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Quoted from Twiggy

Can someone explain to me how exactly a Swiss system works?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament
I think he means this.

there should be like 1 div 6, 1 div 5, 1 div 4 etc.

First 5 weeks or something the best play the best and worse play the worse, best/worse gets decided by win/loss ratio, then split up in a couple of divs high mid low.
Then play offs till there is a #1.

Quoted from Twiggy

Can someone explain to me how exactly a Swiss system works?

Basically you always play someone with the same record as you, so if you win the first game you play someone else who won the first one and so on. After a few rounds it starts to even out in terms of skill.

It’s a good way to handle large groups, the bigger the group the bigger the benefits. It handles hundreds of players/teams in say 7-9 rounds. Teams dropping part way through is a problem.

Quoted from Permzilla

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That would require a complete overhaul of the site, which we cannot afford to pay someone to do. I have asked our coders fairly recently (which they quite reasonably declined) because I know that the ESEA system is better, but without someone putting tonnes of hard work into the backend it won’t be possible.

The playoff system this season is probably the closest thing towards an ESEA-style we can get, for now.

You didn’t ask me, but I guess there is only one person in the team keen enough to be considered for this :D

Quoted from mhwk

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There are seriously better ways to spend your money.

Quoted from CHERRY

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You didn’t ask me, but I guess there is only one person in the team keen enough to be considered for this :D

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beta?

I came up with a brief positives and negatives table from speaking with a few people (myself I am not familiar with the system)

+The ability to drop and undrop your team as you desire throughout the season. (or skipping a match)
+If lower divisions get good prizes next season, the prizes will be more valuable if there are smaller groups (not like s19 playoffs div1,2,3,4,5,6 instead something like Invite,Intermediate,Open)
+You can guarantee a clear winner of the group by playing x number of games (Although it cannot guarantee no ties in other positions)
+After the initial first match (its common to seed the first week so stronger teams play weaker teams) the matches should be closer because it pairs teams with similar stats.

-No wildcards. All games need to be submitted by the week deadline so next weeks matches can be scheduled.
-The ability to reschedule matches that went through MC’s/rule violations will be gone.
-Once Week 2 starts, Week 1 is 100% finished no questions asked.
– Golden caps giving 2-1 would have to be scrapped, there has to be a clear winner. Winning a golden cap would have to give all the points to the winner.

I removed some of the points relevant to admins only. Feel free to suggest any more benefits or drawbacks or comment on the system overall. In contradiction to my previous post (circumstances have changed) this is well within the realms of possibility.

I agree with not giving pity-points for losing a bit slower.