Topic: Redrafts after T2 tournaments
I've noticed that after first two-three weeks of organising standard tournaments without any problems, now the tournaments are not that popular and it may be problem to gather at least 8 persons to play with sanction of WoTC. There is also problem with new players - I've didn't noticed new players that would like to play standard. I think it may be connected with the prize system.
Now the system is clear - only top 3 is receiving boosters, usually nr. 1 2 boosters, nr. 2 and 3 one booster. And rest ... nothing. It may be good for competitive players, but it's very discouraging for begginers or for players that don't want to pay lots of cash for tier 1 deck. So my proposition is to make redrafts.
If somebody don't know what is redraft, let me explain quickly. If in the pool are 4 boosters, at the end of swiss organisator is opening all of them, segregate the cards by rarity, and then according to the table after swiss everyone is picking one card. After everyone picked one card, there's next round and everyone is picking two cards, and so on. As you probably can see, in this system even place 4 or 5 can receive not that bad rare or quite good uncommons. It's better for the begginers, especially if you don't have that many competitive players (and I think for now, regularly playing - there are 3-4 of them maybe).
I think that this system may attract new players, and keep the old ones still playing. In Warsaw I loved this system, cuz in tournaments with 20-30 persons, I had always a possibility to win a good cards even from place 8-10.