Perhaps one option is ...
Make steemmonsters run LESS tournaments with an understanding they may be big long tournaments since anyone and everyone can enter for free.
1 daily one and 1 weekly one
Then let other people create other tournaments where they can do things like work at being a gatekeeper.
I know peakmonsters is willing to do tournaments. Some open to everyone and some we'd like to be just for our users.
Also i think round robin tournaments are even more exciting because they can possibly be constructed where they can last a full day or a week long or even a month and people can just play as they go. Maybe they're even better than the seasonal format we have now.
Once that tech is created I'd switch to steemmonsters itself ONLY running those types of tournaments perhaps. And maybe the top 16 for round robin go into a bracket style.
Anyway those are some of my solution ideas.
May not solve everything but it's a start of a discussion.
I am a big fan of this solution... I think for the "pool" matches they should be special... to address the timezone issue, just rotate the times in 3 separate tourneys ... so say 10 am 6 pm and 2 am... and once every 3 weeks everyone would be able to enter and no one would have complaints...
And if they want to have "pay for play" matches, I'm all for it... Just not with money that was promised to be used in the pool for these special "pool tourneys"...
And ps, I was planning on hosting my own too... I think it is a huge mistake to deviate with the original plan as you suggested (once a week for big one and once a day for small ones)... And I also wouldn't mind people staying in their leagues.
Good suggestion, I hope you get traction with it... Anything to stop them from breaking their word on the prize pool distribution would be helpful.
Yeah being able to play tournaments at your leisure was kind of the initial brilliant idea of SteemMonsters and I think there's still a path there... and I think it's an easy path.
Play your games in the morning, go to work, see how it all plays out! It would be awesome!
I'm in agreement with you for sure. Hope you make some headway.
https://steempeak.com/@monsterworld/build-decks-go-to-work-let-the-results-roll-out-the-original-steemmonsters-idea
Just wrote another post about it.
awesome... I'm going to resteem it right now. I'm glad to see you working on this, great job @jarvie :)