@big-bennis-magic said in A plea for the Lack of Events for "2nd Rate" "Common Folk" & The Community:
A good starting point would be to convert some of the bilingual people like paralon, Petrie, mozy or Suzuji into TDs.
+1
@robustness said in A plea for the Lack of Events for "2nd Rate" "Common Folk" & The Community:
The main problem of tournaments is that it is difficult to gather those who want to, I help all Russian-speaking people to organize or briefly say "barker". But for about 2 years, there are no new active, non-toxic, non-title players. The problem is that now most players are overrated-so they are proud of their image, not a good game in the tournament.
There are a lot of players who get overrated and then don't play much because they want to keep their higher-than-deserved rating for ego... This negatively impacts participation in FAF tournaments as well as in regular ladder/TMM/global games. A good solution would be to increase players' rating sigma (the value after the +/-) over time (something like an additional 1 or 2 sigma per day could be good). That way, it would incentivize people to keep playing to keep their rating up, and it would allow rusty players who haven't played in a while an easier transition back to FAF.
@robustness said in A plea for the Lack of Events for "2nd Rate" "Common Folk" & The Community:
It seems to me that everything will work out if you play for avatars, and not for real money. The incentive to stand out attracts players, rather than the material one. This is just my personal experience.
Tournaments with real money rewards make greater incentive for people to be more invested/reliable, but also to try to manipulate their rating. So, perhaps real money tournaments should have stricter anti-smurf/anti-rating-manipulation standards than tournaments that just offer avatars and not money. I do think more avatar-only tournaments might be a good way to have more mid-level FAF tournaments with relatively less smurfing.
Also, if you guys want more active mid-level tournaments, perhaps you should coordinate more with the promotions team... I'm sure they'd be willing to have some news posts related to making more FAF tournaments happen (perhaps including a post related to getting more people to become TD's)...