Gemp-LotR Leagues - schedule, ideas, results, etc

[freelanc3r]

Great was Movie Sealed, when we had more cards (more starters) to build nice deck and show "true skill".

[radry]

There needs to be done something about unfair players / cheaters in (sealed) leagues. There are tons of accounts with none or one games played. Those are obviously fake accounts made by people to choose the account with the best cards from the boosters.

[argyles]

introduce highlander format , it was cool at old lotr online. ( 1 copy of a card max in the deck )

[Grond]

The number of the rounds in daily tournaments is really wrong and makes no sense.
2^x=number of players, where x should be the number of rounds is the universal formula. No idea why we are playing always + 1 rounds - 8 players -> 4 rounds ;  9 players- 5 ?!

[Eukalyptus]

9 players need a bye. The bye is the 10th player, so 5 games.

[Grond]

Try to make the calculations then post, thank you.

[radry]

There needs to be done something about unfair players / cheaters in (sealed) leagues. There are tons of accounts with none or one games played. Those are obviously fake accounts made by people to choose the account with the best cards from the boosters.

bump, this is seriously getting out of hand. There are currently over 250 users in the fellowship sealed league that have 0 games played. Obviously some people are to arrogant to lose and make many accounts to get the best boosters.

[CoS]

i agree. I would request MarcinS to ban all folks who enter a league with more than one account even if only one account participates in the league. It's not sporting otherwise.

[Eukalyptus]

I'd like to see a Hunters Block Sealed next. Would be a nice change from Movie and FotR.

[sgtdraino]

Could we please have daily Expanded tournaments, in addition to the current daily Fellowship and daily Movie tournaments? On Gemp, Expanded is just as popular as Movie.

[Grond]

The idea of daily tournaments is to be played with "owned" cards only. Expanded is a popular format, but most people can't afford collecting deck for expaneded. I believe that is the main reason, where the dailies are only move and fblock.

[sgtdraino]

The idea of daily tournaments is to be played with "owned" cards only.

Is there any reason why we can't have daily tournaments that can be played with all cards?

Expanded is a popular format, but most people can't afford collecting deck for expaneded.

Bah, it might take a while, but eventually anyone should be able to put one together.

I'd really like to have daily Expanded tournaments. I'd prefer all cards, but I'll take what I can get. Again, Expanded is tied with Movie for the 2nd most-played format on Gemp.

[Grond]

For all cards, there are payed tournaments with a nice rewards too ( the only way to get promo/tengwar cards i think). So If there are so many players willing to play expanded with all cards, they can join that tourney at any time.

[UnPapayaCoconut]

There needs to be done something about unfair players / cheaters in (sealed) leagues. There are tons of accounts with none or one games played. Those are obviously fake accounts made by people to choose the account with the best cards from the boosters.

bump, this is seriously getting out of hand. There are currently over 250 users in the fellowship sealed league that have 0 games played. Obviously some people are to arrogant to lose and make many accounts to get the best boosters.

+1
sometimes its just too obvious, people uve never seen before come out with the best possible cards u can have lol, played the httc aragorn like 20 times already

[sgtdraino]

If there are so many players willing to play expanded with all cards, they can join that tourney at any time.

First, no "if" about it. Like I said, Expanded is tied with Movie for the 2nd most-played format on Gemp. The only format more popular then Expanded and Movie is Fellowship. Those are statistics that anyone can easily view.

Second, as I mentioned in the thread on Suggestions to Improve Gemp:

Right now it's still pretty hard to do a tournament, because it's tough to find enough people on the spur of the moment to sign up to play.

Can you offer a feature when you create a tournament table, to create the table IN ADVANCE, specifying a date and time? People could join that tournament table at any point prior to that, and then plan to be in attendance when the tournament starts. When the date and time arrives, any joiners who are logged on to gemp immediately start the tournament, while any joiners who are not logged on get booted from the tournament.

The Daily Tournament structure is essentially the above: A preset tournament, so that everyone who wants to play knows exactly when to show up. There are very few impromptu tournaments on Gemp for any format, because it's tough to get 8 people who just happen to be present, to join for a process that's going to last several games long.

So, MarcinS, can you PLEASE initiate Daily Expanded tournaments?