@AI the top couple of players would have played each other 4 times before getting the deciding game, so the results should be reliable enough.

@AI, are you willing to play?

Why don't you do best of X between the players in each round to get a more reliable result? Sometimes a first pick is just too op ;)

:/ I find the 'only above lvl 50s' a bit ridiculous.

I'm a very old Warlight player and went inactive a couple of months after when the level system was introduced. Hence my low Lvl. But I've been taking on lv 50+s on 1 v 1s realtime games and beating most of these so called tough players. Due to your prerequisite I dont think I can compete, but I believe I'm just as good as any player? :)

I think Viking wants to get his feet wet doing competitive stuff. I wouldn't expect everything to be as accurate as possible, I think the intent is to have a fun competitive title. Kind of like a wrestling belt. (I haven't been active much until recently, this is an assumption)

If the concern is winning a series vs just one, you could just make multiple tourneys with the same players and templates for each round, and tally up. Afaik we can't add make individual games into a series except by making extras, and that would be a nightmare to follow individually.

First pick is an advantage but I don't think that will make people drop to the bottom 25%. I would only expect that to matter if this was limited to elite clans. Scores don't appear to carry over between rounds, so you can do horrible at first and then stick it out. The strong players will have an outsize advantage in unfamiliar templates anyway though imo

I would second Fred to an extent. Some level 50s+ are bad. As in much worse than me - bad. Some people can beat them. You could consider letting people join who have good winrates already but are lower level. It's also not hard to level up with a good winrate. Up to you!

I've found occasional games (including tourneys) which ran much longer than intended due to weird settings that basically allowed stalling. Diplo cards and giant blockades were the worst offenders I think.

@Viking: I like your idea of starting a series with the intention of finding the best player on warzone, but I think I pointed out that I don't like your concept. Let me add some more points:

- Why do only 25% sort out? Whoever makes it to the next round by finishing 14th out of 20 definetely isn't the best player on warzone. 75% would be a better rate.

- unknown template? People are good on different templates, so luck kinda is a huge factor here. If you choose some Multi-Attack template then that could be a problem.

- Your prereqs are above lvl 50. ok, that's good as a single prereq. But there should be more. f.e. a top 10 in the 1v1 ladder, etc.

Ideas for improvement:

Your concept is in a way that losing a game or two doesn't punish you directly by kicking you out. That's cool.
A new way to implement that:

Make RR tournaments with 5 players, the best 2 of them make it to the next round, which is again a RR with 4/5/6. And so on.
With 20 people this would make you play 8 games until you get to the final instead of 47.

Edited 4/29/2019 07:24:16

Ok! LordFred, you can play. Invites will be sent out later today. FrozenKoala, Timinator, AI?

If you actually want to find the BEST player and this is not some troll:

give it some time, dude.

Also, think about my advices. I wont join the way it is right now.

Create an open game, 20 player free for all, and declare the winner the best player. Consumes a lot less time and gives you a similar result.

I will play

I'd be happy to play if there's a spot.

Ok. I've thought about your suggestions.
The revised new rules are (The ones I've changed)
- There will be 4 RR of 5. The top 2 advance. The top 2 of two RR will face in a RR. Same with the others.
- I will announce the templates very soon. Tomorrow.
- LordFred100 can join.
You have to be good to join.
Anyone who asks can join, probably.

Thanks to AI, FrozenKoala, and Timinator.
Do you want to play?

Thanks but I just wanted to give some suggestions. Actually playing games requires committment :p

Generally speaking I'm only playing RT sometimes and no MD ATM or I might have joined to round things out if needed. Hope it goes well! :D

Ok!
I NEED MORE PLAYERS!

Go look for them, don't expect them to magically show up in this thread.

Because of all the changes in rules and because I am changing t the name, I am going to post a new forum thread this weekend on The League of 20. With all the new rules. The same players that asked to be invited to The Best Player Challenge will be invited. This weekend...
All tournaments have been deleted

yeah, please spam the forum with more threads.

I don't think this counts as spam, tim. That being said, I do think its unneeded to make new threads for this. You kinda got people gathered for this thread and its hard to get casuals back together again. People might assume its something else and theoretically people following this one would learn about the name change anyway. It might work though, idk. :D

Edited 9/1/2019 11:47:45

I'm not doing a different forum thread. I'll continue this one.
@Timinator, I wouldn't call this spamming.

If you are following this thread, I will post a huge post on Saturday. With all the new rules and new name. From today to Saturday, I will post continual new rules, but on Saturday, all the rules Will come out.