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Tiebreaking policy: decision
Aug. 9th, 2012 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
troisroyaumesThank you, everyone, for weighing in on the tiebreaking policy.
After considerable thought and discussion, the mods have collectively decided to stick with the mods' choice method that was outlined in the original rules.
We also agreed that in hindsight, it would have been better to have a strict system of awarding points for draws, rather than relying on mods' subjective votes to decide a tie when the mods themselves are participating in the tournament. We'd like to thank the participants who brought the potential conflict of interest to our attention. However, there were enough objections within the community to the idea of changing rules midway that we felt it was best to keep the standings as they are.
We would like to assure everyone that the mods will do their best to judge as fairly as possible. We recognize that there's no guarantee except our word, but we hope that sticking to our original tiebreaking policy won't spoil the experience for tournament participants.
The modship of Deathmatch will rotate and in all likelihood adopt a different format, so we cannot say whether the rules of future tournaments will change to avoid a mods' choice method of tiebreaking. However, we would like to reassure all participants that we will make sure that the next mods will at least be aware that this issue arose during this tournament so that they can keep it in mind while designing the next Deathmatch.
Results from the third round will be announced shortly!
After considerable thought and discussion, the mods have collectively decided to stick with the mods' choice method that was outlined in the original rules.
We also agreed that in hindsight, it would have been better to have a strict system of awarding points for draws, rather than relying on mods' subjective votes to decide a tie when the mods themselves are participating in the tournament. We'd like to thank the participants who brought the potential conflict of interest to our attention. However, there were enough objections within the community to the idea of changing rules midway that we felt it was best to keep the standings as they are.
We would like to assure everyone that the mods will do their best to judge as fairly as possible. We recognize that there's no guarantee except our word, but we hope that sticking to our original tiebreaking policy won't spoil the experience for tournament participants.
The modship of Deathmatch will rotate and in all likelihood adopt a different format, so we cannot say whether the rules of future tournaments will change to avoid a mods' choice method of tiebreaking. However, we would like to reassure all participants that we will make sure that the next mods will at least be aware that this issue arose during this tournament so that they can keep it in mind while designing the next Deathmatch.
Results from the third round will be announced shortly!
