When I read the ruleset for the original tournament, I thought the swapping bots thing would make for a suitably wacky gimmick. Since that one didn't work out, I figured I'd do it myself. I did steal the "each bot on the team fights one bot on the other team" rule from Trios of Terror, since I thought that was a good way to do team matches.
Even if people do enter troll teams, the winner would still have 2 good bots left, so they could still win their next match. I could put in some kind of "no obviously low-quality entries" rule, if you think that would help (though it might be hard to judge). I want to keep the swapping bots thing though, since that's the unique thing about this tournament (also because that's how it works in the Battle Factory in Pokemon, so if I change that, the name wouldn't make any sense.)
Well, now I feel there is no reason for me to host Trios of Terror 2 anytime soon, if at all.
The difference betwixt this and ToT is that ToT is more of a serious tournament, while this would be more of a stupid gimmick thing. I don't think one would necessarily overshadow the other.
stock mw... eh
Weightclass and game version are up for debate; I just put that there to have something. I'm not really a fan of IRL though, so if the game changes it'd most likely be to DSL-Standard.
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also the incentive for last tournament's winner is very weak. 0.1-0.2 kg bonus only ?
It's a joke prize; not really meant to be useful at all.
allow him to have more than three bots maybe ? like four bots, and he chooses three of the four in each round, but the fourth bot is eliminated if it loses a battle, and he's back to three bots for the rest of the tourney ? so the fourth bot is kinda an ace in the hole, and it gives him a small advantage, but it can be easily removed.
Very interesting idea actually. The battle factory in Pokemon uses teams of three, so that's why it's set up like it is. I might use that for something, though.
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