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  5. The first idea makes perfect sense in theory. Maybe give it a test run? But you're wrong about the registration times being the same as the starting times. I checked 5 recent officials and only 1 fell into that category. Maybe you're right about the lag, but it would need to be tested. I think the second registration will have dramatically less lag cause of 32 people missing it since they signed up for the first tourney. But any non randomized solution will have the same issue so that can't be helped. I don't believe I'm being counterproductive when it comes to your second point though. In fact, if what you said about 2 registrations is your biggest con about it, then to me it makes the most sense to go with 2 registrations. Okay let me see if I get this What you said: 2 registrations are inconvenient because it forces a potential 32 people in a 64 person tourney to come back later and try again. What I said: 2 registrations are convenient because it allows players to not inconvenience themselves by staying up late, waking up early, leaving class, getting on the internet at work, or ditching any other obligation to sign up for a tourney in it's 1 and only registration time. You know what though? I'm speaking for the community with this suggestion and can always be wrong. Maybe people don't care about staying up or waking up early or leaving their commitments to sign up for a tourney that they're not guaranteed to get into. Maybe people who accidentally oversleep or had something to do or just forgot about it for 2 minutes don't care about getting a second chance. I'll say this though. It's a global game where I met lots of cool people from Eurasia. I see a lot of people talk about how they didn't sleep til 4 am or 6 am because they wanted to sign up for a tourney. Along with myself, I've heard people say "oh well, guess I'll leave class for a bit to sign up for this tourney". I've heard people say "dam I can't believe I stayed up until 3 am to be 20th reserve" before. It honestly makes me slightly sad knowing that people do this because they enjoy the competitive gaming aspect of pokemmo and they're forced to sign up in these ways. TL;DR If you could allow people to have fun in this game without sacrificing sleep and obligations, why wouldn't you? Because you'd rather not have people be inconvenienced by failing to sign up at a time that was convenient for them and letting them have a second chance? Okay. If I didn't get through with this post I'll just give up trying.
  6. Petit Cup #2 was done this way. I will say I'm not completely against your idea if the time span was shorter. 10 minutes being the max time I'd allow for it. 5 would probably be best. It allows the thread to not be locked (as early posts don't need to count since 5-10 minutes is enough time to realize the mistake and repost). Also you would have to allow reserves to be placed in the order they registered in (so 1st poster still has a great chance in getting in). Just to keep complaining to a minimum and not have 1st person registering becoming reserve #100. It doesn't solve the idea of inconvenient registration times for Asia and Europe though. Sometimes PST get screwed over too because of school (the 5 PM EDT registration times = 2 PM PDT). I think for the competitive scene to continue gaining members, staff has to be considerate of players in all parts of the world. Two registration times would be ideal for that.
  7. Until newer players complain about signing up being too hard for them, I don't know about this being a viable solution. The people with the complaints are the ones already in the competitive scene. With that said. The Cons I can think of are these: 1) Consistently competitive players will rage. (Think of Pareto's Principle. 80% of competitive scene are 20% of the players). In the competitive scene you don't want to get these competitive player unhappy with the product if you can avoid it, because without them, the competitive scene would die (hypothetically) . More RNG will certainly get them unhappy. 2) The new players who get in might not show. Just because new guy "Player A" signs up and gets in doesn't mean he'll show. A lot more people will sign up over a 24 hour period if they know they have a chance to get in. That doesn't guarantee they'll be at the tourney though. You might have 200+ people sign up. You run the risk of having 30 players sign up, get into the tourney, but don't show anyways. This means you have to dip into reserves longer and gets more players restless during Roll Call. 3) A player could just have bad luck. Truthfully you don't want the top competitive players to run into a string of bad luck when it comes to tourneys. For example you don't want an Amanu or uMadBrah to go 3+ straight tourneys without being selected in the tourney because of RNG. Pretty much apart of that 80-20 rule mentioned earlier. 4) 24 hours means a lot of time to sign up multiple accounts. Self Explanatory. Even with IP tracking, people can just change their IP or just go to different places during the course of the day and sign up. Ultimately the players want the fate of sign ups in their hands and not in the hands of RNG. They have enough of that already in the game. I would try the 2 registration method before I would try anything that involved a RNG.
  8. I think this might be the third time posting here with this suggestion So I'm honestly tired of why this suggestion has pretty much been ignored outright the first 2 times. So let me try this and hopefully see if I get some kind of feedback (positive or negative). Suggestion: 2 Registration periods separated by about 6 hrs for official tourneys. Selfish Reason why I post this: I hated that almost every official registration time was during work or class in the past Selfless Reasons why I post this: 1) People complain about locking threads prior to sign ups. 2) People complain about staying up until 2 am...4 am...6 am to register in other countries( it's still not guaranteed they get in). 3) People complain about lag spikes during refresh due to traffic in the popular officials. 4) People complain about a time when the thread wasn't opened when it was advertised to for sign ups (I wasn't there, but if it were me I wouldn't continue clicking refresh for more than 1 min before stopping and wondering if I got the time wrong or something and going to check the OP). 5) People talk about how they sneak out of class, or how they go without sleep to try to get into the tourneys. This second registration would A- have less traffic since 32 people signed up already. B- Give people the opportunity to sign up themselves in case they have to miss the first sign up C- Give second chances to those who post too early or too late. D- Fix the majority of the "I have to stay up late to sign up argument and lose sleep" As 6 hrs before 4-6 AM is 10 PM -Midnight and 6 hrs after that is 10 AM-noon. Lets be real here, I don't live in Europe or Asia, but if you can allow people to sign up without taking away their sleep, why don't you? If you can give people a 2nd chance to sign up with reduced lag, why not? If you can give an opportunity to people so that they don't have to ditch their obligations for 5 minutes to try to sign up, will it hurt anyone? I just really don't get why 2 registration period for each tourney hasn't happened yet. Especially the 64 man ones. There are just so many pros and not enough cons
  9. Hurray for CipherWeston stepping up to do this!
  10. I ended up getting addicted to this. Need to stop and get other things done. Might as well get a SS since I'll probably be like #100 tomorrow lol
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