TTO2 Tourney Format Discussion Options

[Blink]

TTO 2 IS going to happen early or mid 2012, so I thought we should get a head start and figure out the tournament format.

I am planning on hosting it on Tetris Battle Arena mode when it's out and polished enough to have a tournament on. This game has the most players of any Tetris game right now.

Last year we capped it at 256 players, should we increase it to 512 or higher?

Do you guys like last year's one match per week format with players choosing 2 of 3 days they can play on? Should we change it to make it faster pace?

What do you think about seeding by TTO1 results, and then 40L thereafter?

How should we handle and improve on commentary?

Any other comments or things you'd like to see?

I'll take into consideration everyone's opinion before finalizing a ruleset.

[Rosti_LFC]

Seed a top 64 or something (like they do in most professional single-elim formats). It'll give a good mix of matches in the early rounds, but it'll ensure that the top players don't go out really early.

Either way don't full-seed and have double-elim, because that's overkill and it's a totally retarded way of doing it. They both achieve the same goal in different ways, and there's absolutely no reason to have both.

I'd say make it 512 or larger. As big as possible really - IMO what made it so awesome last time was the absolutely enormous bracket.

I think there should be consideration, at least in the latter stages, for timezones. There are time slots that are convenient for NA-EU, NA-SEA and EU-SEA, and none that really cover all three suitably. Schedule the matches for the players, but choose a time slot that considers the time zones of each player.