Why do we have Tournament Discussion?

Mr. Deus · Trick Member Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Location: smooveville

It seems rather pointless, since there's always a concurrent thread in the appropriate Regional board.

Superstar Player · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Riverside, CA

I have always wanted to know too, why is there a Tournament Discussion?

Why have the entire country know whats going on in just 1 state or city or area when they know they can't go to most tournaments being held. And it makes more sense to me that tournaments are disscused in regional boards, since only the people living around 50 miles or so of the tournament would be able to go.

Unless it's a huge tournament, which encouages people from around the country or to join in.

I have no reason to go to that Tournament Discussion section of the board. If I want to know about tournaments that are going on, I just go to my regional board, since they aren't very far from me and I don't care about what goes on in the rest of the country, since theres no way I will go hundreds of miles for a tournament. Does anyone else?
Shouldn't the ddr fans just care about what goes on in their area?

Mouse · Staff Member Joined: 28 Jan 2002 Location: Toon Town

one of the reasons the tournament discussion board is there is to discuss the running of a tournament. there are some useful resources in that forum. but overall though, I'm not too sure I see the entire point of the forum anymore. I think maybe the Cali people use it a lot more than anybody else does though.
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IguanaGrrl · Staff Member Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Location: Sacramento, CA

There are more aspects to the Tournament Discussion forum than I think you're looking at.

There have been a number of threads (not as many recently) discussing the different aspects of how tournaments are run. Each different format has it's own pros and cons and the Tournament Discussion forum is a good place to toss out those ideas before solidifying them in the creation of a tournament thread.

That being said, I think things have really quieted down in Tournament Discussion to the point where we could probably consolidate it down and use just the regional boards for it.

Fellow mods/admins: Thoughts?
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Junior Asparagus · Administrator Joined: 23 Jan 2002 Location: Natick, MA

The Game II · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 10:29 pm Post subject:

I say keep it.

Many tournament organizers like myself have a forum where they can look at other formats and see how tournaments are ran. That's why I like the tourney discussion forum.

If we keep tourney posts to the regional forums...I know I'll probably visit the Southwest thread like once ever, and if I don't visit, I wouldn't know they're giving away an Extreme machine in November. That would be the case if the tourney discussion forum is booted.

I think the tourney thread has slow traffic because stuff like freestyling tips and PA tips and prize distribution tips, which help in times of tournaments, is not located in the tourney thread, but in DDR Gameplay.

I have two suggestions...

1. Direct tourney organizers to post tournament rules/schedule/etc. in the tourney forum, don't have them post in their regional forum.

Then, in the regional forums, have one sticky that is constantly updated with tournament names/dates/times, and the link to the post in the tourney forum where they can get the rules/prize info.

2. Do vice versa. Post a notice of a tournament in the tourney forum, and have a link to a post of the rules, located in the respective regional forum.

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Phrekwenci · Administrator Joined: 27 Feb 2002 Location: New York, NY

I say integrate the tournaments going on with the events section. Do away with the tournament discussion that has to do with gameplay. Any tournaments going on would be in the events section linked to the appriopriate thread in the regional forum.
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mrÖ¼selfÖ¼Äestruct · Maniac Member Joined: 10 Mar 2002 Location: a warm place

VxJasonxV · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 11:55 pm Post subject:

Ok, here's my opinion.
It may have changed, so bear with me.

I say that the Tournament Discussion board is a good thing.
If not for that board, I may never have gotten as many people as I did to attend last years Southwest Showdown (which obviously included people from out of town).
This year, I created the topic, and then had it stickied and locked. (All there was were basic rules, the PA prizes (teasers

), and a link to the SW forum thread.)

The tournament discussion board is VERY good for people who may be wanting to vacation and also want to see what's going on. Sure, if you know where you're vacationing, you can just look in it's region, but typically, more information (and events) are in the TD board.

Believe me, this is an on-going debate, and we're trying to come to an agreement

.
A few other related topics are thrown in the mix too (ala. the headline note that Mr. SD mentioned), so we have to sort all the small things out to get to the big thing.

One suggestion was (exactly as Superstar Player put it) to leave the TD board as strictly discussion and not announcements.

We shall see soon enough (I hope

).
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mrÖ¼selfÖ¼Äestruct · Maniac Member Joined: 10 Mar 2002 Location: a warm place

That would be a good way to work the 'one tournament thread' idea into each region. Like you said, once each tounament is over, the topics will die off, at which point we can impliment the tourney thread from then on.

I've set up a poll in the SE, and while there's only been like 2 votes so far, they're both yes =P
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