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redria:
Interesting. There would need to be an incentive to be a better seed if you don't claim one of the automatic bids. Perhaps the higher seed in each of the wild card round would get to choose their spawn, or would get some say on which map(s) are played. This would encourage teams to fight harder to have some say on how the wild card round is run, other than getting a bye on the first round or 2.

I like the idea... and doing the math, if it ran using BO1 then it wouldn't take too much longer than standard play during a regular season week.
Every team plays during the regular season week (1).
66% of teams play during the first round of the wild card tourney (2/3).
Half those teams play the next round (1/3 + 2/3)
Half those teams play the next round (1/6 + 1/3 + 2/3)
etc etc. The total isn't going to be more than ~1.3 times as long as a normal week of play. Assuming a 3 hour normal week, that becomes a 4 hour wild card tourney. Not awful considering teams would be playing games quickly without some of the absurd wait times we have seen in other competitions. I think I could get behind this.

Thomas:
Love the idea, you should try working with Keyvias to get this as the official competitive scene. Right now we have something mildly similar, where teams compete with each other and try to collect points, then the top teams enter the official tournament. Right now it's pretty loosely structured with a lot of responsibility on the teams to organize their own matches. I know that they're working on coming up with something new and better currently, and this is an amazing candidate.



I do like the idea of having some wildcard slots, so even if someone is mathematically eliminated, they still have motivation to keep playing and trying for one of those slots.

Not a big fan of the best of 3 or best of 5 though. I like the level of excitement that a best of 1 brings. And that would allow for multiple leagues to play on the same day. (Lets say the top 4 teams go to the Gold League with 2 wildcards, then the next best 4 go to the Silver League with their two wildcards. And so on, depending upon the number of teams). Ooh, and if this becomes a thing, and it totally should, what about a fantasy GoIO team (like fantasy football, of which I have a very inadequate grasp of)? Players making their own fantasy GoIO teams and getting points for their performance in the league (mostly parts destroyed, rebuilt, wins, etc. Anything that can be tracked from the spectator slot).

But that's just me getting very carried away with the idea. I still like the concept of a best of 1 throughout however.

redria:
:O

Ok, so for clarification, we need to define some terms.
League: The event. Everyone in the event. There is one league that encompasses all participants along with the regular season and the post season.
Regular Season: The main cluster of matches where teams play every week.
Post Season: Any matches played after the regular season ends.
Division: Any grouping of teams during the regular season. A division might encompass 8 teams who play every other team within the division once over a 7 week regular season.
Playoff: An end of season tournament that ends with a champion.

During the regular season, matches would be best of 1. This is basically mandatory, since we want everyone to play every week in a timely manner.
During the post season, following what I think Thomas is trying to say, we would have multiple playoffs.
Using the 18 team example, we could hold a Gold level playoffs and a Silver level playoffs. The top 9 teams are entered into the gold level playoffs, and the bottom 9 teams are entered into the Silver level playoffs.
The playoffs are separate with no interaction. The regular season is a seeding format to create 2 final tournaments that feature teams at similar play levels.
Every team reaches (can reach? some sort of wild card system?) the post season and enters into one of the playoffs. Naturally, you want to make it into the gold level, where the glory and challenge is. But for less experienced teams, being in the silver level gives them an opportunity to try to become champion among teams similar in skill to themselves. For added fun, maybe have the silver champion get a shot at the gold champion, or the gold runner-up. I think this idea is flat out brilliant. I am flabbergasted. ^.^

The question of how many rounds to fight each match in the playoffs remains though. Best of one would make it supremely interesting to watch. I guess the question is: are we trying to end up with a champion who is the best team in the league, or are we trying to find a champion who happened to be the best team that day?
There are plenty of super bowl winners who are not the best team in the league. Just consider how the Giants beat the Patriots after the Patriots had an undefeated season. Play best of 3 and I bet the Patriots win out.
Letting go of the football comparisons, I think best of one is not a bad way to go in the playoffs. But the higher seeded team ~has~ to have some input on the map. Whether they get to choose one map they don't want to play, or they choose which spawn, etc. In best of one, the map is a huge factor, and the higher seed earned the right to have an advantage.

redria:
Also, Fantasy GoIO would be amazing. Hilarious but amazing. The best information comes from the score reports the game gives each player after the match. I wonder if there would be a way to get those somehow.

redria:
Triple posting (like a BOSS)

--- Quote from: Omniraptor on March 25, 2014, 04:57:58 pm ---if it was an art competition, something along the lines of RSI's TNGS would be amazing to watch, and would give a lot of insight into how the ships are designed and made, maybe even opening up more possibilities for gameplay. Muse is looking for a new artist right now, they might be receptive.

The stuff made by fans on TNGS (certainly the weapons) is often actually better than what cloud imperium themselves have done (so far), so I think if we could replicate this WITH AIRSHIPS it would be really cool.

Speaking of which, what happened to lordfunpants? haven't heard from him in a while.

--- End quote ---
I just looked up the competition and it seems pretty awesome.
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/contest/the-next-great-starship
Each contestant designs a ship? Muse releases the hard-points of interaction and asks for the artistic design? It would be interesting to see a competition like this with winning content going towards adventure mode. And if Muse fell in love with someone during the process, not necessarily the winner even, there is that artist opening...

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