CORDIAL MINUET ENSEMBLE

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I ended up going way too low which I guess was partly to do with not really knowing what type of people would play. Around 30% seemed to be a ridiculous average as I assumed no one would think so little about the question as to think that other people would just pick randomly. I was playing as if everyone realised it was a race to the bottom, which in hindsight wasn't very clever.

Hey Dan, once you entered the tournament there should have been an option on the screen to create/join a tournament game at 10c. If anyone else had joined the tournament then they could join your game, or if someone had already created a tournament game you would join theirs.

Sadly at the moment there isn't enough player activity for the daily tournaments to work though, so it is unlikely you'll be able to get a tournament game. Some people have suggested people on the forums agreeing to join a tournament on a particular day to make it worth playing.

Wouldn't it be more obvious and straightforward to have:
7 - N, O
8 - P, Q
9 - R, S
?

What do you mean by "top" and "left"? Why are you dividing it into two sets?

I left with a .075 profit after the first game and at that time on the leaderboard it put me ahead with $13.333 and JA on $6.66 so I don't think it is working as it is supposed to.

I guess it is now a situation where the first to 126 coins wins the contest if only two join (and they leave).

I quite like this idea, as long as the entire prize pool is still given out at the end.

It should only affect tournaments with < 20 players and will give incentives for even a far out on top player to keep playing and bring everybody else down below 0 in order to get the whole pool themselves.

A higher factor would certainly make the contest for first place tenser, but I guess it might also be a disincentive to those who don't think they have a good chance of 1st place. I would prefer it, but as I said I'm a bit biased.

I think something needs to be done to stop people from stealing places by joining in the last few minutes with a pretty much guaranteed win. I'm not sure having a 1 game minimum would fix this as a player could still join, join a game and then leave straight away with only a small loss. I guess this wouldn't be guaranteed for the player though as they might not get a game...

Still perhaps you need to stop people joining in past a certain time, like in the last 30 mins. This should fix the issue.

What JA did was an exploit and I think Chin was robbed and should be reimbursed. I also think he has a point about JA not having a non-existent net profit. Claspa and I have agreed to lose the $12 to Chin if you're not willing to reimburse him Jason.

And poor Chin Professor was robbed at the last minute of $12 by JA joining!

You possibly should have waited until after handing out the Launch Tournament prize money before holding a $10 comp Jason.

Now is the possibility of winning $5 worth getting up at 4am for...
(edit: well make that $10, another player has joined!)

Thanks Jason,

The Q value seems quite high when used with the daily board, especially for low stakes players.

Overall though I'm not sure if the profit ratio really means much. It puts a large amount of emphasis on how you do in high stakes games - for instance, if I joined a $500 game and then left when I was on 106 coins this would have a large negative effect on my ratio.

Okay, I have no idea what Profit Ratio means.

According to the daily leader boards I've played two game. I just played those games and won the first $2 game taking the whole pot of $1.90. The second was for $0.45 and I took away $0.40.

My daily profit ratio after these two games is 1.184.

Where on earth does this number come from?

I'll send you an email.

Damn, I was starting to feel that the experimental game had become a guaranteed win for me. Probably a good reason to remove it though, it really doesn't have the same depth as the original.