With a small discussion going on about the seeding in KotD2, I was wondering what your guys opinion on seeding are. What do you think is the most fair and accurate way to seed teams?
I'll give a bit more explanation to the options in the poll:
1. Elo based system: Could be a system where it looks at the current rating of the players at the end of sign-ups, but could also look at the elo over a longer amount of time or at the highest achieved elo or a combination of these. Example: KotD1
2. Elo + tournament history: Looks at the elo of the players like in the first option, but also looks at the recent results in similar tournaments and gives a bonus for those. Example: KotD2 seeding
3. Mostly depending on tournament history: Seeding based mostly on how well they performed in previous tournaments. Doing well in a certain tournament could mean you automatically qualify for another tournament. Example: Escape Gaming Masters 2.
4. Players seed themselves: Players send in their seedings of the other players and the average seed (sometimes removing the outliers) that players get will be their seed. Example: Clan Masters: The Final Showdown
5. Community seed: Could be the admins seeding the players or it could be a community vote or just a small team of casters/admins. Example: SY Nations Cup 2014
6. Other: Anything I might've missed.
I'll give a bit more explanation to the options in the poll:
1. Elo based system: Could be a system where it looks at the current rating of the players at the end of sign-ups, but could also look at the elo over a longer amount of time or at the highest achieved elo or a combination of these. Example: KotD1
2. Elo + tournament history: Looks at the elo of the players like in the first option, but also looks at the recent results in similar tournaments and gives a bonus for those. Example: KotD2 seeding
3. Mostly depending on tournament history: Seeding based mostly on how well they performed in previous tournaments. Doing well in a certain tournament could mean you automatically qualify for another tournament. Example: Escape Gaming Masters 2.
4. Players seed themselves: Players send in their seedings of the other players and the average seed (sometimes removing the outliers) that players get will be their seed. Example: Clan Masters: The Final Showdown
5. Community seed: Could be the admins seeding the players or it could be a community vote or just a small team of casters/admins. Example: SY Nations Cup 2014
6. Other: Anything I might've missed.