Tournament Suggestions/Improvements

There is a 30 day time limit, so a player will have to eventually send troops to occupy. So, if a player decides to not send troops at all, it is their call. However, this tournament is flawed in many ways...

1) The players in this tournament have different amounts of account population. These pops range from 2k pop to a pop well over 50k.
2) There are no restrictions for military units.
3) There are no restrictions for any player to join the tournament in terms of distance. aka there are players that are too far away from the flag, thus they will lose...

How to fix these flaws?

1) There should be a account population restriction ranging from 1k-5k population, 6k-15k population, 16k-30k population, and 31k and over population. So to be in the tournament, a player has to fit in a certain population bracket in order to play in a certain population restriction tourney. For instance, a player has to have between 6k and 15k population in order to enter the 6k-15k tournament.

2) For each population bracket, there should be a certain number of military unit limit allowed for the tournament. 1k-5k population can only use 1000 units. 6k-15k population can only use 3000 units. 16k-30k population can only use 5000 units. 31k and over can only use 10000 units. A player can not use more than the units allowed in a tournament or they will lose the tournament.

3) Random locations picked by host of tournament will make the game unfair for most of the players involved. A location needs to be picked somewhere in the middle of all participants in order to have a more fair tournament. There also should be restriction for players that are too far away compared to the players that entered the tournament. For instance, if it takes 3 days or more for a players troops to reach the flag location, said player should not be in the tournament. Naturally it will be easier to run a tournament from the middle of the map compared to other locations. Nonetheless, most of the tournaments ran will have to be region based and should only allow players close enough (as in it takes 2 days or less to send army to location).


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Another way of doing future tournaments:

Instead of doing an 8 man free for all, there should be a 1 vs 1 tournament between 8 players. The winner of the round, by claiming the square for 48 hours, will get to advance to the next round. The square will be picked in the middle between both players by host of tournament (a square that is the most neutral for units). The same pop and unit restriction will be applied for the tournament as I stated above.

I feel these suggestions will make the tournament have less flaws and more fair for the participants involved.       

a well didnt notice this thread b4 i posted on the  other, on my phone if some1 could quote or c/p it here be much appreciated

Torn Sky wrote: ii dont like the idea of a bracketed tourney in 1v1 the first person to stack his armies on the square will win in most cases killing the opponents armies 1 by 1 as the arrive. i also think that restricting the size of the players/units should be up to who ever is running the tourney the travel time issue could be solved as stated before by making the tourney flag a set distance from all participants, though  dont know how the gms would feel about sedtting this up or the problems it may cause them

the point of the last tourney was a trial run, now we can discuss how we can make it better for the next competitors

Kumomoto wrote: Does anyone have a pop analysis on all the players in the last one? I'm almost positive Amorphias one city was lower in pop than a number of the other competitors. Some comments being bandied around in Global about him winning because of pop are simply untrue. I do agree with the equadistant point, though. We should try to do that. I think the existing format, with handicaps (city size and number limitations) for the bigger players works quite well. We just need to make the location relatively equadistant and then I think the playing field is even more level (but you guys did a great job of getting it there in your first run!).   K.

Information Gathered:

Troop levels present, foreign reinforcements:
Type:     Unit:     Quantity:
Amorphias's forces from SW3-Pit 4
Army: Pit4 Cav          
Division: Sword          
Division: Cav          
Commander: Cav     Unknown UnitType     1
Troops:     Wolfriders     4
Troops:     Death Packs     1092
Amorphias's forces from SW3-Pit 4
Army: Pit 4 Bow          
Division: Bow          
Commander: Missile     Unknown UnitType     1
Troops:     Death Dealers     1007
Division: Spear          
Commander: Spear     Unknown UnitType     1
Troops:     Clan Guardsmen     110
Amorphias's forces from SW3-Pit 4
Army: Pit 4 Sword          
Division: Sword          
Commander: Sword     Unknown UnitType     1
Troops:     Fangs     5
Troops:     Fists     807

This is Killers army defending the square right now... His army is bigger than mine and he was closer to the square... I only used two towns in this tournament. Hawaii1 and Hawaii3, both together are smaller than Killers. But for you to say that his pop was much smaller than everyone elses is laughable at best.