How does this Swiss Draw tournament work?
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dark_vengence,
Posted on: 2009-12-23 20:32 in Player Questions
Did this about a week ago with some sg mates, we figured out that is was a loser's tournement. So if I understand it who ever loses gets to move on winners are left behind. Someone correct me if I am wrong, didn't quite understand it either.
No, it's bugged. What's it's SUPPOSED to do is that the winner from each duel moves to the next round each time. But it seems to be random who advances or, if there is a pattern, I don't know what it is.
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This was exactly my experience with it while getting the related Arena badge. It seemed to be random (no idea if it really IS random, but it sure seems so) with the winner or loser advancing without apparent relation to the actual outcome of the match.
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
No, it's bugged. What's it's SUPPOSED to do is that the winner from each duel moves to the next round each time. But it seems to be random who advances or, if there is a pattern, I don't know what it is.
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It's not random. To quote the Wikipedia article on Swiss Tournaments
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The principle of a Swiss tournament is that each player will be pitted against another player who has done as well (or poorly) as him or herself. The first round is either drawn at random or seeded according to rating. Players who win receive a point, those who draw receive half a point and losers receive no points. Win, lose, or draw, all players proceed to the next round where winners are pitted against winners, losers are pitted against losers, and so on. In subsequent rounds, players face opponents with the same (or almost the same) score. No player is paired up against the same opponent twice however. |
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| The tournament lasts for a number of rounds announced before the tournament. After the last round, players are ranked by their score. |
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| Compared to a knockout tournament the Swiss system has the inherent advantage of not eliminating anyone. That means that a player can enter such a tournament knowing that he will be able to play in all rounds, regardless of how well he does. The worst that can happen in this respect is being the player left over when there is an odd number of players. The player left over receives a bye, meaning the player does not play that particular round but receives a point. The player is reintroduced in the next round and will not receive another bye. |
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This may be how they are *supposed* to work. But in my experience the functionality of them in game do appear to have an element of randomness/bugginess.|
Originally Posted by Spectreblade
It's not random. To quote the Wikipedia article on Swiss Tournaments
As for someone not being in a round, maybe they just got a bye. |
The only reliable method of getting the badge for this event , that I've found, is to agree on a "winner" ahead of time. Anyone who is not said winner can simply exit the map when the match begins.
Hey everyone!
I'm trying an Arena tournament with a bunch of other people, eight of us in all, and we're trying to do the Swiss Draw tournament. After each round, though, some of us aren't getting into the next round. It seems to kind of not matter if someone won or lost, and I'm trying to figure out if that's a bug or if it's working some way I don't understand.
Like in the round we just played, I won, but then when the second round started, the person I beat got into the second round, but I didn't. Am I just not understand how it's supposed to work, or is something messed up with that type of tournament?
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