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It's always worked correctly for me, when used correctly. If you quit a match before it actually begins (or even before your opponent zones/spawns), that's when you start to have issues. Sometimes people end up without an opponent, or the wrong person will advance. |
Originally Posted by CinderSpawn
Does this mean the Swiss Draw is finally working right. The last time I was on a group that tried to do this there was no sense to who advanced. People that won twice didn't advance to the final and people who lost in the 1st round did and got the badge.
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To prevent problems and ensure it works "correctly", you can do 1 of 2 things:
1 - play the match normally, and find yourself a "REAL" winner.
2 - for badge purposes, WAIT FOR THE HORN of the match starting before quitting the match. This keeps everybody in sync with the elimination rounds and it should proceed the way Kheldarn mentioned above. It CAN work just quitting as soon as you zone in, but it's hit/miss and can act funny, so it's better to just wait the few extra seconds so you don't have to do the whole match over again to fix a problem.
Edited my info to add, "Wait for the loud, annoying Horn sound to announce the start of the match" before clicking Exit. 
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Ran this on Virtue a couple days ago.
Just a heads-up for anyone else planning on giving it a go - you probably want to plan for longer than an hour, if all 8 people in your group need it. Kheldarn's suggestion of making sure you have an hour free is fine, IF all goes according to plan. If you don't run into the best-case scenario, it'll end up going over an hour.
It took us about 1 hour and 45 minutes (including getting everyone together, explaining how to do it, etc) - but we had a few glitches. Someone crashed (when they clicked the exit button during a match) during 3 of the runs, but we'd go ahead and finish out the tournament to see if the badge would award anyway - in each of those cases, no, it did not. So, we had to those ones over. My suggestion - if someone crashes during a match, go ahead and save yourself some time, and restart the tournament immediately, rather than waiting to find out the badge didn't drop.
Also, we had to find replacements for two of the participants halfway thru. I knew more people that wanted in, anyway, so no biggie - but, just be prepared for the amount of time it may take for all 8 participants to get the badge, and ask up front if people are available for an hour and half or so, to be safe.
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It was rather confusing at first, so here's some help.
Here's what you do:
Get 8 people at an Arena Terminal. Pocket D works best, because you can have Heroes and Villains.
Designate one person to be the Lead, and decide what order you're going to earn the badge(s) in, i.e. who will be the first person to earn the badge(s), who will be the second person, etc.
The Lead will click on the Terminal, and create a Swiss Draw event with a 10 min. time limit. The lead will then invite the 7 other people to the Event.
When the event starts, it will auto-load all 8 of you into the Arena. Each map will randomly have two people on it. Wait for the loud, annoying Horn sound to announce the start of the match. Then, everyone but the person who was pre-determined to earn the badge will click the Exit button on the Compass. The first 4 to do this will be eliminated. The remaining 4 will advance to Round 2.
When it says a Winner has been declared, the pre-determined badge earner, and the other three, may exit via the Stats window that pops up.
After a 2:00 timer, the remaining 4 will be auto-loaded into the Arena. As before, everyone but the person who was pre-determined to earn the badge will wait for the loud, annoying Horn sound to announce the start of the match, and then click the Exit button on the Compass. The first 2 to do this will be eliminated. The remaining 2 will advance to the final round.
When it says a Winner has been declared, the pre-determined badge earner, and the other "winner", may exit via the Stats window that pops up.
After a 2:00 timer, the pre-determined badge earner and the other person will auto-load into the arena. The person who wasn't pre-determined to win will wait for the loud, annoying Horn sound to announce the start of the match, and then click the Exit button on their compass. The pre-determined badge earner will be declared the Winner, and shortly after will be awarded the Tournament Victor badge. If they have the other new Arena Badges, they will also be awarded the Arena All-Star accolade badge.
Once it says Badge Earned!, and you've verified you got the badge(s) (Menu -> Badge), you may exit the Arena Map via either Exit button.
Congratulations!! One person has earned the "Swiss Draw" badge, Tournament Victor!!
Now you just repeat that for the other 7 people, until everyone has the badge(s).
Note: Make sure you have at least an hour to dedicate to doing this. It takes 6 mins. for one person to get the badge, plus load times, and Event Creation and Invitation. That's a minimum of 48 mins. just for the 3 Arena Auto-Loads for all 8 people.
Good luck, and happy badging!!
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