Private Tournament

[The Architect]

I'm sure someone in the past has had this idea or even implemented it, but I was thinking about organizing a private tournament with my power group. This is something I haven't even talked to them about yet. The majority of our ideas are discussed behind closed doors, but I think this would be a wonderful one to discuss out in the open. The idea came to me earlier today, and I think I divised a way to stage a private tournament in which the moderators would simply do their standard scoring as if they were regular battles. The plan would go roughly as follows:

Step 1
First of all we'd need money or something in the way of a prize, and a setting. The setting would be no problem because... well... shit, my character's an architect and the power group is basically a giant contractor with a heart(j/k). We could have an arena built within a quest or two. Let's say the prize is something simple, like money. Or one of the Althanas legends could donate one of their legendary items? (not likely) Let's just go with the money. Say we offer a cash prize of 2000gp. I know some of you big whigs consider that chump change but I'm sure some of us could use that. We'd accumulate that money with an admission's fee of 100gp for thirty slots. They all fill up and we have our prize money and a little on the side for operational expenses.

Step 2
Special stipulations of the tournament. Of course no House of Sora member would be allowed to participate. OOCly it would be unfair, and ICly they'd be busy hosting the damn thing. Either way, what stipulations would you guys like to see in a tournament? I was thinking we could bring back the Theatre of War style where the IC winner is the OOC winner as well (correct me if I'm thinking of something else). We could do a stripped down Gisela style without the locations and stuff we saw in the most recent incarnation. We could throw down something completely out of this world, or just compete the plain ol' fashion way: best writer wins.

Step 3
The actual tournament takes place. We wouldn't need a special subforum like the rest of the tournaments. The tournament manager, whether it be me or some other House member would post match threads with a special title in the appropriate IC forum. Contestants would come and compete, like the other tournaments we'd impose time limits, and when the round is over the moderators would judge them like regular old battle threads. They really wouldn't have to do anything besides the normal work. Or the House of Sora members could judge the threads themselves and issue out scores (I always thought Ataraxis would be a good judge ). Winners would go on to the next round and the process would be repeated until we have one mand standing. We give him the 2000gp and that would be the end of it.


So what do you guys think? I know this whole thing has a hole in it somewhere, especially since it's so vague and the tournament has no details. Of course I would wait until the FQ is done to do something like this as well. Plus I wouldn't be comfortable doing it without the support of the House of Sora. What I really need to know is do you guys think it's possible, and what ideas would you have to add to this?

[Mathias]

That actually sounds like an amazing idea. It's a bit audacious to suggest players doing the judging (although, I highly doubt any rewards could be issued by them. Which is logical of course.) But hey! Ain't nothing in the rules about it.

Hmh. This is a really good idea.

[Call me J]

First of all we'd need money or something in the way of a prize, and a setting. The setting would be no problem because... well... shit, my character's an architect and the power group is basically a giant contractor with a heart(j/k). We could have an arena built within a quest or two. Let's say the prize is something simple, like money. Or one of the Althanas legends could donate one of their legendary items? (not likely) Let's just go with the money. Say we offer a cash prize of 2000gp. I know some of you big whigs consider that chump change but I'm sure some of us could use that. We'd accumulate that money with an admission's fee of 100gp for thirty slots. They all fill up and we have our prize money and a little on the side for operational expenses.

I may be willing to donate a legendary item. Lets talk about this sometime. I'd want a few assurances that the tournament is going to happen and that we could come up with a good IC rationale for it to happen.

Also, if you're going to have an entry fee, I would reccomend having a smaller overall purse, but award something for every victory. For instance, quarterfinalists get 150 GP, semis 200, runner up 400, winner 500 or something like that.

Players could do the judging to decide who advances. Of course, the only way to get EXP and GP is to have a moderator judge it, unless you work something out.

[The Architect]

Also, if you're going to have an entry fee, I would reccomend having a smaller overall purse, but award something for every victory. For instance, quarterfinalists get 150 GP, semis 200, runner up 400, winner 500 or something like that.

If we had a legendary item to supplement the winnings I'd definitely be down for that. It would be great if you're willing to donate one. You could simply directly give the item to the winner yourself. We wouldn't even have to hold it.

[Seth_Rahl]

Ataraxis should defenitely judge.

[Call me J]

If we had a legendary item to supplement the winnings I'd definitely be down for that. It would be great if you're willing to donate one. You could simply directly give the item to the winner yourself. We wouldn't even have to hold it.

That sounds good. Basically, I would want the item to revert to Damon if the tournament crapped out at some point. I'll send you some PMs later with an IC rationale.

Also, the item in question would be the Slayer Songbook, in case you were going to ask.

[Breaker]

I would participate in this because I like battling, and it's a good overall idea. I do in fact have a suggestion that would make this very interesting.

Impose a word count per post limit. This will force writers to get creative in new ways and keep things exciting and original. Also, this way mods can judge the battles quickly so we still get EXP and all that great stuff.

[Slayer of the Rot]

If Shyam is donating a Legendary Iitem to this I am definitely going to participate.

EDIT: Also I like killing things.

[Call me J]

Impose a word count per post limit. This will force writers to get creative in new ways and keep things exciting and original. Also, this way mods can judge the battles quickly so we still get EXP and all that great stuff.

That is a really neat stip. Put it at something like 200 words.

[Breaker]

That is a really neat stip. Put it at something like 200 words.

You read my mind psychic man.