The Official World in Flames Tournament Thread

[Crossroads]

Thanks Earl for sharing your thoughts with us :)

Those are good points, and l agree they should be discussed. So let me try to answer them and while doing so I invite everyone else to share their concerns and experiences as well.

Tournament philosophy
- A fun tournament everyone can join in
- A system that accommodates for mixed teams of experienced and new players
- A tournament that would have the members to play types of battles they would not otherwise play
- A tournament that will not wither and die, as it is about teams with a capability to pick up where someone has left the battlefield

Enabling the philosophy
- An experienced CinC who oversees the team distribution
- Those playing a one-on-one are likely to finish first, and would start with a team game in the next round. This provides for the necessity for balancing noobs such as myself with the gurus out there.
- Hopefully we end up with CinCs volunteering into the job. This is one of the areas I am a bit worried of. If no one wants to be a CinC, maybe, well let us just wait and see how it works out...

Points system and gamey tactics
- I hope the simple point system and the number of players balances things out
- Gamey tactics are a valid concern. The thread that was around a couple of months ago had a good discussion of them, and I like to try the philosophy that for each gamey tactic there is a counter tactic that spoils it. I know many members go into detail as what is that they are willing to accept, but really would not like to have any (too much?) of that around. If some one wants to flee the battlefield in panic, so may it be. It will be a long war, and things should even out.

And finally:

Optional rules
I agree this needs to be nailed as one of the first things. I propose the following:
- If a scenario is explicitly balanced for certain options, they will be used.
- In all other scenarios the Tournament rules are used. My proposal:
-- All optional rules ON except VV, AF
-- I know especially AF is something people have different opinions of, so please speak out now.
-- I am hoping we would not play with EA off, but again, am willing (of course I am!) to accommodate for a consensus on that as well.


These are my 0,02 of course. Others, what do you think?

PS I am now confusing everyone with this other thread I came out to advertise the tournament. Sorry about that. Of course, the other thread got much more philosophical, meanwhile. I will monitor all three including the tournament thread it self, to get everyone's opinion in!