Talk:Tournaments/@comment-75.60.100.0-20100801194554

Yeah 1:1 means 50-50 of winning the tournament. Look it up, it's standard odds. In which case, why is it so surprising to occasionally lose? You SHOULD be losing - about half the time.

If you're always losing to someone who is 25:1, that might show there's a problem with Zynga. But my guess is that they're generating the odds and then rolling a die - in which case, you're simply going to lose to someone (worse than you) over the course of 3 rounds about half the time at 1:1.

It could be that the capping at 1:1 is a bit of problem (if they really are calculating the odds and using the odds they report for a die roll). If you're really trouncing the other guys in a normal fight, maybe you 'should' be at 95% to win the tournament. But then you'd have to start betting crazy amounts to win any real money - betting 2K to win 100 and the like.

And of course, for a lot of the tournament rounds the power/crew caps even out the fight. If you're capped at 10 total attack+defense power and 5 mafia, it's usually going to be a coin toss.