About tournaments
After reading about the first PS tournaments, writing the PSO20 rulebook and seeing it unfold, I wanted to give some thoughts about tournament structures. The power of tradition If you wonder why a particular aspect is done that way in this context, the answer is usually "someone already did it that way the last time". You would be surprised at, for example, how little WC and WT structures have changed over time. I don't think it's a necessarily bad thing. More so, I believe that copying & upgrading good rulebooks like WT19's isn't done enough, but I believe that this mentality is hindering innovations. Most of the time the way things are done isn't necessarily the best, it's just the first thing that was tried. Then, what are some things that could be changed? Let's see: #1 - Number of rounds Classically, a tournament should be long. But why should that be so? Tournament PS heavily emphasizes not recycling, and 10-15 seconds of worthy new mate