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Announce News Post #1315

1v1 Tournament

Written by: Dranor, God of Imagination
Date: Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Addressed to: Everyone


The system for completing the 1v1 tournaments is finally in! As an
experiment, I hired a million monkeys to pound away randomly on a
million keyboards, 24 hours a day, to see who could complete the
tournament system first. Needless to say, the monkeys won.

The commands to interact with the tournament system are as follows:

TOURNAMENT MATCH
- If you are participating in a tournament, this will tell you the
tournament #, the round #, and your opponent (should you have one).

TOURNAMENT VIEW <tournament #> <round #>
- This will show you a list of the matches that are assigned to a
specific round of the tournament.

TOURNAMENT RECORD WIN|LOSS
- This will allow you to record the result of your current match.

There will be three tournaments running simultaneously, one for each of
the tiers. Tournament #1 will be for tier #1, Tournament #2 will be for
tier #2, and Tournament #3 for tier #3.

The brackets are a seeded double-elimination bracket. You can read more
about this type of bracket at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-elimination_tournament. If you lose
a match, you will be dropped down into the Losers' bracket. If you lose
a match in the Losers' bracket, you are out of the tournament
completely. The initial seeding was done based on the same calculation
system that determines what tier you participate in.

Once you have a match and an opponent, you may fight in any way you
want. It can be in the arena, out of the arena, or even over a game of
chess. It doesn't really matter so long as you both agree on the terms
of the win/loss, and that both participants record the result of the
match after it is done. The tournament record command will ask you for
an AGREE confirmation, but please make sure to pay attention so that no
mistakes are made and so that the tournament can progress smoothly.

If you do not record the result of your match after it is completed, I
will probably shrub you. So don't try to be a poor loser and refuse to
let the tournament progress. If you try to screw it up with a throwaway
character, I will still shrub all of your other characters. Basically,
don't try and be a jerk.

Penned by my hand on the 16th of Vita, in the year 587 AD.


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