Shoddy Battle Tourney [Under Construction]

[wolf]

Note for Staff: Feel free to merge this with the Wi-Fi Tourney thread if they're are too similar.

Since I'm lazy and all, I'll copy what I said in the Wi-Fi thread since it's pretty much the same: "Well, I'm sure a round robin would work best since the last one was kind of a failure to be honest. Should it be an OU tournament (most people wanted that)? However, there could be one tier for each day. The problem is is that I doubt many will even want to join a NU / Ubers tournament, especially with the PC's battling community kind of dead currently."

Otherwise, any ideas for prizes (probably be best to not have Pokemon since some may not have Wi-Fi)? I can't really think of anything, an emblem should be enough I assume.

 

[Jake♫]

I'd just say go with an emblem personally, I mean WiFi you can obviously do Pokemon, but most people don't. I mean we can offer them still, and maybe allow a person (if they win and don't have WiFi) to either A: Let them donate it to another user, or B: Just give it to the next highest place person who has WiFi.

And with the tournament type, with an event like this, we honestly have no freaking clue how many people we are going to have turn up, so I guess round-robin will work since it doesn't require a set number of people or anything, plus turning people away because we filled up a bracket for an event all about the community isn't too hot of an idea.

If we want to donate Pokemon, I still have a few RNGs lying around (And can do more if we really need to =P). I suppose I can whip up an emblem for it to (Yay for Photoshop xD)

tl;dr:

• Emblem for prize, Pokemon if they have Wifi, otherwise let them give it away or give it to the next highest placing person
• Round-robin works
• I can RNG for Pokemon if we want/Make the emblem

 

[Skip Shot]

Wolf, you could run it kind of like a S+M community night style: Day 1 is OU, Day 2 is UU, Day 3 is NU/Ubers, and Day 4 is a gimmick tourney, like no Stealth Rock, Team Swap, Fan Favorite (A random Pokemon is selected and required to be on every competitor's team), etc.

However if there are a lot of sign-ups for a particular tourney (say, the OU tourney) or you can predict that there will be a lot you can run 3 tourneys, one lasts two days, and the other two last a day each.

 

[wolf]

Wolf, you could run it kind of like a S+M community night style: Day 1 is OU, Day 2 is UU, Day 3 is NU/Ubers, and Day 4 is a gimmick tourney, like no Stealth Rock, Team Swap, Fan Favorite (A random Pokemon is selected and required to be on every competitor's team), etc.

However if there are a lot of sign-ups for a particular tourney (say, the OU tourney) or you can predict that there will be a lot you can run 3 tourneys, one lasts two days, and the other two last a day each.

That's close to what we're planning. In my opinion a simple round robin point system where you can battle with any tier all four days would work best. You have to remember that some will not be available all four days, and some would like to play only one tier. However, I will consider having a gimmick tourney on the last day.

 

[Jake♫]

I wouldn't mind throwing in a gimmick tournament at the end, just as a little send-off for people. No SR is just overdone though, so I do like the team swap ones. Or we could just be TOTALLY original and do fail monotype teams.