Althanas HARDCORE RULES Tournament

[Breaker]

The time intervals I'm talking about are more like 24-48 hours

[Rayse Valentino]

All of those things sound like stuff already in normal tournaments?

I'm actually not following how any of this can be considered HARDCORE. Word counts, no editing, time limits, these things make a tournament easier, not harder. I think a real hardcore tournament would eschew silly restrictions and instead strive to promote the most quality through unique circumstances, trying to get the best out of everyone. It's like replacing a mountain with an escalator for a mountain climber and calling the new task HARDCORE!

[Breaker]

If there's a tournament that imposes a word restriction or a no editing policy, I'm unaware of it. Gonna ignore the rest of the trolling.

[Rayse Valentino]

Pretty sure some iterations of The Cell disallowed editing once someone else has posted. And most tournaments have had time limits. I'm not sure how adding a word count to The Cell for instance would fundamentally alter anything, other than punishing anyone who wanted to be detailed.

What you're originally describing are just speed battles, which are historically fast, low effort romps. You're removing the things that produce quality - time, length, and revision, so naturally you're making things easier for people who don't bother with that stuff anyway.

[Rayse Valentino]

Actually, a speed battle tournament would be hilarious. Both people set up a time to start and have 15min per post. No edits, no stopping. It's ez mode but at least it would be the shortest tournament in history.