Qualifying for tournaments

by **Frost** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:04 pm

Why not do it like motocross? Have 3 "heats" and the top placers of those heats go onto the main event.

Granted this idea would work better if we had more players, but something like this.

The tournament is divided up into 3 Heat matches, and 1 final event, where the cups are handed out.

Hypothetical:

Make players arrive and enter tournament between 6:55 and 7:00. At 7 the doors shut, and the players are divided up into 2 groups. Heat 1 and Heat 2. Players in each heat 1 enter the map at the rank of Captain, with full equipment. they have 10 minutes to try to place top 5 at finish. Then Heat 2 takes place, and the same is repeated. The losers in Heat 1 and Heat 2 go onto Heat 3, where they receive the same start, but there is more players. Top 5 winners of each heat go onto the main event. The main event can start in similar fashion, but lasts 30 mins, and only top 3 get cups.

That is for a 1 hour tournament. if it were a 2 hour, Heats would be 20 mins each and the main event a 1 hour.

Perhaps, to keep people entertained, anyone not participating within a given heat, can spectate. Maybe threw some sort of bot/guest tank, that doesn't need fuel, cannot pick up equipment.

by **The_Revelation** » Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:03 pm

Sounds fun, and I would love to try it.

But I think it needs more tweaking. The problem is that its to complicated and such a small window to qualify. A 10 minute window with full EQ is basically saying: Who can find a partner to shoot duals at for 10 minutes and have a few good EQ screens. Results would not be based much on skill, instead it would be based 95% on luck.

Tournaments format now of course are based on alot of luck too - but skill has its place in there.

Nifty idea, but I think it needs to go back to the drawing board and leave room for skill development.

by **Frost** » Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:29 pm

Well rank > pph. So the short time frame would spawn raids and battles, which is skill based....

Or perhaps, if there was some sort of AI bots, ranked higher, that could join in raids, target people. That'd be quite the curveball.