Tourneys

[TheBigRedOne]

Perhaps.

My rationale:

I'd like to embrace a totally unique SB game for the first tourney here in a long, long while. Sure, we could go with a tried-and-true WWII tourney. I'd imagine AoTR and ES would be the most popular in a general poll. AIW has been getting some solid gameplay here, thanks to Alpha Two, and just had 10 brand new scenarios added by Ozgur, one of the finest scenario designers out there. IMHO, it would be an excellent 'debut' for a tourney here, since it's been quite a long while since there's been one.

Bottom line, I'm looking to do something a little different here at the Blitz, rather than a run-of-the mill WWII tourney, at least to start with. Over the last several years, the SB community here has really suffered from a lack of attention and initiative. I volunteered to take this position as a way of infusing a bit of energy and life back into the boards and ladders. I'd like to mix things up, try some new things. I'd like to showcase some of the most recent happenings in the SB world, and the AIW mod by Andrew is just that. It is the most innovative thing in the SB community since Frank Harmon crafted Africa at War so many years ago, except that Andrew's work took the SB Mod world to a whole new level of innovation.

If this tourney goes well, I'll try to make them a regular appearance here and open up the second one to a general vote, eliminating games as they are played...I'd imagine that ES or AoTR would probably wind up being the next one.

Thoughts or comments are appreciated, this isn't a dictatorship. I'm merely trying to put the ball back in play here at the Blitz. I do realize that I might be diminshing the number of contestants for a tourney this way. I might have to live with a smaller initial one, which might not be bad, being I've never run one.