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Chat Area => General Chat => Topic started by: raydenuni on April 12, 2012, 05:31:47 PM
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We got a table at the office recently and are just finishing up a single-elimination tournament with randomly assigned teammates. Everyone has had fun but teammates were mismatched on skill level, some matches were even while others were blowouts, and elimination isn't fun. I would like to follow up the tournament with an on-going weekly ladder.
These are my goals:
* Players play with and against people of similar skill level
* Players team up with different people every week
* Supports 16-32 people
* Would prefer a simple system that everyone can understand
It sounds simple enough and my initial thoughts were that there has to be an elegant system that pseudo-randomly pairs people up with opponents, moves people up and down the ladder as they win or lose. But I've been thinking about this for a few weeks and the more I think about it the more I'm wondering if it's impossible.
Has anyone run a 2v2 ladder/league with random teammates? How did you do it?
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Single elimination isn't much fun; you can lose 1 match and your done...... If time allows it, I would suggest to run a double elimination tournament (maybe make losers bracket 1 game to 7)...and do an "A/B draw". This is where you split the player base into 2 groups; A = better players and B = not so good players. Then you just match an A with a B randomly. This is a simple way to have a competitive draw your partner event.
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I've thought about that. I'd prefer to do an on-going system without elimination at all. I would also like to put better players together with better players, something a ladder would allow, but the logistics of a ladder just don't seem to work.
The best I can come up with at this point is to split players into 8-player brackets and run a round-robin tournament. After enough games, players are either bumped up or down a bracket and start again.
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Any other thoughts on this? I'm in nearly an identical scenario as the OP.