will you solve the unfair random start problem before starting the tournaments? players getting an unfair start has no chance of advancing/winning........

I hope the seats will be randomly assigned in the first stages of the tournament so you can't control who you sit with. That should limit pga possibilities drastically.

In the final stages, I hope lots of watchers or maybe even a group of neutral judges can monitor the games for cheating and or unfair playing.

very much looking forward to this. you go ryan!

good point jurgen. im sure that is how it will work and will probably somewhat help the pga problem.

Yes random table assingments. And random shuffling.

interesting ill think about it

Ryan, I believe that the final game shouldn't be based on a single game. It is general knowledge that a single game is greatly affected by starting placement, and it would be a rude awakening if the winner of a kdice game was based upon a single game. Even the best players get crap starts. It was once an art to turn a 7th into a 4th. I believe that the overall winner should be based upon a total of 3 games, with the lowest sum of the placings to be declared the winner.

There won't be a set number of games. It's based on points. The last two players keep playing until one has no points left. Each game the +/- points go up to speed things up.

This will all become clear during the first few tournaments and maybe it's difficult to guess now but:

- how many rounds of games would be rougly needed to end up with say a top 7? and from then to a winner? If 1000+ players enter the tournament, it would take several cutoffs to eliminate 99% of the players. If this has to be done in consecutive games during the same day, people would have to be able to free several hours for non-stop play.

- other regions like asia should get fair chances to play too but the majority of players are from US/EUROPE so will there be one shared playwindow (US morning/afternoon = Europe afternoon/evening) to have the tournament?

- will the tournament be spread over several days? (1st day end up with top 250; 2nd day top 100; 3rd top25; 4th top (5 or 7); 5th day the ultimate champion)... shorter could be 1st day top250 2nd top25 3rd the winner

Anyway, thanks again for working on MTT, good luck with the development of it... and to be honest, I hope you are aiming for the beginning of september for the test MTT launch

Hey guys, I haven't been following the discussion on MTTs (which certainly sounds like a great idea) in the past.

I know how a tournament works but I really don't get how the tournament concept can be implemented in kdice...

Can someone please give me some more input of Ryan's plan?

Jurgen maybe???^^