An idea to improve GAC time dramatically

"Ultra;c-1897094" wrote:
I don’t find the idea of setting 7 extra defenses as a what if opponent feasible from a time (user) and storage (database) perspective

Interesting idea @gura but the purpose of 8 man bracket is to make sure you are paired up with winners if you win and losers if you lose in same GP bracket instead of getting 3 easy opponents chosen purely by random

I think that's a tradeoff you have to consider if you want to save time (days of GA). I don't think you're going to get a change to blind defenses. Somewhere in the proposed change players are going to have to be able to set specific defenses for specific opponents. If you don't think setting 7 defenses is feasible then your idea is kind of sunk. You go back to needing the 24 hour defense period between rounds.

The 7 battles idea is a good one, in my opinion. Everybody battles everybody but it does add 2 days to the event. 1 day to join, 1 day for defense, 7 for battles/defense (9 days total). As opposed to 1 day to join, 3 alternating 1 day defense/1 day offense (7 days total). Kind of against the spirit of the OP. Also runs up against the "GA rewards are too small for the time invested" argument that pops up from time to time.

Personally, I don't think any of these ideas are worse than what we have nor are any noticeably better.