Multiplayer Competition - Against the same opponent twice?
Sun May 15, 2005 2:32 pm
I recieved my assignment for my third round in Armada , but to my dismay it was the same person that I was playing last week. This doesn't make sense since I recieved a screen last night that it had been 24 hours and this person had made no move with a "I win" button.
Is there some error with the pairing up or do I just have bad luck?
Is there some error with the pairing up or do I just have bad luck?
Mon May 16, 2005 10:36 am
The same exact thing happened to me last week with Round 2 of Geos. I had won Round 1 thru "Move or Lose", and got the "You Win" message. Then I was assigned to the same person for Round 2! Something is really glitchy.
Mon May 16, 2005 1:56 pm
I'm glad it wasn't just me that it happened to. I'm hoping this will be an easy win though since my opponent is very fickle with their moves and is an under 13 account >_<
Mon May 16, 2005 9:30 pm
Happened to me too. Wierd.
Wed May 18, 2005 4:52 pm
That happened to me last month.
I was so surprised and I felt bad afterwards, because I lost the first game, but I won the second time around.
I was so surprised and I felt bad afterwards, because I lost the first game, but I won the second time around.
Thu May 19, 2005 7:06 am
Fizzy wrote:That happened to me last month.
I was so surprised and I felt bad afterwards, because I lost the first game, but I won the second time around.
Well at least you get to move on when it counts
I got a glitch but it said we both lost????
Sat Jun 04, 2005 5:18 pm
It's because of the way they organize the tournaments.
After several emails, this is how a friend and I have figured out the tournament brackets (or at least we believe so):
round 1 . . . round 2 . . . round 3
player 1
player 2 . . . bronze
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . silver
player 3 . . . bronze
player 4
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . gold
player 5
player 6 . . . bronze
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . silver
player 7 . . . bronze
player 8
They divide everyone up into brackets of 8, we're not sure if it takes your "game" rank into account (how many times you've won the gold), although it doesn't seem to. You only have to worry about people in your bracket.
Everyone plays the first round.
4 players go on to the second round, and four are out.
2 players go on to the third round and 2 are out.
One player(of those eight) wins the gold.
So essentially, for every 8 people who play, 1 gets gold, one gets silver, two get bronze, 4 get to try again next month.
The bad part is, if you sign up for the tournament late or someone gets frozen during the tournament, and there's less than 8 people, you end up with an "imperfect" number of players.
It's one of those weird torunament things, if you've ever tried to organize a tournament, you'd see. 8 players, or 16 players makes for a "perfect" tournament tree (think of american college basketball's sweet sixteen). Anything less and you have to either play "bye" games or let people play the same opponant twice.
Anyway, that's how the tournaments last three weeks, and you only have to win three games to get gold.
Just a little useless trivia from your friendly neighborhood Lenny Conundrum.
After several emails, this is how a friend and I have figured out the tournament brackets (or at least we believe so):
round 1 . . . round 2 . . . round 3
player 1
player 2 . . . bronze
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . silver
player 3 . . . bronze
player 4
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . gold
player 5
player 6 . . . bronze
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . silver
player 7 . . . bronze
player 8
They divide everyone up into brackets of 8, we're not sure if it takes your "game" rank into account (how many times you've won the gold), although it doesn't seem to. You only have to worry about people in your bracket.
Everyone plays the first round.
4 players go on to the second round, and four are out.
2 players go on to the third round and 2 are out.
One player(of those eight) wins the gold.
So essentially, for every 8 people who play, 1 gets gold, one gets silver, two get bronze, 4 get to try again next month.
The bad part is, if you sign up for the tournament late or someone gets frozen during the tournament, and there's less than 8 people, you end up with an "imperfect" number of players.
It's one of those weird torunament things, if you've ever tried to organize a tournament, you'd see. 8 players, or 16 players makes for a "perfect" tournament tree (think of american college basketball's sweet sixteen). Anything less and you have to either play "bye" games or let people play the same opponant twice.
Anyway, that's how the tournaments last three weeks, and you only have to win three games to get gold.
Just a little useless trivia from your friendly neighborhood Lenny Conundrum.