Kings of the grid

Lackadaisical · Post by **Lackadaisical** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:12 am

Well someone came up with the idea after one of the ladles, and 2020 took up the idea and made it a bit more robust. But since 2020 seems to have had enough of organizing for a bit I thought what the heck and I'd give it a shot. Rigt now I'm most probably gonna do this, but i'd really like some feedback first.

What?

The idea is simple, you have one team that are the kings, other teams can challenge them. If they beat the kings the challengers themselves become the kings. The goal is to stay the kings for as long as possible (= challengers beaten).

When and where?

2020 suggested one night in a week where everyone could challenge the kings. I think asking to be stand by for like 2 or 3 hours wouldn't be asking too much of the kings, from 6 to 9 pm gmt or something. If there would be good communication between the kings and the challengers this could be changed to 'whenever on that day when it suits the best for both teams'. But I'd rather not count on the communication skills of two random teams of up to eight people. The kings should take on every challenge to a reasonable degree (like: no more than three challenges in one night for the same kings).

2020 also has hired a tronserver, which he is gonna use for other things too afaik, but he said he would keep it free for one day a week for this event. The reason we(I) would like this to happen on his server is because it is certain we can get the server logs to check if everything went the way people say they went. Also, in the future we might get some cool stats of the matches/teams/players that way (survival rate, kills per round, conquests per match etc) á la Sasha's excelsheet.

Who?

Well since there has been some talk about team balance issues every time the ladle shows up, instead of sleeping the last two hours of my good night rest, I came up with this great idea. (as far as great ideas come at 5 in the morning.)

Challengers can have as many teammembers as they wish, up to eight people. These people can be anyone except those who are already kings. The kings however get a certain line-up consisting of eight places, from where they can add people, but not extract them. So if lets say team A challenges with only six people and become the kings, they can add two more people to their line up. They don't have to though, if they want to be flexible untill a time comes when they face a really strong opponent, or when on one night two of their regular members don't show up.

This also gives the challengers something extra to consider. Because let's say you have formed a great team with eight players, but on the night of the challenge only six show up. Then you could chose to challenge anyway with only six or you could add two 'random' people who you will be stuck with for the rest of your possible carreer as kings.

Thats all i can really think of now. Comments and questions appreciated.

2020 · Post by **2020** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:30 am

is this fortress settings
or
fortress settings without zone
ie just teams?

is it a game every hour?
best of three or five?
or is it just the one match decider?

Lackadaisical · Post by **Lackadaisical** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:44 am

Fortress.

The games are as fast as a new challenger appears. (or 'slow' since getting a team ready seems like the biggest timefactor during alot of the organized matches i've been in)

Best of three.

2020 · Post by **2020** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:11 am

how will challengers know when to turn up at the server?
i mean
how do i find out when to get into the server with the rest of my team?

irc?
wiki?

or are you expecting teams to be in contact somehow
and perhaps one of the team is in the server observing?

Lackadaisical · Post by **Lackadaisical** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:07 am

Yes, i expect the kings to be either online or in direct contact with someone who is online. First challenger comes and gets his team together is the first challenger served.

Now that i think about it, it might be better if there would be ~three timeslots of an hour which people could reserve. That way everyone only needs to come online when they reallly have to play.

meriton · Post by **meriton** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:08 pm

I see one problem: This is only fun the best of teams (i.e. for the kings or teams who have a chance of beating the kings). What about the others?

Lackadaisical · Post by **Lackadaisical** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:32 am

Considering that it's more likely that people form a team with people they like and enjoy playing with (like a clan-based team or a team like pronoobz), i think there would be alot of other teams imaginable who would at least have a chance to beat them. As I see it any active fortress player could be part of one of those teams.

This perception is based on previous ladle-experience, so it could be totally different in this case, but you can't really tell untill it has actually materialized.

Lacrymosa · Post by **Lacrymosa** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:51 pm

I think it sounds really good, and in my opinion the best way to see what's good and bad is to test it out. Learning by doing!

Ricochet · Post by **Ricochet** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:57 am

sounds good. we ought to create something like a "previous ladle teams mix-up" team or something, with good players from all the ladle such as lacka, madmax, newbie, maz, etc etc

2020 · Post by **2020** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:55 am

the tronic monkeys shall be crowned kings of the grid!

ok
maybe not...

but it's going to be a bunch of monkeys that are going to win
no matter what team they call themselves

Ricochet · Post by **Ricochet** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:40 pm

2020 wrote:the tronic monkeys shall be crowned kings of the grid!

ok
maybe not...

well at least that got figured out correctly and quickly :DDDDDDDDDDD

2020 · Post by **2020** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:53 pm

laugh
monkey
laugh

Post by **Lucifer** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:59 pm

hahahahahaha
ha
hahaha
hahahaha
heh
hehh heh heh
hohohohohoho

hihihihihihihi

errrr.......wait

You calling me a monkey?

2020 · Post by **2020** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:32 am

lml

subtle
luci
subtle

newbie · Post by **newbie** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:54 pm

so when do we start? it would be good to write some hard-and-fast rules