I've played in a number of tournaments, but never organized one, so here's my first (and possibly last
) shot at doing so! The premise is fairly simple: you'll start off playing 8-player games, the finals will consist of 1v1 games, and you'll play every size in between as you work your way through the rounds. All games will be standard and sequential, with most of them being sunny, with escalating spoils and chained forts. If you reach the finals, you'll have the chance to choose fog, spoils, and fortification settings.
In the early rounds, you'll play a single game; all you have to do to advance is avoid being one of the first two players knocked out of your game. The game sizes will decrease as you get deeper into the tourney. (I have no idea if my description was confusing people, but this should not be a very games-intensive tourney--you'll play only one game at a time before the semifinals.)
In each round, you'll be randomly divided into groups appropriate to the size of that game. In every round before the semifinals, the total number of games played is one less than the number of players per game. In other words, the first round contains seven 8-player games, the next round contains six 7-player games, and so on. Things will change a bit when you hit the semifinals.
Although in most rounds, we're working on a simple elimination system (people knocked out of a game first leave the tourney), do your best to win each game! Those wins will give you an added bonus in the semifinals, as described below.
Here's how the rounds will play out:
[spoiler=Rounds 1-5]
- Round 1: Seven 8-player games on World 2.1 (56 total players) The first two players eliminated from each game are out of the tournament; everyone else moves on. This rule holds until the semifinals.
- Round 2: Six 7-player games on WWII Australia (42 total players)
- Round 3: Five 6-player games on North America (30 total players)
- Round 4: Four 5-player games on USA (20 total players)
- Round 5: Three 4-player games on Europe (12 total players)[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Semifinals]- Semifinals: 3-player games (6 players total) Here's where things change a bit:
- Each player will play a series of 3 games against the same group; each player gets to choose one map, although the settings remain the same.
- The winner of each group will be the person with the highest total point score--a win gets 3 points, second place gets 2, and third place gets 1 ...
- ... but each player also gets one bonus point for every win in an earlier round of the tournament.
- In the event of a tie in this round, the entire group will play a 3-player game on Montreal, with the person who places highest moving on to the finals. If only two players are tied, the third player is not eligible to make the finals even if a win in the tiebreaker would give him or her a higher point total.
[spoiler=Finals]- Finals: 2-player games (2 players total) A best-of-five series.
- Each player can choose maps, spoils, fortifications, and fogginess for 2 of the games.
- You can use the same settings or different settings for those games.
- If the series is tied after four games, the tiebreaker will be played on Classic Shapes, with the same settings as earlier rounds.
Notes:- I'll be playing in this tourney--I'm not going to make a tourney with an idea I like and not join it!
- Suggestions for changes are certainly welcome, as I'm sure to forget or screw something up. If I do change something in the tournament, I will give you appropriate notice.
- Freemiums are allowed, as most rounds require only one game at a time.
- No foe lists--if an opponent is on your foe list, you must remove that player.
- Deadbeat your way out of a game, and you will be kicked out of the tournament, even if you lasted long enough to move on before deadbeating. Your spot will be given to the eliminated player who lasted the longest in your game.
- Reserves will (hopefully) only be used to fill games in the first round. A player failing to join a game will be replaced by the eliminated player from their last game who lasted the longest.
- You will have 72 hours to join games once they are sent out.
- Please post game results in this thread or send me the results via PM.
[spoiler=players]- geigerm
- J-mad22
- DimnjacarStef
- blindmatt
- HighlanderAttack
- jly_thechampion
- Athiest
- lanceeee
- acores2005
- poptartpsycho18
- JoJo123
- Death_on_a_horse
- Mikalf
- andy_is_awesome
- Gryms (replaced by sportsgod24)
- Jim1086
- riskthis
- PAUL912
- Iffy Boatrace
- baggins994
- Greg82
- Jack_Strap
- Portmangray
- sargonflex
- ga7
- Aesop Jones
- seamusvibe
- rocklobsterwg3
- CarrotKhan
- AtreidesHouse
- Maroon Beret
- m33
- OutSider
- ZionT
- angola
- Shurr
- iambligh
- Kalano Sanchin
- endar1077
- badnuzjr
- le_tigre
- methdeez
- unknownhero
- Vrb
- dijxtra (replaced by LLLUUUKKKEEE)
- Gilligan
- ralphcptc
- dfp2dep
- barterer2002
- bonus_mop
- goggles paisano
- Gypsys Kiss
- Electrokel
- aniximo
- KidWhisky
- graulenst
Reserves:- LLLUUUKKKEEE (replaced dijxtra in Round 1)
- sportsgod24 (replaced Gryms in Round 1)
- TaCkTiX
- Plumey
- Gamefreakguy
- bandtree
- harvmax
- Lufsen75
- Semifinals: 3-player games (6 players total) Here's where things change a bit:
