Board Thread:Challenge Arena/@comment-4661256-20160219013532

My proposal is, as the title says, for a Hunger Games User Tournament.

This has been done twice before (once by Sport Shouting and once by Las) and both times the tournament kind of fizzled out partway through. Given that there's a renewed interest in the topic thanks to the Hunger Games simulator blowing up chat activity, I think that there's potential for a successful (and mercifully brief) user tournament.

I am proposing this because I miss the "good ol' days" of simple, uncomplicated user tourneys that were fun and simple (and, also, because my last attempt at a user tournament was extremely complicated and crashed and burned horribly).

Obviously characterization is important here. I intend to set up each round as a day's length--so when voting users simply determine whether each character is capable of surviving the day or not. I'll determine some threshhold for number of votes for death to see how I'll establish a voting system, but I can work things out before starting the tourney if I get approved. Another difference is that I will set up a tabber system for the battle sim and (with potential help, because this will be a lot of writing) have a different battle sim written for each warrior (so that they coincide and stuff, with each warrior's respective story lasting either until their death or until the end of that round). This will continue until, obviously, only one person is left alive.

The regular Hunger Games rules apply. It will be a standard arena that has the Cornucopia and also has gamemakers monitoring the field, so the terrain can change and 'events' can happen if things get too boring. As far as loadouts go, I am considering allowing users to select their own weaponry (with limitations, of course) because otherwise the whole randomness of picking up a weapon after the Games begin will make voting difficult.

So... yeah. I have every intent to follow through with this tourney, and I am optimistic that it is simple enough that users won't be confused while being topical and comprehensive enough to remain interesting. The length of the overall tourney depends entirely on how competent the user warriors are and how long they're voted to survive, but I wouldn't imagine this lasting more than 7 rounds (with each round being open for a week's worth of voting). Also, I still have four battles left in my current season, but as I am active enough to consistently put up a new blog and battle sim each week it won't be long before I am ready to launch into the tourney.

Now I yield the floor to you. Put your questions or concerns and I'll try to clarify as best I can.

That's it for now. 