Why no 4p tournaments?

[G00dy]

This tournament is no draft. I ignore those without draft or with colonies

[Dikvarkentje]

Oh come on nobody going to tell him that 4p is for noobs? I have to be the bad guy here? TO use 4p IRL for logistic reasons, no top players want to compete in 4p. The skill ceiling for 4p is sooooo low comparing to 2/3p. Alright, I shared the truth I am done, I am sorry.

Lol, man that has never competed in serious 4P tournaments criticises something.

What experience are you realistically even basing this on? How many 4 player tournaments have you even played? How many 4 player tournaments have you played against people that regularly play against other good 4 player players?

I participated in many 4p online tournaments in every format imaginable with top players at the time. The discord tournaments are far more advanced than any real life tournaments. We also found out that without rebalanced, it's not fun to play with Point Luna with colony in 4p, it will score over 145 points easily in a top player's hand in a two and half hour game. Even though I was super deep in the tournament because it was during pandemic and I played it very seriously, It wasn't fun at all(and guess which corp I lost to), after that tournament, pretty much no one bothered with unrebalanced version of TM past prelude without rebalanced or league server, until steam app added Venus just because we are so tired of 2p prelude.

P.S. Oh check out your profile picture, if you already know why pretend that you don't know? 3p is fun, 4p is dumb, 5p is let's do a joke game. 4p doesn't even work with colony because you get lock out of Luna by seating. The game doesn't work with 4p competitive speaking. The draft is completely blind, it's just a much lower skilled game.

You could have jusr answered with "You are right, I have 0 experience with 4 player tournaments".

[Lettuce03]

Anything other than 1v1 tournaments should just be scrapped until BGA figures out a new way to decide a winner when someone leaves or is kicked.

[Azoken]

Anything other than 1v1 tournaments should just be scrapped until BGA figures out a new way to decide a winner when someone leaves or is kicked.

I'll advertise my own tournement and offer a clean solution with a slight drawback : make it 3 players and qualify the first two. If someone leaves/is kicked, everyone else get to the next round.
The obvious drawback is more rounds buuuut... As the goal is to play, can we really call that a drawback ?

[Andrew Davidson]

I've been playing a Lucky Winner tournament for Terraforming Mars for some time now and that has 5P games. It's currently in round 19.

For an upcoming 4P tournament see 4P Random Map Colonies. This has Colonies and Prelude and that should be fun.

[foxracing13]

Nice ill sign up. Ive been playing a 4p colonies elysium its fun although they need to kick slow players!

Edit darn signup closed

[FrankJones]

Why no 4-playre games?
Because this game * as a 4-player game?

*Moderator edit: please refrain from swearing on BGA, this is a family-friendly platform.