The thing I find useful about the vote is it gauges interest in the tournament - if any tournament goes through to signups and then isn't supported by the community, it'll end up lapsing and a possibly unnecessary black mark is left on their name.
Is the minor tournament host vote really needed? There isn't going much around in GTM right now and so on.
EDIT: And as another idea - what would people say about a +1rep or something after a successful tournament?
Oh I'll be doing some banging.......
Quote from: Craaig on October 09, 2013, 04:31:04 PMEDIT: And as another idea - what would people say about a +1rep or something after a successful tournament?People already do that. If you want to, you can just do it yourself. I don't really think it needs to be a rule.
Oh okay smartypants, have you got any better ideas for encouraging people to run tournaments? Because that's what I'm asking for.It wouldn't be a 'rule' anyway, as I said, just encouragement.
I don't know how many times I've seen Badnik (just an example) running tournaments, mods, AI packs and crap in Other Games all at once. I just feel that things would get in the way of each other.
Originally it wasn't a rule for Display tournaments.. the problem we found was people who got banned were using it as a loophole to run more tournaments.
Quote from: helloface199 on October 09, 2013, 05:19:11 PMQuote from: Craaig on October 09, 2013, 04:31:04 PMEDIT: And as another idea - what would people say about a +1rep or something after a successful tournament?People already do that. If you want to, you can just do it yourself. I don't really think it needs to be a rule.Oh okay smartypants, have you got any better ideas for encouraging people to run tournaments? Because that's what I'm asking for.It wouldn't be a 'rule' anyway, as I said, just encouragement.
IIRC Fotepx never got banned? And Sparkey could never AI in the first place XD
TBH I don't like the interest poll. While we've had a few tourney flops in the past (Wolfsbane's Twisted Metal tourney and Lightning S' two tourneys, where half the entries were byebots), we barely have enough tourneys now to justify the current poll, so while an interest poll could have worked well back when the minor league poll was introduced, I don't think it's a good idea now, as it just slows down tournaments even more.