Skirmish schedule polling

[Battle City]

Also, please post your preferences for the one-day skirmish in this thread as well.

The plans so far are to hold the event once a month on either a Saturday or Sunday. Whether it should be the first occurring of the month or the last, or in-between, please discuss.

Please also post your opinions on the allotted amount of time for each duel/match, and the pairing types based on attendance you believe would best allow fair representations.

[Virus Queen]

For me, I'd perfer the last one of the month since I'd get a bit nervous, but I'd go for the first/in-between too, I don't mind.

EDIT: Pssh, forgot stuff. Since I wake up late at times, starting from 11:00 AM-2:00 PM would be nice, IMO. I stay up really late, so I can go fo any deadline hour.

As for the pairing types (Hehe, I read that wrong) I can really go for anything.

[raeus]

As for the time of month that the skirmishes are held, as long as it's a weekend I don't care whether its sunday or saturday, I voted sunday because thats when I have the most time to wake up and not have any plans(friday night and saturday night are my busy days)

As for tournament structure, you can take several approaches:

Single(double, triple.. if you go higher you're sadistic) elimination, everyone duels 2-3 rounds if you lose x rounds you're out. Favorable number of people: Any ODD number.
Favorable time alotted per round: 30 minutes

Round robin, where everyone DUELS EVERYONE. After X rounds, where X is decided on attendance, you cut to elimination, which is simple bracket based pairings.
Favorable amount of people: Less than ten
Favorable amount of time per round: 30 minutes. 40 minutes In elimination rounds.

Bracket Elimination, players roll 1dx where x is the number of people in attendance in the skirmish. How it would be set up is 1 v.s. highest number rolled, 2 v.s. Second highest number rolled, and so on. The paired duelist then duel eachother in single elimination until there is but 1 duelist left.
Favorable amount of people: Any even number 10 or above.
Favorable amount of time: 45 minutes.

These are only a few tournament styles that can be done. As a veteran player in Yu-Gi-Oh! I've been to over 100 regionals, 4 nationals, 1 SJC, 1 YCS(Coming Soon) and 400+ locals. Most of the tournaments I have been in were x rounds of swiss, where x was based on attendance, after x rounds, it would cut to a top 8, or 16, yet again based on attendance. The Top cut of players would then duel in single elimination (1 v 8, 2 v 7, etc) until the last man standing.

I hope this has been helpful in the decision process of the Skirmish Duels for Battle City.

[Kusa]

In all honesty, Sunday is fine with me. And to be honest, the last Sunday of the month is likely going to work the best. When it comes to pairings though, I think it's safe to say that x rounds swiss is really the best for low-attendance, and works with big well anyway. Break to top 8/4 depending on who's here, and go with that. That way everyone gets to play a good amount, and we can still get it over with quick.