greentime wrote:
What I would support, though, is the top eight having the opportunity to change squads. Whatever they play the first day, the top eight counts as a separate tournament and everyone can tinker with their squad or play guess-the-meta and change it wholesale. The amount of metagaming that night would be amazing.
This. Would. Be. Awesome!!1!!!!
However, I think there would probably need to be a limit on how many points of your squad could change. You could change one piece, or else up to 25pts (or 50pts?) of your 200pt squad. If you could change your squad entirely (eg, switch from Republic to Seps), then what we'd really have is an 8-person tournament which is in many ways divorced from the Swiss rounds that brought those players to that point. I'd like to see the main squads remain mostly the same, with minor adjustments being made to the overall design of the squads.
It's an intriguing idea, one that we talked about on and off during our hotel conversations at Gencon.