Did you look at the ingame help from one of the arena contacts?
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That's also available on ParagonWiki at the Arenas page, specifically under the Games Information Agent's paragraph.| Swiss Draw Tournament - This new arena match type is a two-phase tournament that returns you to the Battle Terminal between matches. During the first phase, each player who enters this tournament will square off against another player. Once a 'Top 8' has been determined, the tournament enters its second phase. The second phase is a single elimination style tournament where only the 'Top 8' can continue. Those who do not qualify are removed from the tournament. The single elimination tournament continues until the last player is standing and that player is declared the winner. |
There is also the original patch notes (archived here)
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| Swiss Draw: An 8 to 64 player tournament that will have players duking it out 1 vs 1 until the top 8 combatants are chosen. After this point there will be three rounds of single elimination to determine the winner of the tournament. |
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If you are going strictly for badges, you don't even have to defeat anybody. The problem is only 1 person can get the badge at a time, so you would need to do it 8 times for each of the members of the team.
Before you start, you all agree who is getting the badge (we'll call him Badger).
Once the round begins (not when you zone, but after the counter runs down and buzzer goes off), everybody except Badger will quit the match. The people who ended up quitting first should end up being the loser, and the other person would advance to the next round of only the 4 winners (including Badger cause he never quit th match and automatically won). Then you repeat it again so you'll have 2 winners, one of them being Badger again. Lastly, the Final round will begin with only the Badger and the other winner. You do the same thing again. The other person quits and the Badger should stay in the mission until the badge is awarded.
Repeat the entire process again with a different Badger.
(In my experience, the match gets bugged if people quit the match before it actually begins. Sometimes the other person isn't fully zoned, or because the match never went through, the winner isn't always who you want it to be, or there might also end up being "ghost matches" where only 1 person zones into the nxt round and automatically wins.. or get's stuck there. This doesn't ALWAYS happen, but to be on the safe side, just wait til the buzzer goes off and you shouldn't have to worry.)
Also, nobody should attempt to get the next match ready until the first one is completed and Badger has the badge. Even though you lost, you're technically still part of the event, and joining a new event might mess up the first one. It's perfectly fine to open up your current event to check the status of winners though.
SaintNicster, yeah i checked the wikia. But it doesn't make sense. I won all my match and i never got to the second run. My friend didn't get on the 2nd round when he won, but he did when he lost.
Thanks for the tricks Master-Blade, we'll try all that tonight. =)
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Its wonky. When we ran one of these on Champion, the first match we all fought and I ended up winning.
The next set, I didn't throw a punch and still ended up in the finals despite going 0-2.
Again in the third round, winners didnt necessarily advance.
Thankfully, the winner of the final match did get the badge every time, but figuring out who advances and who doesn't is messed up.
(We were using 8 entries. Because there was no elimination to the top 8, this may be what is causing the unusual behavior.)
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Dunno what happened with you guys, but Round 1 is supposed to be 4 separate matches: 1v1, 1v1, 1v1, 1v1 = 8 people.|
Originally Posted by NetMinder
Its wonky. When we ran one of these on Champion, the first match we all fought and I ended up winning.
The next set, I didn't throw a punch and still ended up in the finals despite going 0-2. Again in the third round, winners didnt necessarily advance. Thankfully, the winner of the final match did get the badge every time, but figuring out who advances and who doesn't is messed up. (We were using 8 entries. Because there was no elimination to the top 8, this may be what is causing the unusual behavior.) |
Round 2 is the winners: 1v1, 1v1 = 4 people
Round 3 is the winners again: 1v1 = 2 people
Winner of round 3 = Badge.
If you were quitting the match too soon or not staying in the match long enough to count as a win, then it might screw it up also.
You have to win a Swiss Draw tournament to get it... and i tried last night with a bunch of friends. But none of us could figure out how it works. It seems to randomly determinate who gets to the next round, because it was often the one who lost who continued to the next round...
So anyone know exactly how it works? And if there's thing that you must not do?
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