The Tsw World Cup: Season Three

Ladies and Gentlemen.
The first ever TSW (Loco) world cup has ended and the results have been handed to me.

3rd Place - Acela express - 8 Votes (total in competition 108 )
Bit of a surprise but unfortunately Acela express fell very short of winning but it should still be praised for being the best American Loco
2nd Place - DB br class 101 + cab car - 24 Votes (total in competition 199)
It was a very close competition between this loco and the winner with only a slight difference however the 101 has been excellent in this competition and deserves a honorable mention.

1st Place - Blackpool Branches - 31 Votes (total in competition 265)
Ladies and Gentlemen of the TSW Forum, it is with great pleasure that I announce that the winner of the TSW (Loco) World Cup, is...... Just train's class 87

Which received the most votes in this competition and thx to Just trains has now received first place making Just Trains having the honor of receiving both TSW world cups which is a feat in it's self so congrats.
Thank you to everyone who has participated in this fun little festive-season contest. Me and trainsimplayer do hope it was fun and we can't wait for next year's world cup.

 

A deserved double for Just Trains' newest entry and I do hope everyone enjoyed this year's World Cup, both the route one and the slightly disrupted Loco version. A huge thanks to gwrfan#3416 for stepping in to see the Loco World Cup through to it's conclusion and I'd be more than happy to see you involved in the same tournament next year, if you wish.

Until then, it's time to fade back into the darkness and wait for the winter to come.

Take care folks, and thanks for playing.

 

Brrr. It's getting cold out there.
It's almost like the annual TSW World Cup is just around the corner...

 

Yes!! Looking forward to it!

 

First speculation: since the previous World Cup, I have seen no serious new contenders for the trophy. The next JT release will probably be too late to compete this time round.

Edit: maybe Mittenwaldbahn for a spot in the final.

 

Woohoo!! Great stuff! JT better hurry up and release Preston-Crewe lol ….will be interesting to see who / what ends up on top. Riviera is a candidate for sure. Let’s see!

 

Looking forward to this very much. A year's worth of new DLCs, plus whatever natural forum turnover has occurred, should add enough freshness to keep things interesting. The last one was also a good source of recommendations for future sales.

 

A question as I begin to prepare the competition: Would the typical set-up (endless forum threads with a poll each, because we still aren't allowed multiple in one thread) be preferred or would a third-party thing (i.e. Google Docs) be preferred?

I've made a Google Doc for the UK Groups (using last year's) just to see what it looks like and it seems like it could be optimal. It would also let us keep everything in this thread so the conversation isn't split up all over the forum.

 

Typical set up is probably preferable. Paging candacedtg - please may you investigate with the community team to see if multiple polls in one thread can be introduced?

 

Dunno, multiple polls in a thread would mean having to find the poll you want buried in all the messages. Much easier to have the one poll at the top IMO. It's also much easier to find a particular recent thread than a particular post in a popular and quickly expanding thread.

 

With a field this deep, it would be better I think to start with group round robins like the FWC, before the bracketed knockouts start.

 

If we have a new contest this year it will be harder to vote as there’s an increasing number of DLC I simply haven’t bothered buying.

 

Surely it'll make voting easier, less to choose from!

 

How about a World Cup for Bugs?

We could all submit the ones that we are most annoyed about. Then we can have the knock-out competition as normal.
Then, when the Winner is crowned, DTG commit to fixing both finalists and both semi-finalists within a month.

Now that sounds like a "Win, Win".

 

Better than my idea for "the best route with no bugs", where no route would be eligible!

 

IIRC from when the forum had multiple polls they'd all sit at the top. Or, if it wasn't this forum and i'm mistaken, that's how most forums are set up.

The issue this year is that a poll's limit is 25, the UK alone has 29 routes (haven't checked EU/NA yet) meaning that even as it stands I'd have to do most likely five, if not six, group stage threads.

Perhaps I could still do the traditional three threads but with multiple polls within, if the DTG team could facilitate that.

 

Well, like/helpful poll for the format then:
Like this post if you'd prefer to see the old format (albeit with 5/6 Group Stage threads)
OR
'Helpful' this post if you'd prefer to use Google Forms.

My 2c would be the first option but I think the sheer number of threads needed may require a little chat with DTG, so to avoid a ban for spam

 

Thank you for checking anyway

 

Keep on the forum, don't really want to have to use Google if at all posiible, please.

 

Agreed. Might not be ideal, but it still works.

 

Forum, definitely. IIRC, some DTG staff also posted that they enjoyed the tournament last time, so I imagine they'll cut you some slack.

I'm sure it won't be too hard to come up with divisions, like geographical (East vs West, North vs South), alphabetical, diesel vs electric, or however you want.

Only suggestion I would have is to reshuffle the seedings from last time to avoid repeating the same matchups.

 

I think for Europe I may split it along the best division of Europe possible; Aldi Süd vs Aldi Nord...

France, Northern Germany, Netherlands in Nord,
Southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland (+ Italy) in the south.

Majority of routes appear to be in the South so I'll manipulate the boundaries to include Köln to help it out a little.

UK I may just divide at random.

US might get away with one, if not we'll do the typical Freight / Passenger split.

 

Up to you of course, but I would encourage you to split North America between freight and passenger. Audiences are rather different. I would not want to choose between, say, Morristown and SPG.

 

I'll be splitting the votes as in the previous comps, it's just a question of the thread.

(2023's 'Mixed' Group ended up more about Passenger v Freight than the routes so I'd like to avoid that if I can.