How do I play in a "fair" tournament?

Martos · 05-01-2020, 08:54 PM

I just played my first tournament and it was a complete joke. The other players clearly have a methodology for playing and it involves stacking 100 rated players to squeak under the point cap. I gave them a good run for their money with beginners luck beating the first stacked team in a best of 5 series, before falling 3-2 in the next series.

So other than playing that rigged game by spending a bunch of time, is there some way to participate in a fair tournament or easy way to identify one? I'm sure I could play the same BS stacking process, but I find it tedious.

Syd Thrift · 05-01-2020, 10:27 PM

There’s no stacking in the bronze and iron only tournaments. I mean, you’ll still have the winning teams with all 69 or 59 rated cards, and there’s a lot of meta that you have to learn as well, but you don’t see stacking at least...

dkgo · 05-02-2020, 06:42 PM

So you want a capped tourney where people don't play their good cards?

Syd Thrift · 05-02-2020, 08:08 PM

Personally I feel like the really interesting part is that this guy played against two rosters that employed this strategy and was actually successful against one of them and took the other one to the max. The sample size is small but this doesn’t appear to be an obnoxiously lopsided strategy at all...

One Great Matrix · 05-16-2020, 03:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Martos

I just played my first tournament and it was a complete joke. The other players clearly have a methodology for playing and it involves stacking 100 rated players to squeak under the point cap. I gave them a good run for their money with beginners luck beating the first stacked team in a best of 5 series, before falling 3-2 in the next series.

So other than playing that rigged game by spending a bunch of time, is there some way to participate in a fair tournament or easy way to identify one? I'm sure I could play the same BS stacking process, but I find it tedious.

I don't know...fair is a pretty tricky term for a competition...

Does it have to be so competitive? Well, you sound like you want to win.

But beyond that, I can't plan for you, no. Think that's why they say Good Luck!

05-01-2020, 08:54 PM	#1
Martos Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 20	How do I play in a "fair" tournament? I just played my first tournament and it was a complete joke. The other players clearly have a methodology for playing and it involves stacking 100 rated players to squeak under the point cap. I gave them a good run for their money with beginners luck beating the first stacked team in a best of 5 series, before falling 3-2 in the next series. So other than playing that rigged game by spending a bunch of time, is there some way to participate in a fair tournament or easy way to identify one? I'm sure I could play the same BS stacking process, but I find it tedious. Last edited by Martos; 05-01-2020 at 09:01 PM.

05-02-2020, 06:42 PM	#3
dkgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,152	So you want a capped tourney where people don't play their good cards?