There is nothing like a competition to bring out the best in you. For the past two years, I have entered a few competitions.
I have always been interested in competitive gaming, but I never thought I would be entering a first place tournament. That’s not to say I didn’t try, but it was always just something I wanted to try out.
One thing that surprised me about Rogue Invitational is how close many of the games really were. The only thing that made it hard was the number of games that had only one player. Many of them were so close that you could only see their eyes.
Rogue Invitational was a mixed bag. I think I was shocked by how many of the games were tied on points, but the fact that there was so much variance made the competition interesting. I would love to see a format where the tiebreaker is a “score difference,” but that seems impossible to me.
Rogue Invitational was a mixed bag for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that there was so much variance in the scores. The whole point of Rogue Invitational is that for a number of reasons the judges would not score games as highly as they did. For example, there were games with a large number of tied games and a smaller number of points.
Rogue Invitational, like other tiebreaker tournaments, is a game of chance. I think the main reason people seem to be scoring some games more highly than others is because of the judges’ individual opinions and not any sort of statistical bias. I really, really like the idea of a contest where everyone’s opinion matters, but I think we would need a very large number of games to make that happen.
Maybe that’s why the games are on a weekend only: we need a much larger pool of games to make the judges’ heads spin. But for now, it seems like a good match up.
I have a feeling this contest is going to have some interesting twists. Not just in the final match up, but in who the winner is as well.
I don’t think this competition is for the casual gamer, and I see no reason why that would be the case. I mean if the final match up is the best we’ve seen, then its still a good match up, even if we only have one player on it. There are other games out there that are very difficult to beat, so I don’t think this is really about who the winner is. It’s more about who the best player is.
Its a lot like the “best player” game that we were talking about, except the player is actually a robot. I think it is important for us to remember that even though our robot is a human, they are still more or less the same. Yes, they are a little more powerful, and yes, they have a slightly higher attack rate, but they are still robots.