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08-07-2002, 06:49 AM

Adressing your rules for the players: I like it :biggrin:

Adressing your rules for the tournament hosters:

1. I can only guess you put this here because of TOC II because I've never even heard of this thing happening to someone who has waited that long (except perhaps a few in TOC II). And the fact is, the tournament can't be held up for anyone (ever). You'll know that the instant you even try to host a tournament.

2. PM's and posting it on the official forum don't work because unlike us, most of the people who do sign up won't be regulars at the official forum, and a lot won't even have accounts. Which is why we always use emails. And even there.. some people won't check them.

3. Not all tournaments have an indicated time for play. UrbanNijna's tournament didn't, neither does ISOU (which by the way creates uncountable no-shows and destroys the tournament). And if you remember, TOC I and III didn't have scheduled times either, but TOC I opperated on individual opponents setting up their matches whereas TOC III opperated on "find and fight" up to 10 opponents a day, which caused more no shows.

In every case I've seen in a scheduled date tournament, the tournament hoster has been there (and I'd like for you to try and prove me wrong on that).

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ost_uid0="SSJKarma@posted above"]i know i never hosted tournaments, but i know what they are for. and i know how much time it takes, but tourney like the SOF TOURNEY are thing that should never happen again ! players that joined should always shows up or talk it BEFORE the fight with their opponent to settle a time to meet for the fight...

giving them time to train is something good too !
example: Necro2k2 gave me a fight for training (i looked the way he fought) even if i lost, I WAS THERE. that's the most important thing in tourney.[/quote]

You may know how much time a tournament takes and what it's for, but you'll never (ever) know just how difficult it is to design one with minimal no-shows until you host one yourself.

Giving them time to train is a BAD THING. That will only cause less people to show up, which is BTW, your most difficult obstacle to get around. A tournament should NEVER hold registration longer than a week and a half, and ideally a week for registration. Then the fights should follow immediately afterwards, and emails sent as soon as registration closes, or even better, right after someone signs up, informing them of when to expect another email.

I hope I adressed everything you said in complete...

I really should make an article at Senshukentaikai about this...

08-07-2002, 06:49 AM	#3
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