Thread:Balagog gro-Nolob/@comment-5264386-20131109034410

Hey Balagog,

I've been thinking about the idea of organising tournaments on the Wiki a bit recently (after a chat session a few months back) and I think it might be a good idea, since it would (hopefully) mean that we'd be able to grow our community a little more, as well as provide more services for our current contributors. However, I thought that I should discuss it with the other admins before I went ahead and created a tournament discussion thread.

I've got a few things I wanted to run past you (both positives and negatives), so see what you think:
 * Supervision: I think it would be best if we have an admin supervising the tournament to make sure that there's no foul play (e.g. hacking, lag-switching, rule breaking), and this is especially true if we offer prizes to the victor. However, the main problem I see with this is the fact that we lack an admin who plays on PC/Xbox in America/Europe. Whilst I can cover Xbox tournaments for American/Australasian times, I don't think there's many (if any) times where Europe, America and Australasia line up. Also, there is the issue of international connection issues for consoles. As a result, supervision is probably the main difficulty surrounding tournaments.


 * Prizes: It'd be most economical to only offer prizes once in a while. Say that we provided a Humble Bundle as a prize. As common sense would suggest, if we did this every time, it'd get rather expensive. Plus, it'd make those particular tournaments a bit more special. This brings me to my next point:


 * Frequency: I think organising tournaments on a monthly basis would be easiest for us. That way, it gives time to participants to prepare for them if we impose restrictions (such as low SL's or specific equipment/builds), and gives us a bit of flexibility when organising them, since we can schedule them around what's happening with us.


 * Structure: To make tournaments more accessible to everyone, I think we should set out level tiers of tournaments (e.g. SL50-75, SL75-100, SL100-125). In instances where we are offering prizes, this would have the added effect of allowing for "best out of three" to determine the winner. Using this example, people could enter across three different tiers, and whoever had the best win-loss ratio would be the victor.


 * Rules: As a general rule, I think we should prohibit the use of certain spell combinations, such as casting TWoP and then spamming WotG. Using either spell by themselves should be ok (e.g. TWoP then melee attacks, or WotG as a guard break), however, we'd have to discourage spamming WotG as much as possible. When offering prizes, perhaps we could impose special rules, such as using zero-poise gear in combination with the Calamity Ring (this is just an example of a tournament I've seen done in the past).

These are just my ideas on the concept of tournaments. If you don't agree with some (or most), then I completely respect that, as I'm simply asking for feedback/input. If Brain and Fingyer also disapprove of the tournaments, then I won't pursue the idea.

Anyway, thank you for your time (reading what turned out to be a much larger post than expected), Volknur 