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Originally Posted by kia345
Why stop at 16? Why does there have to be a limit to how many people are allowed to participate? It's not just a random spar, it's a spar for a title, granted, a worthless title, but it's still something worth winning. So why only allow the first 16? Can't you just accept everyone who wants in, is that really hard? I host musical chairs on Graal Kingdoms with more players than that. Why can't one of the GCs spar the odd man out? There's better alternatives to making people sit out
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Ok first off, people don't "sit out" of our tournament. Everyone online has 16 chances to qualify, and eight of them are summon spars, so all you have to do is pm the GC. Not hard. If you fail to qualify, then perhaps you deserve to sit out. It's called a tournament. You take the best sparrers (or at least the ones who won) and see who the best sparrer among them is. Pretty simple concept. How do you do this effectively? A bracket.
You do know how a normal bracket works, right? You need 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 players for it to work properly. Most tournaments, in any game/sport/anything else, use a bracket. Why? Because it is the easiest way to organize a large number of teams, then to narrow them down one by one until you have a champion.
I doubt there'd be 32 people willing to play(necessary number for bracket to work properly,) though clearly we have more than 16 people who would want to enter. But a bracket won't work unless you have 16 or 32 people.
I can't think (off the top of my head) any format for going through 24 or so people (random number greater than 16) that works well like a bracket does. Maybe you can. Do post it if you have one.
Edit: Wow. Did you really just compare musical chairs on UN to our sparring tournament? Since when is a sparring tournament the same thing as musical chairs? Musical chairs is basically an LMS where one person is eliminated each round; half the contestants in a sparring tournament are eliminated each round. Wow. That is a horrible example. Of course you can get any number of people for musical chairs, you're only eliminating one at a time.