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Melee Tournament Survey: Check your answer (English paper)

Do tourneys run late / seeding problems?

  • Generally run late, have had bracket problems

    Votes: 50 56.8%

  • Generally run late, never had bracket problems

    Votes: 24 27.3%

  • Don't run late, have had bracket problems

    Votes: 5 5.7%

  • Don't run late, never had bracket problems

    Votes: 9 10.2%
  • Total voters
    88
Wenbobular

Wenbobular

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Somehow this completely slipped my mind.
Working on an English paper for class, it's about running Smash tournaments.

Questions are :

1. Do Melee tournaments generally run late?

2. Can you think of a tournament where seeding was an issue?

It's like a running joke that we run late right xD

Please vote! Much appreciated
Also get fellow SWFers to vote too please.

Goal reached!
Much obliged, SWF.
 
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Phoenix~Lament

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Have and never have bracket problems are really extreme. Of course bracket problems happen. That's not an accurate representation of what you're trying to measure..
 
Wenbobular

Wenbobular

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Well I'm just trying to establish a case that bracket problems exist
Somehow I forgot that common knowledge of bracket problems probably wasn't evidence :facepalm:
 
OkamiBW

OkamiBW

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I am with the majority so far.

At my tournaments that I hold, one of our biggest problems have been people arriving late or not wanting to play their matches on time.

Our goal to make things run smoother is to be more strict about time points.

The only problem with response-based polls is that they can (but not always are) be biased. Maybe there will be more people who look at the thread who go to large tournaments and experience problems with them, while local players might not check Smashboards, but have no problems with their tournaments.

Good luck on your paper though! ^^
 
Wenbobular

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Fortunately this is a technical writing class where our stat skills are allowed to be a little loose xD

I'm also really doing this because I need to actually show evidence besides "well everyone complains about it on Smashboards"
 
crismas

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Wow... that's crazy that Generally run late, have had bracket problems is in the majority currently. I guess I'm not surprised but I'd say it's a mix (my experience) of running ahead of time, no real bracket issues/things running late, no real bracket issues. Then again most Melee tournies are pretty small over here NJ/NY (15-20, 20-30 generally) so it's hard to judge since there's no real strain, unless we're talking nationals.
 
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