Tournament feedback

[Gyoo]

So, the tournaments are now almost done, for guitar the main bracket is done (just going to do a bonus match if possible) and the loser bracket still has a few matches to do.

I wanted to create such a thread to have your feedback, participant or not, about this tourney. We can't learn and improve ourselves without knowing what's wrong or right, so if you want an even better tournament next time, please write your feels, good or bad, if at least it's constructive.

Since I was also a player and an organizer, let's have my own feedback at first.


To me, the tournament was pretty good. I was really surprised to see so much participants for guitar, and it was a bit of a shame to see only 7 players for drums.
On the other side, on every single round, some players didn't post. It's ok to forget once, but some players just didn't post any score at all. Why did they joined the tourney then ?

The amount of songs I had to gather was pretty colossal, and I had to add songs at last minute because I realised I didn't have enough, but on the overall I hope I chose fun songs, even on lower tiers.
Talking about tiers (and easy songs), I heard some players didn't like the first rounds because the songs were too easy. I just dealt with the poll I made weeks before the tourney, and the main result was "Do a progressive difficulty". Maybe it was too progressive...

That may be a bit short, but I'm also short on time I think my main ideas are there though.

Once again, feel free to give your feedback !

Gyoo

[brogusdral]

I think that for a first run the tourney has gone well. Song selection was good and the participation was good as well (save for a few that weren't able to post). I have a few ideas that may help.

1. Limit tourney entry to a round number. That way the occasional long wait for your next round will be eliminated. 16 or 32 entrants should take care of that.

2. Shorten the time allowed for posting scores. I feel that 3-5 days for a round is ample enough time. Seeing as how the majority of the participants (myself included) posted scores on the final day, shortening the time frame wouldn't hamper the experience and the progression of the rounds would pick up.

3. I know there was some confusion about whether or not you could post an updated score after you had already posted one. I think a great way to take care of that confusion would be to have the person submitting the score put "Final" in the comment section of his link. That way, if someone posts a score that beats the other person, they don't have to hover on the bracket page making sure his opponent doesn't post a better score at the last minute and snipes a victory.

Going forward, I think themed tourneys would be a lot of fun. Like make a "Dream Theater" or "Symphony X" tourney where all the jams are from a certain band.

Other than that I think everything else ran pretty smoothly. Bummer about the drum tourney drawing only 7 people. I had contemplated entering, but I felt that I should leave the drumming to the people that are actually good at it.

Thanks for setting all this up. I hope this tournament was the first of many.

[kylepolansky]

I'd like to say thanks once again for organizing this tournament. I had a ton of fun, even though there weren't many people (for drums).

One idea that may or may not help the organizers is picking the same song for each round. For example, in round 1, all 32 people would play the same song, then the next 16 or 32 people (depending on elimination) would play the 2nd song in the 2nd round.

Another thing that would be helpful is hiding the scores from the other player. I seemed to always be busy, so I would upload my scores during the week. The other player had a couple of days to see it, and try to beat my score. I really couldn't do anything about it. However, if the scores were hidden, we would play based on our instincts of being "good enough" to beat the other player.

Another thing that I loved (but I know isn't always reasonable) is online play. Italianstal1ion and myself played the last 2 rounds of the tournament online. We talked about doing regular online events (say every x night). These would be mostly just for fun. Of course, the major problem with this, and especially with doing a tournament this way would be song selection. While we were playing, we just picked songs from the Community Drum Projects, but I sightread one of the songs, and lost by over 100,000 points.

Anyways, If I could be of any help with anything in the future, please let me know.

[qu9ke]

How can I stay in the loop with these different tournaments? I would have loved to have participated. I especially would have loved to do the drums, but I can do either. I can fc the majority of songs I play on either instrument. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but that was mainly just to show that I am passionate about rhythm gaming. If there are any other tournaments around the bend, I would love to know about them.