Ive loved this idea for awhile.  But we haven't really discussed the logistics of it yet which is the overwhelmingly hard part to figure out.  Like sledge said to play every single combination of teams depending on the amount of people involved in the tournament would take forever.  We either need to have this tourney last for awhile like a Pantheon Season,  or we need to have way few team combo options and have people with certain handicaps so that we can match same-skilled players against each other based on those handicaps (totally nullifying the purpose of this tourney but logistically thats what would need to happen if we don't want this to be months long tournament )  this would make it so that everyone wouldn't have to play with every single player combination.  But honestly Id rather the tourney last a couple months and have a lot of the player combinations played through.  Unless we setup some bogus pt system that's not 100% accurate we would just have to randomly assign people to teams through luck of the draw.

     Just posting some rambling thoughts if anyone has a better way to setup the tourney or can make a pretty algorithm to automatically spit out team combos based on games who does what in the preliminaries that would be great .   On that note if we arent going to make this a really long tournament I would suggest preliminary games,  then have a panel assign people certain handicaps based on team size and maybe dg selection.

Cow i like your list buttttt you have renz and rawwr on there 3+ times .

heh... yeah - I'm on there twice at least... hehe

OK - so I'm thinking of just changing the title for this thread/tourney.

Here's how i propose we organize things:

1. It's an invitation
2. It's techincally a ladder
3. Tourney will be 2v2
4. We rotate teammate combos. 
5. The other team picks your dgs

The overall goal will mostly be fun.  As long as everyone is willing to put in a little effort, as long as 4 folks are online at the same time, people could start playing matches whenever.  We could set a static time each night where folks should get online if they can.  And again, all we need is 4 people and we'll split up teams.  No one will be on the same team twice, so just mix n match.

We could extend the invites to whoever we wanted.  Even if there is a weaker player in the mix, everyone would have to play with that person once, so that should offset things a bit, methinks. 

The other angle, but unfortunately one that complicates things a little more - I'd like it if we could figure out a way to have the occasional challenge games.  Eg I could challenge another team where we pick our dgs or teammates or whatever.  I'm not sure how we could do that, though, as more games played potentially gives you an advantage on the ladder.

All of that said, I THINK the jee site could track stats for us and we could record the games there - we'd need a spreadsheet though to track who played with who, etc. 

The ideal setup for me would be to just have games start weeknights at around 7PM EST.  So, everyone shows up - someone hosts a LADDER game, and folks that are in the ladder can join.  That should facilitate getting some games going quickly if people would make an effort to be around then.

Zex thanks for considering to invite me to the tourney but I was more referring to Pacov saying he wants the players that have been around for a long time to compete against each other and that is certainly not me.

I kinda agree with Jona that things havent really been discussed out. But on the other hand you can discuss for an eternity and will still not find a format where everyone will say "yeah this is the way to find out who the best player is". So no matter how you do it someone will always find the excuse that he is the best player it was just the wrong format and this is what I am most looking forward to. So define a way and go.

Last thing: Do not forget that this is not a community of US only players. 7PM EST is 1AM in central europe and like 8AM in Korea. There is a large group of russian players that are somewhere in the middle of that. From my only experience of the last tournament this is actually the biggest problem playing a tournament. Maybe do a pre-tournament per continent/timezone/region. Just a thought.

P.S. Zex forgot to list 3Nana 

I get what you mean about the timezones - but I'm thinking setting up static days and times are good.  So, there could certainly be a weekend time that is setup that is good.  My take is that just to get things rolling, having folks that can be on and around 7PM EST would be a start.

3nana I don't think is technically a smurf of any of the good players around, I think he might/she might be one of the only legit ones?

I was just goofing with all the smurfs too I forgot defender__ sigh...

Yup - if I remember right, that was actually the only real nana.  or was it 2 nana that was the only original one... those nana's all run together.  5nana was some other fellow that just changed his name up to be part of the crazy numbering system. 

Changed the title in the OP.

Here's how i propose we organize things:

1. It's an invitation
2. It's techincally a ladder
3. Tourney will be 2v2
4. We rotate teammate combos. 
5. The other team picks your dgs

Any objections or additional ideas?  Otherwise, we can get cracking and start gauging interest.  I'm actually fine with inviting several folks even if they are the "best of the best" or what have you.  As long as everyone has to play with everyone, that should even out, methinks.  That said, if we are picking the other teams dg, then that puts some folks at an EXTREME disadvantage.  Would be nice if we could figure out a better way to do things with regards to that... we could go a best of 3 route (which would make things take a bit longer, of course) where each team chose the other team's dg, then a 2nd game where any dg is ok.  Anyway, we do need to figure out who will be participating. 

I think it should be only 1 game for each "grouping" of players

As far as the some people can only play 1 dg I think to be the "Best of the Best" you should be able to play each demigod to some degree. So in other words to bad so sad, you get to play something you suck at!

Oh man! I can't wait to see darkliath micro monks! Muahahahahahaha!

OK - K.I.S.S. seems appropriate here.  We'll limit it to 1 game per teammate combo. 

Everyone that participates will play the same number of games.  I know that sounds pretty obvious, but inevitably, someone will start playing and then drop out, or have a hissy fit and vanish for a few days/weeks.  We're not going to go through and remove wins from folks that earned them because someone didn't stay committed.  Anyway, I'm not 100% sure how we will handle this, but if the tourney ends with me winning 10 games out of the 10 I played and someone else is in second place that only got in 8 total games, I wouldn't automatically be the winner.  We'll figure out something when we have to, but I'm not a fan of taking a win from anyone.  I'm also not a fan of penalizing someone that didn't have a chance to play the same number of games as someone else.

OK - so, who would like to participate? 

IN:

• pacov

Someone hit up dark on vent if you get a chance and give her an invite plz. 

I will participate as well.

IN:

• pacov
• zex

Actually during our tournament practice with her playing QoT she actively played the monk in my lane. Dark usually reads forum so she will see this.

I am glad she will see it, usually she gets to have all the fun playing DA, TB or regulus. 

and just to be clear - you are certainly welcome to play with us sledge - just say you want to