Would you rather get silver in a 2-man bracket or default gold in a solo bracket?

[skribs127 148]

Not much more to the question than what's in the title. Would you rather go to a tournament with one other person, lose, and take silver; or would you rather show up as the only person signed up in your bracket and collect an easy gold?

 

[Tony Dismukes126 23]

Both are meaningless as far as medals go, but losing in a 2-man bracket means that I at least got the experience of the one match, so that's what I would prefer.

 

[philwhite54 10]

If its sparring I'd feel like I wasted my time if I didn't fight. For form I'd be fine with no competition. Just getting up and doing the presentation infront of a crowd is a win. Whatever the case you're still better than everyone else that day that didn't show up.

 

[Simfers128 36]

I don't compete (I used to when I was much younger), but if I have to choose between those two scenarios, I'd rather at least get to do the thing I paid to do, which is compete. So the silver would at least mean I didn't waste my time and money.

 

[skribs127 148]

To play devil's advocate: in some organizations (i.e. IBJJF) the free gold gives you more seeding points. In IBJJF, you get 1 point for bronze, 3 for silver, 9 for gold. This may make it easier to win your next tournament when there are opponents.

 

[Xue Sheng120 38]

To play devil's advocate: in some organizations (i.e. IBJJF) the free gold gives you more seeding points. In IBJJF, you get 1 point for bronze, 3 for silver, 9 for gold. This may make it easier to win your next tournament when there are opponents.

Not being a competitor, isn’t that similar to stacking the deck?

 

[skribs127 148]

Not being a competitor, isn’t that similar to stacking the deck?

There are games built around the concept of stacking the deck, such as Dominion.

 

[Xue Sheng120 38]

There are games built around the concept of stacking the deck, such as Dominion.

Yes, but that is a bit different than a martial arts competition

 

[skribs127 148]

Yes, but that is a bit different than a martial arts competition

You see the same thing in pro sports. If one team is in a bad division, gets lined up against a bad division from another conference, or plays an injured team that's not playing their starters, then they can accumulate a higher seed due to circumstances.

 

[Xue Sheng120 38]

You see the same thing in pro sports. If one team is in a bad division, gets lined up against a bad division from another conference, or plays an injured team that's not playing their starters, then they can accumulate a higher seed due to circumstances.

Ok

 

[Flying Crane]

To play devil's advocate: in some organizations (i.e. IBJJF) the free gold gives you more seeding points. In IBJJF, you get 1 point for bronze, 3 for silver, 9 for gold. This may make it easier to win your next tournament when there are opponents.

Would you make that decision?

 

[Darren]

Not much more to the question than what's in the title. Would you rather go to a tournament with one other person, lose, and take silver; or would you rather show up as the only person signed up in your bracket and collect an easy gold?

i just show up, and what happen`s is what happens.

 

[Dirty Dog5]

You probably won't be shocked to hear this, but I wouldn't give a damn about the medals. I'd be more likely to see if the hosts would allow me to switch to a group with more people. I don't care if they're bigger than me, younger than me, whatever.

 

[HighKick]

Not much more to the question than what's in the title. Would you rather go to a tournament with one other person, lose, and take silver; or would you rather show up as the only person signed up in your bracket and collect an easy gold?

Absolutely the silver. You get to compete and learn something about yourself.
Does the medal really matter? Nope.

 

[HighKick]

To play devil's advocate: in some organizations (i.e. IBJJF) the free gold gives you more seeding points. In IBJJF, you get 1 point for bronze, 3 for silver, 9 for gold. This may make it easier to win your next tournament when there are opponents.

This accumulates by 'wins' or matches? Wins would make zero sense because of the scenario you describe.
WT and most others seed by matches and combined scores.

 

[HighKick]

You see the same thing in pro sports. If one team is in a bad division, gets lined up against a bad division from another conference, or plays an injured team that's not playing their starters, then they can accumulate a higher seed due to circumstances.

Not at all apples to apples.

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf127 1]

To play devil's advocate: in some organizations (i.e. IBJJF) the free gold gives you more seeding points. In IBJJF, you get 1 point for bronze, 3 for silver, 9 for gold. This may make it easier to win your next tournament when there are opponents.

Even looking at competing at a national tournament, this only sounds like the better option if you're someone competing every month on a circuit. For those people, the goal is to get all the medals.

If you're not, even if you're planning to compete at a higher ranked tournament where a good seeding would help, you'll likely get more benefit from facing someone as good or better than you (since you lose) in another competition and get more experience, then you would facing a slightly easier opponent in an early round of a large tournament.

 

[skribs127 148]

Even looking at competing at a national tournament, this only sounds like the better option if you're someone competing every month on a circuit. For those people, the goal is to get all the medals.

If you're not, even if you're planning to compete at a higher ranked tournament where a good seeding would help, you'll likely get more benefit from facing someone as good or better than you (since you lose) in another competition and get more experience, then you would facing a slightly easier opponent in an early round of a large tournament.

Local BJJ tournaments aren't always even brackets. In a 7-man bracket, the #1 seed gets a bye the first round.

 

[skribs127 148]

To clarify: getting a bye the first round in that scenario means:

1. You're guaranteed to podium and be eligible for open class.
2. Everyone you fight has had 1 more round than you, and is more tired.

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf127 1]

Local BJJ tournaments aren't always even brackets. In a 7-man bracket, the #1 seed gets a bye the first round.

For a local tournament, my goal would be to do the best i can. I wouldn't be looking for a bye anyway, since that means one less fight to have.