For those new to the site, or with short memories, the TPA7 will be a campaign spanning around a year. It offers everyone the chance to pit their wits against fellow CC players over the course of many different style tournaments offering points towards a grand winner. There are 3 types of tournaments, Major, Premium and Standard, and points awarded accordingly. You dont need to enter every tournament to win the grand prize, just make sure when you do play, you go deep!
Good luck, and enjoy the ride!
This is a Tournament Players Association Year 7 [TPA7] event, and is governed by its rules, guidelines, and judgments which are detailed below. All are welcome to join and participate in the association. You do not need to do anything more than join one or more of the TPA7 events that will be announced on Mondays.
TPA7 Commissioner: Shoop76 TPA7 Assistant: Barterer2002 TPA7 Scoreboard: Tin Trumpet
[spoiler=Points Available]Major tournaments will have 2,000 points for 1st place; Premier, 1,000 points and Standard, 500 points.
For all other places, the number of points earned (P) will be determined by the following formula which includes the number of players/teams (n) and the player's position (x). Points will be rounded down.
For Major tournaments If n>128: P = 2000n/128x If n<128 or n=128: 2000/x For Premier tournaments If n>64: P = 1000n/64x If n<64 or n=64: 1000/x For Standard tournaments If n>32: P = 500n/32x If n<32 or n=32: 500/x
If players are tied then they will each receive the average of the total number of points they would have received had they not tied.
On completion of their tournament, organizers should just provide the finishing order and the above points will be calculated as part of the master scoreboard updating.[/spoiler]
I reserve the right to make changes as I am sure there is things I have forgotten.
Last edited by Tin Trumpet on Tue Nov 28, 2023 2:33 am, edited 47 times in total.
I will take the TPA major on Sept 28th for a running of A Risktaker's Race: The WC4J Board Game. Where the CC maps are the spaces on the board. No maximum number of players.
I also have an assassin tournament ready to go for the premier if no one else takes that.
I don't get the scoring thing. I assume it's meant to put get the scoring back on a 32/64/128 player basis for bigger tournaments, but it just makes the bigger tournaments give 32/64/128 times less points (except for the winners). Shouldn't it be divided by 32/64/128 but multiplied by the number of players?
ZaBeast wrote:I don't get the scoring thing. I assume it's meant to put get the scoring back on a 32/64/128 player basis for bigger tournaments, but it just makes the bigger tournaments give 32/64/128 times less points (except for the winners). Shouldn't it be divided by 32/64/128 but multiplied by the number of players?
That seems to be what it does. Note the “n” in the formula.
The scoring system would benefit from some improvement though. If a tournament had over 256 players You would get more points for second than first. Perhaps unlikely, but there are other issues that creates too.
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ZaBeast wrote:I don't get the scoring thing. I assume it's meant to put get the scoring back on a 32/64/128 player basis for bigger tournaments, but it just makes the bigger tournaments give 32/64/128 times less points (except for the winners). Shouldn't it be divided by 32/64/128 but multiplied by the number of players?
This is the same scoring formula that has been used in previous editions. I am up for a change, but that would have to happen before the 7th of this month. Any suggestions?
I didn't notice the fact you multiply by n, the formula is fine. I have to agree with scud that not adjusting the score of the winner as well can cause issues though.
Many thanks to all involved in bringing this back! I know it's a lot of work -- I think somewhere sempai is still wrapping up TPA4. I don't know if I'll make it through, life's busier these days - but it's a great thing for the site and for more players to experience!
For this edition yes. We don´t have as many tournaments as we used to. If we see that the TPA7 runs smoothly and there is enough interest we might expand the number of tourneys next year and then we will go back to the old format where maybe not all the standards and possible premiums count.
