Starting a Tourney

laxdudenick16 · Post by **laxdudenick16** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:44 pm

can anyone that has ever set up a tourney tell me how to do it?

Gilligan · Post by **Gilligan** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:46 pm

Here is a link to help you:

http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23714

It's called the Tournament Hosting Handbook.

If you still have questions, feel free to ask me

Zemljanin · Post by **Zemljanin** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:23 am

I have a question, but being a premium you may not know the answer...

My question(s) is/are:

Whether tournament privileges include a possibility of putting a password on game? I mean, if some freemium wants to start a tourney (is this allowed in the first place?) will they be able to put passwords on games?

Optimus Prime · Post by **Optimus Prime** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:25 am

Zemljanin wrote:I have a question, but being a premium you may not know the answer...

My question(s) is/are:

Whether tournament privileges include a possibility of putting a password on game? I mean, if some freemium wants to start a tourney (is this allowed in the first place?) will they be able to put passwords on games?

All tournament games are required to have a password attached to them, regardless of membership status.

Zemljanin · Post by **Zemljanin** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:25 am

Optimus Prime wrote:
Zemljanin wrote:I have a question, but being a premium you may not know the answer...

My question(s) is/are:

Whether tournament privileges include a possibility of putting a password on game? I mean, if some freemium wants to start a tourney (is this allowed in the first place?) will they be able to put passwords on games?
All tournament games are required to have a password attached to them, regardless of membership status.

I know that it is required, I just needed a confirmation that everybody's ABLE to do it, with tournament privileges.

Thank you

Optimus Prime · Post by **Optimus Prime** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:58 am

Yes, if you have tournament privileges you can put the passwords on. That is part of having the privileges.

rebelman · Post by **rebelman** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:26 am

Reading the tournament handbook thread it sounds like if you meet all the requirements described there you are given tournament privaledges, yet up until now this has not always been the case in several instances tournament privaledges have been refused especially when this tourney is clan related and/or private, also the up to 24 hours part is also questionable as i am aware of at least 2 tournies now up and running where over a week passed between the time privaledges were asked for and received. There have also been instances in the past where organisers have lost their privaledges mid tournament causing the tournament not to be finished.

The above 3 are the main reasons why I and others like me up until now have not organised tournaments - can you clarify that the above 3 situations are now gone as the the handbook suggests or is there still 1 set of rules for some organisers / tourneys and a different set of rules for others ?

Steelhorse · Post by **Steelhorse** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:09 am

rebelman wrote:Reading the tournament handbook thread it sounds like if you meet all the requirements described there you are given tournament privaledges, yet up until now this has not always been the case in several instances tournament privaledges have been refused especially when this tourney is clan related and/or private, also the up to 24 hours part is also questionable as i am aware of at least 2 tournies now up and running where over a week passed between the time privaledges were asked for and received. There have also been instances in the past where organisers have lost their privaledges mid tournament causing the tournament not to be finished.

The above 3 are the main reasons why I and others like me up until now have not organised tournaments - can you clarify that the above 3 situations are now gone as the the handbook suggests or is there still 1 set of rules for some organisers / tourneys and a different set of rules for others ?

Hi Reb,

Thanks for bringing up some of these points. To begin all tournament priveleges are applied equally to all community members. No one person has any advantage or special consideration over another...ever.

To address your points:

1. While not specifically addressed in the Handbook, private or clan specific tournaments are not allowed at this time. CC philosphy has been very firm in the belief that all tournaments should be open to all members of the community. Clan tournaments may still be run, but they must be created as private games, with passwords. It's a little more laborious, but still effective.

2. As far as the amount of time between the time tourney priv.'s are requested and granted, not knowing the specifics of the instances you are referring to, I can't address those. But, I know that as long as the form (including tournament host, exact name of tournament, and the tournament thread) is completed, there should be no reason for such a delay. The TD's do have real lives, but we are on CC almost every day. If I get a request and the info is there, I grant priv.'s immediately, without exception. Also, remember the tournament has to be FULL and ready to go.

3. The only reason I can think of off the top of my head that a tournament organizer would lose their priv.'s while in the midst of an ongoing tournament is that it was abandoned. We, the TD's, make mistakes from time to time, but aside from the above instance I can't think of a reason why this would happen.

I hope this helps clarify a few things and thanks for bringing these issues up. If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask

Steel

rebelman · Post by **rebelman** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:50 am

Thanks for bringing up some of these points. To begin all tournament priveleges are applied equally to all community members. No one person has any advantage or special consideration over another...ever.

that is good to hear as the perception rightly or wrongly has been otherwise

1. While not specifically addressed in the Handbook, private or clan specific tournaments are not allowed at this time. CC philosphy has been very firm in the belief that all tournaments should be open to all members of the community.

this has clearly not been the case up until now there have been a number of tournaments including at least one at the moment where only captains or higher were allowed to join, likewise several tournaments are open to premium members only which again contradicts this policy, if you like I can post example threads here, but I believe there are umpteen examples where clearly the above philosophy is not being applied.

Clan tournaments may still be run, but they must be created as private games, with passwords. It's a little more laborious, but still effective.

This will only work if those involved are premium members as freemium members cannot create games. Some clan challenges lately have started to include 1 v 1 games. Can someone tell me an "effective" way to create a 1 v 1 clan challenge involving non premium members without using tourney privaledges ? As someone involved in encouraging, training and mentoring new members in my clan I would hate to apply different rules for challenges and tournies to my premium and my freemium members. If anything getting them more involved, makes the idea of premium more appealing to them so in the end its the site is the biggest potential winner. Also as those of that organise these events also have "real lives" creating and tracking games using tournament privs. is far less time consuming than trying to chase up and find multiple games created by multiple individuals.

I realise this will hopefully be addressed with the next update as has been indicated elsewhere by andy and lack but in the interim something needs to be done to resolve this especially as the site is once again encouraging clans in a big way.

2. As far as the amount of time between the time tourney priv.'s are requested and granted, not knowing the specifics of the instances you are referring to, I can't address those. But, I know that as long as the form (including tournament host, exact name of tournament, and the tournament thread) is completed, there should be no reason for such a delay. The TD's do have real lives, but we are on CC almost every day. If I get a request and the info is there, I grant priv.'s immediately, without exception. Also, remember the tournament has to be FULL and ready to go.

I can post if you like instances of significant delay as they have been commented on, in the relevant threads one recent tournie where there was a huge length of time (well over a week) between pm and privaledges was cena's team tournie.

As someone who plays a lot in tournies I am thrilled if what I highlighted in bold is true as again up until now this has not seemed to be the case in all circumstances.

3. The only reason I can think of off the top of my head that a tournament organizer would lose their priv.'s while in the midst of an ongoing tournament is that it was abandoned. We, the TD's, make mistakes from time to time, but aside from the above instance I can't think of a reason why this would happen.

Having looked at ALL tournie threads as part of another exercise recently it surprised me that this had occurred on a number of occasions causing frustration to the organiser and especially the innocent victims - the competitors.