NOTE: NEW EXPANSION OF THE TOURNAMENT
Its been less than 24 hours since we reached the 128 player mark. In that time an additional 77 players have signed up to play. In an effort to accomodate everyone who wants to join us here I'm going to expand the tournament a bit. We will add one extra level to the first round and have some eliminations there. We'll also expand both the field and the eliminations after Rounds II and III. I will take signups until one of the following has been reached. 1) We reach 256 players (doubling the original number) or 2) it becomes Friday here on the east coast of the USA. If we don't get to 256 there will be a certain number of players that will have a round 1 bye. These will be randomly assigned.
So here we go
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POINTS WILL CARRY FORWARD THROUGHOUT THIS TOURNAMENT.
128 players
- show: Round 1 Championship Series finished
- Round 1
Championship Series
This is my most famous series with 69 tournaments having finished or active to date. It seems only right that we're going to start off here.
Each player will play a best of three series on one of the 69 maps that we've used in the Championship Series to date (there are a couple of maps that are no longer around such as Classic and Centerscape that won't be used but you'll get the idea). You will not know which one until you begin. We will progress in a standard bracket format until we have a champion. We will randomize the maps and just cycle through but all three from your series will be on a common map so that Player 1 and Player 2 will play 3 games on Map 1, Players 3 and 4 will get Map 2 all the way through the first 64 maps in the random order. Then for Round 2 the winner of Player1 vs. Player 2 will play the winner of Player 3 vs. Player 4 on Map 65 continuing forward, when we run out after 69 maps we start over at one again.
Settings
Bracket style
1v1
no cards/escalating
seq
chained/adjacent
sun
Points
Round 1 loss 0 points (128 players)
Round 2 loss 5 points (64 players)
Round 3 loss 10 points (32 players)
Round 4 loss 15 points (16 players)
Round 5 loss 20 points (8 players)
Round 6 loss 25 points (4 players)
Round 7 loss 30 points (2 player)
Round 8 loss 35 points (1 player)
Champion 40 points (1 player)
Additionally, players will receive 1 point for each GAME won. (so a 2-1 loss garners 1 points while a 3-0 loss is 0)
At the end of this round we will cut down to 192 players from where ever we start off at.
You can follow the bracket as it moves forward here (your game should tell you which part you're in)
http://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=338369
- show: Round 2 Down and Dirty
- Round 2
Down and Dirty
My second most common tournaments-we've run 4 of these. These pit 4 player games in a one game elimination moving up the ladder. Maps will be random
Settings
Bracket style (3 non joining brackets will play here)
4 player games
escalating
chained
sunny
sequential
RANDOM
Round 1 loss is 0 points (144 players)
Round 2 loss is 15 points (36 players)
Round 3 loss is 30 points (9 players)
Bracket Champion 40 points (3 players)
At this point 48 players will be eliminated. If there is a tie for who advances and who doesn't there we will use the following tiebreakers
a). Who advanced further in Round 2
b). Who advanced further in Round 1
c). How many games did they win in Round 1
d). In the game they were eliminated in Round 2-which position were they eliminated in (the more players eliminated first the better
144 players remain-all points carry forward.
- show: Round 3 The Roots
- Round 3
The Roots
I haven't done a franchise in this style but have run several different types of tournaments that are based on 48 player 4 player round robin type style (N Am vs. Europe vs. The World, The Foggy Tournament, EIOT Alien Invasion, The Bombardment Tournament)
Each player will be sorted into groupings of 16 so that there are 9 groups of 16. Players will play 12 games, playing each of the other players in their region at least once. There will be 3 sets of 4 games for the total of 12. players will accumulate wins in this section to advance to the finals. Each of the 6 players in the finals 4 games with 3 of their opponents in each game. They will play each opponent at least twice and will play some of the thrice. The games will be set up ABCD, ACEF, ACDF, ABEF, BCDE, BDEF. In the event a tiebreaker is needed, all those tied will play (holds true for both Round 1 and Round 2).
Settings
4 player games
flat rate
unlimited
Sunny or Foggy (4 games in each Round 1 bracket will be assigned as fog games-see maps)
sequential
Round1
North America
South America-fog
Triple Alliance
Australia
Africa-fog
Asia
Europe
Arctic
Brazil-fog
High Seas
Iberia
Charleston
(I had 16 maps listed but only 12 scheduled so I cut out 4 here-sorry for any issues this may cause. I cut some of the longer ones (Waterloo, DDay, Land and Sea and Pearl Harbor)
Finals (16 players-all champions plus 7 wild cards with the most wins)
USA 6 pack Great Lakes and Rockies are in fog
Points
Each Round 1 win 5 points
Each Round 2 win 10 points
Champions Bonus 20 points
48 players will be eliminated
96 players remain
- show: Round 4 Escalating
- Round 4
Escalating Based on The Escalating Tournament I and II
A bracket style tournament where players start off playing 1v1, then a 3 player game then a 4 player game with only the winner advancing each time.
Settings
Escalating
sequential
sunny
unlimited
Round 1 Greenland
Round 2 Africa
Round 3 France
Finals Alexander's Empire
Scoring for Round 4
10 points for each game won in Round 1
20 points for winning a Round 2
30 points for winning in Round 3
40 points as the champion
32 players will be eliminated at this point
64 players remain
- show: Round 5 Joined Powers
- Round 5
Joined Powers
This round will see how well you do with non traditional partnerships. The remaining 64 players will be ranked according to rank 1-64. Players 1 and 64 will be a doubles team and will face off against players 32 and 33 and so forth. This will be bracket style based on Bart's Random Tournament I and II.
Settings
2v2 doubles
escalating
chained
sequential
sunny
Round 1
Australia
Africa
Asia
Europa
Europe
Triple Alliance
San Francisco
Montreal
Greater China
Greenland
Haiti
Ireland
Middle East
Portugal
USA
Germany
Round 2
Mongol Empire
Great Lakes
Land and Sea
France 1789
Charleston
BeNeLux
Iberia
Indochina
Round 3
Tamriel
San Marino
Puget Sound
Luxembourg
Round 4
Phillippines
Arctic
Finals
Brazil
Scoring:
Round 1 loss 0 points (32 players)
Round 2 loss 10 points (16 players)
Round 3 loss 20 points (8 players)
Round 4 loss 30 points (4 players)
Finals loss 40 points (2 players
Champions 50 points (2 players)
No eliminations
- show: Round 6 Joined Power Quads
- Round 6
Joined Powers/Quads
For this round players will be ranked according to the POINTS SCORED IN THIS TOURNAMENT from 1-64 and will be organized into Quad teams. So player 1, 64, 32 and 33 will be Team 1 while players 2, 63, 31 and 34 will be Team 2 etc. Team 1 will play Team 2 etc and we'll have a bracket style quads set.
Settings
Quads
escalating
chained
sequential
sunny
WORLD 2.1
Scoring
Round 1 loss 0 points (32 players)
Round 2 loss 10 points (16 players)
Round 3 loss 20 points (8 players)
Round 4 loss 30 points (4 players)
Champion 40 points.
At this point we will eliminate 15 players taking us to 49 left
- show: Round 7 7 player
- Round
7 Player Madness
I've used 7 player games in Lucky 7s as well as Star Trek
This part of the tournament will have players play 7 player games. Players will be randomly sorted into 7 player games with the winners playing a final game
Settings
7 player
escalating
unlimited
sunny
sequential
SPACE
Points
Game 1 loss 0 points (42 players)
Game 2 loss 15 points (6 players)
Champion 25 points (1 player)
After this round 17 more players will be eliminated leaving us with 32.
- show: Round 8 Birthday Bash
- Round 8
Birthday Bash
This is a simple best of three bracket on specific maps based on Bart's Birthday Bash and Bart's Second Birthday Bash
Settings
escalating
chained
sunny
sequential
Round 1 San Marino
Round 2 Vancouver
Round 3 WWII Iwo Jima
Round 4 CCU
Finals Doodle
Round 1 loss 0 points (16 players)
Round 2 10 points (8 players)
Round 3 15 points (4 players)
Round 4 20 points (2 players)
Finals loss 25 points (1 player)
Champion 30 points (1 player)
At this point we're going to cut down to 16 remaining players for the final Round 16 eliminated, 16 remain.
- show: Finals Friends and Family
- Final Round
Friends and Family
I've done a number of tournaments based on friends around CC. From the Optimus Prime Anniversary Tournament to the Timminz Tournament to Keiths31's Beer fest to the OP/Lux Baby Naming tournament to Escape from Gilligan's Island to the Serbian Conquest I've done a number of themes based upon some of my CC friends.
To that end, the finals will be based at home, specifically in Madness.
The 16 remaining players will play 3 games. 1 8 player game, 1 4 player game and 1 2 player game.
Settings
8 player
escalating
sequential
unlimited
sunny
Madness
4 player
Flat Rate
sequential
chained
fog
Madness
2 player
No Cards
Sequential
adjacent
sunny
Madness
POINTS
win the 2 player game 5 points
Win the 4 player game 10 points
Win the 8 player game 20 points.
This is your last opportunity.
- show: replacement policy
- During this tournament it is likely that players will have to drop out. In the first two round drop outs will be replaced by outsiders with those players stepping into the shoes of the players they are replacing, in later rounds, they will be replaced by the closest eliminated player. Such eliminated player will carry his or her points forward from that point but will get to add any points accumulated by the replaced player that were accumulated AFTER the elimination.
