GCCG Tournament!!!

[Pepin The Breve]

   Hi people,

   Since we see that the GCCG fame is increasing i taught: why don't twist things a little bit and make some tourney or our "new" beloved plataform???

   The most played formats are movie and standard but block format is also much played at GCCG so we can organize a tourny in these formats (Standard, Movie and FoTR, TT and RoTK blocks) what do you people think?

   I came up with this: one player will be the responsible for each of the formats, so he/she will get a list of all players who will join in the refered format, organize a list of the confronts and keep the results updated as the players submit their results. We can manage to get some voluntaries to be judges in each format (althought that would slow things a little more). Maybe the judge can be the organizer of the format or maybe some watcher... players can post their games in an apropriate topic if they want.

   Anyway i wanna know which of you liked the idea and wanna make it happen, just for a little fun of course!

[Pepin The Breve]

  Well, i guess people can start to sign up here telling which formats he/she wants to play and if could be responsible for some of them either (or judge).

  So i will start...
I will play TTT and Movie block and standard. I can organize Movie and be a judge (with my limitations) while i'm not playing.

   Let's wait more people to join!
 

[Kralik]

I'm thinking it would be fun to work our way up from old to new:

FotR --> TT --> RotK --> Movie --> Standard --> Expanded (maybe) --> OPEN!

Just kidding on Open.

[Not a Zombie]

I'm in. I like movie block and expanded, and would be willing to organize anything pre-shadows.

[Ringbearer]

I would like either movie block or FOTR block. I am not a fan of standard or expanded and open is out of the question.

[Manuel]

Yes, I like the idea. I don't think we need judges, though, this game is not THAT complicated. I'd prefer not to touch standard/expanded, but if the general feeling is about it, then I agree.

[Kralik]

So y'all not wanting to do TT/RotK blocks then?

[Not a Zombie]

I'd prefer movie, but if thats not an option, I'd go for RotK.

[Kralik]

I think most prefer Movie, but I was thinking of the CC tournament that spanned multiple blocks. Perhaps we should start with just one block/format?

[Ringbearer]

Yup. Start easy... I mean after it ends, try a second, and a third... that is how it goes on MECCG GCCG

[Kralik]

Perhaps we could all agree to a Movie Block tourney for starters?

[Pepin The Breve]

Perhaps we could all agree to a Movie Block tourney for starters?

   Count me in! Later on we can do other blcok tourneys (or standard, expanded, etc.)

   So far he have: Pepin, Kralik, Manuel, Ringbearer, Sweet...   I think maybe other gccg player like Malachi could also also. Other people are encouraged to join too!

    Depending on the number of participants we can choose the tourney mode (all vs. all, "swiss mode", etc.).

    In fact judges are not that necessary but is always help have some third word about some divergence...

    So we will use only one deck for all the tourney? And how about the X-list? I think we can use the list before shadows + Lady Redeemed, what do you people think?

[Gate Troll]

What date? I can only play on weekends, and even then I'm usually pretty busy.

[Malachi]

I'm not sure if I can do this, since I only got a very limited time window to play.

[Manuel]

Best is swiss format, announce pairings at the start of a given week, then give a whole week to all players to mail between them and agree a certain time to play. Game results must be submitted at Sunday night max.

This way, a 4-round swiss tourney would take 4 weeks to be complete. Yes, I know it's somewhat slow, but it would allow people with difficult agendas to play.

As for the format, I agree with Movie Block, using the official Movie Block X-list with the addition of Galadriel Lady Redeemed.