Tournament rating

[GiveYourBest]

Tournament rating

So, what about a new tournament rating? To play this format you would have to prepare 5 tournament decks. One for every fraction. Newcomers could use their starting decks. Before the game you would ban one of opponent decks (fe. Monsters or any other current ladder meta decks that you dont want to face), your opponent would ban one of yours and then play a game using a random deck of 4 avaliable. Why random not chosen? Mostly to awoid having only two strong decks, but also to force you this way to play all fractions and evolve your skills in Gwent. This rating would be much better mesurment who is stronger and well rounded Gwent player. At the end of a season players who would be high in this rating could advance to some major tournament with rewards and glory for being a tournament champ. Lets sey Top1024 players would play 1-1024, 2-1023, 3-1022, and so on. It would take 10 rounds to find the winner. At certain time one round best of 3 games per day. In this tournament you could chose which team of 4 you would play. To avoild randomnes in small sample of games in one tournament.

 

[4RM3D]

Tournament would only really work during a, well, a tournament. Having random opponents banning one of your decks isn't really a handicap. Though, it's still more interesting than ranked play. To push it even further, I've made another similar suggestion: https://forums.cdprojektred.com/foru...in-deck-ladder

 

[GiveYourBest]

To climb in the separate tournament rating you would play only one game vs opponent at your current level in this rating. Higher in rank automaticly opponents would be tougher. Pretty simple: seek an opponent, ban one of his teams (not knowing which leaders he is using) and play one game of Gwent in tournament format. Imagine how an another ladder would diversify posibilites in this Monsters meta or previous Axemans meta. At some point its not fun anymore to tech your deck against meta or play mirrors all day. Here you would have exactly 25% chance to play vs one of not banned decks. I estimate that with banned one team per game player would have to use sth like:
- 22% of time ST;
- 22% SK;
- 20% NG;
- 20% NR;
- 16% - Monsters (depends only on what team would be banned the most in current state of meta).

 

[4RM3D]

GiveYourBest

You've made the suggestion in order to create diversity in the ranks. Using your method, you will achieve that to a certain degree. I agree, however, if you really want to promote the usage of all factions, then using my suggestion would create even more diversity.

 

[Rakshaaz]

So, what about a new tournament rating? To play this format you would have to prepare 5 tournament decks. One for every fraction. Newcomers could use their starting decks. Before the game you would ban one of opponent decks (fe. Monsters or any other current ladder meta decks that you dont want to face), your opponent would ban one of yours and then play a game using a random deck of 4 avaliable. Why random not chosen? Mostly to awoid having only two strong decks, but also to force you this way to play all fractions and evolve your skills in Gwent. This rating would be much better mesurment who is stronger and well rounded Gwent player. At the end of a season players who would be high in this rating could advance to some major tournament with rewards and glory for being a tournament champ. Lets sey Top1024 players would play 1-1024, 2-1023, 3-1022, and so on. It would take 10 rounds to find the winner. At certain time one round best of 3 games per day. In this tournament you could chose which team of 4 you would play. To avoild randomnes in small sample of games in one tournament.

I approve of your idea! That would be very interesting!

 

[GiveYourBest]

5 Pros:
- something new and competitive to play in Gwent;
- completly new decks to play in tournament mode then in normal ladder, tournament meta is different when you can ban one faction;
- alternative place to not face current meta decks, you can simply ban them to see other 4 with 25% possibility;
- needs time and a lot of skill to advance in this rank, not possible to climb in few hours from zero to the top with one broken deck;
- better usage of your whole cards collection.

5 Cons:
- only one game not best of 3 or 5, becouse it would take to long;
- random deck not chosen to play from 5 prepared;
- needs time for Devs to create this format;
- only one tournament per season, restricted only for the best Top1024 players;
- new unknown territory where some dragons could live, another area to balance and beta testing.

BTW it's just an another suggestion, wide open for discussion

 

[4RM3D]

restricted only for the best Top1024 players

While you already did mention this in the OP, I kinda forgot to talk about it. It would be a shame to limit it to just the top players. CDPR can hold special events for that. Other players also need an additional game mode.

 

[GiveYourBest]

Solution to all issues with this format could be a change to play Best_of_3 games, like in any Torunament mode, not a one random game. Winner would gain points in Tournament Rating to play next games with better (higher in this rank) tournament players. It would be something like one big climbing tournament. Best_of_3 didnt take that much time. To do daily 6 rounds you need to play 3-4 games anyway. In Tournament format you could do 2-3 games Best_of_3 versus one person and for example one more normal ladder game.