double post

Looking back at the results i'm baffled they didnt go to TOP32 for elimination rounds. Close to 300 people and 8 rounds of swiss, yet the deciding factor between the guy who got in at #16 and the guy who dropped out at #17 was 11MOV points.

Hard not to feel bad for him, that is less than 1 tie fighter difference in 8games, to state the obvious.

There was basically a whole group of people who did very well (75% winrate) at worlds, yet they couldnt get into elimination rounds.

Is there any info why they didnt do top32? Were they under a time restriction for the last day? It's just 1 more game, hard to imagine they wouldnt have been able to do this.

Tie breakers are always rough on someone. It doesn't matter where the cut is.

They don't have to be. You can select the cut, rounds, and player count so there are very close to zero players getting in on tie breakers.

Incidentally, if they did a cut to Top 32 there would have been no tie breakers. #32 had 30 points. #33 had 29 points.

That fact that there was such a clean cut was completely "accidental" though, if we are being honest. With Swiss, they can predict a number of players that will have the correct number of losses. However, with their scoring system, they'll never be able to be exact. I assume the player with 29 points had a draw and a modified win. There were also a few more players with modified wins, which really aren't predictable. That also doesn't take into account the players that did not attend that they had planned for.

So, they could have set the cut "closer" to zero had they set it the day of or after they saw the results, but neither were really plausible for World's and didn't fit really fit their larger goal of consistency across games.

That fact that there was such a clean cut was completely "accidental" though, if we are being honest. With Swiss, they can predict a number of players that will have the correct number of losses. However, with their scoring system, they'll never be able to be exact. I assume the player with 29 points had a draw and a modified win. There were also a few more players with modified wins, which really aren't predictable. That also doesn't take into account the players that did not attend that they had planned for.

So, they could have set the cut "closer" to zero had they set it the day of or after they saw the results, but neither were really plausible for World's and didn't fit really fit their larger goal of consistency across games.

Yeah, it was accidental that the Top 32 would have been a clean cut in this case. FFG wasn't even sure exactly how many people were going to be playing in the tournament until just before the tournament started.

If you architect the cut correctly then you can make modified wins irrelevant (except for seeding) unless you happen to have 3 of them. This however requires more planning.