Suggestion: Tournament Proposal Thread

[GreatGonzales]

(01-09-2013 11:40 PM)amoffett Wrote:  I guess you don't understand exponents.

Well, my understanding is that exponential growth means that the rate of increase of a variable is increasing over time at a certain rate, and I believe that is the case here. But I am certainly no mathematician!

Quote:I don't get it how it's for any one player of the game to claim that there are too many tournaments or that "we" need to make a policy on how many tournaments can exist at any one time. Other than the makers of the game, there is no authority among any of us to say how many tournaments there should be. And every tournament has several people who don't make it in, should they just be left to not participate at all?

And as for the number of tournaments devaluing existing tournaments, every tournament has the same value, and that's not much. They're all made by fans for fans, if OML made their own official tournament, I'm sure that would be separated in some way.

You're right, currently there is no authority to put any kinds of control on the number of tournaments organized, I am proposing that we create this authority. I was thinking that, if we can come to some consensus, we can go to OML with a proposal and they can give the OK, or shoot it down at that time.

I think tournaments, as with any forum creation, have as much value as the people put into them. As such I think that's worth protecting, at least a little. Maybe you don't think 13 ongoing tournaments is too many, but clearly there is SOME number that would be unreasonable. Suppose there were 100 tournaments being organized. Currently, there are no controls in place to keep this number down, I'm just trying to think of an elegant way to handle the situation. I am very conscious of peoples' feelings...I don't want to hurt them. But I do think there is a valid concern to be raised here.