Hey, I've been given the opportunity to host a German AOE2 Championship! The price pool will be 4 digits and it will be a weekend event in February. The goal is to find the best German player(s). Need some help from you Germans in order to decide exactly how to do it.
My current plan is to do a weekend event with a simple 8 player single elimination bracket. There are quite a few Germans around 1900-2000 rating to my knowledge, so my current plan would be to go off ELO and have the top 6 be guaranteed a spot, while the 7-14th placed players will play a mini qualifier in order to fight for the last two spots.
I know a lot of people would want a larger bracket in order to take part, but since the goal is simply to see the best German players and crown a champion the format will be kept quite simple. Apologies to everyone! The sponsor wants to make it a yearly thing, so maybe with more time and preparation next year can be larger.
So simply put, kinda just need some feedback from the people familiar with the German scene on whether it makes sense to do it the proposed way? Maybe having just 7-10th participate in the qualifier makes sense too? Let me know!
My current plan is to do a weekend event with a simple 8 player single elimination bracket. There are quite a few Germans around 1900-2000 rating to my knowledge, so my current plan would be to go off ELO and have the top 6 be guaranteed a spot, while the 7-14th placed players will play a mini qualifier in order to fight for the last two spots.
I know a lot of people would want a larger bracket in order to take part, but since the goal is simply to see the best German players and crown a champion the format will be kept quite simple. Apologies to everyone! The sponsor wants to make it a yearly thing, so maybe with more time and preparation next year can be larger.
So simply put, kinda just need some feedback from the people familiar with the German scene on whether it makes sense to do it the proposed way? Maybe having just 7-10th participate in the qualifier makes sense too? Let me know!