It's probably been suggested before, but just throwing ideas out here, was thinking about it a while ago and I now see the current Realms tournament is doing something similar.
What about a KotD / MOA (single set map) style tournament where you have 32 players in the final brackets and each player can only use a civ once in the entire tournament. Something like...
RO32, RO16 & RO8 Best of 5. Each player drafts any 5 civs. Winner can't use his 5 selected civs for rest of tournament.
Semi Final Best of 7. Each player drafts 7 civs each from their remaining 16.
Final: best of 9, finalists each only have their remaining 9 civs from the 31 civ pool.
Players can draft same civ as opponent in each series, provided it's still available to them.
Personally think it could create a cool dynamic. Players will want to try preserve their top tier civs such as aztec, mayans or whatever for the latter stages. The likes of Viper or Liereyy who fancy their chances of going deep may find themselves having to get creative using Persians, Saracens, Teutons etc early on against lower seeded players going all-out with superior civs. It'd also mean we would also get to see some interesting civ matchups we don't normally see in tournaments and less repetition I assume.
Only downside is it would mean a Losers Bracket wouldn't be possible
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What about a KotD / MOA (single set map) style tournament where you have 32 players in the final brackets and each player can only use a civ once in the entire tournament. Something like...
RO32, RO16 & RO8 Best of 5. Each player drafts any 5 civs. Winner can't use his 5 selected civs for rest of tournament.
Semi Final Best of 7. Each player drafts 7 civs each from their remaining 16.
Final: best of 9, finalists each only have their remaining 9 civs from the 31 civ pool.
Players can draft same civ as opponent in each series, provided it's still available to them.
Personally think it could create a cool dynamic. Players will want to try preserve their top tier civs such as aztec, mayans or whatever for the latter stages. The likes of Viper or Liereyy who fancy their chances of going deep may find themselves having to get creative using Persians, Saracens, Teutons etc early on against lower seeded players going all-out with superior civs. It'd also mean we would also get to see some interesting civ matchups we don't normally see in tournaments and less repetition I assume.
Only downside is it would mean a Losers Bracket wouldn't be possible
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