I see so many people speculating that the huge clashcon announcement will be the introduction of clan war tournaments. Many seem very excited about the prospect. Try as I may, I can not come to a conclusion as to what significant benefit a player would get out of a tournament format for wars.
Possible benefits:
-increased clan XP
-more win bonus loot
-some type of leaderboard/bragging rights
Possible issues:
-matchmaking already takes a long time to match 2 clans. Imagine the time required for 4/8/16.
-if you believe threads here, matchmaking is broken. Imagine the mismatches in 4/8/16. I personally do not think matchmaking is broken, but imagine all the threads that would result.
-clan XP increase will mean nothing once clans reach level 10 unless new perk levels are introduced.
-non-gemming and actively upgrading players who are serious enough to opt out while heroes upgrade will have a hard time participating in a week-long tourney.
-a tourney win leaderboard would be barely more prestigious than the line for war wins in your clan profile.
-a certain element of surprise is removed if 1st round winners can watch attacks that their 2nd round opponent faced in their 1st round... Trap placement and level, castle preferences, etc.
-conflicting timelines with wars as we know today.
Other thoughts:
-some seem to think that war tournaments would be a huge change to the game. In the end, you are still doing back-to-back wars as you already can today. The difference would lie in the existence of leaderboards, extra loot/XP, and maybe having some better Intel on your opponent if you can watch the attacks from their first round.
-making tournaments be a once per league season event would concentrate the timelines of participants and facilitate matchmaking. Free-for-all like current wars might make pools of suitable and fair matches harder to come by.
To me, it just seems as though the change is not that significant. Also, potential issues outstrip the potential benefits. Those of you that are excited about tournaments, please weigh in with what benefit you see. Looking for answers beyond "because it would be cool" and "because I saw a small scale version on YouTube"
Did you see endless speculation about a leaf blower before the last "big" update? It amazes me how much time people put into a wish list and call it something else.
Insightful, but some people don't like Clan Wars either, so what, they don't have to war. If SC brought us Tournaments, then those who want to play can and those that don't will farm or whatever they do. It is just something else to do in a video game really, so bring it on!
I really don't think a clan tournament is necessary, and is just a waste of game space. As you mentioned, too many problems. But, of course, Supercell may prove me wrong.
Agreed, there would be no benefits for it. I think Supercell will stick to hosting clan tournaments and live streaming them, but not add them to the game.
until they figure out bunnies and how to handle people leaving the clan mid tournament i dont see this as an option i dont mind losing a single war and restarting search but if your locked into a 8 clan tourny and u got bunnies and random people get kicked or leave it will throw the balance off war
