NA Tournament

[panderson]

Likin the idea of a clan tourney.

[Huey Newton]

I'm Tsar, everything is done for my benefit.

But of course my lord

[Earthdforce]

I wouldn't mind a team tournament or two. I think it would be a great way for clans to learn about their allies and such.

[Wallace]

I vote 1 v 20 because I iz dat awesome

[Diomedes]

I'd be up for a clan tourney or a kind of team tourney.  I don't know what's expected but drawing some names out of hats would be good, with some names deliberately separated for balance.  E.g. Joshko, Devilize, Sylauris, Whalen, and PlatonicPie are randomly put on team ALPHA-[insert team's chosen name here] and they'll first fight team BETA-[other team] featuring Goretooth, Pandersonsonsonsonsonsonsonsonson, Noobie, Suuper, etc. 

Perhaps players should first sign up and then the selection committee could bracket them as they see fit, with every team having players drawn from each bracket.  This may solve the HarmlessPeasant problem which'll inevitably come up.  Also, time-specific teamspeak/vent channels should also be provided if there's any sort of random team selection going on. 

NOTE: If another pair of eyes is needed to watch over any matches or whatnot I can do that.  It's almost summer break and I should have a disgusting amount of spare time to spend for invigilating.

[Adrian]

I say just keep it simple for now and run a clan tournament. That would be easy to rank etc. Teams would be cool too, but not as easy to rank as teams may eventually change their players creating a new team so to say. So if you just wanted a "one and done" sort of tournament then by all means let it just be teams of whoever.

[Gorath]

I appreciate the PM, but this is the first day I haven't pulled a 15+ hour shift and got home still concious enough to check the forums.  Haven't been able to play in weeks.  I wish you much luck on your tourney though.   (Gonna go powernap before I head back for another shift now)

I voted Clan Tourney btw.  Clan vs Clan matches are the best thing in gaming.

[ORiainRex]

My vote goes for team matches for sure.  Random/balanced, so that we can see clan-mates square off against each other, both knowing each others strengths and weaknesses.  Plus, it gives players like me who aren't part of a clan a chance to participate

[Cyclopsided]

Clan/team combat sounds fun.
what is the #s on each team; 12 v 12? 8 v 8? 4 v 4?
Larger clan battles shouldn't be apart of the tournament; but as separate individual clan battles in and of themselves.

[Sphinxer]

I like the random team made by the players who enrolled. So you don't have the big players making a team just to win, but have to do with their teamates that they'll get (Having Goretooth being stuck with me for example )

[Gorath]

I like the random team made by the players who enrolled. So you don't have the big players making a team just to win, but have to do with their teamates that they'll get (Having Goretooth being stuck with me for example )

Isn't this essentially just a standard battle match?   

Random teams generally suck in regards to always being able to blame wins and losses on crappy teams and random chance.  Every organized sport uses pre-selected teams afaik.  I can't think of any sport/competition where a bunch of dudes just get together and start drawing lotto numbers to see what their "team" is going to be.  Those are school-age playground games or at best pick-up games at the local park or something.

[Bothersome_Aldryk]

I'd support teams with pre-chosen members. This'd give smaller clans and clanless players a chance to participate.

[Kophka]

4v4 Team battles sound like fun! I hope we can work on the Honor System, to keep alts out, and keep people from Team Jumping. I like the Random Teams idea myself, as long as we know well in advance who we are teamed with. Adds a bit of randomness to the mix, but with time to talk strategies and learn to work together. Where's the sign-up sheet?

[joshko]

Poll closes today will probably be a clan toury. Next poll is for player count. All available na admins who would like to act as moderator and referee pm me.

[Kophka]

Well, if we DO use the team tourney system, I found a good random team generator. http://chir.ag/projects/team-maker/

Here's a result I got using 40 players (just names off the top of my head and some "place holder" names, sorry, I'm tired )

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Team 1

    * Joshko
    * some3
    * Lestos
    * Karma

Team 2

    * Random9
    * EliteDragon
    * Kesh
    * Random2

Team 3

    * Timothy
    * Dexxtaa
    * Anders
    * Random7

Team 4

    * Fuer
    * some2
    * Random5
    * Random3

Team 5

    * Goretooth
    * MadMac
    * some1
    * Panderson

Team 6

    * ManoWar
    * Poop
    * Random4
    * Random8

Team 7

    * Veto
    * Harmless Peasant
    * Argoth
    * Random1

Team 8

    * Kophka
    * Wiegraf
    * Random
    * Canary

Team 9

    * Braeden
    * Aldryk
    * Ksenia
    * Wallace

Team 10

    * Jeremy
    * Onimaho
    * Sphinx
    * Random6

Please, explain to me how this isn't awesome? Imagine the battles!