What is your preferred format for co-events?
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:15 pm
It's been a while since we had this poll, and the recent bumping of the old 'preferred' format thread reminded me that there was a poll about this a while back, and with more co-events than ever, it'd be good to 'take the pulse of the community'.
Let me preface this by saying that there's plenty of room for all co-event types in the calendar, they all have their fans and there are positives and negatives to all options, which have been already debated to death on this board and no doubt will be again over and over.
The options:
Bristol format, also known as classroom format, is where everyone plays the same rounds as everyone else. One person hosts the game and there are two players to each table, letters are usually picked by one individual player each round for the whole room, while numbers can either work like that, or where each selection always consists of 4 large numbers and 6 small, and one player each pair chooses however many large numbers they want, with the small numbers coming from those to the immediate right of the large numbers. Everyone plays the same conundrum.
Edinburgh format, also known as Lincoln format, is where each table has three players on it- one host and two players. Everyone sat at the table gets a turn hosting, so a 'round' consists of three games. Each player picks letters and numbers only for their game, getting an equal number of round picks each game, and each game has an individual conundrum.
Finals stages- I've given three options down below. No finals stage is, as the name suggests, where there's no 'grand final' at the end of the day. Everyone plays the same set number of rounds, and whoever wins the most games/scores the most points is declared the winner at the end. A grand final is where only the top 2 play a grand final at the end of the set number of rounds, with the winner of that match being declared the winner. Division finals is where after the set number of rounds, players are grouped into 8 (or as near as possible where the number of attendees isn't an exact multiple of 8) and play a knockout tournament, with the winner of the top 8 being declared the winner of Division A, the winner of places 9-16 being declared the winner of Division B etc.
I've allowed everyone two options to vote as the bottom three options are technically separate from the top 6 (but hey, might as well kill two birds with one stone). The bottom three options are how fixtures are determined during the day.
Random/Random, as the name implies, means that all fixtures throughout the day are determined randomly, regardless of how a player has performed in previous rounds.
Random/Swiss means that the first round (first game/games for Bristol-style, first 2 games played per player for Edinburgh-style) is random, while the remaining rounds in the tournament will have people on a similar number of wins playing each other.
Seeded/Swiss means that the first round is drawn according to a seeding, whether this is Apterous Pro Ranks, on-screen performance or previous co-event performance. Generally, this means top players won't play each other in round 1.
Seeded/Random is also technically a possibility but I can't see any sensible reason why anyone would pick it.
This poll has no end date so feel free to discuss or change your vote at any time.
Let me preface this by saying that there's plenty of room for all co-event types in the calendar, they all have their fans and there are positives and negatives to all options, which have been already debated to death on this board and no doubt will be again over and over.
The options:
Bristol format, also known as classroom format, is where everyone plays the same rounds as everyone else. One person hosts the game and there are two players to each table, letters are usually picked by one individual player each round for the whole room, while numbers can either work like that, or where each selection always consists of 4 large numbers and 6 small, and one player each pair chooses however many large numbers they want, with the small numbers coming from those to the immediate right of the large numbers. Everyone plays the same conundrum.
Edinburgh format, also known as Lincoln format, is where each table has three players on it- one host and two players. Everyone sat at the table gets a turn hosting, so a 'round' consists of three games. Each player picks letters and numbers only for their game, getting an equal number of round picks each game, and each game has an individual conundrum.
Finals stages- I've given three options down below. No finals stage is, as the name suggests, where there's no 'grand final' at the end of the day. Everyone plays the same set number of rounds, and whoever wins the most games/scores the most points is declared the winner at the end. A grand final is where only the top 2 play a grand final at the end of the set number of rounds, with the winner of that match being declared the winner. Division finals is where after the set number of rounds, players are grouped into 8 (or as near as possible where the number of attendees isn't an exact multiple of 8) and play a knockout tournament, with the winner of the top 8 being declared the winner of Division A, the winner of places 9-16 being declared the winner of Division B etc.
I've allowed everyone two options to vote as the bottom three options are technically separate from the top 6 (but hey, might as well kill two birds with one stone). The bottom three options are how fixtures are determined during the day.
Random/Random, as the name implies, means that all fixtures throughout the day are determined randomly, regardless of how a player has performed in previous rounds.
Random/Swiss means that the first round (first game/games for Bristol-style, first 2 games played per player for Edinburgh-style) is random, while the remaining rounds in the tournament will have people on a similar number of wins playing each other.
Seeded/Swiss means that the first round is drawn according to a seeding, whether this is Apterous Pro Ranks, on-screen performance or previous co-event performance. Generally, this means top players won't play each other in round 1.
Seeded/Random is also technically a possibility but I can't see any sensible reason why anyone would pick it.
This poll has no end date so feel free to discuss or change your vote at any time.