I played in 5 and won 0, so it feels a little bad to take another shot at the Invitational here and potentially (albeit not very likely) deny someone who didn’t have the opportunity to play in 5 SCs. But I’m really tempted anyway.
After finishing 3rd, 4th, and 5th in Store Champs thus far this season and since I’ll be TO’ing the only remaining in-state Store Championship this weekend, it looks like I’m going to have to take my chances in the Qualifier. Love the idea, thanks for giving a few of us one last chance.
I hear you. Seems like whenever I make the cut, I finish 5th, regardless of seed going in (4th, 1st, 2nd). And that 2nd was in my 10-week league, where I went 33-15 to get the 2nd seed… and still finished in 5th.
So the idea of calling it after Swiss has some appeal.
It’s partly because I think we can just Q a bunch of people and partly because I don’t want to TO two long ass tournaments within a week of each other. Everyone wins!
I’ve actually been doing much better in double-elim than Swiss in Store Championships this year. Finished 7th twice and played up to 4th and 5th - one of those got eliminated on a timed loss 5-6 with the win in hand next turn (to be fair, I had five rezzed ice on R&D and a rezzed Ashigaru on HQ w/Cerebral Imaging - too much math)… that double elim game time increase from 35 to 40 minutes came two weeks too late! And the 22-player Store Championship that I placed 3rd in didn’t run a cut, sadly.
That’s because double-elim actually requires a different skill set, and it’s one you have way less opportunities to practice. Losing one game in swiss can easily be a non-issue, in double elims it’s a different story. Picking a specific side with regards to how to bracket looks and what your possible matchups could end up being also seems pretty important.
(I’ve been thinking about why I always seemed to end up third in double elims, and this is what I came to)