Author Topic: General Tournament Discussion (Read 143036 times)

cephalopod · « **Reply #820 on:** November 02, 2015, 03:48:50 AM »

Why wouldn't we? We had a lot of people bumping old threads that clearly weren't going to come to anything so this is a lot less confusing. An Inactive tournament can be picked back up anytime and by anyone. I literally don't see why you'd ask that question because it seems so obvious.

Hercules · « **Reply #821 on:** November 02, 2015, 11:48:18 AM »

I would love to see a crawler tournament, but i dont have the skillz to host it

yugitom · « **Reply #822 on:** November 02, 2015, 12:43:18 PM »

Quote from: Hercules on November 02, 2015, 11:48:18 AM

I would love to see a crawler tournament, but i dont have the skillz to host it

I'd imagine that would be quite boring, unless you made it unique and/or gave the tournament a twist.

Reier · « **Reply #823 on:** January 07, 2016, 07:41:43 PM »

So I was thinking about maybe doing a tournament again. I have 2 ideas.
1. revive Ironclash. I've hosted tournaments before, I know what I'm doing. Ironclash was started by Craaig and then dropped. It's a standard MW ironforge tournament, those are a bit too few imo and it would give people a chance to test out their MWs and stuff.
2. "offroad" tournament. This one could be a lot of fun. It would be ironforge also and take place in the DSL mars arena. Wedges and stuff would be useless and it would make people come up with new innovations and I think it could be a blast. I'm leaning more towards this.

I'm not certain I will even do a tournament, but I just want to see how much interest this gains. Anybody interested in either of these?

yugitom · « **Reply #824 on:** January 07, 2016, 07:56:14 PM »

I would be interested in watching the second one, definitely sounds fun. Also, what's popular nowadays, stock, DSL (-S or IRL?) or Ironforge?

RedAce · « **Reply #825 on:** January 07, 2016, 07:58:38 PM »

I'm fine with either (I still have that drum in my showcase ready for whenever). But I think the second one could provide some interesting results.

Reier · « **Reply #826 on:** January 07, 2016, 07:58:57 PM »

Oh yeah forgot the second one would also be ironforge. I know 2.2 is coming out soon but I just like IF better now. I'm not necessarily against 2.2 though.
i really think the offroad one would be a fun time. it would be unique too as far as I'm aware.

090901 · « **Reply #827 on:** January 07, 2016, 08:00:09 PM »

offroad

Thrackerzod · « **Reply #828 on:** January 07, 2016, 08:01:21 PM »

name the offroad one "Offroad Extreme!"

Reier · « **Reply #829 on:** January 07, 2016, 08:03:23 PM »

I'm thinking Offroad Opocalypse
Extreme could be good if I'm going for SUPER OVER THE TOP which I likely will but then again Opocalypse could work for that too and sounds even more ridiculous
I'm still not certain I will do a tournament due to time, but I did like hosting them. n00b warz were a lot of fun. I'm feeling the waters for some interest too.

Meganerdbomb · « **Reply #830 on:** January 09, 2016, 09:36:22 PM »

Why not Offroad Opocalypse EXTREME?

Naryar · « **Reply #831 on:** January 13, 2016, 10:00:51 AM »

We need another n00b warz, to be honest.

mars arena tournament would be nice, I guess.

Natef · « **Reply #832 on:** January 13, 2016, 10:12:27 AM »

Aw man I loved N00b Warz

Mystic2000 · « **Reply #833 on:** January 13, 2016, 11:16:25 AM »

i wanted to do one but never completed it, it's in inactive discussion somewhere, should i take it over and complete it now that i have recording stuff?

Reier · « **Reply #834 on:** January 13, 2016, 12:50:15 PM »

if anybody wants to do their own take on n00b warz, i give them my blessing

Conraaa · « **Reply #835 on:** January 15, 2016, 05:51:45 AM »

Me! Me! Let me do it!

Reier · « **Reply #836 on:** January 15, 2016, 09:32:33 AM »

go ahead if you want bud
i can send you the intro music if you want

Conraaa · « **Reply #837 on:** January 17, 2016, 04:48:44 PM »

If you could that'd be grand

Thrackerzod · « **Reply #838 on:** January 22, 2016, 11:46:50 PM »

oh boy oh boy it's time for another terrible Thrackerzod gimmick idea (tm)

OK this one's a weird one. Basically, the idea is a 16-bot single elimination tournament with a dumb, luck-based twist. Let's say Bot 1 and Bot 2 have a match. If Bot 1 wins, Bot 2 then joins Bot 1's "team" for future matches. Then, if Bot 1's team beats Bot 3's team in the next round, all the bots on Bot 3's team join Bot 1's team. Here's how the rounds would play out:
ROUND 1: Standard single elimination
ROUND 2: 2 v 2 team matches. Assuming Bot 1 beat Bot 2 in Round 1, Bot 1's options are:
A. 2 copies of Bot 1
B. Bot 1 and Bot 2
C. 2 copies of Bot 2
ROUND 3: 2 v 2 team matches. For this round, you can use any two bots on your team, but cannot double up a single robot (this is because I figure, by this point, surely you've got at least one other decent bot on your team.)
FINAL: Best of 3, 2 v 2 team matches. Each participant selects 6 of the bots on their team to compete. You may not double up any robots.

ok so there's that. Here are some of the problems I forsee:
-terrible gimmick idea that no one will like
-Will not work without 16 entries. Running 15 + byebot (or less bot + more byebot) would give someone's team a major disadvantage.
-I can't think of a way I would enter this fairly, given that I'd know which bots everyone's using. That means one less entry.
-Allowing for double entries might work, but it would kinda mess things up if you were going against yourself in one of the later matches, so you knew which bots you had picked.

That said, I did make the logo for it, so at least that's something.

Sircreepalot2 · « **Reply #839 on:** January 23, 2016, 12:06:12 AM »

i like it