Signing up for tournaments has always been problematic. Forum tournaments sign ups were quite terrible and automatic tournaments are now just as bad on a bigger scale. We have a larger competitive scene than ever, more people want to sign up for each official tournaments being hosted and therefore more people get left out of these tournaments. A solution could be to host only large tournaments, but that would lead to very very long tournaments and that's not really enjoyable for everyone. I strongly believe that large tournaments (128) should be available to everyone, but that smaller tournaments (64/32/16) should be supported with some kind of qualifying system, by giving guaranteed seats to deserving players.
Sign ups based on qualifications is more fair because people that enter tournaments are not the fastest clickers or the ones with the best connection, but the ones that have proven themselves to be fierce competitors. For instance, if the OU ladder was used to give sign up priority to the high ranked players, people will be highly incentivize to play on the ladder and small tournaments will be more competitive with better players overall. Using the ladder as a qualifying system is just an example. We could also use weekly community combats as a qualifying system. There are multiple ways this could work imo and we desperately need a solution to this sign up problem.
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Signing up for tournaments has always been problematic. Forum tournaments sign ups were quite terrible and automatic tournaments are now just as bad on a bigger scale. We have a larger competitive scene than ever, more people want to sign up for each official tournaments being hosted and therefore more people get left out of these tournaments. A solution could be to host only large tournaments, but that would lead to very very long tournaments and that's not really enjoyable for everyone. I strongly believe that large tournaments (128) should be available to everyone, but that smaller tournaments (64/32/16) should be supported with some kind of qualifying system, by giving guaranteed seats to deserving players.
Sign ups based on qualifications is more fair because people that enter tournaments are not the fastest clickers or the ones with the best connection, but the ones that have proven themselves to be fierce competitors. For instance, if the OU ladder was used to give sign up priority to the high ranked players, people will be highly incentivize to play on the ladder and small tournaments will be more competitive with better players overall. Using the ladder as a qualifying system is just an example. We could also use weekly community combats as a qualifying system. There are multiple ways this could work imo and we desperately need a solution to this sign up problem.
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