Conquer Club

Hi folks, I've been working with the last months on getting a such a tournament online for clan only.

For those were here few years ago should remember that massive tournament was started by Tupence and became abandoned after few weeks (see link below)

2012 Olympic Games [abandoned]

I did some tweak to it and I still have to complete half of the events structure, using a simple version of points counting, changing some map, inserting round limits, etc...

What I would like from you is telling me if your clan is willing to stick to a tournament like this for about 2 years? When it will be online, each clan should have at least 12 players lined-up and up to 16.

Being in a clan now and since few years battling on war against some of you I can tell there is several player here are playing for more than 2 years and it does seems than the same names are always there ...So if you guys are willing to stay a bit more longer let me know if a massive clan tourney will bring your interest even more.

I will also work with CC admin on medal & prize when I get closer to have the whole structure of the tournament completed, 306 gold medal for the entire Olympics should bring more than a simple Tournament achievement medal to the clan who gained the most gold count .

Anyway, I think before the end of the year I should have it ready if not sooner, that is why and before going further it is time to seek potential participation from a clan view...You are the one making tournament running by playing and staying consistent with CC. The intent is to have 16 solid clans to participate.

I'm open to suggestions, comments....

Actual tournament structure:
This is a Large Team tournament, with a lot of games for everyone. 16 Clans teams with between 12 up to 16 players will be accepted.

Players MUST be premium.

The tournament will follow the program of each of the events of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

HOW THE WINNING TEAM WILL BE FOUND

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The winning team will be the team which has earned the most Gold Medals at the end of the Games. In the case of a tie, Silver Medals will be taken into account, then Bronze Medals.

PRIZES

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Each member of the winning team will earn a Tournament Achievement medal*.

* The player and team must remain in the tournament until it finishes in order to win the medal. In the case of a tie, the most Silver Medals will be taken into account, followed by the most Bronze Medals.

SETTINGS

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I will use http://www.challonge.com for the game/bracket structure.
All games will have round limit based on the map size and game format.
The “random setting draw” will use all available options for Game Type, Initial Troops, Play Order*, Spoils, Reinforcements, and Special Gameplay, setting draw, using http://www.random.org, will happen after players selections is complete and event/game ready to start.

* If Polymorph setting selected, game to be automatically Sequential.

Individual events could be Standard or Poly (either one to be call 1vs1), and team events such as Football and Hockey will be Doubles, Triples or Quadruples. There will be no Terminator, Assassin or Speed games.

Events marked as Men’s will have Trench; events marked as Women’s will have No Trench. Mixed events will also have No Trench.

Teams should nominate a Team Captain and a 2nd in Command. All communications between myself and the team will go through the Team Captain, and should the Team Captain be unavailable (e.g. on vacation) any communications will be sent to the 2nd in Command.

RESERVES

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If a member of your team drops out or becomes freemium, it will be up to you to find a replacement, or share the games between the remaining players in your team. If the team drops below 8 members and you do not find a replacement player, the clan team will be eliminate.

Once a player drops out of the team and is replaced, the player cannot come back to the tournament. I will keep track of who has already played and dropped out of the tournament.
If a player drops out mid-event, their upcoming games in that event will be forfeited.

TEAM AND PLAYER SCORES

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A record will be taken of all players’ scores when registration closes. These will be the scores used to seed players and teams (most events are seeded). As the tournament will be long, these scores may be updated at some point. However, this will not be done as a result of players’ requests; it will be done randomly to ensure impartiality.

ALLOCATION OF GAMES AND INVITATIONS

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The tournament will be broken down into “Days”, which correspond to the format of the real Olympic Games. Before each “Day” begins, I will send a request form to all Team Captains, asking for names of players for each event.
For event such as Boxing, Judo, Taekwondo, Wrestling or Weightlifting, a player can only join one (1) of the “weight” category, this is to prevent a clan team to have only its strongest player participating in the whole event.
All teams must enter at least 1 player (or 1 team in a team event) for each event; the maximum entries will be outlined in the request form. It is not guaranteed that all of your nominated players will get to partake in the event; when an event is over-subscribed, only the highest ranked players will get to take part.
If an event is under-subscribed, teams who have sent in the fewest players will be asked to assign an extra player to the event.
All games will be sent out using the invite method. If a player does not join a game within 3 invitations (unless they have alerted me that they will be away beforehand) the player will forfeit their place in the event. If a player does not show up for a team game, the team will have 48 hours to find a replacement before the team forfeits the game.

MAPS

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Chosen map will be layout in each event description section further down on this thread, no Beta nor Special Event map to be use in this tournament.

Clan Interested:
TNC (comment: None)
FOED (comment: multiple TO)

Cheers, Mad777 from LHDD

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BGtheBrain wrote:I didnt read what it is, but TNC is in (or would be in)

if you click the link in the first post it should give you an idea on the structure and and how big

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I like the concept, but with all the other large activities clans are involved in, is it feasible?

More than 2 years? My attention span cannot survive this. Make it 9 months and you may have something.

Why would this need to be clan related, couldn't we create a team that isn't just clan members.

TheMissionary wrote:I like the concept, but with all the other large activities clans are involved in, is it feasible?

I think it will, the game count per player may not exceed 10 games I believe.

TheCrown wrote:More than 2 years? My attention span cannot survive this. Make it 9 months and you may have something.

I'm working on having 16 players bracket, Round Robin with 4 poul of 4 (Top team to join Semi Final), this should hopefully reduce from 2 years to 12-15 months I guess, but can't tell for sure since it will also depends how fast people join and play .

shoop76 wrote:Why would this need to be clan related, couldn't we create a team that isn't just clan members.

Because with my experience organizing tournaments, having player from clan will help a better flow of participation rather than having team with player don't know each other and at some point letting things falling down...


I added a preliminary draft of the tournament structure in the first post (in red).

My guess is that if things remain constant, TOFU probably won't participate in this. Some would want to but I doubt it would be as many as 12 to 16 players. The CL and CC keep us busy enough, it seems. I like the sound of it, though. I have loved the large team tournaments I've participated in. I think you should not limit it to clans. Players who decide to participate together in the tournament will know each other. Also, from what I can see, clans also let things "fall down".

FOED would probably participate. our main worry is just one TO, cause if something
happens, and you're out of commission there's probably 0 chance someone will rescue
it, just like it happened with Tupence.

It's ok to have it as a clan event, but leave the option of having non-clan members
on the same team? clans go out of business on a regular basis, with new ones
cropping up. if a clan struggles with numbers it would make their life easier if they can
plug their friends who don't happen to be in the same clan.

uckuki wrote:FOED would probably participate. our main worry is just one TO, cause if something
happens, and you're out of commission there's probably 0 chance someone will rescue
it, just like it happened with Tupence.

It's ok to have it as a clan event, but leave the option of having non-clan members
on the same team? clans go out of business on a regular basis, with new ones
cropping up. if a clan struggles with numbers it would make their life easier if they can
plug their friends who don't happen to be in the same clan.

I have back'up in case of having a TO but up to today I always went to the end as far organizing my franchises (Mad Tournaments - Mad Championship - Bracketology), but you are right, I don't have a crystal ball about my future .

Since more than one already said about opening this event outside of the clan, I may consider to do so....If this can make people less worry about having 8 players minimum for that time frame...Thanks for your comment mate!

I can't see doing this in a tourney that is 1 year long or more... sorry.

When I was a Tournament Director I came up with the rule that any tournament may not be planned to last longer than a year. There were many reasons for that rule.

On the same basis I would be very hesitant to allow something like this as a clan tournament, even though clans may be a bit different than your average tournament player. If you can do something similar, but about half the "size", I think it would be much better and more interesting for all.

If you ever get to the stage you would like to actually do something with this, please let me know, because it will need (my) approval before you start it.

Lx
Clan Tournament Director

I think this would work if you just had a few people(4-6) from each clan participate, and they would be representing their clans in a similar manner as athletes represent their countries.

Lindax wrote:When I was a Tournament Director I came up with the rule that any tournament may not be planned to last longer than a year. There were many reasons for that rule.

On the same basis I would be very hesitant to allow something like this as a clan tournament, even though clans may be a bit different than your average tournament player. If you can do something similar, but about half the "size", I think it would be much better and more interesting for all.

If you ever get to the stage you would like to actually do something with this, please let me know, because it will need (my) approval before you start it.

Lx
Clan Tournament Director

Got it....thanks Lindax

Mad777 wrote:Hi folks, I've been working with the last months on getting a such a tournament online for clan only.

cool... do we have to provide our own sheet? the black jesus has spoken...-el Jesus negro