DSL-IRL is the libtard’s meta. Go drink more soylent, retard! #BLUELIVESMATTER
I'm down for another GTMCS. Personally I'd prefer just straight up the same straight double elim format as the last one but executed in a more timely manner. To me a heat/group format just doesn't seem right for an "official" tourney.Gotta have all 3 of the main metas represented in my mind too, since this is meant to represent all of GTM.Don't agree with allowing multiple entries either. 1 or maybe 2 in each meta seems about right to me. Force people to narrow down to their best rather than reentering the same old sh** we've seen 45 times before in other tournies.
also lol at most toxic guy around calling others out on this sh**
I'd like to see the use of a RW series 7 format, everyone has 4 entries, and seeded robots do not count towards the 4 entries (16 seeds will be chosen by the top 16 of GTMCS2) and if we hit more than 128 entries, we will have qualifier rounds.
I can host irl partI have clinical depression
Double Elimination is the simplest approach that makes sure people don't get quickly taken out by my generic 36hs. It also brings back memories to the BBEANS generation. I would prefer this overall.Heats have worked generally work on tournament style TV shows because you get a lot of content/contestants in and out. But the system is not fair to people who get bad draws. To fix that you either lot of fairly applied wildcard spots or you a large, time-consuming, Frankenstein formats akin to what was seen in the Robot Wars reboot.Something really unique would be a system based off of some North American (and Australian) sports. You have a "group stage" with 8 groups of 8. You earn points based on how you win your fights and the top robot(s) from each group advance to a championship tournament. The twist is that instead of a generic round-robin some extra matches will be held between members of different groups. In my view, those last matches are more dramatic because they’re each affecting two groups.
I mean, if nothing else, I might be able to chip in and offer a hand. Maybe with at least one section of the tourney.Also, this is more a suggestion, I get diversity is nice and all, but should we at least try all metas with just a HW weightclass? It's probably the most popular weightclass, it's simple for hosts, could provide some entertaining matches, and give the builder a good amount of freedom in design to be honest.
retooled bracket pls
The arena to be used is still up in the air. One idea I had was to use a different arena for each meta to help certain bot types in stock and If.
Quote from: geeseThe arena to be used is still up in the air. One idea I had was to use a different arena for each meta to help certain bot types in stock and If.The GTMCS2 arena seemed to work pretty well for IRL and Stock. In an arena that was harder to get OOTAs in verts would probably have dominated even more than they ended up doing in the IRL division. Stock seemed to work okay too. Maybe an arena with something in the centre a la the BBEANS arena would have prevented the boxrush install KOs that we saw, but then that would take away the viability of a but like Fractures, which was pretty neat to watch wrecking HSes and Popups last time.IF is the only real place I can see needing a substantial change of arena. Flippers are already strong as hell in IF and in arena with walls as low as the GTMCS2 arena had one was always gonna win.
I would still prefer something like the BBEANS V2 Arena if just for a hazard that actually tests turning or wedge capabilities of the AI. I also agree with the arena for IF being enclosed or banning flippers entirely. If possible, maybe the ELBITE arena could provide the best of both worlds? Hell, maybe just give every meta a unique arena designed with it in mind so that each tournament feels a tad more unique. Just a thought.