August 12 Invitational |
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by  Kaesh on 2012-07-18 01:41 CET |
| On the 12th of August, Magic-League will be hosting an Invitational. An Invitational is like a Master tournament, except with double the prizes and requiring an invitation to enter. For the upcoming Invitational, the only way to enter will be through Top4ing a trial - that means that there will be a maximum of 108 invites (100 left as of now) - plenty up for grabs and anyone can yet make it in. Please note that by no means it is certain to stay that way for the next Invitational, and the next Invitational will be soon - most likely in September. There is also a small correction regarding how the invites are distributed in a trial Old rule: Top4 - the players paired in the first round to have 4 or less people. New rule: Top4 - the winners of the first round to have 8 or less people. The difference is that you can now safely drop after winning your quarterfinal (make sure it's really the quarterfinal though!) and still receive your invite. This will hopefully cut down the number of trials where only 3 (or 2) invites are handed out. Happy Hunting! |
| Comments (16) |
darkwizard42 on 2012-07-18 04:33 CET No ratings invites? VIPs of the League invited etc?
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Shooter on 2012-07-18 07:05 CET VIP invites are awful because it adds subjectiveness to something that is perfectly objective.
Rating invites have been removed so ppl that actually play in the league get the invites, not ppl that play once in a lifetime just to unfreeze their ratings for invitationals. Or so I think so - it makes sense!
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Kaesh on 2012-07-18 14:25 CET Precisa de um advogado? Chamá Shooter!
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RiQuSP on 2012-07-19 12:48 CET Kae$ha since when u Mexican? (((
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darkwizard42 on 2012-07-19 13:54 CET Also what about top3 teams? I thought that was one of the points of the invitational, to reward top teams, then reset the points? Just curious. Shooters reasons are good.
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MitchMachine on 2012-07-19 23:43 CET We didn't removed rating, so we might as well start giving PWP's
Sigh..
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center on 2012-07-20 00:29 CET Indeed, ratings invites are pretty bad.
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DonDiggy on 2012-07-20 05:04 CET Removing Team-Byes also makes sense to me. Even with the last valid ruling (only Teamplayers with xx points receive a Team-Bye) there were some people actually using Teamrating as a shortcut to Auto-Invites...
This new system really improves the exclusive appeal of Invitational Masters. Nothing saves your shot, exept for qualifying during a Trial.
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xJudicatorx on 2012-07-20 10:41 CET I know my team has been plagued this season by people joining, earning 100 points, then disappearing again.
It might be worth it to require some other criteria for team byes. Perhaps 10% of team's points or played in another event since last master, or some other means of giving the byes to people who actually earned them.
I do have another question though, since it is not spelled out here. Is this correct? 1st in trial = 2 byes, 2nd = 1 bye, top 4 = invite but no byes?
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darkwizard42 on 2012-07-20 19:53 CET The whole point of doing the Team competition was to earn byes for Masters and getting to the invitational... I know our team has stayed together from the very beginning and remained mostly active, thus the reason we are #1
Seems unfair to lose the Team Invites. I definitely see that ratings invites are bad cause you can sit on them, but team rankings are always changing and can change if a player isn't active or drops off a team
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lucianoramon on 2012-07-20 20:44 CET ´top 8 of last master, have invitation?
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el_focker on 2012-07-22 20:30 CET Lets be honest. If you arent good enough to t4 a trial you probably shouldn't be playing in the invitational.
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MitchMachine on 2012-07-23 09:04 CET Or u simply have no time to q
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Kaesh on 2012-07-23 16:04 CET xJudicatorx: No byes.
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kane2 on 2012-08-03 23:23 CET swiss and then cut to top 8 right?
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SteveMan on 2012-08-09 05:58 CET Do invites stack?
