[TPA5] Tournament Players Association

[sempaispellcheck]

Welcome to another year of the TPA!! Rules and setup and pretty much the same as every other year. Details can be found below. Additionally, the Tournament Directors want to thank barterer2002 and DaveH for the great quantity of work they have done in the first three years of this event, and I want to personally thank chapcrap and elonpuckhog for spearheading the "officialization" (if I may coin a word) of the TPA last year. With them and all of the amazing tournament organizers we have something truly fun, and hopefully we can keep it that way. Thank you all.

TPA Commissioner: [player]sempaispellcheck[/player] - In charge of scoreboard, general inquiries, and assisting with TPA5 schedule.
TPA Asst. Commissioner: [player]mcshanester29[/player] - In charge of TPA5 schedule.
TPA Asst. Commissioner: [player]Clive[/player] - Main tournament rescuer.

The TPA5 scoreboard can be accessed by clicking this button:

[spoiler=TPA5 Regulations]All TPA5 Tournaments must begin with the TPA introduction:

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This is a Tournament Players Association Year 5 [TPA5] event, and is governed by its rules, guidelines, and judgments which are detailed here: http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=207126
All are welcome to join and participate in the association. You do not need to do anything more than join one or more of the TPA5 events that will be announced on Mondays. Check back on the scoreboard to see how you're doing:

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This is a Tournament Players Association Year 5 [TPA5] event, and is governed by its rules, guidelines, and judgments which are detailed here: viewtopic.php?f=89&t=207126
All are welcome to join and participate in the association. You do not need to do anything more than join one or more of the TPA5 events that will be announced on Mondays. Check back on the scoreboard to see how you're doing:

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[spoiler=TPA5 Prizes]Prizes to be given away at the conclusion of the TPA5 are as follows:

• All top 10 finishers will receive a General Achievement Medal
• All top 5 finishers will also recieve credits equivalent to the following amounts of Premium membership:
  
  • 1st Place: 2 years
  • 2nd Place: 1 year
  • 3rd Place: 6 months
  • 4th and 5th Place: 3 months each
• Additionally, a General Achievement Medal will be awarded to any player who participates in and receives TPA points for ALL 36 TPA5 tournaments

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[spoiler=Yearly Schedule]There are four Major tournaments, twelve Premier tournaments, and twenty Standard tournaments - 36 in total.
There will also be an All-Star Event that will be held over the Winter Break in between Sets 2 and 3.

The four major events are the Grand Slam events of the TPA5 and as such, all serious contenders should join them. Each of these will count for your scores.
Of the Premier events, your best 8 scores of the 12 Premier events will count on the TPA5 scoreboard. You may enter more or less but only the top 8 scores will count.
Finally, your best 12 Standard (of 20) tournament scores will count on the TPA5 scoreboard.

Thus, there are a maximum of 24 tournaments counting on your TPA5 scoreboard.

Set 1

• September 1 - Standard Tournament - Six Cities Tourney - Assassin by [player]elonpuckhog[/player]
• September 8 - Standard Tournament - Jack of All Trades - 1v1/Polymorphic by [player]elonpuckhog[/player]
• September 15 - Premier Tournament - Escape from the Islands - 4 Player Standard by [player]Silly Knig-it[/player]
• September 22 - Standard Tournament - MC's Your Kidding Me...Right? #7 - Mixed Team by [player]mcshanester29[/player]
• September 29 - Major Tournament - 10 x 10 = 100 years - 10-player Standard/Terminator/Assassin by [player]sempaispellcheck[/player]
• October 6 - Premier Tournament - Classic Cities Conundrum - Standard by [player]elonpuckhog[/player]
• October 13 - Standard Tournament - Grab Your Win! I - Terminator by [player]Serreski[/player]
• October 20 - Standard Tournament - F1 TPA5 - Terminator by [player]paulgamelb[/player]
• October 27 - Premier Tournament - TPA5 Master of AOR - 1vs1 by [player]Serreski[/player]
  
  Set 2
• November 3 - Standard Tournament - MC's Random Dubs - Doubles/Random Map by [player]mcshanester29[/player]
• November 10 - Standard Tournament - States of the Union - 1v1/Standard by [player]sempaispellcheck[/player]
• November 17 - Premier Tournament - [TPA5] Angola Loves Classic V - Standard by [player]angola[/player]
• November 24 - Standard Tournament - Mad In USA Play With Your Settings II - Standard by [player]Mad777[/player]
• December 1 - Major Tournament - Federation Internationale de Ski - 1v1 by [player]Silly Knig-it[/player]
• December 8 - Premier Tournament - USA Map Pack dubs/poly - Doubles/Polymorphic by [player]elonpuckhog[/player]
• December 15 - Standard Tournament - Cracking Nuts with sempai! - Terminator/Assassin by [player]sempaispellcheck[/player]
• December 22 - Standard Tournament - MC's Christmas Quads - Quads by [player]mcshanester29[/player]
• December 29 - Premier Tournament - IPL 2015 Triples - Triples by [player]Clive[/player]
  
  Winter Break - All-Star Month
• January 5 - Sign-Ups Begin for Skills Competitions, Fan Event Begins
• January 12 - Main All-Star Event Balloting Begins
• January 19 - Skills Competitions
• January 26 - Main All-Star Event
  
  Set 3
• February 2 - Standard Tournament - Poly Old Poly New - Polymorphic by [player]elonpuckhog[/player]
• February 9 - Standard Tournament - Three Strikes - 1 vs 1 by [player]anamainiacks[/player]
• February 16 - Premier Tournament - Random Team/ Quads - Mixed Team by [player]shoop76[/player]
• February 23 - Standard Tournament - MCs Random Map Triples - Triples by [player]mcshanester29[/player]
• March 2 - Major Tournament - Masters of Assassin - Assassin by [player]anamainiacks[/player]
• March 9 - Premier Tournament - Small map dubs - Dubs by [player]shoop76[/player]
• March 16 - Standard Tournament - MC's Random Poly - Polymorphic by [player]mcshanester29[/player]
• March 23 - Standard Tournament - Return to Venezia - Standard/Terminator/1v1 by [player]sempaispellcheck[/player]
• March 30 - Premier Tournament - 99s Rainbow - MIxed by [player]stealth99[/player]
  
  Set 4
• April 6 - Standard Tournament - Random Map Quads - Quads by [player]clive[/player]
• April 13 - Standard Tournament - TPA 5 Random 1v1x8 - 1 v 1 by [player]shoop76[/player]
• April 20 - Premier Tournament - Salient Assassinations in History II - Assassin by [player]dukasaur[/player]
• April 27 - Standard Tournament - MC's 1 vs 1 Battle Of The Continents - 1 v 1 by [player]mcshanester29[/player]
• May 4 - Major Tournament - 99s Stealthy TIC-TAC-TOE - Poly 2 - Poly by [player]stealth99[/player]
• May 11 - Premier Tournament - MC's Mini War - Poly/Dubs/Quads by [player]mcshanester29[/player]
• May 18 - Standard Tournament - American Civil War Triples - Triples by [player]flexmaster33[/player]
• May 25 - Standard Tournament - Davis Cup - 1v1/Dubs by [player]shoop76[/player]
• June 1 - Premier Tournament - DKs Terminator Terminator - Terminator by [player]Dukasaur[/player][/spoiler]
  [spoiler=All-Star Event]The overall format for the All-Star Event has been decided, but there are still several details to be hammered out.
  The All-Star Event will consist of a main event, a series of skills competitions, and a fan event.
  
  Main All-Star Event
  The Main All-Star Event will consist of a mini-tournament for 48 players.
  This mini-tournament will consist of 19 games (1 for each tournament, with the exception of the Federation Internationale de Ski).
  The map, settings, and scoring system for each game will be based on one of the tournaments in Sets 1 & 2 of the TPA5 season - details can be found in this post.
  The players to participate in this event will be chosen as follows:
  
  • Voting for the All-Star Event will be done by ballot.
  • Any player who has participated or is participating in a Set 1 or Set 2 TPA5 tournament from which he has not been removed for deadbeating will be on the ballot. (NOTE: If a player is participating in 2 TPA5 tournaments, but has been removed from 1 for deadbeating, he will still be on the ballot)
  • Ballots will be sent to:
    
    1. Each Tournament Director
    2. Each member of the Tournament Organizers usergroup
    3. The TO of each TPA5 tournament
    4. The top 10 players in each prior TPA season as of the date the ballots are sent out.
  • Each player will be allowed to submit only one ballot - even those who belong to more than one of the above listed groups.
  • Voters will vote by assigning points to players.
  • Each voter will have 200 points to assign, and may assign no more than 5 points to any one player.
  • Voters may not assign points to themselves or add names to the ballot.
  • The 48 players who receive the most points will be named TPA5 All-Stars, and will participate in the Main All-Star Event.
  • Those players who are named All-Stars may receive something to designate them - a special signature, perhaps
  The Main Event scoreboard, as well as the results of voting, can be found in this spreadsheet.
  
  Skills Competitions
  
  • The Skills Competitions will be open to all players who are participating in a TPA5 tournament.
  • All eligible players will be given instructions on how to sign up.
  • The Skills Competitions will consist of specific tasks to be completed in games set up for the purpose.
  • Events will include the Stacking Competition (where players compete to build the biggest stacks in a game with a 20-round limit), the Sweeping Competition (where players attempt to sweep the board - kill all opponents in the same turn - in the fewest rounds of a Standard or Terminator game), the Passing Competition (where Quads teams attempt to pass a stack from one end of a map to the other in the fewest rounds), the Objective Competition (where players attempt to win games by achieving their respective objectives on the Pirates and Merchants map), and the Casual Speed Competition (where players attempt to win assassin games on the Doodle Earth Map in as few rounds as possible).
  • There will also be a Junior Tier, open only to TPA5 participants who joined CC 1 year or less before the start of the TPA season or only to TPA5 participants with scores below 1400, and a Legends Tier, open only to TPA5 participants at or above the rank of Colonel.
  • Individual prizes may be offered.
  • Players competing in these events will earn points for the TPA5 tournaments they are participating in. (NOTE: If a player is participating in 2 TPA5 tournaments, but has been removed from 1 for deadbeating, he will only earn points for the tournament he has NOT been removed from.)
  • The tournament with the most points at the end of the Skills Competition may receive an additional GA Medal for the TO to award as he sees fit (criteria for additional GA Medal still subject to approval by TDs).
  • The player who earns the most points for his tournaments may receive an additional prize.
  More information on the Skills Competition can be found in this post.
  Skills Competition sign-ups, scores, and tournament points can be found in this spreadsheet.
  
  Fan Event
  This event will be open only to players who are NOT participating in any TPA5 tournament.
  Information on the Fan Event can be found in this thread.

The information in this spoiler is subject to change until further notice. More information will be added as it becomes available.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Tournament Types and Breakdown]We are trying to ensure diversity in tournaments, so we will try to make sure that we have a variety of tournament types - and that they are spread out a bit more evenly than last year. We are striving for, per set, no fewer than 1 and no more than 3 of each of the following:

Mixed
Quads
Trips
Doubles
Polymorphic
Assassin
Terminator
1v1
Standard (3+ players per game)
Random Map

Of course, a single tournament can be more than one type.

Major Tournaments must require the winning player or team to have a minimum of 100 games in a league type tournament or 100 planned player eliminations in an individual elimination type tournament i.e. 100 individual games; 50 doubles games etc.

Premier tournaments have between 51 and 99 planned games/player eliminations.

Standard tournaments have between 30 and 50 planned games/player eliminations.

Should any tournament not meet the planned number of players joining it, we will either reclassify it or allow it to run as was originally planned. The CC player minimum number restrictions must always be met of course.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Scoring System]Major tournaments will have 2,000 points for 1st place; Premier, 1,000 points and Standard, 500 points.

For all other places, the number of points earned (P) will be determined by the following formula which includes the number of players/teams (n) and the player's position (x). Points will be rounded down.

For Major tournaments
If n>128: P = 2000n/128x
If n<128 or n=128: 2000/x
For Premier tournaments
If n>64: P = 1000n/64x
If n<64 or n=64: 1000/x
For Standard tournaments
If n>32: P = 500n/32x
If n<32 or n=32: 500/x

If players are tied then they will each receive the average of the total number of points they would have received had they not tied.

On completion of their tournament, organizers should just provide the finishing order and the above points will be calculated as part of the master scoreboard updating.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Sanctioning]To be sanctioned as a TPA event, tournaments must:

1. Follow all CC tournament requirements;
2. Have no point restrictions (although they may require premium membership);
3. Have an organizer who has successfully run previous CC tournaments, is committed to running this one through and has not been replaced as a TO for any tournament during the preceding 12 months;
4. Allow for at least 32 single players, 16 doubles teams, or 8 larger teams.
5. TO agrees not to send to any sort of "list" for the first 48 hours of sign ups to allow all players fair entry;
6. TO's agree that for all sanctioned events that players will be accepted in the order in which they sign up regardless of all banned lists that a particular TO may have.
7. TO's agree not to publish their tournament before before the date specified, which will always be a Monday.

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[spoiler=Joining Tournaments]To join any tournament, all players must sign up in the usual manner.
Players do not have to join all the tournaments, as only 24 of the 36 will count for scoring.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Exemptions and Reserves]The tournament organizer and one winner (or individual players of the winning team) of any previous tournament of the same title may be included in the player joiner list. All other spots must be open for sign ups.
Reserve policies are at the discretion of the tournament organizer. Reserves will receive all final points due. Players who do not continue in a tournament will not receive any points.[/spoiler]

[sempaispellcheck]

First topic of discussion for those interested in the TPA: The possibility of an All-Star Event.

chapcrap had promised that there would be one as part of TPA4, but due to real-life issues, he was removed from his post as TPA Commissioner before it could be set in motion.
I attempted to pick his brain, but was unsuccessful.
I then attempted to come up with ideas for one myself, but was even less successful.

So, I ask if any of you have any suggestions. To perhaps guide you a bit, these are the 2 main questions I was unable to answer in attempting to brainstorm an All-Star event for TPA4:
1. In the NHL, NBA, and MLB, the All-Star game takes place in the middle of the season, and is played by the best players from the first half of the season.

• When is the middle of the TPA season?
• If we judge the season by the start dates of the tournaments, and start the All-Star Event in mid-January, not enough tournaments will have finished for the "best players" to have distinguished themselves.
• If we judge the season by the end dates of the tournaments, and start the All-Star Event once half the tournaments have finished, the Event may not start until after the start of next season (right now, with the start of TPA5 2.5 weeks away, only 12 of the 36 TPA4 tournaments have finished - and not even a week has passed since the completion of the last tournament of TPA2.
• Another drawback to this second option is that a Standard tournament from Set 3 is almost certain to finish before the Major of Set 2 - a player should probably not be judged one of the best players from the first half of the season for winning a Set 3 tournament.

2. What format would be best? How many players, what types of games, what type of tournament (round robin, bracket, etc.)?

Thoughts? Suggestions? Comments?
sempai

[Dukasaur]

There's a few things I would like to discuss, and as promised I have some ideas about the All-Star event which I will share with you when I get a chance. However, there's something even more urgent I want to set in motion.

First off, the "Click for Scoreboard" button. It's ambiguous, and misleading. I've known of several people (including myself, back during the second season when I was new to this) who would click on that button expecting to find the Scoreboard for the tournament they were in. Ask Dave, he had a long drawn-out routine this year with one of his players doing that. I think the button should be redesigned. It needs to say something like "Click for Season Standings" or "Click for Overall TPA 5" or "TPA 5 Season Standings". Anything except "Click for Scoreboard" ... a phrase which, if anything, should be reserved for the scoreboard for that tourney. And while it's being redesigned, maybe the cup for that season should be included in the "Overall Standings" button.


(Obviously some differences would be noticeable if that demo was done by someone with actual graphics skills.)

Since the Cup contest is just getting underway, maybe we could ask contestants to also include a new "Click for Season Standings" button. Not as a mandatory part of the contest, since the rules have already been published, but voluntarily. I can't see most of them saying no, especially since they'll already have their TPA artwork fresh on their clipboards, it should be a fairly simple matter to schrink the cup down, add a big ellipse to the right, and insert the appropriate words.

[Dukasaur]

Okay, on to the TPA All-Star Event.

I think if you look at the NHL or MBL All-Star Events, they are composed of

• 1 main exhibition game. This game (note -- 1 game, not a full tournament) showcases the best talents in the league, but it doesn't attempt to be statistically rigorous in selecting the "best", but rather to reflect fan popularity, and to some degree the choices of the coaches and players' associations, and in former years the opinions of sportswriters. It makes no pretense at being a Championship, but rather is clearly an Exhibition, something for fun and for showing off.
  
  plus
• an event. The event is composed of a wide variety of things. In the NHL there's the skills competition, with things like the Hardest Shot challenge, the Fastest Skate challenge, the Puck Control Relay, and so on. There are also events for the fans to compete in: the Ice Carving contest, the Skate With a Star event, the street dance, and so on. In baseball, the event is not as complex, but there is the Home Run Derby, and the Legends & Veterans game, and so on. In both there are Junior tournaments for young players to showcase their talents.

So, what can we apply to our own situation?

I think there should not be anything like a full tournament for the All Star event. The main exhibition game should be either one game or a very small mini-tournament. The lineup for it should be voted in by a limited college:

• Every member of the Tournament Organisers usergroup gets one ballot.
• Every TD gets an extra ballot.
• Every TO that has posted a tournament in the current season gets an extra ballot.
• Every player who has placed in the Top 10 in completed previous TPA seasons gets a ballot.

The current TPA season points leaders are made captains. If either of them declines the honour, they are replaced by the next person on the scoreboard.

No pretense should be made that this tells us who is "the best player on the site" or any such nonsense, but rather "a bunch of the best players on the site getting together for some fun."

The rest of the event can be made up with a bunch of not-too-serious events in the style of the old Entertainment Team. These events would be open to anyone who is currently playing in any TPA tourney.

The Home Run Derby and the NHL Skills Competition can be approximated by a bunch of specific-task events. For instance, in the Stacking Challenge, we could set up Sunny No Spoils Speed games on some bonus-heavy maps like King's Court II or Supermax. Whoever builds the biggest stack by the end of the game wins. In the Sweeping Challenge (Similar to the Home Run Derby), we set up some Sunny Escalating games on the traditional 42s. Whoever completes a perfect sweep (kills all 5 opponents in the same turn) in the shortest number of rounds wins. (Tiebreaker to be determined.) In the Passing Competition (similar to the Puck Control Challenge) we set up a Quads game on some map that is really linear, like Route 66 or Alexander's Empire. Whichever team forts a stack from the eastern edge of the map to the western edge of the map in the fewest rounds wins.

For the fans, there could be "predict the winner" events and "write a limerick about the TPA" events, and so on. Approximating the Junior Skills competion, there could be a mini-tournament that only players below the rank of Private could enter. But the point is that all of them should be short and sweet, not to make this a big drawn-out affair but one that can be completed in a few days. Preferably everything except the main exhibition game should be a brief Speed Game event that lasts a few hours.

[elonpuckhog]

Pretty much what Duk said. I think he has a great idea and this could be used to "showcase" the TPA to the rest of the site if marketed correctly.

Only thing I would change is the captains. I don't think there will be many tournies completed by that point. We could take the top vote getters instead.

Other than that, great idea as usual Duk.

[sempaispellcheck]

I agree that there is ambiguity with the Scoreboard button, but I'm not sure it really merits a full redoing - a simple rewording should suffice. In fact, I may be able to do that myself.
We would want it to not make reference to the particular season so we don't have to redo it every year.

Duk, that's a really good way of looking at it - an idea so simple, it's absolutely brilliant, and I never would have thought of it.
I'll take it point by point, in my usual fashion.

I think there should not be anything like a full tournament for the All Star event. The main exhibition game should be either one game or a very small mini-tournament.

Agreed. This makes it easier for us, too, as it means we don't have to worry about trying to pull 32 or 64 players when only 10 tournaments (max) have completed.

The lineup for it should be voted in by a limited college:

• Every member of the Tournament Organisers usergroup gets one ballot.
• Every TD gets an extra ballot.
• Every TO that has posted a tournament in the current season gets an extra ballot.

I don't agree with the idea of extra ballots - I strongly believe it should be one ballot per person.

• Every player who has placed in the Top 10 in completed previous TPA seasons gets a ballot.

Only TPA1 and TPA2 have completed. Most, if not all, of the TPA1 top 10 have already left CC. I propose adding the top 10 players on the scoreboard for each ongoing TPA season prior to the current season (so, for TPA5, we'd be adding the top 10 from TPA3 and TPA4) as of the moment balloting begins.
Of course, we would have to add the caveat that a player cannot name themselves on their own ballot.

The current TPA season points leaders are made captains. If either of them declines the honour, they are replaced by the next person on the scoreboard.

If we're going to make it just one game or a mini-tournament, I don't see a need for captains - this isn't a team sport by necessity.

The rest of the event can be made up with a bunch of not-too-serious events in the style of the old Entertainment Team. These events would be open to anyone who is currently playing in any TPA tourney.

The Home Run Derby and the NHL Skills Competition can be approximated by a bunch of specific-task events. For instance, in the Stacking Challenge, we could set up Sunny No Spoils Speed games on some bonus-heavy maps like King's Court II or Supermax. Whoever builds the biggest stack by the end of the game wins. In the Sweeping Challenge (Similar to the Home Run Derby), we set up some Sunny Escalating games on the traditional 42s. Whoever completes a perfect sweep (kills all 5 opponents in the same turn) in the shortest number of rounds wins. (Tiebreaker to be determined.) In the Passing Competition (similar to the Puck Control Challenge) we set up a Quads game on some map that is really linear, like Route 66 or Alexander's Empire. Whichever team forts a stack from the eastern edge of the map to the western edge of the map in the fewest rounds wins.

I can dig that - we might consider doing something in the style of the CC Olympics, too, where players compete to earn points for the tournament(s) they are participating in, with some extra prize to then be awarded to the winner of the highest-scoring tournament, or the player who meets some other criteria determined by the TO - like an additional GA Medal, perhaps.

For the fans, there could be "predict the winner" events and "write a limerick about the TPA" events, and so on.

I like that - those would only be open to players not participating in any TPA tournament.

Approximating the Junior Skills competion, there could be a mini-tournament that only players below the rank of Private could enter.

I don't know that I like the idea of that being based on low score - it's about good young talent.
What about the highest-ranking TPA players who have been on CC for a year or less as of the start of the TPA season?

But the point is that all of them should be short and sweet, not to make this a big drawn-out affair but one that can be completed in a few days. Preferably everything except the main exhibition game should be a brief Speed Game event that lasts a few hours.

I see your point, but a few days is too short - especially given the problems inherent with speed tournaments (availability, time zones, etc). I think it would be OK for this to last a few weeks - the Winter Break has been extended to the entire month of January (it was only 3 weeks last year), so we would probably start it sometime in there, and if it ran into February or even March, no big deal.

Thoughts on that?
sempai

[sempaispellcheck]

OK, so I spent a couple of minutes with the button in GIMP, and came up with this:


Good enough?
sempai

[Dukasaur]

Button looks good.

As for the All-Star Event, I agree with most of your points. A few minor quibbles:

I don't personally worship at the "one man one vote" altar of radical democracy. I think if one qualifies for a ballot for more than one reason, one should get more than one ballot. But it's not enough of a disagreement that I would waste a lot of time on it. If the consensus is one ballot, so be it.

I think even if the winter break is almost a month long and you can spread out the All-Star events over a month, there should still be one day or one weekend where the excitement level rises. Yes, I know the difficulties of getting people together with different time zones and stuff, but there is a lot to be said for the intensity of having to do something on a short time scale. Speed game mini-tournaments could be run, perhaps 8 hours apart over the course of the first 32 hours, and then something else on the last day.

I've really gotten fired up by my idea for the Puck Control Relay, by the way. I think it would be a really cool test for the tacticians to challenge themselves on juggling turn order plus intervening enemy units to pass that stack across the map!

[DaveH]

The concept of honouring the leaders of TPA is excellent and there are, as usual, very good comments and ideas put forward.

However, you are proposing something that is specific to American Football which is not something me and many CC players in other countries know much about. The game ideas are good though, so why not make them just specific to CC?

As for the participants I had thought that you could run the All-star event or whatever it is for the previous year, when a larger number of tournaments had completed, so run an TPA4 All-Star event this year etc.

Having said that though, TPA2 has only just finished and I think that it must be a bit of an anti-climax for those leading it; just as it seemed when TPA finished.

So, you could always take the leading players (who are still with CC) from all the previous TPA's and have like a Champion-of-Champions event instead or as well.....

I also like the idea of something for those players who have entered many of the different tournaments without actually ending up on the leader board.

[sempaispellcheck]

you are proposing something that is specific to American Football which is not something me and many CC players in other countries know much about.The game ideas are good though, so why not make them just specific to CC?

The concept of an All-Star game is not unique to American football - nor even, in fact, to America. All-Star games are part of the seasons of professional leagues in several sports in several Asian countries.

As for the participants I had thought that you could run the All-star event or whatever it is for the previous year, when a larger number of tournaments had completed, so run an TPA4 All-Star event this year etc.

It does not make sense to me to run the TPA4 All-Star event during TPA5. There are certainly arguments for having it at the end of the season (meaning following the start of the last tournament), but that is the latest I would consider holding it.

Having said that though, TPA2 has only just finished and I think that it must be a bit of an anti-climax for those leading it; just as it seemed when TPA finished.

So, you could always take the leading players (who are still with CC) from all the previous TPA's and have like a Champion-of-Champions event instead or as well.....

The problem with that is that you would have the same players guaranteed to take part every year, and the event would gradually grow larger and larger as more players became eligible. With a vote on the current pool of players, we can keep the size of the event constant (or control its expansion, if we decide to expand it) and no one is guaranteed a spot.

I also like the idea of something for those players who have entered many of the different tournaments without actually ending up on the leader board.

That's what the Skills Competitions are for - they will be open to all players participating in a TPA tournament in that season.

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[sempaispellcheck]

I have created a spoiler for the TPA5 All-Star Event as I envision it now in the OP of this thread.
The schedule indicates that it will be held in January, but I would consider moving it to June in order to open it to those who participate in Sets 3 and 4, but do not participate in Sets 1 and 2.

As always, let me know your thoughts.
I may not agree with you, but I will listen to what you have to say.

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[Dukasaur]

Looks good.

I very much agree with January rather than June. Of course people will vanish at any time of year, but it's much worse in the summer with vacations and stuff.

[Silly Knig-it]

I'll take the Sept 15 premier. "Escape from the Islands".

Separate pm sent to Mc spelling out more details.

[sempaispellcheck]

I have edited the "Scoring System" spoiler to provide some clarification (mainly for myself).
This editing did involve a slight change in the scoring procedure in the interest of keeping the tournaments in proportion.
The updated scoring system can be expressed thus:

Major tournaments will have 2,000 points for 1st place; Premier, 1,000 points and Standard, 500 points.

For all other places, the number of points earned (P) will be determined by the following formula which includes the number of players/teams (n) and the player's position (x). Points will be rounded down.

For Major tournaments
If n>128: P = 2000n/128x
If n<128 or n=128: 2000/x
For Premier tournaments
If n>64: P = 1000n/64x
If n<64 or n=64: 1000/x
For Standard tournaments
If n>32: P = 500n/32x
If n<32 or n=32: 500/x

If players are tied then they will each receive the average of the total number of points they would have received had they not tied.

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[elonpuckhog]

Jack of All Trades tourney needs one more player to get started.

[Swimmerdude99]

Has the TPA event for this week been announced?

[sempaispellcheck]

Has the TPA event for this week been announced?

Not yet, no. mc29 and I have both been very busy of late. I'm hoping he can get his up tomorrow.
I'll have the first major up next Monday, no question.

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[mcshanester29]

Has the TPA event for this week been announced?

Yes sorry just got it posted: viewtopic.php?f=90&t=207973

[Swimmerdude99]

No worries! thanks, hope things become manageable for you guys!

[sempaispellcheck]

I'll have the first major up next Monday, no question.

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Famous last words.
Oh well - 20 minutes late isn't that bad, right, guys?
*lions, tigers, etc. heard roaring*
Uh...guys?!?!?!



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[Aaron234]

I'd like to join

[elonpuckhog]

I'd like to join

You have to join specific tournies

[mcshanester29]

I'd like to join

You have to join specific tournies

Elon is correct here is the the link to this weeks tournament that is open for signups:

viewtopic.php?f=90&t=208050

[elonpuckhog]

This weeks tourney has been posted

viewtopic.php?f=90&t=208184

[thetiger]

in pls
thx