Enforcer and I have worked up an idea to have a quick tournament- one in which each game will have a time limit of a few hours.
In order to facilitate this, we have talked to the devs, and they have promised a special version of MA that will allow us to have a turn time limit of 10 minutes.
So here are the initial details that we have worked out:
1) The tournament will begin on Saturday, June 5
2) All games will be played on smaller maps to facilitate faster play. Right now we are thinking Emerald.
3) You will only have 10 minutes for each turn (this may change), after which your opponent can force the game to be finished. This is just as the current system works, only much quicker.
4) There will also be a game time as well. Right now we are thinking 4 hours. If the game is not complete at that time, we will use the 1st tournament's rules of balance and unit totals to determine the winner
5) You will be given 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw (if the winner can't be determined when the game time is up), and 0 for a loss. This is for the first round.
Still to be determined:
1) How many rounds to have.
2) The maps we use for which rounds.
3) How many minutes per turn, and how long the game time is.
4) How to determine who plays who. Divide players up into classes? Random opponents? Seed opponents by score?
5) How many concurrent games. It'd be nice to have 2, as that would allow you to play for the full time, but we see problems with that in a tourney setting.
Any players interested in joining this tournament, please email us at
newworldorder@graffiti.net
edit - Make sure to indicate you want to join the Lightning tournament, and what your MAN player name is
We'll maintain a list of players signed up.