anjuna wrote:
Of course, theoretically. (But we could never all agree which was "best.") It just so happens TNT already fudged the first part, where we could switch teams before Round 1 and then they switched some back and forth so much they are no longer on the team they originally "chose" or even wanted to "have to" now root for. Either way, of course we all want to go through all rounds to the finals and get the biggest prize, but since the beginning I thought this highly unlikely, even though it seems the best intention. Seems more likely we would all shift around, losing at least a game or so and picking the next best team, until we all get to the finals.
If the scoring really works that way, I just don't think there will be too many "winners" but since we can all go to the finals and get prizes just for participating, I don't see too many losers either. I can't wait until they divulge just how the scoring is working. All this time I felt a creepy bug.
Yes, theoretically, it could have happened, there wasn't some filter preventing too many people from signing up for one team. It's irrelevant if people are unlikely to choose one team because the possibility is still there. That's why it was a theory, it's possible, and it doesn't have to be probable.
Also, it's a shame that Neopets messed up yet another thing involving many Neopet's users, but that's just unfortunate that they are now on different teams.
I'm glad you thought it highly unlikely that your team would make it to the final round because in a tournament where they weight the number of wins/losses instead of going strictly by the amount of wins/losses, there is still only about a 1/16 chance of making it to the finals on your original team. My original point was that letting teams with massive amounts of supporters getting an uneven advantage would stack the odds toward those popular teams, and the finals would come down to the two most popular teams.
The problem wouldn't be a low number of winners, it would be a high number of winners because there were more on the winning team than other teams. I'd much rather win a prize that is either rare because less people won it, and/or one that I had to do my part on a team to win.
anjuna wrote:
This whole setup is somewhat frustrating. Say for instance in Round 1 my team won but I did not have confidence they would win against the new team they are up against for Round 2. So I switch since I feel the other team might go to the finals. So how do we choose? If I win in Round 1, I should be confident to stay on that team throughout, but what if I am not? What if I think that same team that just won will NOT make it to finals?
You wouldn't have any trouble with confidence if all the scoring was by % of supporters for a team because you wouldn't have any clue how close to a win or a loss you are in a round. Also, that fear could push people to do their best no matter who they're up against.