Voila, ca faisais plusieurs jours que je regardais un topic sur le forum anglais qui parlais du championnat d'Europe. Je pensais éssayer de venir, les dates paraissaient ne pas poser de problèmes avec mes études, la hongrie est un pays qui m'interesse, et je pouvais avoir des facilités d'Hébergement la bas.Princes,
Last October we reviewed and then approved changing the NAC to a 3 day
format, essentially introducing an extra day to make the Continental
Championship a 2 round event. We are proceeding to use this format at
Gen Con Indy this year and we’ll see how it works.
Speaking further with Gabor and his primogen Tibor in Budapest, it is
clear that a 3 day event will not be possible for EC 2005. Therefore we
must return to a 2 day format for it.
However, rather than go back to the traditional format of Last Chance
Qualifier on day one and a huge Championship on day two, Johannes Walch
and Stephane Lavrut have proposed a solution that still allows the
Championship to have 2 rounds and also for there to be a Last Chance
Qualifier.
The solution seems good to me, but I would like the Princes to examine
it and comment upon it for the next week. We have had many long threads
on the Conclave lately, so please try not to make the discussion become
ongoing debate between two people. Please state your thoughts on the
policy and be done, do not debate or refute other the posts of other
Princes.
As always if you think any players in your local community have strong
feelings about this, ask them and include their thoughts with your own.
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Walch-Lavrut Solution (or is that the Lavrut-Walch Solution? hmmm….
The 2005 European Championship (in Budapest) will still be held over 2
days, so its format becomes like this:
On Day 1 there will be played both a special Last Chance Qualifier
(LCQ) and also Round 1 of the Championship at the same time. Players
already qualified in previous Continental Qualifiers play in Round 1 of
the Championship and players not yet Qualified play in the special LCQ.
The top 35 players from Round 1 continue to Round 2 of the
Championship on Day 2. The top 5 (the finalists) of the special LCQ also
continue to Round 2 of the Championship on Day 2.
Those 35+5 = 40 players play in Round 2 and the finals of Round 2
determine the 2005 European Champion.
The exact math depends on the numbers of players in each event, but we
estimate that a player will have 10:6 better odds of reaching Round 2 of
the Championship is they Qualify before the EC and then place in the top
35 versus not qualifying and needing to place in the top 5 of the
special LCQ. Since the caliber of players can be assumed to be higher in
Round 1 of the Championship (where all players were good enough o
qualify) than in the special LCQ, this tends to counter-balance the
10:6 odds.
If any player does not show up for round 2 , then a replacement player
is taken from the same player pool (for example if only 34 of the top
players from the semi-final show up, then the 36th player in the
semi-final is moved into the final. If only 4 of the 5 “Last Chance”
finalists show up then the 6th player from the Last Chance moves up to
the Final). These 40 players go through a normal 3+F tournament to
determine the Continental Champion (while the rest play in the loser
sideline events!).
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Regards,
Steve Wieck
White Wolf
L'année derniere j'avais tenté le qualifier du CE et je me suis fais enterré. Je suis pas un joueur qui fais des résultats extraordinaire, depuis peu j'ai une moyenne de 1GW pas tournoi, donc des résultats modestes, qui toutefois m'ont demandés beaucoup d'efforts et de pratique étant donné que ca ne fais qu'a peine un an que je joue a Jyhad.
Si je dis tout ça, c'est que je pense que si le format que propose Lavrut et Walch est adopté, je ne viendrais surement pas. D'une part parceque je ne serais peut etre pas qualifié quand j'arriverais a budapest et d'autre part parceque si je me tape des centaines de kilometre, un voyage qui vas me couter une fortune colossale étant donné que je ne suis qu'un étudiant, et que en plus si je foire ma premiere ronde, ce qui a de fortes chances d'arriver, j'aurais joué 2 heures le premiers jour et j'aurais perdu ma journée.
Il y a des aspects de Jyhad que j'apprécie moyennement. La compétition a outrance en fait partie. J'aime faire des tournois, mais il y a des tournois ou la compétition prend une telle ampleure que la plupart des joueurs oublient que ce n'est qu'un jeu et se battent pour satisfaire leur égo démesuré en étant le plus insupportable possible. Ce type de format fais ressortir ce coté de Jyhad, et le met en exergue, alors que le championnat d'europe en lui même est déja un championnat propisce a ce genre d'ambiance.
C'est pourquoi je pense que ce format n'a pas lieu d'être, et j'ajouterais même que c'est une insulte pour les nouveaux joueurs qui viendraient de loin.
Arthur de Lustrac
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