BGE Questions & General Discussion

[The Shoemaker]

Yeah I'm liking this method. Nice as well to see games nominated from years prior that I've totally forgotten about.

[Claytone]

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm finding the Round of Pools to be a quite effective way of seeding the tournament, much moreso than number of nominations / nomination priority!

The Admin has sorted the results-so-far in the main spreadsheet / master list (link in the nomination thread) and it's a pretty solid list of games floating to the top. It'll be interesting to see how it looks when we get through a few hundred more games!

I'll take your word for it!

By the way, before I vote in any more, what the hell is the deal with voting? My intuition told me that you could cast one vote for each of the numbers (ie one game gets 3, one game gets 2, one game gets 1), but that seems to not be the case? I don't want to vote on any more pools until I know what I'm actually doing!

[Kong Wen]

By the way, before I vote in any more, what the hell is the deal with voting? My intuition told me that you could cast one vote for each of the numbers (ie one game gets 3, one game gets 2, one game gets 1), but that seems to not be the case? I don't want to vote on any more pools until I know what I'm actually doing!

Oops, I replied in the other thread, but basically you can vote for 0-3 games and you have 6 points to distribute. The max number of points you can give to one game is 3. So you can go 1-1-1, 3-3, 2-2-2, etc. As long as you vote for 3 or less games and keep the total points to 6 or less.

[SkyPikachu]

How much longer on round 1?

Will round 2 go any faster since its the same amount of games?

[Kong Wen]

How much longer on round 1?

Will round 2 go any faster since its the same amount of games?

I think we have around 850 games left plus possible incoming nominations, so I'd say 9 weeks at 100 games per week.

100 games per week is a pretty good clip! I'm not sure how we'd make it go much faster than that. First round will have been 26 weeks which is exactly half a year. Might feel nice to close out 2020 with the second preliminary round.

[Kong Wen]

Unless we get an assload of new nominations, next week will be the last week of the first round of pools.
Conveniently, it's also week 26, which should be the exact halfway week of the year!

This means the second round of pools should take us into the very beginning of 2021 (it'll be slightly longer than the first round, because there will of course be new nominations coming in).

As soon as the first round of pools is over, I'll go through the whole sheet and rank the games. This'll just be for our interest, since the second round pools will be randomized again. Seeding won't come into play until the elimination round.

[The Shoemaker]

Unless we get an assload of new nominations, next week will be the last week of the first round of pools.
Conveniently, it's also week 26, which should be the exact halfway week of the year!

This means the second round of pools should take us into the very beginning of 2021 (it'll be slightly longer than the first round, because there will of course be new nominations coming in).

As soon as the first round of pools is over, I'll go through the whole sheet and rank the games. This'll just be for our interest, since the second round pools will be randomized again. Seeding won't come into play until the elimination round.

So is this our last week to nominate games?

Also

it's also week 26

Damn...

[Kong Wen]

Unless we get an assload of new nominations, next week will be the last week of the first round of pools.
Conveniently, it's also week 26, which should be the exact halfway week of the year!

This means the second round of pools should take us into the very beginning of 2021 (it'll be slightly longer than the first round, because there will of course be new nominations coming in).

As soon as the first round of pools is over, I'll go through the whole sheet and rank the games. This'll just be for our interest, since the second round pools will be randomized again. Seeding won't come into play until the elimination round.

So is this our last week to nominate games?

Also

it's also week 26

Damn...

No, we can continue to nominate games throughout the second round of pools as well—those games will just be at a seeding disadvantage because they'll only have received one round of votes.

[SkyPikachu]

How does round 2 work? I thought round 1 was to seed everything then round 2 would be seeded brackets with games being knocked out but it seems like round 2 is similar to round 1. So what exactly is the purpose of round 2?

[Kong Wen]

How does round 2 work? I thought round 1 was to seed everything then round 2 would be seeded brackets with games being knocked out but it seems like round 2 is similar to round 1. So what exactly is the purpose of round 2?

To seed the elimination brackets. Sometimes tough pools come up where people can't vote for excellent games because of other excellent games. Stirring the mix up again and then piling some more votes on allows us to build up complex gluten-chains, giving every game two chances to fight against tough pool-seeding RNG and making the elimination brackets even more delicious.

[Original ruleset from December 2019.]