The Magus Cup Rules and Regulations

[Tainted Bushido]

Tournament Registration closes next Tuesday on the 28th.

First Round Begins on July 31st.

[Kially Gaith]

Once again, another tournament my character would have no feasibility to be in. X_x

Come on guys! Enough with the fighting! Can't we for once have something like an Althanian 'sports day' or somethin'? Gettin' tired of all this e-penis comparing in fights.

The "You punch me, I punch you" thing feels so outdated, especially given the whole emphasis on it. Am I the only one who believes this?

[Visla Eraclaire]

Once again, another tournament my character would have no feasibility to be in. X_x

Come on guys! Enough with the fighting! Can't we for once have something like an Althanian 'sports day' or somethin'? Gettin' tired of all this e-penis comparing in fights.

The "You punch me, I punch you" thing feels so outdated, especially given the whole emphasis on it. Am I the only one who believes this?

I do have to concur in this. Every single tournament is based around battling. Given the fact that you repeatedly had to point out in the ToC that the competition was in writing and not the RPed fighting, wouldn't it make sense to do something where the characters aren't beating the tar out of eachother.

Capture the McGuffin? It doesn't matter what. I signed up and am almost destined to score poorly in numerous areas because Visla isn't a fighter. This is something I've commented on since the beginning of Althanas. The more self-absorbedly melodramatic and fighting oriented your character is, the more Althanas caters to you.

That being said, this tournament is too soon to do anything about. I just wish you guys would quit having the Nth Annual Same Shit We Did Before Tournament

[BlackAndBlueEyes]

So then you signed up why?

Onto more productive matters... Would it be alright if, say, both participants in a match decide on other conditions to compete in outside of battling each other (hell, I used a best-of-three carnival games competition in one of my Pagoda battles on one occasion), and if they get moderator approval, could they do that instead of a duel to the finish?

Y'know, just as an alternate option for a select few of us.

[Inkfinger]

Would it be alright if, say, both participants in a match decide on other conditions to compete in outside of battling each other (hell, I used a best-of-three carnival games competition in one of my Pagoda battles on one occasion), and if they get moderator approval, could they do that instead of a duel to the finish?

Y'know, just as an alternate option for a select few of us.

This! I like this idea!

[Visla Eraclaire]

So then you signed up why?

How snide. Then you go on to discuss exactly the same thing I did... Some people...

That being said, this tournament is too soon to do anything about.

That is why.

[Taskmienster]

Just a heads up. There are other features coming in the future, one of which is not a fighting tournament. (OH MY! not sure if I'm supposed to tell anyone. )

However, I'm sure that if anyone is interested in suggesting tournaments to the staff... there is a forum that's completely created in the OOC area just for that. Your Word is for suggestions and questions.

Thanks Visla for explaining what I was going to tell him, it's already made and posted, no changing it right now.

[The International]

To Visla and Kially: I can understand your frustration with the persisting conditions of Althanas tournaments, but it really isn't a matter of Althanas. Fantasy and action/violence have gone hand in hand for quite some time now. All the best known works of fantasy (Tolkien, Lovecraft, D&D, even Alice In Wonderland if you consider it fantasy) have a large element of life or death action and violence. It's only natural for the people to continue doing what works. Now I'm not saying that your desire for something other than action is not valid. I for one would love to have a thread where my characters are just having a good time and some drama just creeps up on its own. And if the most recent incarnation of Battlestar Galactica has taught us anything it's that Sci Fi and Fantasy can be amazing drama. I do have to disagree with this statement...

The more self-absorbedly melodramatic and fighting oriented your character is, the more Althanas caters to you.

Have you read the quest Scaling Heaven? It's not an action oriented thread but it was absolutely amazing. From what I've read these battles aren't a competition of characters. They're a competition of their writers, but it wouldn't hurt to use a little teamwork as if you were collaborating for a quest. I plan on PMing whoever I'm pitted against so we can at least work on a good intro. This in character premise (or complete lack there of) is a condition that us writers should have the creativity and imagination to build from. Your character may never be randomly hunting someone through Concordia, but my character would never ever enter a highly publicized tournament. With that being said if the two of us were to be pitted against each other, I'm sure we can create a circumstance in which our characters would cross paths and perhaps swords. What makes it a battle is who does the better job as a writer.

[Max Dirks]

Who said you have to "fight" in tournaments?

See here for an example of a non-combat tournament battle.

[Bear Man]

Wait, I've been reading this...does this mean that for a Citadel battle or a Magus battle we could have, say, a riddling contest? Or a game of capture the flag? Or a fishing contest? Or whatever?

Sweet.