NeXus LAN 24 was fantastic!!! We will miss seeing everyone, but hope to see some of you at other LAN's down the line. Thank you everyone for years of support and fun!!!!
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Skill is relative, you truly don't know who is really good or not.
It is a conflict of interest because it would give the staff an opportunity to manipulate the system so they (or friends / family) always end up with an above average team.
People would still bitch about their teams with the added bonus of also accusing the staff of stacking the teams (Especially if a staff happens to win a tournament).
Keep in mind these tournaments are designed to be just for fun. Complaining about what team you got rolled with is bad sportsmanship and discourages new people from joining the tournaments.
If you are interested in high competitive matches at the LAN, I would suggest having unofficial "losers buy winners drinks" exhibition matches in the off hours.
Another benefit of randomized teams is that it allows myself / Ronster (or anyone else involved in the tournaments in the future) to play in the tournament without a conflict of interest.
I just want to personally thank all the people who did join the tournament even though they didn't meet the lvl 10 requirement or 16 champs for draft mode.
Without these people, we wouldn't of had enough for the RP prizes.
Everyone in the tournament had an equal chance to be rolled with a good team and these official tournaments are just for fun.
Tournament participation was really high (42 ppl just for LoL) and 20 of the ppl got RP ($250+).
If LoL wins the RTS tournament vote and Riot Game gives RP for it, I will probably doing the same thing if I can't get 40 people in.
Cool, I do like the idea of a losers bracket and may do that next time.
The online sign-up is mainly for scheduling so we know about how many to expect and how much time we need for the tournament.
The sign-up sheet is for telling who's actually there. At the time of the LoL tournament (2pm), there was only 21 ppl signed in on the sheet and 36 signed up online. This is to prevent teams having missing members. Also we had a hard 40 person requirement to fill (which we had to lower the LoL requirements in order to get more ppl).
Next time, going to make it more clear that people need to sign up for the tournaments on the sheet.
I also like that idea of an awards ceremony at the raffle, it was difficult trying to track down teams after the tournament.