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Fun fact - our local community recently started playing billiards tournaments using a swiss system and it's really cool, but it's a tradeoff between fairness an
by zeroq 2y ago
Fun fact - our local community recently started playing billiards tournaments using a swiss system and it's really cool, but it's a tradeoff between fairness and the amount of players you can invite to a tournament. The swiss variants play at max 40 players with 6 rounds, but if you want to invite 100+ players then you have to run a 2KO ladder, otherwise the tournament would last a week.
EDIT: The best part of swiss system is it's the best value for money, because you will play throughtout the whole tournament despite your results, and while you progress the opponenets will adjust to your level, so you can have fun no matter what.
- GuB-42 2y agoThe problem is that a billiard is a big, expensive piece of equipment, and you are limited by your venue. In chess, you only need a chessboard, which is cheap, and a table. In collectible card games like Magic: The Gathering, it is even simpler as people bring their own cards, so all you need is the table. For a LAN party, people usually bring their own computer and they have a spot for the entire event, so having everyone play at the same time is trivial.