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If I only have one legal deck at the point that Top Cut begins?

Hey,

I have a couple questions about how timeouts will be handled in the Top Cut rounds.

If a game times out with one player "winning at time out" and one player "losing at timeout" that will be treated as a full win and full loss correct?

If a game times out in a 4-4 tie and neither player is able to rescue additional lost souls even with extra rounds how will that game be handled?

If a game times out in a 4-4 tie and both players make a rescue in the first "extra inning" round does the player who got to 5 first win, or are they then tied at 5-5 and play a second "extra inning" round to break the 5-5 tie?

Tschow,

Tim "Sir Nobody" Maly

Then that still creates a scenario where its possible both players can still be tied after all Lost Souls are exhausted from play.

That's poor writing on my part, sorry. The each player taking a turn thing is meant to say it's like extra innings in baseball. Each player gets a turn to rescue. I tried to use the turn and round terminology.

I think a game that is tied 4-4 should be sudden death (next soul wins).

Maybe we should just have the panel of judges and/or redemption MetaGaming hosts make an informed decision on who they feel would win

I'd get the win because I built the key points of our deck.

/shotsfired

Top 2. It's a date.

Quote from: Alex_Olijar on August 02, 2013, 03:47:05 PM

Top 2. It's a date.

If this happens I will eat my trophies. All of them.

I don't like the idea of a Swiss style top cut. I mean for my situation I don't wanna go to nationals and lose and be eliminated from the first round and the sit out for the rest of the tournament. To be honest, eleminations take the fun out of the tournament. I think Swiss style should be kept as it always had been for almost twenty years

It's worth pointing out that by and large, most of the people who have played in T12P the last two years came away with positive impressions of top cut. I was especially pleased to find out that Chris Bany, who staunchly opposed the introduction of cutting prior to New York, became a big believer in it that year, which is the main reason he chose to implement it this year in MN. We actually cut at seven rounds both years, though I believe it should be smaller, especially considering what happened to Jerome this last tournament (he was the last undefeated player, took two hard losses, and ultimately didn't cut). Cutting after six rounds, to me, is the sweet spot, and I would like to see it implemented in future tournaments.

This year was especially weird because the field wasn't nearly as stacked as normal (missing people like Gabe, Greeson, Townsend, Martin, Westy, and Alex), leaving only a handful of people with any kind of legitimate record (Earley, Nathan, Underwood, Connor, Josiah [who didn't even cut], and myself) to compete. The drama in the later rounds certainly doesn't help the perception that this year felt a little off, but that has nothing to do with top cut, and had to do with the people who ended up making it (or rather, who didn't).