Re: Suggestions for an offline tournament

Could you post here some suggestions to organize a cool (small) offline tournament?

What is absolutely needed, and what s to avoid..


I d really like to organize something in Italy but I ve never done a thing like this.

Thanks in advance

two words: team battles.

by the way, an international-scale tournament starring teams from several european countries (each team would be comprised of players of all sorts of tier and then matches would occur only between players belonging to the same tier, with Davis Cup-like draws and scores) would be pretty cool as well, might wanna look into it for Days 2010.

Either that or survival team battles a la King of Fighters/Capcom Vs. SNK but with a twist: allow people to pick as many players as they see fit to fill their team up to a maximum amount (i.e: 4 or 5 to prevent matches to last forever) but decrease the number of players allowed accordingly to the rating or ranking (whatever the case) of the ones who ve been already included.

Weaker players would grant a few extra shots at winning the match despite the overall mediocrity whereas a team made up of top-players would have to be really careful since losing just a few games along the way would mean getting knocked out.

practical example:

Let s pretend we got the following ratings:

Lucaa83 = 10
Sox = 9
JPN = 8
Emiryuuu = 7
TonyTek = 6
Sasy = 5
Nitro = 2
Uccio = 2
HARE = 1
Animatore = 1

the rating limit has been placed at 20.

Then we have:

Team A: Lucaa83 + Sox + HARE (Rating Total = 20), they d get 3 chances and could lose twice.

Team B: Emiryuuu + JPN + Uccio + Animatore + Nitro (Rating Total = 20), 5 chances and could lose up to 4 times.


Lucaa83 from Team A starts playing against Emiryuuu from team B, whoever wins keeps playing whilst the opponent gets replaced by the next one in line in his team.

Whichever team has among its lines the last man standing wins

Nifty, uh?

Swos Clan War... cool

First you need all Hardwarestuff. It´s better you have all, if anyone must bring some stuff with it´s a risc. Because when he will be get sick, you haven´t no Amiga, for example. That´s absolutly necessary

All other...the modus, the location and the stuff around are your decisions.

Something you must avoid...the tourney must run smoothly. If there are too much breaks , because of sevaral things, the atmosphere of the offline-feeling gets down.

Greetz