Final Two or Final Three?

BROseidon · Post Post #47 (isolation #0) » Thu Feb 01, 2018 3:57 am

TBH I prefer F3 to F2. I think the fact that winners have a relatively low % of votes is a sign of overall competitiveness, which is a good thing.

Also, changing it to an F2 makes the endgame more aggressive, but it also disincentivizes going for #bigmovez early, since there's now another round to usurp the royalty on.

BROseidon · Post Post #48 (isolation #1) » Thu Feb 01, 2018 3:58 am

Part of why F3s have been non-competitive on the show also has to do with changes to how Ponderosa works and players caring more about fan-responses to their jury votes in a meta sense. I don't think it's an issue with F3s as much as it is an issue with that metagame.

BROseidon · Post Post #51 (isolation #2) » Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:57 am

In post 49, hiplop wrote:^ I think that's some bs tbh

Wut part

BROseidon · Post Post #55 (isolation #3) » Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:15 am

Tbf Lulu deserved to lose for that FTC performance. That was a very bad way to end an otherwise very good game.

BROseidon · Post Post #56 (isolation #4) » Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:16 am

And like Karass won because Tracer imploded at FTC

BROseidon · Post Post #60 (isolation #5) » Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:20 am

If players A and B were close allies, player C comes in with and advantage since players A and B compete for the same votes, while player C has their own set of votes.

It's like Will said wrt Civ. He didn't want me at the end because our games were very similar, so me being in FTC competes for votes that liked the style of play we were both going for

BROseidon · Post Post #61 (isolation #6) » Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:20 am

In post 59, Xalxe wrote:
In post 57, hiplop wrote:my biggest issue with f3s is that it just grants the outsider so much pwoer when that isn't the case in an f2.
The Yates theory doesn't hold up that well, I don't think.

Weirdly enough, she's an exception to her own theory. That said, it's not totally wrong

BROseidon · Post Post #68 (isolation #7) » Thu Feb 01, 2018 11:24 am

In post 66, xofelf wrote:
In post 65, Shadoweh wrote:At least we've moved away from 24-48 hour endurance challenges..
Oh have we?

Solitary!

BROseidon · Post Post #84 (isolation #8) » Fri Feb 02, 2018 2:36 am

In post 82, Skelda wrote:I don't think I'd want approval voting. A lot of people might just approve the top two choices making the winner the most generally liked candidate but few people's top choice which I also think isn't very representative. Or people would strategically approve only one even though they were truly okay with either. Plus it would be tie-tastic even moreso than F3s normally are.

Ya Lulu would have beaten Shaco and that would have been not-k.