Knyte wrote:

Is it too late for me?

Nope

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Pretty sure he said no secondary accounts, "Mr. Lazer".

I need proof of this.

EDIT: Received. Sorry. One actual entry per real person.

I don't want to be a dick about this. Really. I mean, it's only a contest.

But if I don't set and follow rules, things get nuts. Ask Douche about this one and his experience with the S/NES challenges. I don't want this to fall apart into a fiasco like those "of the year" polls.

Douche McCallister wrote:

Maybe you should set a minimum post count for entry. I'd say a solid couple hundred posts would make you a known pressence....maybe.

...I don't know.

I don't want to exclude new people, and I don't want to exclude certain people who may not have much of a forum presence but have made themselves known in other way (your 200 post limit, for example, would exclude Fernin and Fred, who have a pretty strong chat room presence). I also don't like the idea that post count actually means anything.

...I just had an idea, though. Instead of choosing brackets completely at random, I could "seed" them by post count. This could lead to some post-whoring and make for some pretty uninteresting opening matches, but it would make it more like the March Madness thing

Comments on this? I'll only do it if the reaction is highly favorable.

EDIT: If I do seed by post count, I see little reason to deny alternate accounts access. We can discuss this too.

Just so you know, I did a test seeding, by post count, and it works out pretty well. There's only 2 or 3 matches I would consider "runaways", and most of them would be pretty fun.

...I really didn't like who my round 1 opponent would be, though. :/

I could do a "swiss paring" where #1 faces #2, #3 faces #4, and so on, but I don't really like that.

I don't really want to set it up as "veteran vs veteran" and "newbie vs newbie" because, well, how do you define that? I'd rather do it by something well-defined (post count), or just flat-out randomly.

Dr. Jeebus wrote:

That's ordered swiss, Usa. Swiss is normally random and not single elimination like this will be. I still really like the use of post count, but if you're going to do it, Usa, take the post counts NOW (Which it seems like you did since you sampled the pairings) so that people don't start spamming the forums to create specific matches. If you did it by post count and there were only 2-3 runaways out of 16 matches, I'd say that's pretty damned good.

I deleted the parings already. :/ But I can re-do them easily.

It isn't a good idea to take post counts now, because the registration is still open. I will take them when it closes. I didn't notice too many people who could really affect their seed meaningfully with spam anyways (two and you're one of them) , and there's only one person in the contest I would expect to try it anyways.