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You get 3 points and 0 lost souls.

Lets face it byes hurt the experienced players and help the newer players. I think it should be an unwritted rule that experienced players are immune to the first round bye. Just like the unwritten rule that in the first round of tournament you try not to pair up brothers and sisters/ people from the same playgroup (at major tournaments). It just isn't right to give a player, who has worked ten times more on his deck than a newer player, and has ten times more potential to place in the tournament. Especially when tournaments are so few and far between. The bye, in combination with the draw factor, is the main reason I refuse to spend hours working on my deck anymore. It just isn't worth it, imo. Although I think the less offending solution, and probably a more beneficial solution, would be to increase the lost soul differential awarded to those sentenced to a bye.

 

Well, at the last tounament I went to, I was the official cutter of decks for type II during my bye

thats for mtg, where byes are actually great because there is no mtg equivalent of a lost soul differential.

Byes can't be quite as good as a win, or people would arrive late to a tournament to have a head start, as their first game is already a win.  Byes were 3 (+3) at one point, and it was sometimes too big of a lead to overcome.  They sometimes almost gave a player the win if the day's games were close ones with a small turnout.

Imo, bye for being late, 3 points, -1 for every round you missed after the first, capped at 2, no differential. Bye for not having enough people, 3 points, LS differential equal to the highest differential that round.

how about when they used to give a bye to people for leaving early and the the person that got the bye won the tourny? that wasnt fun.

i've always believed they should never give a free win to anyone arriving late. tough luck.

If anything, the late arrival should be penalized, not rewarded....