Winter World Cup WINNER - poweewee (Philippines)

[GreatGonzales]

I feel I should chime in again. I agree that it sucks for there to be only 1 person out of each pool graduating to the next stage of the tournament. But if you look at awpertunty's alternatives as far as format goes, they're not great either. I'll list them here, again:

Option 1: 8 pools of 8 with the top 2 from each pool advancing to a 16 person elimination bracket
-- Problem: with current pool format of every player playing every other player twice, that means 14 matches simultaneously, which is a gruelling number of games even for the most active of players

Option 2: 16 pools of 4 with the top 1 from each pool advancing to a 16 person elimination bracket
-- Problem: As with the current proposal to take the top 1 from the first pool, taking the top 1 from the second round of pools would be, I think, even more devastating. Consider the calibur of players being eliminated in the second round, if only the top 1 advances. Also consider that Awpertunity is going to base this on number of turns, which is an imprecise measure of skill. This would make it even more painful for people to eliminated next round, if there is a hotly contested number 1 spot. Also, consider that awpertunity does not have a good way of fairly placing people in pools, and it could be that there are two excellent players in the same pool.

Option 3: 16 pools of 4 with the top 2 from each pool advancing to a 32 person elimination bracket
-- Problem: The elimination bracket is twice as large, making a long tournament even longer. Though, as Gfich helpfully reminded us, this means that there is only "1 round" more of extra duration. In my experience, the more people in a round, the longer it takes, since you can only progress as quickly as your slowest player, and there would be double the number of players. So there would be a significant, if not enormous duration increase to the elimination bracket.

Hmm, actually awpertunity, why not go with option 3? Weighing the pros and cons of all options, including the current plan, I feel like option 3 above might be the best, and fairest, way to go. What do you think?