Questions for those who were at TeX-Ball

[Havoc_online]

Last time the teams were random which made things fair so team "X" would'nt roll everyone else all day long.

Some people still thought making thier own teams would have been better.
My question is, after having gone through it, would you of rather had set teams, or random like it was?

Make your decision without considering prizes. Just for the fun of play.


err. misspelled in a hurry.

[Creative Mayhem]

What, no PIE???

I actually liked the way the teams were, you get to know other AOer's instead of the ones you usually talk/play with on a regular basis. That can be a bad thing as well though...

I say keep it the way it was.

[Miscue]

I'd like to pick teams... but random was ok too.

So, when's TexBall 2?

[Chojin Man]

I liked the random, I would keep it that way

[Recon by Fire]

I wasn't able to make it there so I won't vote but I would say keep the random teams.

[Halliday]

I wasn't there either, but I think random teams is a great way to run a friendly tourney. It makes you a better player because you have to work with someone you just met. Also it does keep from one team sandbagging all the others.

[GoatBoy]

I thought the random selection worked out well, but I think I would have been just as comfortable with self-arranged teams.

I can see the usefulness of self-arranged teams though; all the A-Teamer's can put themselves on the same team(s), and the rest of us can occupy the other teams. Might not be a bad idea...

Drawback is... it might require much more organization up front, plus issues with no-shows and stuff.

[logamus]

random teams for sure.

/me sits patiently in the corner waiting for the next Texas AO day.

[evan123]

I must say i liked it random so you could meet your own teams that way. It did take awhile to get the teams together and start playing though, curtis is the man so i put that. I personally think it ran very smooth and hopefully looks foward to another in the fall

[vf-xx]

Random random.

It's especially good for those of us who have never played ANY tourney style games and therefore have no idea what you're doing.

"Do you know how to use that thing?"
"Yeah you point the open end at the other guy..."

[GT]

RANDOM!

yes havoc pwn's

[Cryer]

1) Havoc is indeed the Man.

2) Random teams are good... Good, clean fun with no pressure seems to be the hallmark of Texas AO days. Its just about the only time I can play with a bunch of people as good as, and better than me without having to worry about players hell-bent on winning (ie: open tournies). If we focus on prizes, it might detract from that laid-back attitude... As well, it introduces us to different people, strengthening the AO community.

[GoatBoy]

why not have both

Just thought of this one...

Why not have both team types? The random teams will be made up of people who choose to be randomly placed on a team. They'll be selected right there at the event like last time, and team size will sort of auto-balance. People who just want to go out and meet some AO'ers and play some ball would probably opt for this. (I'd opt for this myself.)

The self-selected teams will have their rosters fixed and can't pull from the people who show up for random selection. I'm sure some people actually want this, and I think the people who would want this... belong together on the same team. So why not make everyone happy and let 'em do it.


And yes, I did vote for Havoc is the man.

[vf-xx]

Just thought of this one...

Why not have both team types? The random teams will be made up of people who choose to be randomly placed on a team. They'll be selected right there at the event like last time, and team size will sort of auto-balance. People who just want to go out and meet some AO'ers and play some ball would probably opt for this. (I'd opt for this myself.)

The self-selected teams will have their rosters fixed and can't pull from the people who show up for random selection. I'm sure some people actually want this, and I think the people who would want this... belong together on the same team. So why not make everyone happy and let 'em do it.


And yes, I did vote for Havoc is the man.

I'm not sure this would work with all forms of play.

With X-ball we needed teams of at least 10 players, as it is we had 4 teams of 12. Worked well, but if you did some preselcts things would get unbalanced.

[TeamNausea]

And it'd eliminate the point of the teams being random, no stacking, and meeting new people.