Novice Tournament

[Ama]

Should the Tournament be for New people or just for pros to run through ?

[deen]

The tournament has a map of Novice difficulty. Of course Pros will finish it faster than new players.

Edit: One time we had two maps at the same time, so Pros wouldn't play Novice. I don't think that was a good idea.

[Ama]

i just think noobs should play those maps and not race with better players

[deen]

But how can we forbid better players to play? They would just play with fake names.

[Ama]

It should be a Pro code you get mobbed for winning novice tournaments

[deen]

But they will still want to play, so they will just finish with new names. I don't think it's better to have 10 fake names finishing first.

[FakeDeath]

Can't you have two tournaments? One novice map and one moderate/ brutal map. This way the pro's will go to the moderate/ brutal maps and not to the novica map. But there are some problems:
- Two maps a time, so you will have to use older maps as back-up maps, because you don't have endless new maps.
- It could be that the novice tournament server will be empty and the moderate/ brutal tournament full or the other way around.
- You still don't know if the good people are on the novice tournament server or on the moderate/ brutal tournament server.

So after writing all this, I think it's a bad idea. So don't use this one :S (unless you think it could work)

[deen]

FakeDeath, as I said, we did that: http://ddnet.org/tournament/6/
I didn't like it.

[FakeDeath]

Hm, sorry... Didn't saw the edit.

Maybe IP check?

EDIT: depending on:
- how many points someone has?
- his average time in all the maps he ever played on DDNet?

[deen]

Then they will use a VPN or play at a friend's place to get another IP. Also I don't want to spy on players and find out who is faking who.