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  1. #1
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    Does COTD last a little too long?

    Hello

    It's a while since I'm playing COTD and the concept is super regarding the fact of discovering new maps with a fun way without to get landed with Time attack.
    I would like to attend as many as possible, but it lasts 40~50 minutes for the last players. For a daily event, I find it a bit long, and sometimes I'm not motivated to attend it because of this.

    I want to ask to the community, what they think about getting it a little shorter?


    some ideas:

    1. don't force people to participate to the pre-match

      in my opinion, players should have the freedom to spend the time they want to warm-up. or skip it, without being worried about the registration button, or the seed position. Warm-up should not be compulsory.
      (personnaly I often don't care. most of the times I'm only participating for the fun to discover new maps)

      qualification should be proceed directly from trophy level, and not from qualification phase, in order to give attendees this freedom to avoid warm-up and reduce the time spent.

    2. reduce the amount of steps

      at present there is 23 steps. is there a way to reduce it, by changing the KO grid or reducing the players per server?



    Any remark?

  2. #2
    For me, the duration of COTD is just about right. I wouldn't want it to be any shorter because that would just mean more players getting kicked out of the cup earlier. The 20-23 steps are just enough to build up enough tension within the competition.

    Also, I disagree with filtering players based on trophies. There are different driving styles in TM and some people are better in one style and worse in another. In the interest of getting even matches, you need to do a qualifier on each map. Also using trophies as a qualifier would heavily bias the trophy distribution towards the players that already have more trophies.

  3. #3
    I wish it was even longer! Knockout is the most fun mode and it only last 3 to 40 minutes once per day. I find it quite very short

    I wish they would had a knockout every 2 hours using the previous totd

    So for my opinion i disagree with you that the cotd last too long. I wish it was even longer. I guess it depend on what people likes. I would not change anything except having bigger server ( exemple up to 100 player per server ) for longer cups and to have fun for a longer period