Desert Island Video Game Draft Playoffs - Round 2 (#4 Tetsujin vs. #5 Insomniacal Fan)

[pdxKingsFan]

Maybe that's a good thing, though? The initial draft was about your gaming taste, but the playoff voting is kind of supposed to be about the gaming tastes of others

For this reason alone I never really cared about the playoff voting. In fact it's part of why I sat this out only to get sucked in 5-6 rounds in and ultimately made my own list.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

... wrasslin' tournament style - a draw means both are out and their next scheduled opponent gets a bye.

I'd prefer this to the "random numbers" proposal, frankly.

 

[Insomniacal Fan]

Maybe that's a good thing, though? The initial draft was about your gaming taste, but the playoff voting is kind of supposed to be about the gaming tastes of others, and a top-5 tiebreaker really distills a list down to the most prized elements within it. I voted for Tetsu originally, but I may very well have voted for your top-5 in a tiebreaker. A top-15 with Baldur's Gate III and Red Dead Redemption 2 is a stronger list for their presence, yet there remains a lot to consider when the list contains 13 other games. But a top-5 that might feature those two games suddenly becomes potent, because there's much less to consider alongside those two games.

Maybe for some folks! The desert island draft concept is something that we do for fun, and this particular desert island draft is certainly a testament to the fact that people have a wide variety of activities that they consider fun.

Purely out of curiosity, what would be your 5 choices if you had to take on Tetsujin?

If I had to, and if I was trying to win, then the game becomes market research. I would have compiled the list of user feedback across multiple forum threads; then I would weight it by the metrics of popularity (game sales), look at the key demographics of likely voters "Hmm, Löwenherz, a likely voter, liked the C&H reference, probably Gen X or geriatric Millennial. What have I got for that?"

For me personally, that's not fun (and kinda gross tbh), so I would have preferred to forfeit.

 

[Insomniacal Fan]

Kinda just an overall issue with democracy in general: the worst form of government except all the others.

There's quite a bit more to democracy than merely voting. Different rules can result in different democracies being affected by different sets of issues.

Even in the cases where a vote is supposed to actually matter; coin tosses (or other random methods) are used to resolve ties for most elected offices in most states in the US.

In which case for future drafts two options could be - wrasslin' tournament style - a draw means both are out and their next scheduled opponent gets a bye. If the final I guess it would need some kind of OT, which would be other option: Sudden Death - the next person to get a single vote wins.

I like the coin toss better than giving the next opponent a bye, but this would be an acceptable method to me. You need some way to resolve ties at lower rounds in a tournament format. I would suggest that if the top level finals matchup ends in a tie, that everyone just accepts the tie. That seems more satisfying than either a minigame or a coin toss.