The Games Club Invitational

[The Games Club]

Folllowing a chat with Dan Barrett on Saturday, it occured to me that we could use our WPN points (aquired by playing in tournaments on Mondays, Tuesday and Fridays only) to provide the basis on which to calculate invitations to a The Games Club Invitational.

 

http://www.thegamesclub.org/mtg/results/wpn/worldwake.htm

 

For previous Invitationals I maintained The Games Club's own ELO ratings database manually (which is a significant amount of work to maintain manually) using the same method of calcualtion used by Wizards. I was only able to include individual Swiss tournaments - no Team, 2HG or Single Elimination tournaments.

 

http://www.thegamesclub.org/mtg/rankings_and_ratings/rankings_and_r...

 

Invitations varied for each of the previous Invitationals and included a combination of at least two of the best 8 players, the worst 8 player and the 8 most frequent players. Whilst the actual format of each Invitational was different, whilst maintaining a common theme of enforced interaction between the invited players.

 

http://www.thegamesclub.org/mtg/results/invitational/invitational_(...
http://www.thegamesclub.org/mtg/results/invitational/invitational_(...
http://www.thegamesclub.org/mtg/results/invitational/invitational_(...

 

 

If we were to use similar selection criteria the following people would receive an invitation, based on our Worldwake WPN points. A player must have attended an average of at least one event every two weeks during the period covered by the WPN points.

 

TOP 8 PLAYERS

Wei Xu

Ben J W Twitchen

Thom Richardson

Richard Nunn

Zhe Qi Wang

Bejamin Lei

Simon P O'Keeffe

Nicholas A Lovett (alternate for Steve Bernstein)

 

BOTTOM 8 PLAYERS

Willem Buchling

John Heatherington

Roque Martire

Daniel Waine

Alexander Schramm

Tiffant Leek

Paul Naicker

Luis Henrique Batista

 

8 MOST FREQUENT (previously uninvited)

Jason B Howlett

Ben Titmarsh

Ross Miles

Perdo S Meireles

Ben Taylor

Paul Thomas Cridland

Martin Dingler

Larry Devis (alternate for Nicholas A Lovett)

 

Assuming that there is a sufficient amount of interest I'd be happy to starting The Games Club Invitationals again, potentially commencing with current Worldwake WPN points. We'd probably have to charge £27.50 for a Booster Draft (£20 for Constructed and £35 for Sealed Deck) to be able to offer the same level of prizes as previous the Invitationals - 36 Boosters for the winner, 18 Booster for the runner-up and 9 Booster each for the losing semi-finalists.

 

Any comments, ideas for formats and alternative prize suggestions would be appreciated. I'd really like to get these running again.

[Dan Barrett]

Could it be 2 formats? Say, draft and then something odd like standard singleton/pauper?

[The Games Club]

"Large" Rotiserie Draft (keep what you draft)
Something Interesting (see previous tournaments)
Round Robin (7 best of 3 matches)
Trophies (3)
No products prizes (0)
Entry Fee = £30

If we were to use this structure and assuming there is no increase in cost this would be the price for every "large" set, each additional small set would add £10 to the entrance fee.

Thoughts?

[Battlefield Schmattlefield]

I'm still in.

[Dan Barrett]

I like the idea, it's different enough, but £30 is too much - i think people who were invited may then be put off by the price point.

Also, "keep what you draft" rotisserie sounds like it would be not fun because

a) everyone will draft for money and not to build the best decks

b) additionally, if you randomly get drawn to pick last, you get totally rinsed. People ahead of you get super-powerful and valuable cards, adn you get bugger all. I'd be fed up before games started!


Suggest re-drafting rares at the end if you do rotisserie, OR better yet, just do a regular draft (which would be cheaper)? I like the round-robin part though.

[Amar Dattani]

Personally I think winner of the Rotiserie draft takes all should be incentive enough to draft the best deck...

Dan Barrett said:

I like the idea, it's different enough, but £30 is too much - i think people who were invited may then be put off by the price point.

Also, "keep what you draft" rotisserie sounds like it would be not fun because

a) everyone will draft for money and not to build the best decks

b) additionally, if you randomly get drawn to pick last, you get totally rinsed. People ahead of you get super-powerful and valuable cards, adn you get bugger all. I'd be fed up before games started!


Suggest re-drafting rares at the end if you do rotisserie, OR better yet, just do a regular draft (which would be cheaper)? I like the round-robin part though.

[Thom Richardson]

this does sound awesome kind of awesome. I've wanted to do a Rotiserie draft since i heard of it's existence.

i'm not sure i quite get the setup, would you be running 3 Rotiserie drafts?

i think re-drafting the rares would make it more fun and less money grabby in the first few picks.
Imagine winning the first pick lottery for worldwake or m10 for example. (saying that jace/baneslayer are probably the pick anyway)

i reckon i'd be in at £30 either way tho.