This really isn't anything offensive to the TO of yesterdays Battle Road since he is a great Organizer, but yesterday I got caught with something I really didn't like to see and hope to not see again in the future. Its really a gripe on the system, and I REALLY needed to vent.
I'm from Ohio, and I was at the Cuyahoga Falls BR yesterday. I wasn't doing too terrible, I took a loss to the person who would end up being the tournament winner yesterday in the 2nd round, pulled back and nearly took my 4th round match, making a clumsy error in letting a Flygon D take too much damage one turn before I would have won. I take a look at the results and I'm in a questionable position. 2-2 with one round left and the toughest opponents as my tiebreakers (They both were 3-1). I can still make top cut if I win my next game and the outcome of the next round was suited in my favor, and I know my deck is solid (I was running Feralgon yesterday which is a very underrated Flygon variant IMHO.), so I'm pretty confident I can win.
Then I see the thing I don't think anyone ever wants to see while in the running for top cut. A Bye. Someone in a favorable position, high up, getting a bye while being 2-2. I was shocked, angered, and disappointed all at once. How can the computer system be so messed up that it would screw someone with a halfway decent chance out of a top cut attempt? Not to sound rude or anything, but there's a lot of people who tie breakers automatically put them out of the running anyways, so why screw the person with the best chance?
If I had played a final round, I probably would have had a very good chance in making top cut because I would have had a final player to add to my tie breakers. Of course, in the end it didn't really matter, since there were four 4-1's. But if that hadn't happened, it could have happened. Why does the system do things like this? And has anyone else had this happen?
I'm from Ohio, and I was at the Cuyahoga Falls BR yesterday. I wasn't doing too terrible, I took a loss to the person who would end up being the tournament winner yesterday in the 2nd round, pulled back and nearly took my 4th round match, making a clumsy error in letting a Flygon D take too much damage one turn before I would have won. I take a look at the results and I'm in a questionable position. 2-2 with one round left and the toughest opponents as my tiebreakers (They both were 3-1). I can still make top cut if I win my next game and the outcome of the next round was suited in my favor, and I know my deck is solid (I was running Feralgon yesterday which is a very underrated Flygon variant IMHO.), so I'm pretty confident I can win.
Then I see the thing I don't think anyone ever wants to see while in the running for top cut. A Bye. Someone in a favorable position, high up, getting a bye while being 2-2. I was shocked, angered, and disappointed all at once. How can the computer system be so messed up that it would screw someone with a halfway decent chance out of a top cut attempt? Not to sound rude or anything, but there's a lot of people who tie breakers automatically put them out of the running anyways, so why screw the person with the best chance?
If I had played a final round, I probably would have had a very good chance in making top cut because I would have had a final player to add to my tie breakers. Of course, in the end it didn't really matter, since there were four 4-1's. But if that hadn't happened, it could have happened. Why does the system do things like this? And has anyone else had this happen?
