by Incandenza on Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:11 am
Some various opinions about things that have been discussed:
1. start date: I think that having the official start date as March 15 or even April 1 might be the best bet. In a larger sense, the clan league's regular season wraps up by the end of March. In a smaller sense, while the thota-monki challenge should be winding down, I wouldn't mind a wee break between the end of that challenge and the beginning of the cup.
2. length of the whole thing: yeah, it's going to last awhile for whoever makes the finals, but it's not substantially longer-lasting than either season of the clan league. It's certainly more games, but it's pretty spread out.
3. length of individual challenges: I think you guys are going to need to be at least a little strict when it comes to timing, i.e. while the competing clans should be able to have some discretion, there needs to be some guidelines, i.e. within 1 month of the official start date, all games of a given challenge need to be started (with 48 games, that allows a pretty doable rollout of 16 games every two weeks, or 24 games every 3 weeks). Once the cup gets to the semis and finals, greater allowance can be made for circumstances (as jp mentioned, August and September tend to be dead zones, which could probably be chalked up to Europeans on holiday and practically everyone under the age of, say, 21 doing the back-to-school thing), but if the first round ends up taking 3 months, it'll really screw things up down the road when it comes to working games around the various end-of-year holidays.
4. number of games: looks fine. Like some I'm not exactly over the moon with 1v1, but I accept the fact that they've become a legit part of challenges and thus merit some representation in an event of this sort.
5. play-in games: should be kept pretty short and sweet, say 3d/3t/3q and a best-of 3 1v1 per side, 20 points, 24 total games, one map use, anything shorter and you might as well make the whole play-in best of 3.
One question: for the 1v1 sets, do all 5 games have to have the same settings? Or does it just have to be the same map and same players?
Nice work fellas, esp Chuck.
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