For gst, I wish admins would make the brackets, like maybe have a hard bracket for GTEAM, Alumni, Blackout, and Silver Lion.. So it's not an easy way just up to semis..  

Posted by Tenchu

For gst, I wish admins would make the brackets, like maybe have a hard bracket for GTEAM, Alumni, Blackout, and Silver Lion.. So it's not an easy way just up to semis..

not gonna happen. admins don't know which team is good or not. if we do, all it's gonna happen is a corruption. that's why we use the guild sparring pts for the bracket.  

Posted by Tenchu

For gst, I wish admins would make the brackets, like maybe have a hard bracket for GTEAM, Alumni, Blackout, and Silver Lion.. So it's not an easy way just up to semis..

The only way it would be hard for those teams early is if they met each other quite frankly (of course, upsets can happen), and then the winners would have a cakewalk all the way to the finals most likely, which is even worse.  

Posted by Zetectic

not gonna happen. admins don't know which team is good or not. if we do, all it's gonna happen is a corruption. that's why we use the guild sparring pts for the bracket.

Tbh it might work if you just broke the brackets down to points/leaderboard placement (top 10 bracket, 11- 20 bracket etc.)

But this format makes no sense at all considering the fact that the winner of the 'hard bracket' will likely win the whole GST because the skill level between the top guilds and the rest is so wide, so why bother  

Posted by Kosma

The only way it would be hard for those teams early is if they met each other quite frankly (of course, upsets can happen), and then the winners would have a cakewalk all the way to the finals most likely, which is even worse.

It seems like a cakewalk for pretty much every good guild..  

the bracket system is fine the way it is  

Posted by Tenchu

For gst, I wish admins would make the brackets, like maybe have a hard bracket for GTEAM, Alumni, Blackout, and Silver Lion.. So it's not an easy way just up to semis..

Wouldn't that give the 'not as strong' guilds a free walk to semi as well?  

Posted by Ding

Wouldn't that give the 'not as strong' guilds a free walk to semi as well?

For what? Just for them to get crushed come the semi-finals? really, it's fine. Besides, as mentioned above, we can't "predict" which teams will be good anyway. Say, for example, you have 5 great sparers on your team, and everyone assumes your taking them, so they load your bracket. Or, assuming FP4 checked your team and somehow decided which sparers would good(maybe by ratio, doesn't matter for the example.) and you were all old players who hadn't played in months?

Current system works fine, leave it.  

Posted by Tenchu

It seems like a cakewalk for pretty much every good guild..

Because there's a big gap between the top 6-8 mixed guilds and the rest on mixed tourney.  

Finals would be boring if all the good teams were in the same bracket. Top team matches should be at the end.  

Mixed gst is already very competitive with only 32 guilds in the bracket, I don't see the need to purposely put the top guilds in a even harder bracket. It is not possible to create a "fair" bracket in the first place. Not to mention it would defeat the purpose of 2nd, 3rd and 4th place. If any, it would be the Idev gst top guilds have an easy walk-through since it seems to be much less competitive with 64 guilds in the bracket.  

just got internet at new place today, glad Alumni iDevices got together to enter on another tag instead of waiting on me because they'd have probably missed it

on a small monitor, using a keyboard that ghosts on every key, moving slowly in levels with many people in them, easy game

no reason to even complain about the brackets when the leaderboard and guild system sucks, it's all cancer  

Posted by Thallen

no reason to even complain about the brackets when the leaderboard and guild system sucks, it's all cancer

The only reason the guild system sucks is because there is nothing to do with it besides gst and towering.  

Acqua's winning his 3rd belt

Would an in-game betting system be a good thing?  

Posted by Darkk

Acqua's winning his 3rd belt

Would an in-game betting system be a good thing?

It's a 9+ game I doubt they would implement it anyways