions. Something like dividing up players into groups A, B, C, D, E, ..., and then using the current format to determine who moves on to the next stages and repeating until you have your top players from each division. Forcing pairwise matchmaking doesn't work because of time zone/play time differences, but breaking the players up and letting them play only against other players in the same division would greatly slow down cheaters trying to use friends/alts for win feeding.

anything thats not completely random matches via a roulette type feature will be abused if you can see who else is in your group can /tell them offering to pay for wins

[Lyrinn]

anything thats not completely random matches via a roulette type feature will be abused if you can see who else is in your group can /tell them offering to pay for wins

Simply having multiple stages would remove most of that, as characters used for win feeding would immediately drop out of the tournament in the first round. Easiest way to cheat is to use friends/alts, not random people who are likely to drop by the end or may not even sell you a win.

[Shinun]

anything thats not completely random matches via a roulette type feature will be abused if you can see who else is in your group can /tell them offering to pay for wins

You can just take the Player V Player aspect of Tournaments out aswell to where it's vs NPC only. Not as appealing but that would be the safest/fastest fix

[Spawnie]

Simply having multiple stages would remove most of that, as characters used for win feeding would immediately drop out of the tournament in the first round. Easiest way to cheat is to use friends/alts, not random people who are likely to drop by the end or may not even sell you a win.

eithier way its broken n needs to be fixed asap im sure seeing how this tournment has turned out wont be long b4 somethin is implemented i stopped participating asoon as i saw win trading lol

[MomomiMomi]

Honestly, I was expecting divisions. Something like dividing up players into groups A, B, C, D, E, ..., and then using the current format to determine who moves on to the next stages and repeating until you have your top players from each division. Forcing pairwise matchmaking doesn't work because of time zone/play time differences, but breaking the players up and letting them play only against other players in the same division would greatly slow down cheaters trying to use friends/alts for win feeding.

Something like this would probably be best. The current format is kind of nice in that it allows people to participate regardless of play time. It's just way too open to exploitation. What you're saying here would make it much harder to exploit.

[Shinun]

They have until the 10th. SE needs to nullify this Tournament Round or reset it and implement sometype of hotfix.

[AryaSpark]

The "Tourney" is pathetic. I have been the apologist for Triad but no more.

Player: 'There is no cancel game button and I'm missing my DF queues!'
Me: 'You just need to play faster'

Player: 'Random is unfair'
Me: 'You just need to play more, and you're not going to win every Random match'

No more sticking up for what is clearly terrible forethought into Triad. Did they even test this???

This was my Tournament experience today...I walked up to the board and signed up. Before I could even get my bearings, someone challenged me. I accept and lose. The rematch window pops up to which I would love a rematch but no, the player declines. I let them know I think it's lame to not give me a rematch and they say it is not in their interest to rematch WHICH THEY ARE RIGHT. So why even bother having the rematch window pop up???

And 15 matches? No best-of-5 even?

And reading how ppl are exploiting the system, even if someone does really well, ppl will not believe it was legit.