2 tournament related suggestions

Question

First, I think we should use approval voting in the tournament polls. In approval voting, you can like whichever ideas you want, and we play whichever idea receives the most likes. This has several advantages:

If you like multiple ideas and can't choose a favorite, you can vote for all of them.
If you dislike a few ideas, you can vote for all the other ones.
You can still vote for only one idea if you want.
Approval voting tends to elect ideas that most people like, instead of ideas that a large minority is very obsessed with.
In "single-choice" or "plurality" voting, voting for your favorite idea requires taking a vote away from your second-favorite. In approval voting, you can just vote for both of them.

Second, I think tournament hosts should generate only the current round and nothing after that. I don't want players scouting and preparing for a specific sequence of opponents.

Comments

I'm not getting your second suggestion, mind expatiating (with shorter words)?

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@Cristal In recent tournaments, the host has created a public Challonge bracket. The bracket shows all the possible matchups for future rounds of the tournament. (In particular, it shows that your opponent in the next round is guaranteed to be the winner of the match that appears next to yours.) This means players have good reason to specifically scout particular opponents in the tour. If such a bracket is not used or is not shared publicly, then there is no way to predict future pairings, so the issue is fixed.

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Ah okay, that seems reasonable. But can the host can maintain a bracket for themselves (i.e. not adding it to the matchups answer) so that they don’t confuse the pairings?

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That's what the suggestion says I think. The host would *have* to create a bracket to initiate the tour and keep it safe for the rest of the tour, but not adding it to the match-ups answer would suffice.

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Making brackets isn't very important especially with less number of participants, but yeah I guess I didn't get what sumwun said at all.

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You can also use a random number generator that generates only one round at a time. That way you don't need to hide anything.

Answer 1

Thanks for the good ideas. I will implement both suggestions tomorrow.

Comments

@sumwun Seeing as you're the author of the hosting guide thread, I'll let you add the detail about hosts not making a public bracket. (I think it's fine for them to privately generate a bracket, but they'd have to randomise the order they post the matchups, so people can't guess.)

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Okay I edited the thing.