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.

[Wojtek]

I hope you just trolling. They stoped to work on tf.com to start tb tb which is actually small subset of tf.com, and new desing decisions made lot of things worse actually, look for example how arena gameplay got totally ruined, and all those farmville like crap. since when official tetris games move forward? i dont see making tetris games that dons't lag on multicore core multi ghz cpu and gigs of rams as something TOO hard to do, you know.

anyway i don't see how currently we can even think about making tournament on tb arena, there is number of reason why it's impossible:
you can't make 2 players room or you can't make private room
you can't join room you want or play with specific person
you can't turn maps off

i think currently battle 2p seems more suitable for any competition (live version of it that is), but there is still issue, you can't play people far from your rank and if ranks are even bit diffrent autohandicap is forced. but gameplay wise it's almost same as arena, except of bombs instead of real garbage.

anyway both modes will probably end as st-stacking race on high levels so results may be quite suprising.

[xlro]

anyway i don't see how currently we can even think about making tournament on tb arena, there is number of reason why it's impossible:
you can't make 2 players room or you can't make private room
you can't join room you want or play with specific person
you can't turn maps off

^ this + the mentioned energy problem is a total no-go already, if you can't guarantee that an interesting close match (both players with scores 10+) will be finished, maybe because one of the two players is out of money - is that a default loss for the poorer player? (and waiting for new energy is not an option ofc: "yeah, let's postpone the rest of the difficult to schedule match to next week!")