Idea: small side tournament

[rygorych]

As FML goes on, I was thinking of organizing a small side-tournament for everyone who wishes to participate, with a set date and time, and a small monetary prize in the end.

However, it doesn't really make much sense in making it sort of like FML's round where everyone plays their usual thing and we get the typical games.

I want something cool/new/interesting, maybe map-wise, maybe rule-wise.

Additional sponsors welcome! The better we can fund this, the more exciting.

If you are interested, feel free to indicate so in this thread or on garena. If nobody's interested, obviously I'm not going to bother.

Now, I need ideas...

Here are a few of mine:

1. FFA with unit limit of 1 per player. So you cannot build more than 1 garg, 1 wyrm, 1 destro, for example. You can also not have any more than 1 building of any type except farms/burrows/zigs/moonwell, and not more than 1 hero. Sounds silly, but I feel like this could get some fun games.

of course enforcing this would be a pain, and of course a game is scrapped if someone cheats (even accidentally). Is there any way to enforce such limit via a custom map by any chance?


2. Everyone plays with a handicap of 50%. Things go down like WHOA.


3. Everyone has to get a Tinker!!!


4. Old school maps. Crucible, Feralas, Savage Storm, Rock Quarry, That underground map, Stormguarde, etc!

Etc. What do you guys think?

[FML|Renaud]

you can't get more than 1 hero, and it has to be tinker? :P

[rygorych]

Another fun one: Everyone has to get 3 tavern heroes, and cannot make any units besides workers (ghouls have to stay on wood only).Offensive mass towering gogogo!!

[FML|Renaud]

btw, question about the 1 unit rule, say we have a scroll of revive, could we kill unit, make some, then revive those who just dies?  Or would that be considered going above the limit?  What if we posses a unit with a banshee, (like a fiend) would we have to kill our current fiend?

[rygorych]

No, the limit is only on producing that unit. So you can only PRODUCE each unit once.

Let's say you made a fiend. You cannot make any more fiends, ever in this game... just pretend the fiend build button is now greyed out.

If you revived the fiend after it died, that's ok

If you possessed another fiend, that's ok (btw you lose the banshee and cannot make any more banshees)



I think , this sort of rule forces to treat each unit with huge caution. Losing, for example a frost wyrm would be a huge disaster (but of course killing a frost wyrm would be very difficult with only 1 per unit on your side, e.g. archer + dott + hippo + dryad + 1 hero all focusing the frostwyrm = alot of time to kill it).

But of course the problem with this rule is dumb people going "o wait, did I build a fiend already?"

That's why I'd love that 1 production limit enforced via custom map.

[FML|Renaud]

:o
(btw a problem with old school map is that they dont have tarvern, so no tinker! :D)

i think it could be fun, i doubt we could get a tourney running, but maybe a few cg

[rygorych]

Well, I was thinking 1 prelim round of 4 games (16 players) and then 1 final. So 5 games total. Seems managable, if people are interested.

[Magadansky]

Ridiculously stupid with such rules, especially the 50% handicap and the 1 unit. Games will be super imba and not fun at all. Definitely not participating in something like this

[rygorych]

I'm open to ideas. I just threw up the first things that came to my mind.

If you guys have suggestions for what would be fun and different from normal FFA and would make players think outside the box, tell me, jesus, why complain about something that's not even decided on.

[FML|WorpeX]

I've always wanted to do a cash tournament with a $10 buy-in. Huge cash prize in the end if you consider 16 players x10 = 160 to distribute to the players. Would be fun in my opinion. Perhaps that is an idea.

[rygorych]

Yeah that's an option if enough people have paypal and won't fuck around with their buy-in. I could provide additional incentive on top of the pot.

[FML|red7z7]

i really enjoy the "typical" games that we have now already. yeah round 1 had a lot of not so good games so far, but great games happen all the time in general. im okay with a tournament like this on the side and it could be fun, but i definitely wouldnt invest my personal time or money into it. now a prize pool for FML... that would be interesting.

[FML|Renaud]

Well the reason i suggested a few cg instead of the tourney, was because i was guessing most player would not be interested in such an... unorthodox game :D

(actually, looking at your description, we might as well play a wardraft tourney!... wait wardraft IS a tourney!!! :D)

About a money tourney, that does sound fun, but for it to work properly, it would probably need to be in the normal format :P

[FML|Renaud]

You know what? Screw ffa, lets make a wardraft league/tourney/cg i just want to play it now

[FML|WorpeX]

OMG WARDRAFT. IM IN. I USED TO BE A GOD AT THAT.