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Dominion Online Championship 2019 / Round 4 pairings

« Last post by Ingix on 07 October 2019, 09:40:45 AM »

Below are the Round 4 pairings.

Note that starting from next round, the rules and errata update from Donald X. (to be found for example on dominionstrategy.com) is assumed to be live on the Dominion Online servers. Make sure you familarize yourself with the changes.

Please schedule your matches such that they end before Monday, 14th of October, 6:00 UTC. You can publish your scheduled matches, details for that can be found in Match time publishing and spectating.

Each match has a moderator assigned to it, in case there are problems. You can click on the moderator link to send them a message.
Please remember that you should contact your moderator when you have not heard from your opponent on Wednesday 12 UTC!

You can report the match result in 2 ways:
1) Preferred is this Google form to enter the result of your match.
2) If something goes wrong there, as a backup you can post the result in the in this forum in the Round 4 Result thread.

If you want to look at the results of the whole tournament, there is a multi-page google doc for that as well.

Have fun playing.

amoffett11 - Bryan   (Mod: Gazbag)
auto_pp [autopp] - Seprix   (Mod: volfied)
benedettosoxfan - RTT   (Mod: Gazbag)
Bryan - amoffett11   (Mod: Gazbag)
cha-shu - tracer   (Mod: xtruffles)
cider01 - drsteelhammer   (Mod: volfied)
Dan Brooks [dan] - nasmith99   (Mod: Gazbag)
DG - heron   (Mod: volfied)
Dingan - gamesou   (Mod: Gazbag)
drsteelhammer - cider01   (Mod: volfied)
E.Honda - SamE   (Mod: Gazbag)
elementmario222 - Skumpy   (Mod: xtruffles)
Freaky - TBD   (Mod: xtruffles)
gamesou - Dingan   (Mod: Gazbag)
hakha3 - JNails   (Mod: Gazbag)
heron - DG   (Mod: volfied)
jmclaus - jonts   (Mod: xtruffles)
JNails - hakha3   (Mod: Gazbag)
jonts - jmclaus   (Mod: xtruffles)
kaminarizumu [kaminarizumu714] - Sicomatic   (Mod: Gazbag)
markusin - ospond   (Mod: volfied)
Mercury444F - sillypotter [s.potter]   (Mod: Gazbag)
nasmith99 - Dan Brooks [dan]   (Mod: Gazbag)
ospond - markusin   (Mod: volfied)
RTT - benedettosoxfan   (Mod: Gazbag)
SamE - E.Honda   (Mod: Gazbag)
Seprix - auto_pp [autopp]   (Mod: volfied)
Sicomatic - kaminarizumu [kaminarizumu714]   (Mod: Gazbag)
sillypotter [s.potter] - Mercury444F   (Mod: Gazbag)
Skumpy - elementmario222   (Mod: xtruffles)
TBD - Freaky   (Mod: xtruffles)
tracer - cha-shu   (Mod: xtruffles)

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Feature Requests / Re: Add penalty for resign in Ranked games.

« Last post by Ingix on 07 October 2019, 09:07:44 AM »

If you are talking a 2-player game, then the penalty is simply a loss by the resigning player (and a win by the other player). That has the usual ratings consequences. I'm not sure what more you would want.

In 3-player games, the penalty is harsher, the ratings loss by the resigning players is magnified, because it makes it impossible to get an accurate result between the remaining players.

Dota 2 is a team game, so if you quit, you are actively hurting your own team mates. In Dominion, there are no team mates, you hurt yourself only in 2-player games, and as I explained, you get a harcher penalty then just placing third in a 3-player game.

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General Discussion / Re: Reporting player

« Last post by bchia on 07 October 2019, 01:00:54 AM »

Makes sense. These people aren't usually creative. I'm always down for some trash talk here and there but this crosses the line.

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Feature Requests / Add penalty for resign in Ranked games.

« Last post by bopeng on 07 October 2019, 12:16:40 AM »

Can you add a penalty for resign in ranked games, or need approval by opponent. It hurts game play a player can resign whenever they want. Dota 2 for example used to not have a penalty for quitting games early in dota 1. But now in dota 2 there is a penalty, and alot less players quit during the game and it helps the game be a lot better.

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Connection Problems / Re: Matching algorithm seems to have slowed down (esp. for 3-player queue)

« Last post by GoDliKe on 06 October 2019, 09:31:25 AM »

It is unfortunately played more 1vs1, but the waiting time is also dependent on your rank. If you are too good a player for other filters that may not you

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Card Bugs / Re: Crown auto-play doesn't work when you have Villagers

« Last post by josh bornstein on 06 October 2019, 09:01:57 AM »

Ah.  I learn one new Dominion thing each day.

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General Discussion / Re: Is it acceptable to ignore (not deny) an undo request indefinitely?

« Last post by Ingix on 05 October 2019, 07:04:37 PM »

The problem with this approch is simply that it would make slow playing that much easier. You just ask again and again for the same undo and if that resets your timer, you can stall indefinately.

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General Discussion / Re: Is it acceptable to ignore (not deny) an undo request indefinitely?

« Last post by Megas_Droungarios on 05 October 2019, 03:14:07 PM »

Perhaps the interface should be reprogrammed to make the player receiving the undo request and not responding the one who gets timed out, rather than the player whose turn it is.  Or if that's too radical to void the game entirely rather than giving the player who got no response a loss.

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Connection Problems / Re: Matching algorithm seems to have slowed down (esp. for 3-player queue)

« Last post by Megas_Droungarios on 05 October 2019, 02:58:24 PM »

I seriouisly doubt that any change took place, usually that's announced in a small post.

Also, you can't that easly determine the number of players waiting for a rated 3 player game, because the #looking for practice games also includes those looking for 2-player practice games.

Did you maybe loose or win much in recent days? That may have affected your rating and drove either your 'usual opponents' out of your accepected range or vice versa.

I'm aware of being able to view the queue counts (that's how I observed that when # waiting for 3-player minus # wanting practice game is 8 or more I used to get matched quickly, but don't match now even when that count is over 10).  And no, my rating has not changed drastically -- as usual it's hovering in the mid-to-upper 50's on the 3-player board.

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Card Bugs / Re: Crown auto-play no longer works

« Last post by Ingix on 05 October 2019, 11:46:06 AM »

Peddler counts Action cards in play, not "Actions" that allow you to play Action cards. So in that sense calling Coin of the Realm doesn't help you directly. And Peddler will count a Crown in play as an Action card, no matter when it was played.