Organizing TUGS

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I think that more than three levels may be necessary. :/ "Beginner, intermediate, and expert" doesn't seem like enough.

I think that less two levels may be necessary. Levels and brackets only serve as an insult for the people expecting to do better and only serve to eliminate half of the talent from every bracket in the first round


NO YEAH WE NEED BRACKETS LETS DO THIS YEAH
half of the good pixel artists are gone
half of the pixel artists unfortunate enough to not make it into expert (or beginner depending on how you're looking at it) are gone
half of everyone else who just got thrown into beginner because none of the judges liked their stuff are gone.

As much as you would like this to be, Chris
This isn't TUGS. Your plan to actually finish the tournament is your biggest mistake right there, the past 3 haven't been completed. It's a tradition to not finish. You have fucking like... 9 judges and 75 entrants
I could understand brackets if this was smaller but this is just

you're pitting the best against the best, the middle against the middle, and the worst against the worse en masse and hoping that it's going to turn out interesting

put everyone against everyone regardless of skill level and you will truly have the best of the best at the end of this tournament. What if someone who was in intermediate ended up being better than someone in expert? What if someone in beginner ended up besting everyone in the tournament according to everyone who saw this event?

Nothing. There would be no true victor. You'd have the alleged best of the best, the best of the "eh", and the best of the worst.
Don't insult people like that.


If you want to keep labeled brackets in this thing, make it ONE bracket, and have it be a losers bracket. Don't insult people by forcing them into tiers that they might not necessarily belong in