Hello. It's that time of year again. Another PUWC tour, but hopefully for the better this time! I've heard several people from poorer performing teams complain about the format in the past so it sounds like a good idea to discuss this ahead of time. I have a few suggestions on changes we should make this time but I'm of course always interested to see what opinions people may have. We also will again have a custom avatar prize for the winning team.
Pools > Weeks
By moving to a pools based tournament instead of weeks, the tournament wouldn't drag on an excessive amount, and it'd be in line with the official WCoP as well. It would most likely be three weeks of pools into two weeks of playoffs (with a potential additional week for a tiebreaker). 5-6 weeks TOTAL sounds a lot more manageable especially with the new generation rolling around.
Formats
I'm not too sure on this myself, but did people prefer the Bo3 slot we had in PUPL, or should we keep this simpler and keep it as 4 SS. Alternatively, could we use this as an opportunity to test out a relatively unplayed tier like ADV? SS is probably the lowest barrier of entry tier we have so I'm unsure about decreasing the amount of slots we have for it; however, we have had a lot of SS tournaments recently.
Teams
While we can't make definitive calls on what the teams will be we can make some safe assumptions and ideally tweak some of the regions to make it more balanced. Established performing teams like Brazil, AAA and France should probably stay but how do we give teams like India / UK / Canada / LatAm a fairer chance? Should West + South, two strong regions on their own, be merged again? Should the whole of team Europe stay intact after many people considered the team busted last year? One potential solution is splitting Europe into two teams, include the UK, but this may not be popular, so I'm of course interested to see what people think.
Any other suggestions or feedback from last year is also very welcome!!
Looking forward to hopefully a fun team tournament to close out the generation!
Pools > Weeks
By moving to a pools based tournament instead of weeks, the tournament wouldn't drag on an excessive amount, and it'd be in line with the official WCoP as well. It would most likely be three weeks of pools into two weeks of playoffs (with a potential additional week for a tiebreaker). 5-6 weeks TOTAL sounds a lot more manageable especially with the new generation rolling around.
Formats
I'm not too sure on this myself, but did people prefer the Bo3 slot we had in PUPL, or should we keep this simpler and keep it as 4 SS. Alternatively, could we use this as an opportunity to test out a relatively unplayed tier like ADV? SS is probably the lowest barrier of entry tier we have so I'm unsure about decreasing the amount of slots we have for it; however, we have had a lot of SS tournaments recently.
Teams
While we can't make definitive calls on what the teams will be we can make some safe assumptions and ideally tweak some of the regions to make it more balanced. Established performing teams like Brazil, AAA and France should probably stay but how do we give teams like India / UK / Canada / LatAm a fairer chance? Should West + South, two strong regions on their own, be merged again? Should the whole of team Europe stay intact after many people considered the team busted last year? One potential solution is splitting Europe into two teams, include the UK, but this may not be popular, so I'm of course interested to see what people think.
Any other suggestions or feedback from last year is also very welcome!!
Looking forward to hopefully a fun team tournament to close out the generation!