iAmCaffeine wrote:denominator wrote:brandoncfi wrote:2008/09 were such great years fir this site. new maps lots of discussions and the tournaments were so much fun!! Anybody remember my Map Blaster Series I did? Clan wars! this place is so different now
That was my favourite tournament. I would play in Map Blaster again in a heartbeat.
tell me how it worked
brandoncfi is better suited for the details, but my memory was:
Players in groups of 8 (I think the first one was 8 entrants, future versions were 64) played an 8-player escalating game on every map, simultaneously. Back then it was like 100-something simultaneous games but now it would be 255. Whoever won the most games won the tournament, or in the later editions you had to win your group then do it a second time.
It was an incredible challenge, because you'd go 3-7 days without taking a single turn then have a day where you had 100 in a row. Winning the games was only half the challenge, balancing your time and workload and managing the order you played turns was very difficult (especially when games were ending and you needed to prioritize the games where you couldn't cash and run to clear them quickly then take your time with the winning runs).
Huge amount of work for the TO and huge amount for all the players, which is what made it great.