Hey all, I have been chatting with RazorOz on the tournament forums about Heat tournaments and I want to ask everyone for your help to thumbs up and comment on this bug report to help improve tournaments for all games on BGA, especially high player count games like Heat. It is really easy. All I'm asking is that you click the link below and click the "Vote for this report" button. Just click the button, that's it.
1) Allow only 1 group for group stage tournaments:
Outside of BGA the most popular style of competitive tournament is Stage 1 single group Swiss with a top cut to finals. We should really be able to implement this in BGA.
There is not usually a benefit to splitting up players into groups in Stage 1 for a Swiss tournament. All it does is reduce the quality of matchmaking and force more byes or uneven table sizes. Heat is commonly played at 4p or 6p so players will run out of similar skilled opponents very quickly.
This effect is most noticeable with 3p particularly where players need to be split into 3 groups in order to get a sensible player count for Stage 2. When tournament size is lower, this issue becomes even worse by splitting into groups. 3p Swiss would work much better with the option for 1 group, but all group sizes benefit. I know Heat isn't a 3p game, but this applies to many games that play well at 3p.
No changes needed to how many players advance. Up to 32 players advancing is more than enough as is.
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=77238 bug report for "Group Stage Tournament Mode: allow 1 Group" please comment and click the "vote for this report" button
Currently at 24 votes, up from 15 votes a few days ago from my campaigning. I am reaching out to the largest game communities directly since most players don't read the forums and we need your help to make this visible.
1) Allow only 1 group for group stage tournaments:
Outside of BGA the most popular style of competitive tournament is Stage 1 single group Swiss with a top cut to finals. We should really be able to implement this in BGA.
There is not usually a benefit to splitting up players into groups in Stage 1 for a Swiss tournament. All it does is reduce the quality of matchmaking and force more byes or uneven table sizes. Heat is commonly played at 4p or 6p so players will run out of similar skilled opponents very quickly.
This effect is most noticeable with 3p particularly where players need to be split into 3 groups in order to get a sensible player count for Stage 2. When tournament size is lower, this issue becomes even worse by splitting into groups. 3p Swiss would work much better with the option for 1 group, but all group sizes benefit. I know Heat isn't a 3p game, but this applies to many games that play well at 3p.
No changes needed to how many players advance. Up to 32 players advancing is more than enough as is.
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=77238 bug report for "Group Stage Tournament Mode: allow 1 Group" please comment and click the "vote for this report" button
Currently at 24 votes, up from 15 votes a few days ago from my campaigning. I am reaching out to the largest game communities directly since most players don't read the forums and we need your help to make this visible.
