Now everyone says, but there would be too many people not battling! Simple, if one pair does not battle in the time alloted, throw em out, unless they make an attempt to battle their opponent. You have to be strict about these things, for it to work.

Do we want to try this? Someone want to step up? Give me comments, or something.... remember its just an idea....

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A wise pokemon trainer once said-

That just popped into my mind.

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But as soon as the CLST ends, I'm gonna be organizing a 64 player Double Elimination tournament with "alliances" rather than clear-cut board teams.

Still working out the exact method of signup, but needless to say, it'll be relatively free entry.

That is, assuming people actually want to play in it. There are so many tournaments going on that I'm not sure someone's holding a better one than me.

Oh well. I guess we'll see.

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Anyways, thanks for the complement.

And sneakerton, thats getting towards what I was thinking. 64 is a lot of people, so maybe we should try it, and see what happens. Then, if it works, maybe you or me or someone else could organise an even larger tourney! And see who the real champion is!

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A wise pokemon trainer once said-

I think I may have just come up with the best idea for a large scale tournament. It sortof has teams, but they arn't necessary.

Now say we have 4 boards(this is just an example, there could be more, or less). Each board has sign ups, and up to say, 64 people from each board. Now the boards have their own tournament, that narrows it down to 16 or 8 people(or something, it depends on the number of boards/places). Then we combine those into a tourney, using the stats they had in the previous tournament, to make them into seeds or places(such as a first seed, like in March Madness college bball). The tourney then plays out. And we have a winner!
It would have to be double/triple ellimination, for the stats to actually have some meaning. Or forget the stats, and just put them in random order.

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This 64 player business that I'm planning will be pretty tough, but I think I'm up to it.

Getting that many people to play battles is damn tough, tho.

White Cat, I also know that. Well, there has to be a way to have a first tourney, and then, take that and move on to the finals. I assume tho, that some of the boards didn't have such a large tounament, I know azure did, but nothing else.

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Maybe we need a certain system of rankings... Kind of like the college BCS thingy. Maybe if we calculate the difficulty of the opponent based on their number(which would be calculated by this), with wins/losses and pokemon lost, and we come up with a big number, and subtract it by 100....... And... I am confused...

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It's not worth the effort to get people to play all these games when they're only gonna play one or two or three in a tournament.

Believe me, the current system works fine.

So hows that? Its like the college basketball thing, just instead of having a time you have a deadline to battle.

EDIT: Forgot to add about the Judges. Basically the are on PBS whenever they feel like it, and they see if people are making an effort to compete. If no one sees someone for a large quantity of time without, say an email explaining the problem/whatever, they are booted, and the people who have a match against them get a free win. Heck, we could also have the judges have a "Top 25", and rank different people!
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A wise pokemon trainer once said-

"You can not catch even the strongest pokemon, until you get some balls."

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Originally posted by Jman:
Maybe we need a certain system of rankings... Kind of like the college BCS thingy. Maybe if we calculate the difficulty of the opponent based on their number(which would be calculated by this), with wins/losses and pokemon lost, and we come up with a big number, and subtract it by 100....... And... I am confused...

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This is a good idea. However, rather than try and come up with out own formular to determine such ratings, it'd be quicker and most likely more effective to just borrow one from somewhere else. At the end of the season, one could just take the top 16 rated players and play them off in a single-elemination tournament.

If you think this is a good idea, I'll try and find a system like this.

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But I doubt it.

Sneakerton, I could help you with your 64/whatever person league, if you would like. I dunno if I could do one by myself....

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A wise pokemon trainer once said-

Example:

Bob has 5 wins and 7 losses.

So he has a score of 103. How?

5 wins x 2= 10
7 losses x 1=7
10 - 7= 3
100 + 3= 103

That works preatty well. It makes people have to try and win as many games as possible without having them win like 2 and lose 0 and win the division.

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Each player has a rating, for players who have not played before, this rating is 1000.

Each player also has a number associated with them (N), which is either 50, 30 or 20. 50 is for people who haven't played much, 30 for normal players and 20 for players with very high ratings.

When a game is played, the winner's rating is increased by N * (1 - K) and the loser's rating is reduced by N * (K).

K is calculated by the following formula :
K = 1 / (1 + 10^((difference in ratings) / 400))

...I just noticed that that IS kinda complex, but it shouldn't pose too much of a problem. ^_^;;

Ehh... Wanna start this after the CLST?

Or not?

Dosn't matter to me, I've got webspace, know HTML, etc. I could use help, if you would like, or if Sneak wants, I could help him.

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A wise pokemon trainer once said-

[edit] Also, if you want my help, I'll willingly give it to you.

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Even at his most powerless, man's exsistance is never without meaning.

No wonder why I am not doing so well in Algebra....

I may start this, thanks for your willingness to help me....

I suppose that you will be my second in command. And you will figure out their ratings :P. Okay, now its time to start creating the site, i'll email you all the details after I start making the frame of it.

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A wise pokemon trainer once said-

I've made the necessary preparations here, ready to start whenever you're ready, Jman.