Dear Yoshi & Team: About Current TT Tournament Model

[Lycinder]

Tier 1 (The 60+ card category)

First prize for top 3 is the legendary/collector cards + 150,000MGP

Tier 2 (The 30 to 59 card category)

First prize for top 3 is 100,000MGP

Tier 3 (The 1 to 29 card category)

First prize for top 3 is 50,000MGP

So only those who farmed 60 cards gets the right to have a chance to get a legendary card?

No that's a bit unfair especially with how someone can make a deck with the under 60 limit beat someone with over 60 cards especially with the first tourny being All Open and plus rule, what we need is something like the elo system which will sort you into tiers based off your previous experience in tournaments therefore people will be better suited against their opponents and still have a good chance at a collectors card without having to rely on rng bull to get to 60 cards.

[Snugglebutt]

So only those who farmed 60 cards gets the right to have a chance to get a legendary card?

No that's a bit unfair especially with how someone can make a deck with the under 60 limit beat someone with over 60 cards especially with the first tourny being All Open and plus rule, what we need is something like the elo system which will sort you into tiers based off your previous experience in tournaments therefore people will be better suited against their opponents and still have a good chance at a collectors card without having to rely on rng bull to get to 60 cards.

It is not unfair at all, they are legendary/collector cards first and foremost so anyone who actually cares a lot about collecting cards would try to get enough to take part in that category in the first place plus the main reason I did not put that in all three tiers is to stop people abusing the system by making quick and easy lvl 15 alts (which takes only a couple hours to do) and spamming the tournament over and over in the lowest tier for the legendary/collector card.

There would be no point fixing the buying wins problem if replace that problem with another kind of problem which is the making alt quick characters spamming the lowest tier for the same level of reward as the highest tier top prize gets. By keeping it MGP+card pack related for the lower tiers that would help them build up a nice size deck through buying and winning of the B/S/G packs so that in the next tournament they would be closer to the top tier and by proxy their chances of the legendary/collector cards through hard work and not through abusing the system whether that is from buying wins or making many quick lvl 15 alts and spamming the lowest tier for the highest tier top prize.

[Lycinder]

It is not unfair at all, they are legendary/collector cards first and foremost so anyone who actually cares a lot about collecting cards would try to get enough to take part in that category in the first place plus the main reason I did not put that in all three tiers is to stop people abusing the system by making quick and easy lvl 15 alts (which takes only a couple hours to do) and spamming the tournament over and over in the lowest tier for the legendary/collector card. There would be no point fixing the buying wins problem if replace that problem with another kind of problem which is the making alt quick characters spamming the lowest tier for the same level of reward as the highest tier top prize gets.

What I am trying to get at is the fact a skilled player stuck with the under 60 card limit could beat someone with the over 60 card limit, it should not be how much you are willing to do the mindnumbing grind to get to 60 cards but how skilled you are which decides which bracket you belong to,I didn't say give the lower brackets the collectors cards I said don't hide the bracket behind RNG bull because there are some people (like me) who have reached the point where to get the 60 they need to grind endlessly on npcs with horrible drop rate or be super lucky.
Actually I mean how dare you say that because I have under 60 cards I don't care about collecting the cards -grumble grumble rng bull grumble grumble-

[Volkai]

Greetings,

We've been reading over all your feedback regarding Triple Triad tournaments and sharing all of it with the development team. They would like to look into adjusting future Triple Triad tournament rules based on suggestions and feedback.

It appears the top to finishers in the first tournament on Balmung both bought victories, using shouts and Party Finder to find people willing to sell their win records for a few filthy gil.

[VynceNiore]

There was cheating on Behemoth

[Haru]

On Excalibur the top player has 13/13 wins.. still has 2 matched up their sleeves and has over 1700 points.. They will undoubtedly finish the last two matches to claim 2000+ points near the end or as soon as someone tries to beat them.

[myahele]

Cancelling it now will probably cause an uproar. So hopefully SE learned from this and will make necessary adjustments for future tournaments.

[Zanarken]

Cancelling it now will probably cause an uproar. So hopefully SE learned from this and will make necessary adjustments for future tournaments.

The community is already up in arms. Rewarding those who cheated the system would be the worst thing SE could do at this point. Best possible outcome would be to reward all participants Lightning card & remove the MGP/other rewards for this tournament. Exploiting should not be tolerated.

[Curatio_Magus]

I'm torn.

I feel that yes, cheating and buying wins is rampant. Yes, cheaters are in the top 20 on every server. I also think the tournament is a shame purely based on its design... a mere 15 games...

Whether due to rampant cheating and exploits, or a seriously flawed 'tournament' design entirely, I do feel like the prizes should be taken off the table (as nobody has even won anything yet, and are likely to not even be the top 20 in the next 2-3 days), and replaced with a more acceptable prize (removal of a prized card) at least for the first botched tournament attempt.

Then after a review of the system and implementation of a new structure that removes the easily accessible corruption and statistically insignificant amount of trials, such serious prizes can be re-implemented.

As-is, I don't feel (personally) like maintaining the grand payouts in place right now serves the community well based on how they are being won.

[ChocoFeru]

The thing is that it's hard to prove if they cheated. On Ragnarok we have the 1st one with 15/15 wins, and there's another one around 13 position that has 15/15 wins too. Wich one cheated? none? both? Maybe the first one played against high-lvl TT players and the other one played randombly or spammed the same one. Who knows.

The fact is that it's exploitable, therefore we have a problem that must be solved.