GCCG Tournament!!!

[Not a Zombie]

That sounds good. Would it be an elimination style, or double elim, or what?

[Pepin The Breve]

  I always like eliiminatories or all vs. all, but swiss is nice too. We can see what most people like and set it up that way. The premium could be virtual money at GCCG for the first places (can we do that wlk?).

  So we just need a few more players and we shall be ok.

[Gate Troll]

I can't wait to whack y'all with my site control. Hehe...

[Manuel]

Hmmm... I personally believe we could do a standard LOTR tournament as it was done in the Decipher days (or at least the way I remember them) which is: swiss format, number of rounds according to the number of players (I'd need to check here but I guess it would prolly take 3-4 rounds assuming we won't be less than 4 or more than 17) Then maybe doing a final confontration, or even a top 4 if number of players is high.

I think most of people posting here will play that tournament (no matter how many rounds, swiss or not...) as long as we have the time, so I guess we don't have to wait to see what everybody thinks in order to keep everyone happy, just propose something and give it a try. I am open to almost everything, and I also offer myself as an organizer for this event, if needed (i.e. doing pairings, receiving and announcing results)

[Cw0rk]

I would like FotR block, then tt block, then rotk block, then movie block.

I personally don't like Standard and Expanded due to all the possible broken combos... but if people wanna play those format... I'll have to use them to win.

[Pepin The Breve]

I would like FotR block, then tt block, then rotk block, then movie block.

I personally don't like Standard and Expanded due to all the possible broken combos... but if people wanna play those format... I'll have to use them to win.

  Modest as always 

  I agree with Manuel, so let's make the first move and get things ready to go...so here it is:

  GCCG TOURNAMENT:

- Pairing will be made by swiss mode (win player vs. win player, lose x lose). Beggining next week!
- We will start with our beloved Movie Block format    Next could be standard or block formats.
- All people who wants to join send me a pm and i will "draw lots" to determine  the first matches. After that pairing will be resolved by by swiss mode (with new picks if when necessary between odds).
- After all ready for the first round i will post the matches in a topic here and players enters in contact and decide which is the best day and hour to arrange a game. After they have played, both can submit the result to me via pm and i can make a new post to anounce the results. People can post a play-by-play of their matches if they want to.
- For Movie block round the X-list will be like was after shadow release adding that "inofensive looking" female elf Galadriel, Lady Redeemed. You can find the list at http://lotrtcgwiki.com/forums/index.php?topic=1053.0
- I really think we don't need the deck list of all players cause we are just playing for fun and i hope no one will change the deck for a more suitable matchup. If people still thinks that the decklist is required we have to find someone to receive it.
- We will try to resolve one round each week, but we will proceed to next round only when all games were played. If some player is not avaliable to any day during more than two weeks we can declare victory for the opponent (just to not slow down the tourny to much and get people away).

   Any suggestions would be welcome. So people can start to send me their inscriptions via pm and let's get started!

[FM]

Since I'm not playing, I'd be willing to help out by receiving everyone's decklists, and then it'd be up to you if I should post if after the tournament, or before. However, I think it adds to the fun posting it BEFORE, basically because it prevents deck-changing, but ALSO because it gives players the opportunity of tuning gameplay to face each otehr, resulting in more balanced matches. But ir's up to you guys.

[Pepin The Breve]

   Actually i'm thinking that maybe allow deck change for each match can add some ineresting dinamics to the tourney.

    i just wanna remind people to send me pm's in order to join the tourney, even the ones that have already showed interest in the tread.
 
    When i have more time  can update things a little bit and also enter gccg to go after more players.

    And thanks FM for your disponibility in the case we need 

[Manuel]

I'm personally not in favour of showing everyone's decklists before the games take place. It removes the surprise factor completely, and also most flavour in this game (in my opinion) Especially the most originial and unsuspected decks would be seriously harmed with this option, which would be a pitty.

About having the possibility of changing the deck after each game, I'd say let's play it simple now -as a first tournament- and follow the standard Decipher rules, which say a player has to keep the same deck all tournament.

By the way, GCCG has a way to prevent deck-changing. You have to register the deck you are going to use before the tourney starts by using the command /rd, and then, when you use that deck at the start of the game, GCCG should tell "the deck it's registered and in its orginal form" which means everything is ok. In other words, it is impossible to cheat this way in GCCG tournaments

No deck list is needed. GCCG knows when a deck is legal, and also knows if the player is using the registered deck or not.

The date of start (next week) seems a bit too hasty for me, next week is tomorrow! Maybe we should give a week for people to register, and announce the pairings on sunday 22th feb. 1st round would be played from 23th feb to 1th march.

[Not a Zombie]

I second that.

[Ringbearer]

I would prefer one week later to start, from 2 march till 8 match, since I have a vacation in Germany coming up. Manuel, you know what I mean

[Manuel]

2nd march sounds good. If everyone agrees we can stablish the bases and the date.

[Not a Zombie]

That works. So will Pepin be setting up the matches?

[Pepin The Breve]

  Ok, so let's start at March 2nd. I can randomly sort the matches. I taught this way: i gave a number to all players and then ask someone to pair all them without knowing who is which one, like 2vs.5; 7vs.1; etc. Then this way we ensure that was no bias in the sortment.

  So far we have Pepin, Anto, Sweet and Ringbearer who have sent me a pm but i'm sure that others like Manuel, Gate Troll and  Kralik will join soon.

   I don't like posting decklist before the matches for similar reasons than Manuel and i guess GCCG can help us with that    I just wanna know if people want to keep the same deck for all matches or if you can change the deck every game too add even more "unpredictableness" to the matches.

   So let's sign it up!

[Ringbearer]

Hmmm, new decks every round.... *prepares anti nagzul against manuel*