Quick question: according to the current continental qualifier rules,
the top 25% players in a national EC qualifier qualify (regardless of
previous qualification status). That's fine, but how does the rounding
go here?
The rules web page don't specify, but the Australian 50% says "round
up", so I assume that applies here, too(?).
However, just to be clear and skip language issues, what exactly does
"round up" mean (in English)? Does it mean that anything with a
decimal part is rounded to the next (higher) integer (so 5.25 would
become 6), or does it mean that values of x.5 get rounded up (5.5
becomes 6) and values below that get rounded down (5.4 becoming 5). Or
does it mean something else entirely? :D
I'm assuming that "round up" means the first option (5.25 would become
6) since that's what it means in Finnish, but I want to be absolutely
clear here -- don't want to deny someone a qualification spot & t-
shirt because of math/language misunderstandings ;}
//Petri
Petri Wessman wrote:
> Quick question: according to the current continental qualifier rules,
> the top 25% players in a national EC qualifier qualify (regardless of
> previous qualification status). That's fine, but how does the rounding
> go here?
>
> The rules web page don't specify, but the Australian 50% says "round
> up", so I assume that applies here, too(?).
Round up.
> However, just to be clear and skip language issues, what exactly does
> "round up" mean (in English)? Does it mean that anything with a
> decimal part is rounded to the next (higher) integer (so 5.25 would
> become 6),
Yes.
> or does it mean that values of x.5 get rounded up (5.5
> becomes 6) and values below that get rounded down (5.4 becoming 5).
That's "round to nearest".
> Or
> does it mean something else entirely? :D
No.
> I'm assuming that "round up" means the first option (5.25 would become
> 6) since that's what it means in Finnish, but I want to be absolutely
> clear here -- don't want to deny someone a qualification spot & t-
> shirt because of math/language misunderstandings ;}
Success.
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Yup :D
Thanks guys. I know this was a kinda stupid question, but I wanted to
be 100% sure -- I've heard people use "round up" in English to mean
all sorts of unlikely things before.
//Petri
Quick note on yesterday's tournament:
We got 84 players and all in all everything seemed to flow very
fluidly.
In finals the seating was following:
- weenie KRC voters
- assamites
- nephandi -horde
- lasombra
- malkavians (I guess)
Weenies voters mauled the Assamites pretty badly already by the 3rd
round but Delaying Tactics from Nephandi on KRC prevented the weenies
utilizing the 5 copies of KRC in the plaer's hand. Malkavians then
bled the weenies out of the game but the weenies still managed to call
Archon Investigation on Mariel, Lady Thunder who was bleeding for 7 or
so. Then the Lasombra ousted both Malkavians and Assamite. After this
first hour or so the remaining two decks duelled quite spectacularily
for quite a while but the Nephandi finally managed to wear out the
Lasombra and getting plenty o Flash Grenades for most of the Nephandi
sure didn't hurt any. The game was a draw and the Lasombra player
(Lasse) won the tournament based on the results of the earlier rounds.
Congrats to Lasse, all the finalists as well as all the qualified
players.
I had fun even though my weenie obf voters kinda sucked (on 1st game
as I get 2 vamps out on 2nd round, my prey puts out Arika AND my prey
his 1st Eurobrujah Constanza Vinti. Game over, man! And on 2nd game I
just started off with blundering. No other excuses but the lack of
ability to build better/cheesier decks & not being able to play well
enough ;)
Props to workmate, Niko, who managed to qualify with non-Tupdog
Gargoyle deck!
A big hand for Orava for once again organizing and running such a big
tournament single handidly without any glitches!
Also thanks for all the attaending players for being there and
providing the great and relaxed atmosphere for the event.
Finally, it was extremely nice for our Finn-in-training, Hugh, to drop
by and make this an international event :)
I'm back off to the convention,
Janne/Lönkka
NC Finland
Yeah, thanks everyone, things went great and the finals were really
fun to watch, with diverse decks on the table (unlike last year's
Lasombra Fest ;).
I'll write up a full tournament report (with transcript of finals
round) sometime this week, stay tuned.
Small correction to Janne's post: we had 83 players, not 84.
On tiny glich did happen, my fault: I was so busy during the finals
that I forgot to tell the finalists to email me their deck lists. Duh.
Thankfully Lasse, the winner, sent me his unasked so at least we have
the most important TWD, but it would be nice to have the others, too.
I've sent email around on the subject, but let's add to the coverage:
I'd like decklists from Juhani Puska, Antti Tirilä, Kari Vieno and
Juho Linna. I don't have contact info for Juhani and Kari, so if
someone does know these guys: please tell them to get in touch.
Thanks ;).
And yes, very nice to see Hugh there. He didn't have much luck during
the big tournament, but he did sweep our table in the next day's draft
tournament... revenge of sorts :D
//Petri
On Aug 11, 11:18 pm, Petri Wessman <or...@orava.org> wrote:
> Small correction to Janne's post: we had 83 players, not 84.
>
Aieee!
The humility of it all...
Janne/Lönkka ;)