I am interested in joining the tournament, but I do not understand the preliminary league format. Where can I find information on that?

First a short update: We now have 123 players! almost 20 more in less than 24 hours!




When the league-phase begins, all participants will be split evenly into 8 different leagues.
You will compete against the other 13+ players in your league.
You are allowed to play a maximum 20 games, and a maximum 3 against a same opponent.
This means the league is a sort of semi-round-robin format.
After the league phase ends, everyone's performance in your league will be inspected and the top 7 players in your league move on to the next stage, the Main Tournament. This is done to all 8 leagues, giving us 56 qualifiers. These players, giving their performance in their own respective leagues, have already qualified. Now they will simply be ranked in a top 56 list, and the qualifying places in the Main Tournament will be decided from this list.

If you have any questions, don't neglect to ask!

My question is about how the league-phase performance is assessed, since the number of games played and choice of opponents is discretionary. If somebody goes 5-0, and someone else goes 11 - 7, who perfomed better? What are the criteria?

An excellent question.

We are not approaching this issue from a pure win%-basis.
We will use a 'score' system, which is still under experimentation. (I already scrapped 2 score-systems, now I'm testing a 3rd one.)

Some problems I'm looking to address:
- Every league-player should be willing to play every other league-player. (Because it straight-on improves his chances) For this, playing against unique opponents grants some sort of a bonus. (It's changed from a constant to some percentage bonus.)
- Players should not stop playing at 12-0, 15-0 or results like these. So win% will mean something, but not that much.
- The ultimate goal is to have every player finish all 20 games, this gives the best possible score, and also enables one to partake in the raffle for the teaching game prize.

For now, I've made a calculator to analyse and balance different results, you can find it [here].
Right now it shouldn't be all that balanced, though.
The entire system might be scrapped tomorrow, but it should give some view as to how the scoring will work.
The current system is really simplified. (Before I had all kinds of bonuses and additional details, but I dropped them because they didn't seem too necessary. Now I'm looking to make a simple, but working one.)

EDIT: Ah, and not to scare anyone off, for players it's not necessary to understand any of it. It will all be counted out automatically. I'm planning to just give some basic information how it works when the tournament starts.

oh, math

This tournament looks Capital E Epic. I registered. Thank you very much for organizing such a beast of a tournament and providing us with this opportunity.

The tournament starts at August 9th. When will the registering be closed?

This tournament looks Capital E Epic. I registered. Thank you very much for organizing such a beast of a tournament and providing us with this opportunity.