The Idea:
Collapsing Team Games
A fun, new way to play team games.
The Premise:
When one team is eliminated, the other(s) dissolve!
Help your team win this war, but prepare your forces for the next war....against your former allies! Much like how WWII transitioned into the Cold War....
The Implementation:
A two-stage game
Stage I
The game begins as a normal team game -- doubles or triples -- and plays like a normal team game until one of the teams has been eliminated.
Stage II
When one team has been completely eliminated, the remaining teams dissolve. The game essentially transforms into a Standard Game (Assassin? Terminator?) with the concept of teams going out the window and every player playing for themselves. Dog eat dog.
Scoring
This is the rough spot many of you think will make this type of game unplayable. But I say nay! Obviously, the players eliminated during normal Team play suffer point losses normally, and the members of the surviving teams all gain the appropriate numbers of points as if they'd won a normal team game. Then, when the teams collapse, each eliminated player looses points.
For example, say you're on the surviving team in a Collapsing Triples game, but then you get eliminated by one of your former team-mates after the teams dissolve. You would first gain points for being part of a winning team, then you would loose points for being eliminated in standard play.
Generally speaking, the point payoffs would be as follows:
Members of an eliminated team before the collapse will loose points normally.
Members of a "winning" team who are then eliminated after team dissolution by their former team-mates will generally gain and loose the same number of points, for a net gain somewhere around ZERO.
The player who eliminates all of the other players stands to gain a substantial number of points -- essentially twice, as they gain from winning a team game, then a standard game.
Basically, the ultimate top dog of a Collapsing Teams game would get double points. This type of game may be very tempting for many players, as it is sort of a "double-or-nothing" proposition.:twisted:
We have to figure out a way to keep people who are eliminated from a winning team before the collapse from gaining more points than team-mates who are eliminated after the collapse....
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