Why 2 colors ? Even with only 1 color if you use admin text using the names of the team (instead of saying 1:0 you say Team X 1 : Team Y 0, x and y team go to arena 2, etc) people will get it; maybe having purple text while you're still playing could annoy but as long as you know you can continue to fight until the last one is dead without having to read the purple text, should be ok. Then if during the game someone broke a rule, it will be a forfeit so nothing that they did w/o reading would change anything, weither they won or not.
If you offered to be referee "game score announcer", even a player watching from the stand could do so, so I would like to apply for that. They could help things go a bit smoother while they dont play. Not even 100% needed to be on the same TS, if you give them admin password you can tell 'em directly "go referee this match there".
Checking players/weapons at the gate, announcing the next fights, handing out punishement should be only controlled by dedicated referees on horseback or at least not actively playing (thats why its hard to find them not playing can be a bitch).
But yeah, finding more dedicated referees and trying to have 2 arenas would be a big improvement and enables way more rounds to be played. A thing I think everyone agree to.
Alternative idea:
A second server where another group of the tournament does qualification fights, this way during the first phase we can have a lot of matches at the same time with more rounds played and no problem. Need to find the server then
i got your opinions/ideas but i cant agree on the most, sry...
-in my opinion a referee shouldnt take part in a tournament at all and should sit in the same ts like the others referees > easy communication
- having 2 servers -> sounds nice but not realistic (to much effort + you need to be sure you get enough teams -> remember we had 12signed in but only 7 showed up ;) )
- 2 arena on 1 server -> to chaotic and to much misunderstanding in my opinion
remember we did that torunament without getting anything out of it like money or looms, while investing a lot of time (videos, maps, thread, rules, promotion, preparation and implementation in the end ;) ... it was only to organize a bit fun apart from strat and normal eu-servers for the community
anyway, thx for your ideas... we will sse how to implement them in the future
greetings
Tueten