A round-robin system, say, for 10 players, is fair for determining the best, but unlike the Swiss system, where everyone plays, due to its closed nature, it will provide little for our resource to improve skills, and that's why.
How do you like this prospect - in the main Tournaments of the World, in the top ten, there are, say, 6 players from Bay and 4 from Portal...
I agree. But options with a filter are also not very good in this regard. Because if players only play "with their own," without the participation of strong players from other resources, then skill growth is unlikely to be significant.
The World could become a battlefield not only in games but also in squabbles, i.e., how a Portal player offended a Bay player or vice versa, and what kind of... weirdos they are after that - I don't want that on the World.
In general, it might be better not to divide players into "ours" and "others"; everyone who appears here is "one of us."
This approach will certainly ensure greater popularity for the resource and prestige for the championship (Tournament) on it.
Perhaps, in general, a Tournament with the status of a HW championship could be held every six months, and not only the top 10, but everyone could participate. Play the entire Tournament using the Swiss system.
Because when drawing up the next round, opponents are determined, taking into account an equal or approximately equal number of points, after 3-4 rounds, we will get that very group of strong players who will play among themselves, and players with a slightly smaller number of points will continue to have a chance to join the fight, and so on.
It can be held in rounds of 2 weeks, that is, 12 rounds in six months.
The results of such a Tournament can be considered the main ranking on HW, or rather, it should be, this will maintain the motivation of players who, after half of the Tournament, say, have scored a small number of points, to continue the fight and climb higher in the ranking.
And if it is necessary to assemble a team for some match, then it is quite possible to choose from those who want to play in a match based on the rating (result of the Tournament).
That is, there are no conditions for players participating in the Tournament to play for the World in matches. But choose from those who want to.
In theory, people can join such a Tournament not from the very beginning; for example, a new player arrives, and 5 rounds have already been played; let him join with 0 points, of course, he will still have time to score some points.
Thus, we will have both a champion of the resource and prize-winners, and a top 10, 15, etc.
And with a schedule of 1 game every 2 weeks, those who wish can also play in other Tournaments in parallel.
There are also thoughts that if we take good ideas from other resources, then we should play not only 2sm4d3, but also other templates, 8mm6, Spider, etc.
For example, one round on one template, the second round on the second, the third on the third, and so on.
Play not only SoD, but also allow TE, if the players wish.