LotV Tournaments

137 Premier Tournaments
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This could fuel some more balance wars, I guess.

All LotV

Representation (with % of total)

Faction	1	1-2	1-4
Z	66 (48)	122 (44)	207 (37)
T	38 (27)	72 (26)	171 (31)
P	33 (24)	80 (29)	170 (31)

Players with the most wins: number of placements (% of faction)

Rank	Z	T	P
1	Serral: 24 (36)	Maru: 13 (34)	Neeb: 8 (24)
2	Rogue: 11 (17)	INnoVation: 6 (15)	Trap: 6 (18)
3	Reynor: 11 (17)	Clem: 6 (15)	Stats: 5 (15)
4	Dark: 7 (11)	TY: 4 (10)	Zest: 3 (9)
5	Solar: 3 (4)	ByuN: 3 (7)	HerO(jOin): 3 (9)

Everyone and their mother seem to dislike the new RLCS format, and I agree that it is quite bad for a number of reasons.

So now the time comes for suggestions. I do not doubt Epic/Psyonix won't care about anything said here, but we can still dream, right ?

Let's post and debate ideas here.

First of all, the title is obvious clickbait, congratulations for falling for it.

Secondly, here is the dataset I'm using (FYI never allow macro executions on any document you don't 100% trust, that's a huge security issue).

It was made with the following choices :

• The only regional events counted are RLCS
• Most noteworthy LAN tournaments are counted
• I didn't bother counting last RLCS season, neither player is relevant anymore
• If someone is absent from a tournament the other was in, placement is computed : *number of teams in tournament + (position of the player's team - min position to qualify)2 The idea is to make as if the tournament was big

Welcome everybody to Rate My Take ! We have all seen our fair share of takes here, which would best be described using a colorful yet unceremonious language. Moreover, we all have formulated (or dreamed of doing so) hazardous, perhaps openly disastrous opinions here. I sure am part of the pack here.

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I did a simulation tool to compare the two formats, and came up with some stats.

I did this because we have a big problem during all our discussions about the formats : the lack of data. Even if you take all regions into account, the sample is just too damn small to make any conclusive analysis. Worse, some regions tend to skew the data set because they do not have the same homogeneity as EU/NA. So the only way we can compare formats is by running simulations, however simulations are very perfectible (especially this one you'll see). Running this simulation allowed to generate enough data to actually analyze what's happening with statistics. If you wish, I can make the code available on

Wesh,

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Merci les loulous.

Since we had a change in the format of competitions with the new split, I wonder what's people opinions on all available formats for tournaments.

SEB: Single Elimination Bracket
DEB : Double Elimination Bracket
ML: Mixed Loser
BR: Bracket Reset
GA: Game advantage
RR: Round Robin

syntax will be teamcount/groupcount/format

We've had :
32/2/Swiss -> 16/1/Swiss -> 8/1/SEB for Split1 Minors (on 4 days: 33-33-33-7 matches)
16/4/DEB+ML -> 8/1/SEB for Split1 Grids
16/1/Swiss -> 8/1/SEB for Split1 Majors
24/1/DEB+BR for Split2 Minors (on 4 days: 16-12-12-6 matches) 16/4/RR (seeding only) -> 16/1/SEB for Split2 Grids

What are your opinions on those formats, and