Releasing Tournament Replays

[TinCow]

I've had this discussion with many people over the last few days. For The Tosa Cup, everyone was asked to save all of their replays. This was for two reasons: (1) To resolve any arguments about a game if that happened or a loss wasn't properly reported, and (2) to provide entertainment for spectators. Yesterday, there was a large discussion in the Org Steam group chat room and the majority were in favor of releasing all replays after the end of each round (i.e. Release Round 1 after the end of Round 1, etc.). Today, other people who were not in that discussion are very much against this, and want replays released only after the entire tournament has been run. Both sides have good arguments, opinion seems relatively evenly split, and I do not have the MP experience to feel comfortable making this decision unilaterally. As such, I am going to open this up for a discussion and vote. One final note is that I have been doing my best to collect all the replays I can from everyone. However, we all know the game is buggy and some people have ended up with corrupted 1k saves for some matches and some have forgotten to save them for a specific round. Thus, it is impossible for me to get a complete set of all games played, regardless of all other factors.

Please comment on this issue and vote in the poll above. I will delay the scheduled release of the Round 1 replays for 24 hours to allow for this discussion.

[Kocmoc]

I want to see the replays/vids during the tourney. Its interesting and entertaining and somehow a good way to keep people involved.

Also I dont think, that we can stop people to share the replays with other. We can tell them, to not share it, but in the end, how you control that?
I try to use rules, which we actual can control.

Anyway, just my opinion...

[RTKAbu]

Tomorrow after the patch all replays become useless anyway, as the results of every replay will change as the gamemechanics and balance will slightly change.

My feeling is that if i were in good shape and had won my games in the first round, i woulnt like that my tactics would go open, yet. I dont think any player here cares about the replays, only that those replays atm can be used by opponents, if you play significantly different then 2 weeks ago and youre new playstyle comes open, it becomes easier to adept to it. Why not simply wait a few days with those replays, until the final is near? If you could stream the games live then it would be a different story, but well.

[Meataus]

Well I actually changed my mind and voted to release them all after each round is completed.

Reason being is it puts us all on a level playing field, otherwise replays will probably just get shared between certain individuals and we wont all have access to them.

We all have our preferred armies, but people are going to figure out what they are anyways. This way at least everyone will know. If the Oda situation yesterday taught us anything, its that we have to be prepared to change our armies on the fly, if for no other reason than to be unpredictable.

[CanCritter]

a good gen adapts or at least trys to....
as for replays lm not in tourney so my opinion dosnt realy count but would like to see them ..at least the top couple levels..mayby l'll learn somethin..personaly think they shouldn tbe availible till after tourney
think player setups near top of ladder will be well known beforehand and those useing all calv ect are prone to useing the same setup as thier used to it which in turn would be to there disadvantage as folks would prep for it and know
now the player that can adjust accordinly to all situations will be the winner lm thinkin

[TinCow]

I would like to inject an argument here that most people don't consider: The Org. We've put in a lot of time and resources to this tournament, and that has certainly been done to benefit the MP community and give you guys a good time. However, we are also trying to grow our community. Part of that is getting more people to come to the Org, and the only good way to do that is with original content, such as replays and videos of the replays. Allowing an earlier release of the replays would help the Org to grow better than a later release.