Freamwhole wrote:Sucks for anyone with easy completions. They could be eliminated immediately if the "targeter" sees they've already accomplished their demise.
Granted, anyone with easy completions is due a quick and painless death in the contest anyway.
Yes, I'll grant you anyone with only Avatar completed will be first out of the competition. Not exactly a huge loss. XD
Just looking at the games completed leaderboard on TA and comparing the person directly above me and below me (at 158 completed games) we only have 36 and 33 completed games in common. That's about a 20% similarity, and that's not a ton of completed games (comparatively speaking).
Even you and I only have 14ish completed games in common (I only have 25% of your completed games completed). I think even those sitting around 10-20 completions will have vastly different completed games compared to their opponent. I also suggested in the forums that you couldn't target insta-elimination people to give people a fighting chance. So essentially, you'd need to play defensively if you were a low-completion competitor until you got enough completions under your belt to compete in your group (or your aggressor graduated to a higher group at the end of the month).
Even with all that, I still think it would be better than random pairings since it'll force people to either play or get eliminated at those lower brackets.
Kovy88 wrote:Winning this would mean facing somebody like smrnov in the finals and you would need to complete possibly 500-900 new games. Nobody cares that much for a mere thousand dollars+. You would have to complete all kinds of games you personally hate, let's say one achievement can take 700 hours, I'm nearing that amount of playtime I've put to unlock Seriously 3.0. And the next-gen is well on it's way and you would have to dedicate your time to play on Xbox 360, because most of the completions are on that platform. Something like "complete 50% of opponents games" sounds much more feasible.
Let's say you absolutely hate shoot 'em ups and shooters. Please welcome yourself to my list, where you can smash your head against the wall with Galaga Legions, Geometry Wars, FEAR-series and Max Payne 3 and soon Gears 3 too.

For the record, I agree with the other in this thread: I don't think this tournament on TA will ever end. However, I DO think it will be fun. My main goal would be to just stay in it as long as possible, and I think I could do that well with a defensive strategy.
Years down the road, I might have a shot at winning it, who knows? I've only just started with Xbox a few years ago, and I've accumulated over 117,000 gamerscore and 158 completions in that time. I'd say I could compete if I really tried. Couple that with the chance that all 360 games with online-enabled achievements could lose support in 4 years means the playing field could be leveled a bit in my favor. I dunno. The tournament just seems fun and there's no reason not to join it in any form.
I've also heard the suggestion to complete only a portion of the games your opponent has completed, but the organizer won't really give in that much. He wants to crown the King of Completions, not the King of 50% Completions. Although, I don't necessarily think the suggestion is a bad one.
Lastly, I'm a gamer that will try any game. I look at this tournament as a reason to branch out and try some of those games/genres I've hardly touched. I couldn't stand Forza 5 after first playing it, but now I'm a racing pro and I've even dived some other Forza games in the hopes of playing them at a later date. You've completed all those hard-to-complete games? I say, bring it on!
11,500 GamerScore and 10 retail completions obtained thanks to Viral Games.