Possible Survivor 2 tourney...

[geoschmo]

So I was thinking about doing a Survivor 2 tournament. I want the idea to be basically the same, but with some differances. What do you think about this idea for a tourney format?

We take everybody that want's to join and put them in one big game. If there are more than 20 players we split them up into "tribes". Each round will progress until one player is eliminated, and then everybody left will move on to the next round. If we have tribes, then both games will eliminate one person each until we are down to 20 total and then you will all be thrown together in one big game.

This will be a little wierd so some people will not like it. In some games you may not even get into the action before a player gets eliminated on the other side of the quadrant. For that matter technically it would be possible not to even meet anybody before one player gets eliminated.

How you go about eliminating someone will be totally up to you. Two or three of you could try and gang up and wipe out one player and quickly end the round. Or you could play more defensivly and just try to ensure you don't get eliminated and thus move on.

It would be very cut throat I think. Players with reputations as strong players would be huge targets in the early rounds I would think because the other players would try to gang up on them early and give themselves a better chance to ultimately survive. This tournament could literely be won by anybody becasue of that point.

Things will move quickly becuase I will set the time limit at 36 hours, and that will be strictly enforced. If your vaction happens to fall during a round, you will have to get someone to take over for you till you get back, or just hope the AI manages to survive till you get back or you will be eliminated. Unless you go off for two weeks or more though you are only talking about 7 to 10 turns, so that should be too much of a problem.

And we won't have to waste time seeking replacments and stuff cause if someone just flat abandones the game they will be eliminated and everyone else will move on to the next round. We will come up with some definition of what constitutes abandonement. I am thinking five consecutive missed turns (that's a week) without posting a notice in the game forum or something.

Typically I don't like large games, but the strict turn time limit and the fact that the games end when the first person is out should counter that effectivly I think. And later rounds would not be such large games.

Whatcha think?

Geoschmo