The reason I have thought of this, is because I have heard from so many of my friends "you should do an FS version of your tourny, etc etc", but I thought that would be very hard to get filled, so then I started to think, and I think this format should hopefully be popular enough to get the tournament to start in a timely fashion.
Lets start off with the settings:
Settings :
Map - Random
Game Type - 12 player Standard
Play Order - Freestyle
Troop Deployment - Automatic
Spoils - Escalating
Reinforcements - Chained
Special Gameplay - No
Round limit - 20 rounds
This is how the format is, and the scoring will work:
You have to be premium, since I will send 12 games at once for each group each round.
Put down your score when signing up, I will use those scores to seed the players, when I make the games for round.1.
The players will be split into groups of 12.
Player scores will be reset between every round.
The scoring is really straight forward, 1 point pr. win, in each round half of the group (6 players) will advance to the next round.
Since the scoring is not more complicated, I have created some tiebreakers, to not have people waiting for tiebreaker games all the time.
Tiebreaker rules are as follows: Players killed in that round, score when signing up (highest seed will get the final tiebreaker).
Incase of a tie in the final, then there will be a tiebreaker match between the players involved.
I'm aiming for 48players, but if its not as popular as I hope it will then we will try the first version with just 24.
And now what I bet some of you freestyle lovers have been wondering about, when will you invite to the games?
Will it be the same time every round?, etc etc
After a bit of chatting with my freestyle friends we wanted to see if this way would work, I at least feels that this will make it as "fair as possible":
To avoid games always starting at an unfavorable time for one time zone, and to avoid manipulation of the start clock, 11/12 match participants will be invited to a game, only when they have all accepted will the 12th person be invited so that they can choose when to start the match timer.
Each person will be the final invitee in exactly ONE game per round.
EDIT:
We got to 36 players here, but then I had sent a DM to like everyone that had played a GM of FS the last 6months or something, and I was sure it would take ages to get 12 more signups, so I decided to go ahead with 36players.
The format will then be 3 groups of 12, and 8 players from each group will advance to the semifinals.
And in the semi's 6 players from each of the 2 groups advance to the finals.
Players
Spoiler
1.lgrupido 1292
2.TrafalgarLaw01 4234
3.sinbad93 1611
4.Tviorr 2401
5.actorday 1497
6.Rushing777 2974
7.Swimmerdude99 3245
8.steve1962 1253
9.Yatti 2122
10.sealordgalandral 2302
11.igotaished 2054
12.General Bax 1427
13.Q-ello 1388
14.crazystef 1121
15.b00060 2176
16.mrs1329 1575
17.Ukey 2250
18.fusibaseball 2800
19.the warrior65 1220
20.Hawkeye Pierce 2062
21.general cod 3020
22.morleyjoe 2250
23.LFAW 2323
24.11mi15 1973
25.chrischris84 1444
26.phersjm 1639
27.El Ambicioso 1517
28.Schildpad 1947
29.keltyshelter 1706
30.musicalmaven 1702
31.ejw2127 2041
32.allanxo 1749
33.RKCVED 2200
34.spider.ear 1913
35.The Mad Butcher 1569
36.pjdonald 1816
