Thank you both. That makes sense. I guess I was also trying to ask how the group of 3 was determined. As in why me and the two other people?
Pretty much just random luck of the draw.
This week I assigned players to judges in alphabetical order and looped around, then had to reshuffle after the DQs.
Also, still waiting on coletrain, Profani, and void_nothing to get their judgment in. I know it's the holiday season, so I'll probably extend Round Four into January.
Due to drops and disqualifications, there was an odd number this round, which resulted in the 3 person pairing. I assume 2 people are advancing there since there are two judges on the bracket and we usually end up with one person per judge in the final.
It depends. Frequently, three person brackets are a result of too many players (either from losing a judge or ties that advance more than the usual number of players) during which, they're three person skirmishes to the death with only one victor. Here, however, Gerrard's Mom is correct. Since we've six judges, we want six players in the final round.
Damn I was hoping you'd let me get away with it if I got it in before you put up the brackets, I always get messed up by American time zones and when I saw you say the brackets were going up I posted as quickly as possible
Yeah, sorry. Deadlines are deadlines.
Also, now that I'm actually awake, I can see that both porcelainscarecrow and zeke_the_plumber edited their entries after the deadline. I'll have to DQ you guys as well, and shuffle the brackets a bit. =/
I've just received communication from Ryder052 that he won't be able to continue judging this month. I'll take over his bracket for this week, and we're still waiting on Profani to get his judgment in. I'll get to Ryder's bracket ASAP.
@VI: I'm going to nitpick your Quality deduction for my submission by mentioning the card I used for the template: Coalition Relic. "At the beginning of your precombat main phase, remove all charge counters from Coalition Relic. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way." The only functional difference between this and my card are that you can't choose :symw:, :symu:, or :symr:. With mine, you either add for each charge counter, or you add for each charge counter. Your wording suggestion changes what the card does, as I did not use the word "combination" in the ability.
In that case, did you intend for the card to cause you to choose between only black mana or only green mana? If that's the case, I've never seen a card do that and it's fairly unintuitive. There are plenty of cards that add one mana of any color, but every card I've seen that adds from a subset of two colors uses the established format I linked to in my judgment.
I prefer to actually have as many judges as possible to make Round Four as robust as possible. If we hadn't reached that magic "five per judge" number we need to hit, I would have.
I see that with such small 5 player brackets, still there is a Top Four advance, which means only one player out of every bracket will get eliminated. This makes it more of a 'who made the worst card' instead of 'who designed the best cards' kind of thing. What do you think?
Participation is way down from what it use to be. I remember having 8 judges and each judge having 10 entries in their bracket.
These days, we're lucky to get the mandatory 5 Round One entries per judge that the MCC requires to limp along. =/
This week I assigned players to judges in alphabetical order and looped around, then had to reshuffle after the DQs.
Also, still waiting on coletrain, Profani, and void_nothing to get their judgment in. I know it's the holiday season, so I'll probably extend Round Four into January.
Also, now that I'm actually awake, I can see that both porcelainscarecrow and zeke_the_plumber edited their entries after the deadline. I'll have to DQ you guys as well, and shuffle the brackets a bit. =/
Sorry, FreshMeat, but you missed the deadline.
Round Three is up.
Ryder052's bracket is up.
These days, we're lucky to get the mandatory 5 Round One entries per judge that the MCC requires to limp along. =/