Elimination tournament or Round Robin?

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Lately after playing global test-fire I was wondering what would be the best way to have matches between Clans/Squads.
This Poll should give me a view how the future of competitive Spatoon could be.
I personally think, that Round Robin tournaments are better because your team will have a equal amount of matches like any other team and it can be played at a large period of time.

 

[Sycho]

Depending on the size of the tournament I'd probably prefer Swiss to Round Robin.

 

[Trieste Sp]

It depends on the size of the tournament. The reason people don't use Round Robin in big tournaments is because it's takes far too long.

 

[Kayeka]

It depends on the size of the tournament. The reason people don't use Round Robin in big tournaments is because it's takes far too long.

Very true. In another thread, I calculated/guestimated that it would take approximately 4 hours of game time and sixteen setups to resolve a tournament of only eight teams. Not exactly viable for a tournament where everyone needs to be physically present.

That said, for online tournaments, which people will probably see a lot more off in this game compared to, say, smash, if only because of the logistics involved, round robin becomes a lot more manageable, and it would be a good thing to have as many different matches as possible. So yeah, I'm all for Round Robin, though we might indeed want to switch to Swiss when the number of participants becomes particularly high.

 

[Trieste Sp]

Very true. In another thread, I calculated/guestimated that it would take approximately 4 hours of game time and sixteen setups to resolve a tournament of only eight teams. Not exactly viable for a tournament where everyone needs to be physically present.

That said, for online tournaments, which people will probably see a lot more off in this game compared to, say, smash, if only because of the logistics involved, round robin becomes a lot more manageable, and it would be a good thing to have as many different matches as possible. So yeah, I'm all for Round Robin, though we might indeed want to switch to Swiss when the number of participants becomes particularly high.

I completely agree with your statement.

 

[TheRapture]

Likely double-elimination will always be preferable. Considering how resource intensive running tournaments for this game will be, I doubt very many tournaments, if any at all, will be able to afford the time and resources to run round-robin.

 

[thefro]

Elimination for local tournaments.

Round-robin for online leagues

 

[Lyn]

Elimination, definitely.

 

[Icedise]

Leagues will last much longer than regular tournaments (few weeks/months vs. couple of days max) so I'd say that using round robin in leagues would be quite natural choise and using elimination in regular tournaments since it takes so much less time to go through.