Best Custom Chipset of 2020 bracket (2 Viewers)

[WedgeRock]

This is going to get running soon. The relabel class is almost done (quarterfinal vote ends tomorrow) and the fully custom class backet will be on to the field of 16 soon.

As I mentioned, each class winner gets a #1 seed in their own corner of the bracket. @markleteenie won the Ceramic/Hybrid class and @gopherblue won the Hotstamp/Open class. I am going to run a RNG to assign quadrants of the main bracket.



Okay, so there you have it. Once the last two classes are decided, I'll run a RNG on the entire field of 80 chipsets and fill in the blanks in order (#1 and #2 will be the first play-in game in the Vesper Club Region (with the winner to match up against the Vesper Club), #3 and #4 will be a first-round match up in the Vesper Club Region, #5 will be a first round see in the Vesper Club Region, with #6 and #7 being the second play-in game of the Vesper Region (and the winner advancing to play #5)). Region 1 (Vesper Club Region) will play Region 2 (Relabels) in the semifinals while Region 3 (Fully Custom) will play Region 4 (Coyote Gulch Region).

We'll start with 16 play-in games (32 chipsets) to get down to a field of 64. As a reminder, ties will result in a two-day runoff vote rather than a RNG flip (if they tie a second time, an RNG flip will decide it).

Vesper Club Region

Carnevale Region

Fully Custom Region

Coyote Gulch Region

I'll combine to one bracket once we get down to the final 16 chipsets.

 

[WedgeRock]

Schedule:
Main bracket will be seeded on Saturday, May 29, after the Fully Custom Class finishes. Voting will be open the May 30 and June 2 for play in games. All voting cycles will be 3-days.

Starting June 6 and for the following four weeks, the opening round of a Region will be posted on Sunday (8 votes) and the second round will be posted on Wednesday (4 votes). There will be no votes posted from July 3 - July 17, after two rounds of voting in each Region. Voting will resume on July 11. Championship will be from July 21-24.

 

[WedgeRock]

Starting June 6 and for the following four weeks, the opening round of a Region will be posted on Sunday (8 votes) and the second round will be posted on Wednesday (4 votes). There will be no votes posted from July 3 - July 17, after two rounds of voting in each Region. Voting will resume on July 11. Championship will be from July 21-24.

Voting will resume on July 25 (8 votes). Championship will be from August 4-7.

 

[WedgeRock]

The biggest class bracket (Relabels) is now done (congrats again, @Hornet) and the fully custom chipsets will be down to 8 entries tomorrow. A week form Saturday the random draw for the winner of the main bracket.

Just FYI, so I can get a jump on things, when we are in the fully custom bracket finals, I am going to run the randomizer. The winner will be seeded at the top of the bracket, the loser will be defined as 'Fully Custom Runner-Up' for seeding purposes. This will give me a few extra days to prep the 80-team bracket.

Brackets will still be announced on Saturday (May 29) and voting threads will go up on Sunday (May 30) but when I post the random.org screencaps, the datestamp will show earlier and the runner up will not be shown specifically.

 

[WedgeRock]

OP updated with expected vote dates and RNG seedings numbers, in case you didn't read the post on how I'm going to seed the main bracket.

 

[Mr Winberg]

This is going to get running soon. The relabel class is almost done (quarterfinal vote ends tomorrow) and the fully custom class backet will be on to the field of 16 soon.

As I mentioned, each class winner gets a #1 seed in their own corner of the bracket. @markleteenie won the Ceramic/Hybrid class and @gopherblue won the Hotstamp/Open class. I am going to run a RNG to assign quadrants of the main bracket.



Okay, so there you have it. Once the last two classes are decided, I'll run a RNG on the entire field of 80 chipsets and fill in the blanks in order (#1 and #2 will be the first play-in game in the Vesper Club Region (with the winner to match up against the Vesper Club), #3 and #4 will be a first-round match up in the Vesper Club Region, #5 will be a first round see in the Vesper Club Region, with #6 and #7 being the second play-in game of the Vesper Region (and the winner advancing to play #5)). Region 1 (Vesper Club Region) will play Region 2 (Relabels) in the semifinals while Region 3 (Fully Custom) will play Region 4 (Coyote Gulch Region).

We'll start with 16 play-in games (32 chipsets) to get down to a field of 64. As a reminder, ties will result in a two-day runoff vote rather than a RNG flip (if they tie a second time, an RNG flip will decide it).

Vesper Club Region
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Carnevale Region
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Fully Custom Region
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Coyote Gulch Region
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I'll combine to one bracket once we get down to the final 16 chipsets.
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Excellent work, @WedgeRock! I'm really enjoying these competitions, can't wait for the main event!!

 

[WedgeRock]

It's alot of work, but it's fun for me too.

 

[WedgeRock]

Everybody ready for matchups to be announced on Saturday?! I've already run the RNG and there are some interesting matchups.

The Fully Custom bracket winner will become official on Saturday morning, then the main bracket seedings will be announed. Voting opens on Sunday for the play-in games in the Vesper Club and Carnevale regions, Wednesday for the Fully Custom (will be renamed once we have a winner) and Coyote Gulch regions.

 

[WedgeRock]

The four #1 seeds have been finalized. The remaining 76 chipsets have been randomly placed. Here are the random numbers run (note: these were run before the fully custom bracket was complete, so the runner-up in that bracket is not named):

I placed the randomized list into the brackets, creating the following matchups:

Each region will play down to 4 chipsets, then we will combine for four regions into one bracket:

Play-in games in the Vesper Club and Carnevale regions will start tomorrow. The dates for the other votes are listed on the brackets above.

 

[WedgeRock]

Time to get the play-in games rolling in the Vesper Club and Carnevale regions. Up next (June 2), play-in games in the Rainier Room and Coyote Gulch regions

Vesper Club Region
Scarlett's Room v Jack's microstakes cash [VOTE]

Arya v Turk's Head hotstamp [VOTE]

Dunes tribute v Midnight Casino [VOTE]

Animal House cash v Story Hill [VOTE]

Carnevale Region
The Ambassador cash v Circus Circus tournament [VOTE]

Beantown 43mm cash v The Hitching Post Wagon Wheel (high roller) tournament [VOTE]

Jack Casino Cardiff v Vintage Vegas [VOTE]

Russian Roulette Private Card Room v Bean Town Poker solid Cali cash [VOTE]

Upcoming votes:
Rainier Room Region
Silver Tongue Devil v Colorado Tribute

Miramar Casino& Resort cash v Se7en Deuce cash

Graf Zeppelin cash v Ambessa Poker Room cash

Good 'Nuf cash v Rosie's Bayou tournament

Coyote Gulch Region
Reno Club CA-NV v The Doxie

Cavalry Club at the Armory v The Bank

Cactus Pete's v Saloon Taphouse & Casino

Fino all Fine tournament v Good 'Nuf tournament

 

[WedgeRock]

Congrats to @Josh Kifer, @Odranoel77, @MarquetteMonkey, @wonderpuddle, @Mr Tree, @Perthmike and @sheikh617 for advancing to the field of 64. @Kid_Eastwood and @Klobberer ended up tied and will have a two-day runoff vote rather than a RNG flip (if they tie a second time, an RNG flip will decide it).

In addition to the run-off vote in the Vesper Club Region, we'll be doing the play-in games in the Rainier Room and Coyote Gulch Regions.

Vesper Club Region run-off
Arya v Turk's Head hotstamp [VOTE]

Rainier Room Region
Silver Tongue Devil v Colorado Tribute [VOTE]

Miramar Casino & Resort cash v Se7en Deuce cash [VOTE]

Graf Zeppelin cash v Ambessa Poker Room cash [VOTE]

Good 'Nuf cash v Rosie's Bayou tournament [VOTE]

Coyote Gulch Region
Reno Club CA-NV v The Doxie [VOTE]

Cavalry Club at the Armory v The Bank [VOTE]

Cactus Pete's v Saloon Taphouse & Casino [VOTE]

Fino all Fine tournament v Good 'Nuf tournament [VOTE]

 

[ChipFinderSK]

So...all of the polls in the last few weeks were just a pre-tournament tournament?

 

[WedgeRock]

I write, no one reads.

The thought was that if we ended up with a Final 8 of all custom CPCs, people would complain that their hot stamp/ceramic/relabel never had a chance.

So I ran a bracket for each class, before running the main event.

 

[PlayerADK]

... nice

 

[WedgeRock]

Polls going up Sunday: Vesper Club Region field of 64.

@gopherblue, @Josh Kifer, @wolfpack, @Nuhockey, @WhiteMamba1646, (winner of @Kid_Eastwood and @Klobberer), @Pokerator, @SeanGecko, @lapincretin, @Odranoel77, @Jasap47, @DJ_Fett, @slisk250, @MarquetteMonkey, @Himewad and @dmoney.

 

[buzzmonkey]

@WedgeRock Ever use Challonge for brackets?

 

[WedgeRock]

@WedgeRock Ever use Challonge for brackets?

I have not. Looks interesting, but I don't not if it could be applied to this situation.

As messy/confusing as it is, at least it's self-contained here. And pr0n can be posted directly in the voting thread.

 

[WedgeRock]

Congrats to @Kid_Eastwood for winning the Play-in game runoff and making it to the field of 64 in the Vesper Club region! It doesn't get any easier, as you get @WhiteMamba1646's Havana Card Room set next.

 

[WedgeRock]

Congrats to @Ben8257, @RoyalBluff, @SpaceMonkey, @slisk250, @MegaTon44, @Psypher1000, @Josh Kifer and @raynmanas for advancing to the field of 64.

Next up, The Vesper Club Region Round 1 votes:

Vesper Club v Scarlett's Room [VOTE]

Club 3820 cash v Casino Inigo High Roller tournament [VOTE]

Havana Card Room cash v Arya [VOTE]

Casino Haukilanti v Hardwell Underground [VOTE]

ACF Tournois Paris v Dunes tribute [VOTE]

Fox's Cardroom cash v Faight's Steel City Poker [VOTE]

Susie Q Saloon secondary cash v Story Hill [VOTE]

Tigerhawk Cardroom v Top Hat tournament [VOTE]

Second round in this region will begin on Wednesday, June 9, 2021.

 

[liftapint]

I love this idea, and clearly a ton of work has gone into it.

But I'm getting lost in all of the brackets, and different categories and wow. A lot.

Is there any way to have one link for photos of each set, that get posted in each match-up? Rather than having the chip owners post photos every time? It's unsatisfying to go into a match-up and have there be no photos there. There are several match-ups ending today, I went in to vote, and no photos. So...I didn't vote.

I think by the end of this thing, this problem will be even worse. Possible to identify one link per chip set that contains the photos, and include those links with the match-up thread?

I am not up to the challenge if it's harder than that.

 

[Josh Kifer]

I love this idea, and clearly a ton of work has gone into it.

But I'm getting lost in all of the brackets, and different categories and wow. A lot.

Is there any way to have one link for photos of each set, that get posted in each match-up? Rather than having the chip owners post photos every time? It's unsatisfying to go into a match-up and have there be no photos there. There are several match-ups ending today, I went in to vote, and no photos. So...I didn't vote.

I think by the end of this thing, this problem will be even worse. Possible to identify one link per chip set that contains the photos, and include those links with the match-up thread?

I am not up to the challenge if it's harder than that.

Here you go.....

 

[WedgeRock]

I love this idea, and clearly a ton of work has gone into it.

But I'm getting lost in all of the brackets, and different categories and wow. A lot.

Is there any way to have one link for photos of each set, that get posted in each match-up? Rather than having the chip owners post photos every time? It's unsatisfying to go into a match-up and have there be no photos there. There are several match-ups ending today, I went in to vote, and no photos. So...I didn't vote.

I think by the end of this thing, this problem will be even worse. Possible to identify one link per chip set that contains the photos, and include those links with the match-up thread?

I am not up to the challenge if it's harder than that.

If I did it again, I would require everyone to submit one photo of the set, and that photo would get posted with the voting thread. (Actually, if I did it again, I'd run it the way @Sprouty did his vote with everyone in one big bracket and the top X vote-getters making it to the bracket.)

As for all the brackets, there is only one bracket running (the main bracket, all classes are done), but I broke the main bracket into four regions for readability.

Also, with the exception of 2 of the 80 sets, all of them have been posted already. You should've seen them already or can find them relatively easy. Like you, though, I have skipped some votes because pictures haven't been posted, and I don't want to vote just from memory. Sometimes I come back and there's pics, sometimes, the vote closes without pics.

I think as we advance further, set owners are more vested in the outcome and more likely to post pictures. I'm also trying to give a heads up to the vote, so the participants are prepared to post pics.

 

[gopherblue]

Here you go.....View attachment 716303

Hell of a runner-up set.

 

[Josh Kifer]

Hell of a runner-up set.

Woah..... My feelersssss

 

[WedgeRock]

Congrats to @gopherblue, @Nuhockey, @WhiteMamba1646, @SeanGecko, @Odranoel77, @Jasap47, @MarquetteMonkey and @Himewad for advancing to Round 2 of the Vesper Club Region.

On to Round 2 voting in the Vesper Club region:

Vesper Club v Casino Inigo High Roller tournament [VOTE]

Havana Card Room cash v Hardwell Underground [VOTE]

Dunes tribute v Fox's Cardroom cash [VOTE]

Story Hill v Tigerhawk Cardroom [VOTE]

On Sunday, June 13, the Opening Round of the Carnevale Region will be posted. @Hornet, @wonderpuddle, @bsdunbar1, @Klobberer, @MegaTon44, @Mr Tree, @Coyote, @JustinInMN, @timinater, @Perthmike, @HMK, @ekricket, @Pinball, @sheikh617, @detroitdad and @slisk250.

 

[WedgeRock]

Congrats to @gopherblue, @WhiteMamba1646, @Jasap47, and @MarquetteMonkey for advancing to the Sweet Sixteen!

To the four remaining chipsets in the Vesper Club Region, voting for your sets will resume July 25.

Up next, Round 1 of the Carnevale region!

Carnevale (Hornet) v Circus Circus tournament [VOTE]

Bill's Gambling Hall and Saloon v WC Card Room tournament [VOTE]

Amanda's Poker Hall v The Hitching Post Wagon Wheel High Roller tournament [VOTE]

Horseshoe Pesta v Free River Club tournament [VOTE]

Sunday Night Poker tournament v Vintage Vegas [VOTE]

HMK Club tournament v 574 Club [VOTE]

Black Diamond Ranch high roller tournament v Bean Town Poker solid Cali cash [VOTE]

Carnevale (detroitdad) v 420 Cafe' cash [VOTE]


Upcoming votes:
Rainier Room region: Round 1 (June 20) and Round 2 (June 23): @madforpancakes, @Ben8257, @Davism72, @Majodr, @albatros63, @RoyalBluff, @Sprouty, @slisk250, @wonderpuddle, @SpaceMonkey, @arch3r, @BonScot, @efdenny, @JustinInMN
Coyote Gulch region: Round 1 (June 27) and Round 2 (June 30): @markleteenie, @MegaTon44, @Av8tion, @Frogzilla, Scrub Donkey Group Buyers, @Psypher1000, @Seeking Alpha Social Club,@jr8719, @Nuhockey, @Josh Kifer, @Bobb59, @Kid_Eastwood, @Pinball, @raynmanas, @wolfpack

 

[WedgeRock]

Congrats to @Hornet, @bsdunbar1, @Mr Tree, @Coyote, @Perthmike, @HMK, @sheikh617 and @detroitdad for surviving the first round of the Carnevale region!

Up next, Round 2 of the Carnevale region.

Carnevale (Hornet) v Bill's Gambling Hall and Saloon [VOTE]

The Hitching Post Wagon Wheel High Roller tournament v Horseshoe Pesta [VOTE]

Vintage Vegas v HMK Club tournament [VOTE]

Bean Town Poker solid Cali cash v Carnevale (detroitdad) [VOTE]


Upcoming votes:
Rainier Room region: Round 1 (June 20) and Round 2 (June 23): @madforpancakes, @Ben8257, @Davism72, @Majodr, @albatros63, @RoyalBluff, @Sprouty, @slisk250, @wonderpuddle, @SpaceMonkey, @arch3r, @BonScot, @efdenny, @JustinInMN
Coyote Gulch region: Round 1 (June 27) and Round 2 (June 30): @markleteenie, @MegaTon44, @Av8tion, @Frogzilla, Scrub Donkey Group Buyers, @Psypher1000, @Seeking Alpha Social Club,@jr8719, @Nuhockey, @Josh Kifer, @Bobb59, @Kid_Eastwood, @Pinball, @raynmanas, @wolfpack

 

[bsdunbar1]

It'll be a short ride of glory for Bill's Gamblin Hall

 

[WedgeRock]

Congrats to @Hornet, @Mr Tree, @Perthmike and @sheikh617 for surviving and advancing to the Sweet Sixteen!

Half the matchups in the Sweet Sixteen are now set:

The Carnevale Region will be on a break until the Sweet Sixteen voting opens on July 25. Up next, Round 1 of the Rainier Room region! Polls open tomorrow.

Rainier Room cash v Silver Tongue Devil

High Desert cardroom Cash v Petski's Poker Room

Flamingo tribute cash v Se7en Deuce cash

Willie's Treasure Trove v 420 cafe' tournament

On the Strip cash v Ambessa Poker Room cash

Side Show Poker tournament v Parris Glasvegas Luxury Casino & Resort

Eight Deuce tournament v Rosie's Bayou tournament

Rosie's Bayou limit set v Free River Club Edition 2020 43mm

Upcoming votes:
Coyote Gulch region: Round 1 (June 27) and Round 2 (June 30): @markleteenie, @MegaTon44, @Av8tion, @Frogzilla, Scrub Donkey Group Buyers, @Psypher1000, @Seeking Alpha Social Club,@jr8719, @Nuhockey, @Josh Kifer, @Bobb59, @Kid_Eastwood, @Pinball, @raynmanas, @wolfpack

 

[WedgeRock]

Rainier Room region

Rainier Room cash v Silver Tongue Devil [VOTE]

High Desert cardroom Cash v Petski's Poker Room [VOTE]

Flamingo tribute cash v Se7en Deuce cash [VOTE]

Willie's Treasure Trove v 420 cafe' tournament [VOTE]

On the Strip cash v Ambessa Poker Room cash [VOTE]

Side Show Poker tournament v Parris Glasvegas Luxury Casino & Resort [VOTE]

Eight Deuce tournament v Rosie's Bayou tournament [VOTE]

Rosie's Bayou limit set v Free River Club Edition 2020 43mm [VOTE]