As you're strolling across the plaza, you see a small piece of paper dancing in a balmy evening breeze. Your eyes being caught, you halt watching it winding throught the air, until it finally lands right to your feet. You frown and bend down to pick it up. Giving this piece of paper a baffled look, you realize that both sides of it are empty, except for a black border consisting of clean, curved lines on one of these sides. You shrug, cogitating if this piece of paper happened to be a torn out page of a blank book from Jayose, and you almost threw it away again, when suddenly...
[OOC]
'Yet another stupid duel tournament, *yawn*'
If that's what you're thinking, don't bother reading any further, 'cause you're right: It is indeed just another tournament.
To everyone who is
still curious:
This will be the first event I'm going to organize, and thus, I want to keep it simple, so that it's going to run as smooth as possible and without any complications. My next one will be more sophisticated, I guarantee you, but with this one I want to gain first experience in organizing. Nevertheless, I think it'll be thrilling to participate and watch.
The rules:Like I said, I want it to be simple; and the simplest tournaments go by the following rules:
1) No potions
2) No magic
3) Any armor
4) Any weapons
5) Jumping rule (jumping 3 times before the duel begins)
*6) No use of bugs or glitches, such as the instant-hit-bug.
*7) During the preliminaries, there will be a time restriction for each fight. If the battle hasn't ended after even 5 minutes, it'll be considered a tie, no matter who has more HP left.
I'm sorry to disappoint all the mages, who are starving for another great tournament such as the one, organized by The Way of the Hammer some time ago, but since there are a few bugs related to magic, I decided to keep any spells out of the fights, that could make someone call another person a 'cheater'. My apologies, but I was highly interested in avoiding such ugly and disturbing happenings during the tournament.
The mechanismPart I ~ PreliminariesThe tournament is dimensioned for 24 participants in total, who are going to be put into 8 groups of 3. In part one of the tournament, each member of a group will fight 2 times against the other 2 members. For each win, they'll get a point. The best 2 of each group will be allowed to enter the knock-out rounds, the 'third best' of each group drops out.
Part II ~ Knock-out roundsThe 16 fighters who were successful in the preliminaries are going to fight eachother in K.O. rounds, which means that a loss will be the end of the tournament for them. The 2 participants of each K.O. round will be determined by principle of contingency. This means, a die roll will decide who will fight against who.
The entry feeYes, there will be an entry fee, and with 25,000 trias each person, it might seem somewhat steep at first glance. But please think it over, 25,000 trias is not that much money. A set of plate mail costs about the same. However, the entry fee was purely made up to assure great prizes in the end.
The prizesWith an entry fee of 25,000 trias given by 24 participants, we have a total of incredible 600,000 trias, which are going to be split as following:
1st place: 300,000
2nd place: 200,000
3rd place: 100,000
You see, if you are confident to get a place within the top 3, the prize you'll be rewarded with will be at least 4 times as much as you gave for entering the tournament, so I think everyone who serioulsy thinks to be not too bad of a dueler, will be willing to risk the 100 circles it takes to enter. C'mon now, make an effort.
The locationThe location, and name giver of the event, will be the wilderness. To be exact, the tournament is going to be held on Ojaroad 2, right behind the green corridor, when coming from Hydlaa. The reason for why I chose this location for the venue, is that I have been looking for locations with little or no lag to begin with, and the place I chose, happened to provide no lag at all.
This doesn't mean the tournament is going to be free of all lag though, because the only lag I can avoid, is client lag, occuring due to too many objects in a scene. The server lag though, is unpredictable and has nothing to do with the environment, it can happen all the time.
Date and time of the eventI'm aiming for the event to be held on SATURDAY, 6th of October at:
19:00 GMT (UK)
21:00 CET (Central Europe)
12:00 PST (Western US)
14:00 CST (Central US)
15:00 EST (Eastern US)
(Someone correct me if I converted incorrectly.)
If we don't get 24 participants until that day, the event will be postponed 1 week, time will remain unchanged.
Things that are still missingAt least 1 camera guy, who records the whole event and either cuts it to a great (official) video himself, or passes me the material, so I can do it.
>Assigned to Restound<
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2 judges, who hold the entry fees and make sure that all fights are going by the rules. (A GM would be appreciated)
>Assigned to [blank]<
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A bunch of people, who take responsibility for the catering of the participants and the audience. (But without flooding the ground with pies and such, since many objects create the lag I tried to avoid)
>Assigned to Erisnas and his catering service<
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The sign upsNow to the sign ups. If you are interested in entering this event, please leave your name here and/or contact me ingame. Once your entry fee was paid, your name will be added to the list at the end of this post. I hope many people are interested and going to help me with making my first event a good one. Thanks in advance!!
~~Rongar
List of participantsRongar
Stylee
Akashani
Lecay
Shalier
Kezar
Indygo (not paid yet)
Jolilok
Mordaan
Lupul
Gargaru
Rybbamma
Hideaki
Vesego
Sakmette
Frangelica (not paid yet)
Lepohi
Kemedes
PS: For paying the entry fee, contact either me directly, or Nargon, my protege.
