I just wanted discuss and learn more about what people think of Showmatch or tournament.
Lately ( in the last 3 month ) we had a lot of showmztch, with many money prizes (sometimes 100$ 200$ 300$ or even 500$) hosted by differents sponsors (paladin, nili, ask57, t90 etc ..)
I think it’s very good for sure ofc it’s better to have showmatch than nothing, just I feel like a showmatch don’t stay in the history or achievement, and it making tournament losing its importance and prestige, when for exemple in boa it took 2 month or more for a player to win few hundred of dollar while a player can win the same in a showmatch and this is exemple is boa a big tournament not even comparing lower tournaments one. So Imo showmatch kinda make tournaments less interresting in eyes of the top experts, also I feel most of the showmatch was between player that play casually/daily against each other in rated game daily , so not really something new or not seen, even the setting are very basic and not changing from casual rated games.
Don’t want to be negative like I said showmatch is for sure good things but I wanted to discuss and see what ppl think and if we can make thing better, for showmqtch and for tournament.
Lately ( in the last 3 month ) we had a lot of showmztch, with many money prizes (sometimes 100$ 200$ 300$ or even 500$) hosted by differents sponsors (paladin, nili, ask57, t90 etc ..)
I think it’s very good for sure ofc it’s better to have showmatch than nothing, just I feel like a showmatch don’t stay in the history or achievement, and it making tournament losing its importance and prestige, when for exemple in boa it took 2 month or more for a player to win few hundred of dollar while a player can win the same in a showmatch and this is exemple is boa a big tournament not even comparing lower tournaments one. So Imo showmatch kinda make tournaments less interresting in eyes of the top experts, also I feel most of the showmatch was between player that play casually/daily against each other in rated game daily , so not really something new or not seen, even the setting are very basic and not changing from casual rated games.
Don’t want to be negative like I said showmatch is for sure good things but I wanted to discuss and see what ppl think and if we can make thing better, for showmqtch and for tournament.